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So I have tried compressor and it seems with reasonably the same settings as handbrake it is a lot slower and will take 50 minutes to 1hour for compressor to complete while handbrake seems to say 20-23 minutes to complete their compression?
Sorry for all the images just want to see what settings ima getting wrong etc. Thanks for all the help! :)
Mac Pro (2023)
The Activity Monitor is really kind of meaningless, especially with Apple Silicon. The software to hardware interface may be completely different for the two applications, so comparing AM behavior doesn't really tell you anything. Some Macs have hardware decoding/encoding for specific codecs on the chip. Others don't. Some have H.264, some have HEVC and H.264. Decode is a factor in performance speed as well as encode. Drives are a factor also.
You just need to run actual tests for time and quality on the media and see if it works for you. You have both applications you can test them against each other.
There's a trick that can work wonders on export speed especially if 3rd party plugins like BeautyBox are involved: you do export from Final Cut Pro itself using compressor settings (google how to set compressor settings as export destination in Final Cut Pro). Sometimes this cuts export times in half.
There's another point to consider - Handbrake utilises 100% of CPU, and almost no profile can engage GPU. So with 100% CPU load modern M1-M2-M3 Macs can shoot up to 108C temperatures on CPU, then fans kick in, and it becomes more or less manageable but still Handbrake stresses CPU to max. While COmpressor is never using 100% of resources perhaps with idea to keep overall responsiveness of OS high for other concurrent tasks. So Compressor is more gentle on you Mac and less likely to fry it with a 2 hour long export!
What versions and OS are you using?
Sorry I am on Ventura 13.5.2 on my MacBook Pro M2 Max chip. compressor is version 4.65 and handbrake is version 1.6.
handbrake is version 1.61 not 1.6.
I can’t set the Handbrake settings you’re using.
what do you mean you cannot set the settings? All I changed was the fps, the v video encoder and the constant quality to 28.
NVEnc
could it be NVENC that is making it quicker then? Are there any settings on my compressor images that could be better?
The Compressor settings are pretty standard. I don’t see how you could make it faster by changing those settings.
Is this for compressor? Because if it is as you can see in my compressor settings I am using H264 and it is still pretty slow.
the frame size is 1920 x 1080 but all the information for the file is below as well!
As another side note I did some tests on handbrake with the same file on my pc but I changed it back to 264 (NVENc) and it completed the same file in 24:24 minuets instead.
2 hours 25 for 14.2 GB is a really low data rate. That’s a heavily compressed file.
compressor slower than handbrake by a lot with my project?
