high bitrate MPEG2 Transport Stream

	Re: high bitrate MPEG2 Transport Stream by Arnie Schlissel on Aug 22, 2008 at 6:35:12 pm [Ken Niblock] "I have asked a question about providing files for editors and have been given the advice of this MPEG2 file - I do not know if it is like a normal MPEG2 file or is different." As an editor, I would never want a client to give me an MPEG2 file. Why don't you ask the editors in question what format they want, and simply give them that. Or better still, give them the original source tapes. If you're shooting tapeless, give them a copy of the original media. End of story. Arnie Post production is not an afterthought! http://www.arniepix.com/ Respond to this post   •   Return to posts index

	Re: high bitrate MPEG2 Transport Stream by Arnie Schlissel on Aug 23, 2008 at 3:18:57 pm [Ken Niblock] "I can't give specific files formats because we supply these files to hundreds of end users. If we customized to each end users desires we would would loose our selves in the process!" It would have been good to have said that in your original post. I would never want to be supplied with MPEG-2 material for editing. It may be a great delivery format, but it's a pain for editing, and quite a lot of color & image data is lost in the encoding process. If it's not practical to supply tapes or original source media, consider using Quicktime's Photo-JPEG codec. You'll get very good quality at reasonably small file sizes, and you can leave your media at it's full raster size. You'll notice that stock agencies like Corbus & Artbeats use P-JPEG for their stock disks, not MPEG-2. Arnie Post production is not an afterthought! http://www.arniepix.com/ Respond to this post   •   Return to posts index

	Re: high bitrate MPEG2 Transport Stream by Andy Mees on Aug 23, 2008 at 2:37:43 am Arnie, End of story? Nothing is ever that black and white. Ken's talking about remote submission of story and rushes for newsgathering purposes here. In such circumstances the content is the most important aspect. MPEG2 provides high quality images with reasonably small files and is a universally acceptable format that can be handled regardless of target hardware. Ken, MPEG2 Transport Steams can be created using Compressor. Either export directly to compressor using File > Export > Using Compressor, or export a quicktime movie from FCP first and then import that into Compressor. In Compressor you can choose from the available presets in the Settings window: Apple >> Formats >> MPEG-2 >> Transport Stream ... I would suggest you bring the Average Bit Rate down to around 8 Mbps which should produce a good quality encode at a reasonable file size (13 minutes video per gigabyte) Respond to this post   •   Return to posts index

	Re: high bitrate MPEG2 Transport Stream by Rafael Amador on Aug 23, 2008 at 5:01:36 am Hi Andy, This is an interesting matter for me. So if you need some basic re-edit what you do? MPGStreamclip or so and FC? rafael www.nagavideo.com Respond to this post   •   Return to posts index

	Re: high bitrate MPEG2 Transport Stream by Andy Mees on Aug 23, 2008 at 9:33:13 am Hey Rafael, Yes that's what I'd do, or at least that would be the way I'd handle it if I was going to bring such a clip into an FCP system for a cut down or whatever. If I was throwing it onto another system then I'd transcode / ingest appropriately. So here, for example, I'd drop it into the watch folder on our Carbon Coder server (which would then transcode, rewrap and send the file onto our K2 server). Respond to this post   •   Return to posts index

	Re: high bitrate MPEG2 Transport Stream by Rafael Amador on Aug 23, 2008 at 11:54:32 am Hi Andy, Very interesting. I try to keep up date about all those new transmission and broadcast systems and formats, but sometimes is difficult because I just can read about them. Here still Betacam and: Play!! I wish I could have a look to your system. Sure I would make you few questions. Rafael www.nagavideo.com Respond to this post   •   Return to posts index

	Re: high bitrate MPEG2 Transport Stream by Andy Mees on Aug 24, 2008 at 11:57:32 am I'd be happy to give your the tour when you're next in town Rafael. Just send me a note to let me know when you're coming. Respond to this post   •   Return to posts index

	Re: high bitrate MPEG2 Transport Stream by Andy Mees on Aug 26, 2008 at 1:59:13 am Well you can transcode to an edit format using MPEG Streamclip ... but I rather thought the point was that you wanted to prep files for delivery to clients using AVID and GVG systems, not FCP. http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=7927121 Respond to this post   •   Return to posts index