Ed Grogan
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RT settings for both versions are:
Unlimited
Scrub High Quality
Playback Quality: Dynamic
Playback Frame Rate: Dynamic
Multiclip Playback
Record to Tape: Full Quality
Scopes: All Lines Except Top& Bottom -
I’ve loaded a two hour ProRes file onto the timeline for export media to control the compression. After compression I load the audio and video file onto the Encore Timeline and note that there is a discrepancy in the length of the audio (shorter than the PrPro timeline and the Video (longer than the Pr Pro timeline). This causes the audio and video to be out of sync.
In discussions with Adobe engineering they have confirmed this problem with CS5.5 and CS6 with Prores files.
I’ve done major testing with both the Mac and Windows version of the compressor that is part of the Adobe Master Suite.
I can repeatably demonstrate that a file (I have determined that it is not Prores dependent) compressed with the setting “H.264-Blu-Ray” produces a compressed file that contains both repeated frames and dropped frames. Repeats start at just over one minute into the video. On five different files, made with VC-1, ProRes, Uncompressed, AVI and WMF all of length 00:02:07:27 produced compressed H.264 that was five frames too long. (Source was 720p59.94). Errors started about one minute in. all showed a random pattern of compressing a frame and then repeating the last two frames. The uncompressed showed more duplication and some frames dropped.
THe compressor setting H.264 (without the Blu-ray tag) worked perfectly. The only problem is this compressor does not bring chapter marks into Encore. Also, not verified, that Encore does not like mux’d files as sources. Still looking into issues as to why Encore wants to transcode anything intended for Blu-ray.
The H.264 Blu-ray setting also damages the audio file but I haven’t started to investigate that.
Update: Only did two tests: One with Windows version & 5 on the MAC
If a timeline in PrPro is dynamically linked to Encore and the “Set Quality Settings” is evoked, you get the same setup for compression as you do in Media Encoder and PrPro. (Except Encore calls it transcoding settings). Entering the exact same setup for compression settings as those that failed in PrPro and ME produced a BluRay mts file for the BluRay disk that had no errors. This seems to indicate that there is an error somewhere in the underlying configuration being handed off by the programs that does the actual encoding (compression).
Ed Grogan
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You can do what you want. I do it in Boris all the time.
see https://www.borisfx.com/tutorials/CreditRoll.php
Ed