Compressor must not like Reds
Editing on FCP 6.0.5, exporting to a self-contained QT movie, then Compressing in 4.2 because my version of FCP does not link up with Compressor 4 and I cannot use Compressor 3 because there is an "Unable to Submit to Queue" error message.
So far I can honestly say that Compressor falls far below my expectations to provide a good quality .m2v file of my standard def footage.
It doesn't seem to matter what Field Dominance I edit with or what Field Order I compress with.
It always seems to look blurry and in this latest case, it does not seem to like rendering the red colors very well.
Notice the 2 pictures below, the first is of the QT self-contained movie and the second is of the Compressor 4.2 file.
Since I need to author DVDs and there is no way I can use the self-contained QT file (which is obviously a much better quality) without encoding or compressing, am I truly stuck with Compressor's crappy results? Seriously Apple?