Produxion

Since I recently posted on a great method for encoding for Vimeo using Compressor resets, I’m currently adopting that workflow for all of the work I’ve been doing this past month or so. It may well be that I’m losing a certain amount of quality by using this technique, but I’m happy that it’s good enough for online distribution.

What I’ve done, is created a set of Compressor Droplets, which live on my desktop and allow me to just drag-and-drop files for encoding. The one-click dialog box which appears feels a lot cleaner and more efficient than having to launch compressor and fiddle with settings and sources etc.

I’ve never used Qmaster before. I’d never gotten around to poking around to see how it worked, and what benefits it might bring. And after the last installation I had on a G5 refused to function under Leopard, I just left well alone. Qmaster is, quite simply, a way to create a cluster for video (…)

I remember the first time I was able to experience the magic of Final Cut and real-time HDV editing.  It was like a revelation; an epiphany in my editing life.  I didn’t have to think about working in a different way from DV – it just worked the same: same disk usage, same real-time effects (…)