Jeff Greenberg
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My day has gotten crazy, but here are some quick ideas
Try DNxHD in cinec. Get something out (without it crashing) Try different prores flavors too.
There’s FFMPEGBC (Broadcast). Try a command line version. Try a GUI for it: https://www.stuudio.ee/anothergui/
If it’s a file named 264, its gotta be a h264 stream. Maybe a re-wrapper will work (and then a conversion)
Last, could you run Media Info on the 264 file (or better yet post one for me?) – I’d like to see one.
[Andrew Johnson] ” I surmise this is because of the protection issues around the Apple codecs, or the streaming issue, or the bad coding of Cinec, but I’m about ready to hurl this godforsaken PC lemon into the street as I can’t get even one decent file from any of this mindless trial-and-error ludicrousness.”
No protection around ProRes…but it’s been shoehorned into FFMPEG – so who knows what’s been done there. I don’t know about the coding of Cinec.
Don’t blame the PC – it’s the stream your struggling with. Call the company and give them a piece of your mind!
(But seriously, can you give me a small file so I can look at it?)
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If it worked great in HD…then it’s how sh**ty SD is. Not much more can be done. Sadly, SD is less than 1 megapixel.
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Premiere has no shot detection ability. You’d have to figure out (with your budget) some workflow in Resolve to make this work…
Or take your original NLE and do a consolidation with handles (say 10-20 frames) and send an XML/AAF to Adobe Premiere Pro; you’ll increase the size and make it harder to handle than one file – but editorial systems aren’t really meant to edit a single file.
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[Oskar Westerberg] “I read somewhere that sometimes you have to change the file extension name from *mov to *mp4 for it to work.”
Do not do this. That ‘fools’ the mac into thinking your looking at an MP4 with QuickTime, instead of an MOV. If the codec (in that case) was h.264, no big deal…but with what you’re doing? Disastrous.
Something is wrong with your Adobe Media Encoder; don’t look for workarounds, look to get that fixed.
If you want a workaround, let’s just have AE render the h.264 directly for Vimeo.
I’m assuming you’re rendering a 1080 file?
1920×1080, QuickTime, h.264, 10-20mb/s should be decent for the data rate.Fixing Adobe Media Encoder:
Can you try other QuickTime files (different codecs?) Perhaps something that came with a book (vs something you’ve created?) It may be worth uninstalling/reinstalling Adobe Media Encoder.Best,
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If it’s keyframed, you’re going to have to move to that keyframe and manually move the camera to how/where you want it pointing.
Now, there’s an uber cool motion trick to move a camera…like a video game. It’s called the walk 3d tool (it’s under the Hand/Pan and zoom tools on the toolbar.)
Park on the keyframe. Switch to the Walk 3D tool. The arrow keys move you forward/backwards, up/down like you were playing a video game. Click and drag on screen to ‘drag’ l/r/u/d
And you can always use the keyframe graph to lasso the keyframes for the camera and move them in time where you’d like. Also, if you take something like Camera position, you can lasso the keyframes themselves and ‘reverse’ animation.
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It may – it’s downsampling the original resolution to HD at the last step (the render.)
You may want to switch the rendering quality on Pan+Zoom from RT (good for playback) to either Gaussian, Avid HQ or Avid Ultra HQ (all use different maths to scale the image.)
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Ken, actually this is an area of common confusion.
When you load up the Text Generator what you’re seeing in the viewer is the raw generator. Any changes you make are to it.
If you add it to the timeline, you’re still making changes to the original that lies in your viewer, not the one in your timeline.
If you double click the one on your timeline, then you can make adjustments in the viewer and it will update appropriately in the Canvas.
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Hi Craig!
[Craig Alan] ”
I used Panasonic’s P2 Contents Management Software for MAC users, however, the video plays back with sound but no picture. I read on-line that FCP X being installed creates this disability.Seems weird. I’ll ask panasonic about it.
That said, it does import into FCP X.
Is there a better work flow for this?”
P2 comes in great to FCPX – as p2 video or transcoded (optimized) as ProRes
[Craig Alan] ” A bigger problem is getting the footage into Imovie.”
Yeah, AIC looks like hell. I thought you might be able to give it HDV footage, but I just tested it and no dice. It was developed to work on G5s and G4s.
Shocking idea: maybe you move them to FCPX?
[Craig Alan] “- from on-line, to SD-DVD (I follow Ken Stone tutorial on compressor for that), Blu-Ray, to using a hard drive to play the files directly out a Mac to a HD projector.”
Not only is most of this directly in FCPX, but you could easily build templates via the new Destinations tab (in the preferences)
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Adobe Media Encoder should work fine with any flavor of QuickTime that you have a codec for.
Does the original file open in Quicktime? Do you have Adobe Premiere Pro? Does it open there? Does it open back in After effects?
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Shawn, on the scale of 1-10 where I know what I’m talking about, I’d rate this a 5. I’ve never seen this equipment before and google searching is getting me anywhere.
I’d pick: YUY2 as thats likely YUV colorspace with 2 samples for the Chroma (422). None of the rest of them would be a good match for betacam tapes.
I think the decoder is to decode analog television streams.
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