Hi. My videos blacks are very grainy after export, footage is fine in fcpx timeline and was fine before compressors latest update. Thanks

I can't believe it took Apple so long to fix this grainy layer issue...OMG!!

2 questions:

1: DVD menu text heavily pixelated after burn IN 4.3.1?

2: The pictures below are of my 4.2.2 DVD menu compared to the 4.3.1 update menu. Any ideas what they may have changed or how I can use the same DVD menu template from where the image is in the center of the screen like

the 4.2.2 version and not stretched to fit the screen. If you'll notice the play buttons have also been moved...???

thanks for your help,

steve

4.2.2 DVD menu & text - GOOD

4.3.1 updated menu & text - BAD

No feedback after the initial, which isn't surprising as a) wouldn't expect any unless they needed additional info, and b) since I uploaded examples to Google Drive for them, the examples make the issue fairly self-explanatory.

However,...

just noticed yesterday that Compressor 4.3.1 was released. I didn't see any reference in the release notes to this issue, but updated and tried it again. While I was at it, I also tried both Rec. 601 and sRGB color spaces (not that it should make a difference) and... *poof* ...the issue appears to have been "silently fixed" - the prior "mysteriously" added "Photo-JPEG" track is also "conspicuous by its absence" when checked with QTP7. Given the other items fixed in 4.3.1, I can't see how this noise issue could have been so embarrassing that Apple won't even acknowledge it ever existed (then again, how could something so simple get through QA to begin with?), but... since I still have a working copy of 4.2.2, I'll try switching to 4.3.1 for some upcoming files and see whether 4.3.1 is "suitable" for what I need (which isn't much).

Hi there,

We'll need more info.

What are the properties of your FCP project? What are your Compressor output settings?

Russ

If you change the data rate to Custom and set it at 8 Mbps, does that improve the result?

Russ

I've seen the same grain/noise issue with 4.3. In my case, the source is a black video generator "slug" in FCP7 (from FCS3); the export was done with "make self-contained" checked. Looked at the exported file, no grain/noise; ran it through Compressor 4.3,... grain/noise on frames that should be 100% black. Never had this issue with Compressor 4.2.2 and prior - something's changed/broken that shouldn't have been touched.

I have same problem, have you resolved it?

hopefully someone can help me. Im having serious exporting issues with compressor 4.3. My exporting videos are showing up with some kind of grain after exporting a custom MPG4. FRAME SIZE: 720X480. FRAME RATE: 29.97. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Im so desperate please help! TIA

My settings same, same res

Same issue as well. Since 4.3, blacks have this horrid noise 'grain' or pattern is the best way to describe it all over them. Doesn't seem to matter what your export settings are. I've fed back to Apple as it appears to be a major bug.

Not sure how well this image shows it ...

I can... almost (?) see it in that image; took a few screen shots from a recent attempt myself for comparison.

Having been able to restore Compressor 4.2.2 from backup, I've gone back to having ZERO issues with Compressor 4.2.2. Compressor 4.3 on the other hand still appears to be plagued with one problem after another. FYI, I used QuickTime Player 7 to catch the details, as they're apparently not available in QuickTime Player X.

First screen shot below attempts to show the grainy/noisy issue. I find it almost impossible to spot on an Apple 30" Cinema Display, so I dragged the player window over to a secondary TV monitor screen and... *poof* ...there's the issue. And before someone suggests otherwise,... no, it's not the monitor - the same source encoded with Compressor 4.2.2 does NOT produce the issue.

Second screen shot shows what I *thought* might have been the cause, as it only shows up in the file produced by Compressor 4.3 - NOT the file produced by Compressor 4.2.2. It seems that Compressor 4.3 is (arbitrarily?) adding a secondary video track of type "Photo - JPEG" that I didn't explicitly ask for (not sure how I'd go about doing that anyway).

Given the options of "Extract" and "Delete", I first tried "Extract" to see what I'd get; here's the result:

Apparently, Compressor 4.3 unnecessarily added almost a half MB of "Photo - JPEG" data to the original output file - either that, or it's encoded so badly that QuickTime Player 7 extracted it as such. Either way, it's all Apple products involved - and Compressor 4.2.2 doesn't have these issues. Out of curiosity, I then tried "Delete" and checked the player window again - still has the same grain/noise issue, so that may actually be encoded in the main (and what should have been the ONLY) video track.

Short version: Compressor 4.3 is badly broken, and no amount of "Reset Queue" is going to fix it; just going to have to wait for Compressor 4.3.1 (or later) and hope they do something about it.

Update: Submitted feedback, got a response, replied with the details they requested; will see where this goes.