Re: 5 minute video onto a DVD

Brian...you left out a key phrase from my original post:

but from all that I've read on the forum, Compressor is sort of a swiss army knife of compression...doing a lot of things moderately well, but none really well

You can find post after post across Creative Cow where other people have noted that Compressor can't be considered a high-end encoding and transcoding app. So there are a legion of people that pretty agree with that assessment. The point to the post was:

1. We need more info.

and

2. Compressor is likely going to require a specific workflow to create a clean, high-quality encode.

I also pointed out his quality issues were likely from resizing the file upon export to MPG2, which you acknowledge in your post as well.

For the life of me I don't understand the antagonistic attitude that resides on these forums, nor the allegiance to particular platforms and applications. There are a half-a-dozen things that could be causing his quality issues and without additional information, it's nearly impossible to determine what exactly is going on.

Chris Blair
Magnetic Image, Inc.
Evansville, IN
www.videomi.com