[Darren Edwards]

This is for Win 8.1/Premier CS6 owners.

I started working with XAVC today (Nov 2015) from a FS7 camera. Users are recommending the $300+ TotalCode, however, for free, I’m having some success with VLC’s inbuilt ‘Convert/Save’ option. Simple open the player > Media > Convert/Save > select file and you’ll find a load of codec options — that presumably replaces Handbrake that VLC are currently not working on.

The converted files still aren’t importing into Prem healthily yet but converting with H.264 will at least reduce the large slo-mo files into something emailable and/or uploadable to socials. Early days for me, but I hope this helps.

Darren.

https://www.youtube.com/user/darrenpce

[Darren Edwards]

I betook the Free Trial last year, cancelled after 6 days and didn’t get charged. Thank you.

Yesterday, after a surge of promo emails, I logged onto the VB site to ascertain if my erstwhile account was still valid. It was. I logged in but immediately cancelled any subscription, didn’t download anything, and logged out.

It transpired that the moment I logged in, Videoblocks debited my account for (approx.) £50-£60. I’ve now wasted half the morning researching similar stories online, speaking to the bank and writing out Contact Us forms at the VB website. I would phone, but I imagine a UK – USA customer service call is going to get quite pricey.

Bad timing, especially with the post-Christmas bills coming in.

Darren.

https://www.youtube.com/user/darrenpce

[Darren Edwards]

Thanks for the feedback, Craig.

We’ve had other problems with newer machines, exporting MOVs created in Premiere CS into Final Cut and the audio knocking itself out of sync.

My main interest, though, is if Compressor/Final Cut is more pro-MPEG4 encoding than the newest PC/CS?

D.

https://www.youtube.com/user/darrenpce

[Darren Edwards]

Premiere Pro (from 1.5.1 onwards)’s internal Adobe Media Encoder was built for WMV. Can’t speak for the cheaper Premiere Elements, but it might be worth a purchase if its AME is as powerful.

Darren.

https://www.youtube.com/user/darrenpce

[Darren Edwards]

Cheers, Craig

Freebie ol’ Handbreak got us there in the end, after a couple of long nights staring at the ‘encoding’ bar. However by the end of this season we’re expecting subscription revenue to allow to us upgrade to something more pro that’ll handle HD, multicams etc. Appreciate the tips.

Darren.

https://www.youtube.com/user/darrenpce

[Darren Edwards]

Cheers, Craig

Freebie ol’ Handbreak got us there in the end, after a couple of long nights staring at the ‘encoding’ bar. However by the end of this season we’re expecting subscription revenue to allow to us upgrade to something more pro that’ll handle HD, multicams etc. Appreciate the tips.

Darren.

https://www.youtube.com/user/darrenpce

[Darren Edwards]

There was lots of Sony browser tools for the SD XDCAMs but …nothing, for HD/HDV. Odd.

D.

https://www.youtube.com/user/darrenpce

[Darren Edwards]

Thanks for quick response, Vince.

$360. Wow. An afternoon at the nearest FCP edit suite it is, then. Shame.

D.

https://www.youtube.com/user/darrenpce

[Darren Edwards]

Many thanks for the swifty reply, Shane.

D.

https://vimeo.com/11631393

[Darren Edwards]

Todd — in Europe a lot of HDTV (BBC HD, Freeview HD, Sky)
originally shot in 1080p is downrez’d to either 720p or
HDV 1440 for Tx — the reason being to keep it under around
the 16mb bitrate. Throw in out of date multiplexing and
encoding (broadcaster side) and there could be quite a few
things happening to your commercial pre-Tx affecting its
quality pejoratively.

Thought it was a nice ad, by the way.

D.

youtube.com/darrenpce