slow AMA with REUTERS H264 footage

[John Pale]

I cant speak specifically to Reuters footage, but I have seen some types of H.264 (GoPro?) footage make MC basically unusable, forcing me to transcode. Not sure if the footage was long GOP, which is more processor intensive.

Newer versions of MC have improved linked footage performance. If you are in a position to upgrade, I’d try and see if it helps.

[Ingo Witte]

Thank you for your response John, but I already have the latest version of mediacomposer. It is playing, but very very shutting and delayed.

[Shane Ross]

Any reason why you aren’t transcoding it?

Shane
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[Ingo Witte]

Hi Shane,
I just don’t have always the time…under time pressure editing for news, 5 clips 3min each, coming on the Reuters site, I need maybe 15 sec from each one, transcoding of all clips needs 9min each…impossible.

[Ingo Witte]

I was experimenting with 3rd part progs, to change the container without recode, sometimes after this the clips where prefect playing with AMA…sometimess…

[Shane Ross]

Well, if you have problematic clips, often that is faster than dealing with the skipping, and searching for answers.

And you can subclip after AMA and transcode only the subclips.

Shane
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[Ingo Witte]

Hi Shane again,
if you want to have a look at the footage and see if its my handling:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9S3vqKgrUprSUxqam9Da2Jva3M/view?usp=sharing

please do not use for anything than testing…All Copyrights owned by Reuters.
thx

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9S3vqKgrUprSUxqam9Da2Jva3M/view?usp=sharing

[Shane Ross]

Yeah, that’s VERY VERY sluggish. it must be highly compressed or something. Definately transcode. It’ll take less time to do that than it does trying to play this thing.

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[Ingo Witte]

Thank you for your effort. It must be the coding or the Avid system, both crazy for professional broadcast company’s….

[Ingo Witte]

Hi Shane again,
did you get the Flexframe “S” symbol with the green dot in the timeline too? do you know why this footage is converted? i chenged everything in “source settings” but didnt get faster playback.
best
ingo

Ingo Witte
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