Anyone familiar with TotalCode for Premiere?

[Angelo Lorenzo]

I’m not, but it looks interesting. For the price, the ability to do DCP packages is a steal. On the surface, it seems like a similar concept to Sorrenson Squeeze; Squeeze really only catering to delivery codecs.

Angelo Lorenzo
Fallen Empire – Digital Production Services
RED transcoding, on-set DIT, and RED Epic rental services.

[Tom Daigon]

It turn out to be a new Main Concept product.

https://www.mainconcept.com/en/products/apps-plug-ins/plug-ins-for-adobe.html

Tom Daigon
PrP / After Effects Editor
http://www.hdshotsandcuts.com
Mac Pro 3,1
8 core
10.7.3
Nvidia Quadro 4000
24 gigs ram
Maxx Digital / Areca 8tb. raid
Kona 3

[Simon James]

Hi Tom,

I work for Rovi. Yes, this is a new version of the Codec Suite plug-in. It’s a native Premiere Pro plug-in. The website does a pretty good job of listing out the main benefits (smart rendering, GPU encoding, format support including digital cinema encoding). It’s worth noting that the product comes as a base product with three add-on packs (including a digital cinema pack) just in case you think everything is included in the base product!

Compared to Codec Suite, TotalCode adds:
– CS5.5 and CS6 support
– OpenCL and Intel QuickSync Video support (Codec Suite was CUDA only)
– Expanded MXF support
– VC-3 support
– JPEG2000/Digital Cinema support

The other nice benefit is that the product’s capabilities are also available in the Adobe Media Encoder which means you can export your After Effects projects using TotalCode (handy for DCP for example).

Hope that helps answer any questions you had!

Simon.
Rovi.

[Cassius Marques]

Hey Simon, I’m doing some tests with Totalcode running through AME cs6. Using the same preset I’ve used before and I’m getting different results in the outputed file.

My current broadcast specs are XDCAM IMX. My problem lies within the audio. I’m going for 4 channels 24bits.
With the previous version I had left, right, left, right.
With totalcode I get left, right, blank, blank.

Can you shed some light?

[Simon James]

Hi Cassius. That isn’t an issue I’ve heard of before. I suggest emailing the support team to investigate with them. Sorry I can’t be of more help!
Simon.

[Peter Neumann]

hi Cassius,

when you selected the IMX preset in the TotalCode Export settings dialog, did you make sure to adjust the PCM audio settings to 4 channels? The default presets are configured for 2 channel.

Regards,
Peter

[Cassius Marques]

Yes I did, I’ve actually tried every permutation possible…

The file comes out with 4 audio channels…but the third and fourth are muted instead of having the 1 and 2 mirroed.

[Gil Reitsma]

Hi

Anybody been able to use this product with Windows 8?

It seems it does not. Does anybody at Rovi know when this will be addressed

Thanks

Gil

[Tony Brecknock]

I am trying to get timecode out when I use Totalcode in Ppro 5.5. no matter what I do it doesn’t seem to want to do that when creating an .mxf. any help would be grateful.

Tony