Chris Detjen
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I encountered this in a project a while ago that had a variety of codecs, graphic overlays and blending modes. I think what ended up being the culpret was a corrupt video clip in a montage. Whenever Media Encoder got to that point it would give that Unknown Error pop up. We had deconstruct to get to that point. We’d render a small portion of the video as “pt01.” If that succeeded we moved forward and exported another small portion until we got to the error. That helped up pin point where the problem was in the sequence. Not sure if that helps at all.
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I’ve run into similar problems on a new Boxx Tech PC with a Quadro 2000 on a PC environment.
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I appreciate the advice. Lots of great tips that I will try to implement during the production.
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Thank you for the reply. As you said… no Open GL, no multiprocessing, so overnight renders it will have to be.
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Nope. That’s wasn’t me. Sounds like that was a cool project, though.
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Thank you for the information. I didn’t think it through that H.264 is 4:2:0. I made the assumption the 5D was 4:2:2. I can now understand how the image quality can degrade. And also, the fact that we didn’t intentionally compensate during the production for contrast–we shot a person sitting on a black couch, with a black suit, and used only one soft light. His suit almost blends in completely with the couch. I will PM you with a short clip, as I am curious to learn how you’d adjust the settings. Thanks again.
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Now that looks like some worthwhile software. Will look into it.
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Thanks for the prompt replies. To John’s recommendation: recording TC onto an audio track is something I’ve never done before. Does one fine a BNC to XLR adapter and plug that XLR end into the slave camera? In Post it sounds like we would also need to buy “FCP auxTC reader” from Video Toolshed. Again, that workflow, if I understand it properly is above my experience level. But sounds like it might be worth pursuing to get spot-on TC on both cameras.
What Michael mentioned sounds like what might be easier. Set the internal clocks of the cameras to match, set both to free-run or time of day, finally the operators manually start the free run. Probably not 100% match, but might be a manageable difference between the TC of the two cameras for the editor to deal with.
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Good info here. I recently encountered the same audio issue when capturing from the HVR-M10U deck into the DVCPro HD codec in FCP. I did not have the Aja card setup properly. Toggling the Aja card to SMPTE input was the solution–no more crackle in the captured audio.
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Before I posted I saw that same weblink to the MP encoder. However it linked to the homepage, and the current site has no information about the MP encoder for Apple’s Compressor. The only products featured are reneat, HD encoder, Xtream, and SP2… all for PC platforms. Seems like it is no longer supported.