See, I'm working on this project that just happens to involve a TON of video. We're talking countless hours of video here. I'm plowing through it, got Compressor working it's tail off on 7 different systems*. For reasons that should be obvious, all the compression settings are iPod compatible, which isn't as high a quality as I would prefer, but iPod support is more important.
So what does Apple do right as I'm about to finish? They release an update for video iPods that supports much higher quality video. Ugh, good yes, but now I have to redo a lot of work. I've been looking at Compressor nonstop for weeks now and I thought I was nearing the end...time to dig in.
With that said, I watched a WOW project compressed at 640 x 480 h.264 1100kbps on my 42in plasma, and it looked pretty damn good. It's not broadcast quality, but it's more then watch-able. Tomorrow I'll try it at 1500kbps. Should almost be as good as my Direct TV at that rate.
P.S. I really need a new computer, this dual 867 G4 has a hard time playing these files. Not to mention my 60gig hard drive.
*We did have a cluster setup, but Compressor 2.1 has a bug in it that removes the audio from video compressed using the H.264 iPod setting. They released Compressor 2.3 today, so we'll try that again.
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