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| I can suggest a couple of options. Flip4Mac doesn't work with Adobe Mac products. I checked with Telestream, and they said to take it up with Adobe. Compressor may be your best bet, because you can save preset templates there, and IIRC (haven't used it in a long time), it's fairly good with multiple cores. I have Squeeze, and it's the most overpriced software ever. It makes nice looking movies, saves presets, but it only uses one of my 8-cores. Boo. It does Watch Folders, which could be handy, depending on your flow. There's freeware called QT Amateur that lets you do batch exports, but there's no way to save settings. You can do batches in MPEGStreamclip, and save settings. I believe it uses one core per queue item. Set the "Simultaneous Tasks" setting to the number of cores on your computer. It's free. So, I'd recommend Compressor or MPEGStreamclip because they're efficient and support presets. Compressor supports cluster/network rendering, too, but I've never even tried to set that up. On Jul 21, 2013, at 7:30 PM, Chris Zwar wrote: > Hi, > > This is a bit OT, but compression isn't normally my thing. > > I'm working on a project where we will be supplying roughly 1000 individual clips as wmvs. We're all working on Macs with no Windows machines around, and rendering from After Effects to image sequences. > > Just wondering what the best tool is to convert / compress the image sequences to wmvs. The main thing we want is one where we can save the render queue and selectively re-queue items as they are revised. I guess in my mind I think of the After Effects render queue, where you can tick and un-tick items, or re-queue items to render again and so on. The thing is that these clips will be tweaked, rendered, revised, re-rendered and so on. So it's not just a matter of doing a batch conversion once, it's a matter of selectively revising and re-delivering over a period of weeks. We will always be rendering the image sequences to the same "final" folder, so the source files won't be moving. > > We will purchase flip-4-mac licences to render to wmvs, but not really sure about what the options are to work from image sequences and being able to save a batch compression queue. We have compressor somewhere, and can easily download MPEG streamclip. I haven't really played around with the Adobe Media Encoder to know what it's capable of. Not sure if I can convince them to spring for something like Squeeze, but if it's really awesome then maybe I can. > > It will be tedious to set up 1000 compressions so I really only want to do it once... any suggestions are welcome. > > Cheers, > > > -Chris > > > > > +---End of message---+ > To unsubscribe send any message to <ae-list-off@media-motion.tv> |
