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Veiled encoding on a video?
I just got word that a video I edited for broadcast (that a previous company made and I altered, though original files of the video apparently no longer exist with that company) has veiled encoding, and that this is a problem since when I made my changes to the video and rendered it out to mpeg2 at 422, I did veil encoding on it again.
I have no idea what this means, and only wikipedia gave a technical description that wasn’t of much use. Has anyone dealt with this?
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It took some digging, but is this the Wikipedia article?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_Encoded_Invisible_LightLooks like yet another copy protection scheme that won’t work. Did the VEIL encoding interfere with your editing in Vegas, and how did you restore it in the final delivery?
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
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I’m still working on it. Basically, I gathered what you did-it’s a way of the original company to track their video.
Editing the video isn’t a problem, which runs fine in Vegas. The broadcaster can’t run the video, though. And since the original company doesn’t have any files to work with anymore, I’ll see if I can frankenstein the commercial from parts of other commercials for the same company that don’t have veiled encoding.
There’s one shot, however, in which this won’t be possible, because it’s not in any other video that’s not veiled. So I don’t know whether we’ll have to get someone who knows motion graphics to recreate it as long as I can piece together the commercial from clips of different versions of it from the same company, or if I’ll have to get all the original DVCPro tapes digitized so I can recreate the entire thing.
The real problem is that the company that originally made and rendered these no longer has any digital copies they can render to correct specifications, so now I’m just working around that.
http://www.scenethroughglass.com
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So do they still use VEIL today in 2014? Or is there another metadata method Neilsen uses for tracking videos on the air?
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