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Q: Need to tweak settings for GoPro video export in Compressor

Recently, I shot several videos of a musical at my high school with a GoPro Hero 4 Silver in ProTune at 2.7K. I edited it in Final Cut Pro X with some basic color correction, credits, etc. and cut it down to 88 minutes in length. These videos will be posted to YouTube so here is my question:

 

How on earth do I cut down the rendering times in Compressor without sacrificing quality?

 

Since I'm uploading everything to YouTube, I've adjusted my settings to the following:

- H.264 codec in an MPEG-4 container, optimized for network usage

- 2560x1440 at 29.97fps

- Automatic keyframe with CALVC entropy

- Single pass with a 16,000kb/s data rate (to match the recommended bitrate from YouTube)

- Resize filter and retiming quality both set to 'Best'

- Details level at 10

- Sound in mono at 48Hz, 128kb/s

 

I've exported GoPro videos in the past with similar settings and it would take 5 hours to render a 10 minute long video. Maybe I'm just underestimating how much time this stuff actually takes but is there anything else I can do?? I've tried different entropy settings, audio and video bitrates, multi-pass encoding, and even exporting in the original 2704x1520 that the GoPro records 2.7K at. Any help is greatly appreciated, thanks.

MacBook Pro, OS X El Capitan (10.11.3), i7-3615QM, 16GB RAM, GT 650M

Posted on Mar 16, 2016 10:47 AM

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