Evan Schechtman @RadicalMedia – The State of the NLE – recorded a few days before NAB

[Frank Gothmann]

[Craig Seeman] “BTW the H.264 encoder is MainConcept if it makes a difference . . . and it might”

Can you post the settings or a screenshot of your seetings? Curious!

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“You also agree that you will not use these products for… the development, design, manufacture or production of nuclear, missiles, or chemical or biological weapons.”
iTunes End User Licence Agreement

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Richard Cardonna] “So Dos XX beer is really Dos 20 beer? Naugh

And xxx filme are 30 films?
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I often say “eff, see, pee, ex”, but I also shorthand it to just “ten”.

[Richard Cardonna]

Don’t worry its me being fasicious. hmm a 30film with 20 beer. I prefer a 20 beer

[Craig Seeman]

[Frank Gothmann] “Can you post the settings or a screenshot of your seetings? Curious!”

In Telestream Episode 6.2.2
2 Pass VBR 20,000Kbps
Entropy CABAC
Natural and Forced Keyframes (so it’s not a “true” blu-ray GOP.
KF interval 100
Adaptive b frames
1 B-frame
5 Reference Frames
Profile High
Color Space 420
IDR Every I Frame
Level 4.1

I notice I left one thing out. I need
Force headers for every GOP
That’s required for Blu-ray compatibility so I need to do that to emulate a Blu-ray encode.

On the other hand Compressor 4.0.3 Blu-Ray encoding (.h264) can’t be played in QT (any) or FCPX.

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Richard Cardonna] “Don’t worry its me being fasicious. hmm a 30film with 20 beer. I prefer a 20 beer
“

🙂

[Frank Gothmann]

[Craig Seeman] “I notice I left one thing out. I need
Force headers for every GOP
That’s required for Blu-ray compatibility so I need to do that to emulate a Blu-ray encode.

On the other hand Compressor 4.0.3 Blu-Ray encoding (.h264) can’t be played in QT (any) or FCPX.”

Thanks for the effort, I appreciate it.
Ah, Episode, from what I know the encodes can be used for self-burned discs with some apps but they won’t pass Sony or Eclipse verification for replicaton (same for Matrox’s Compress HD card). Does Episode actually produce proper elementary streams? The spec sheet on their site only lists transport. If so, that’s very likely the reason why it plays but those streams cannot be used for authoring.
https://www.telestream.net/pdfs/datasheets/EpisodeSeries_Format_Support.pdf

None of the encoders I know that do produce compliant elementary streams work in X, ie. compressor, adobe media encoder, squeeze, mainconcept reference, netblender or cinemacraft.

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“You also agree that you will not use these products for… the development, design, manufacture or production of nuclear, missiles, or chemical or biological weapons.”
iTunes End User Licence Agreement

[Craig Seeman]

[Frank Gothmann] “Ah, Episode, from what I know the encodes can be used for self-burned discs with some apps but they won’t pass Sony or Eclipse verification for replicaton (same for Matrox’s Compress HD card).”

True Episode’s won’t pass verification for replication. Of course legally one shouldn’t be ripping those discs.

[Frank Gothmann] “None of the encoders I know that do produce compliant elementary streams work in X, ie. compressor, adobe media encoder, squeeze, mainconcept reference, netblender or cinemacraft.”

Probably AVFoundation is not handling it (Quicktime certainly won’t ever). We may have to see where Apple goes with it. FWIW Avid and Adobe both have built in alternatives to Quicktime. This may be another example where Apple, having been tied to Quicktime for so long and started on AVFoundation for iOS, may be far behind on.

Not too unrelated to that I’ve had recent requests for H.264 422 color space for broadcast spot delivery and this too is something that isn’t handled last I tested.

[Jeremy Garchow]

Craig, I was having issues with Episode 6 and mp4 today.

Do you hang out in a more appropriate forum for some questions?

I know you’re the mp4 man.

Thanks.

[Craig Seeman]

COW Telestream Episode forum
or you could go to Telestream’s own support forum. I don’t want to steer people away from COW unless you feel this is an urgent issue.

[Jeremy Garchow]

Moooving over there, thanks.