Annoying Green Line

Hi there. For some reason I'm getting a green bar down the right side of my image in a movie I've compressed as an H.264 320x180 quicktime movie. The bar is not in the original video, and it keeps appearing no matter how I change the crops etc. The 640x360 version of this video does not have the bar. Please help.

Mac Pro 2.8 8-core, Mac OS X (10.5.6), FCP 6

Posted on Dec 13, 2010 9:57 AM

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Jan 27, 2011 2:17 PM in response to Himalaya108

Same issue here
Compressor 3.0.5 on os x 10.6.6
Green horizontal line and bad quality video file (unusable) as soon as I have Frame Control on. No matter what settings.
I have another computer with 10.6.4 and there's no issue there.
I tried to reinstall compressor and q master (using the utility to clean delete the files) No luck.
I make mpeg 2 files for a PAL TV station so I can't alter the size of the anamorphic video (PAL 720*576)
Looked everywhere on the net... no luck.

Jan 28, 2011 2:23 PM in response to Himalaya108

Until Apple PROGRAMMERS FIND A SOLUTION! !!
here is a workaround for the corruption (half screen green) when using compressor to downscale and de-interlace
In my case the use of the "Frame Controls" Tab when compressing to mpeg2 PAL Anamorphic from HDV leads to a corrupt Mpeg file with half of the screen covered with a green band every time.

But when I compress a scaled down file, turning "Frame Controls"off, then the problem disappears.

I must add an additional compression process: I re-import my HDV master into a Final Cut Pro timeline with the following settings
Frame size 720x576 Aspect ratio CCIR 601 / DV PAL (5:4)
Pixel Aspect Ratio: PAL - CCIR 601 (720x576) Anamorphic 16:9 Clicked
Field dominance None
Edit Time BAse . 25
Compressor Appel Intermediate Codec
Quality 100%

!! Make sure NOT to change the settings to match the clip when importing your HDV file!!

I then import my HDV master into the timeline and applies the de-interlace filter.
I then export this timeline to a new Apple Intermediate Movie ("re-compress All frames" option clicked)

I can now use Compressor to export my MPEG movie.
The quality is actually higher than using compressor's "Frame Controls" : I looks like FCP resizing filters are superiors (much less aliasing in the resulting file).

With my 12 core 2.93MHz Mac Pro the entire process for a 13 minutes movie takes:
6 min for the timeline export process and 45 secs inside compressor exporting to mpeg (using Qmaster in 24 Cores Mode) thats 6:45 processing time total

I guess you need to add a little of time for the extra step involved, but at least it works and the output file is great.
I also tried using ProRes in the timeline format: it works great but takes 2 mores minutes for a 13min file and the end result is only very slightly superior or maybe not even superior.

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