[Brent Streeper]

Thanks Craig!

[Brent Streeper]

Hi Craig,
I downloaded the trial version of Episode and couldn’t see any x264 support in it. I’ve got the new x264Encoder.component installed, but can’t find the controls in Episode. I do have access to the x264 controls in Compressor though.
Why does Episode have the Dicas h.264 inherently? Not sure I quite understand the different flavors of 264.
Thanks!
Brent

[Brent Streeper]

Thank you both for all of this info. I’m just scratching the surface of web compression so it’s nice to know there is a support forum for it here on the COW.

I’ve downloaded the trial versions of Episode and Main Concept’s Reference, so I’ll give those a try.

Are the Matrox and Dicas codecs tied directly to their hardware? Or is is possible to download the Matrox Max h264 codec to try out without the hardware accelerator?

I’ve been experimenting with DVKitchen’s x264 encoder and have spent the last few days trying to figure out all of the libavcodec settings and what they all mean.

Thanks!
Brent

[Brent Streeper]

Thanks Stephen,
I’ll definitely be reinstalling if it give me any grief today!
Brent

[Brent Streeper]

Thanks Noah,
Nothing bigger than 1280×720. It’s actually a pretty simple project. Three clips and no stills.
So far, Motion hasn’t crashed today, but yesterday it was crashing about every 15 minutes. Just wondering if the error message was somehow linked to the crashes.
Brent

[Brent Streeper]

I just ran across this same problem. It seems to be a bug with just the Color Smoothing filter and not the keyer.
Go into the Video Processing tab of the Sequence Settings window and switch “Render all YUV material in high-precision YUV” to “Render in 8-bit YUV”. That seemed to take care of the problem for me.
Hope this helps even though it’s a few months late!

[Brent Streeper]

I am actually in the process of doing a comparison between software and hardware upresing.

So far I’ve been most impressed with Shake’s upscaling abilities, but the Boris plug-in, UpRez does a really great job as well. When either of these are combined with a denoise filter, like RE:vision’s DE:noise or the Foundry’s denoiser in their Furnace bundle, the results are very good. There is definitely render time involved, but if you’re willing to leave your machine rendering overnight and you’re not in a huge time-crunch, it might not be a bad way to go.

I haven’t run the hardware test yet, but as soon as I figure out a way to get the signal from my laptop into the Kona3 I’ll let you know. 🙂

In fact, if anybody has a suggestion on how to do it, I’d be grateful. Right now my set-up is firewire out of the laptop, into an AJA IO. Component out from the IO into an SDI converter box. From there it’s SDI into the back of the K3 breakout box. I think that should be right.

Thanks,
Brent

[Brent Streeper]

Awesome!
That did it.
I had a feeling that it had something to do with the frame rate. I was just assuming that AE was rounding up 23.976 to 23.98. Another lesson on why it’s bad to assume.
Thank you very much for the reply.

[Brent Streeper]

Thanks for the reply David.
Unfortunately, I’m not hooked up to an external monitor, so all I have to go off is the Canvas. But, when I render out a QT movie, the stutter is there also. But again, it seems to only show up during a cross dissolve or when I add a filter to the AE movies.
My Playback settings seem to be fine. RT: Safe. Video Quality: High. Frame Rate: Full.
Could it be a pulldown issue? Right now it’s set to 2:3:2:3.

[Brent Streeper]

D’oh!
Well, thanks anyway. Keep up the good work.
Brent