Question about Final Cut Pro and Compressor
 

How are you exporting your .mpg movies in Compressor? Are you using the MPEG-1 setting or something else and converting them?

The MPEG-1 versions only allow one size of the video, and its pretty small. How do I get my .mpg movies as bigger sizes?

Oh the dreaded mpeg-1 bug.

here is one workaround that may work. go to your library/application support/compressor folder and look for the mpeg-1 setting you want to fix, then open it with bbedit or another editor and look for the 320 and 240 variables. Change them to whatever you want and save.


I have moved to another clustering app for my mpeg-1 but that "should" work.

try using mpeg streamclip, it's pretty dope.

are you using compressor through FCP? you may have to do an intermediate export to bring it in to streamclip to convert to mpeg.

Cool, I'll check that out, thanks.

Is there any quality loss or pixelation when doing that?

Yeah I am exporting it right from Final Cut to Compressor.

What is streamclip?

people still use MPEG1?

I am just trying to get the videos to have a .mpg extension and play as .mpg videos. I don't care what codec or conversion I have to use to get them that way, I just need them that way.

Am going to try Brads recommendation and see if that does the trick.

Just downloaded it and it seems to be working great. :thumbsup

Thanks for the help guys.