[Marc Brown]

Thanks for the link. How, exactly, are folks creating Blu-ray “folders” with Encore, as opposed to an ISO?

I’m sure it will be obvious, two seconds after I read how. ;p

While I’m at it.. I’d like to sort out Encore’s rather ambiguous encoding options. For 1920×1080 H264 @29.97fps, we have:

Long play
High quality
Maximum quality

Now, it seems a safe bet that 1-pass and 2-pass are in that mix somewhere. But which? And what does “long play” mean? This is important, because I’m down to the wire, and will have essentially only one crack at rendering the whole video as an ISO for burning before my deadline arrives. It’s two hours long.

[Marc Brown]

Until I actually get my hands on a BD-RE (my town has exactly zero specimens anywhere), I need a way of mounting my test ISOs to see if they’ve ended up being low-res like Encore’s preview window. Daemon Tools fails. I don’t know what else to use. I’ve got the trial version of PowerDVD ready to go.

[Marc Brown]

> Virtualdub has frameserving that works in vegas, premiere, ae, and other nle’s. It’s free and needs no intermediate codecs. It makes a small ref file 200k and frameserves out nicely.

I don’t quite follow how that would work. My project is in AE. I need to frameserve from AE to the encoding app. In order to do this on Premiere Pro, for example, I make use of a “codec” called Debugmode Frameserver, which I installed and which Premiere Pro dutifully makes available as an option when exporting video. The Debugmode “codec” does not show up when I attempt to export from AE. In fact, AE’s export options are very limited compared to PPro’s, at least for me.

> If virtualdub fails, try lagarith or huffyuv lossless codecs uncompressed that store lossless mathematically compressed.

Yeah, just not realistic in my case. Two hours of lossless 1080p60, even compressed, would clock in at whatever.. 1 terabyte. Even were I not a simple hobbyist, that would be ridiculous, and, indeed, impossibly cumbersome. Otherwise I’d be all over it. ;p

> H.264 compressed might not be good enough for your master transfer. ps3 can play blue ray, just encode to those specs and the 1.5x player @ 56mpbs/sec transfer disk should play fine. avc is h.264 in a wrapper.

Far as I know, MPEG4-AVC ought to be the same thing, quality wise, as the Bluray AVC, as long as we’re talking about similar bitrates (40+ Mbps). If I had a Bluray burner and money to burn on probable failed attempts, I’d definitely look into that option. Fortunately, it seems I do have another option, and that is to make the MPEG4-AVC file and move it over to the PS3’s hdd.

What I seem to be gathering is that there simply is no way to frameserve from AE to some other app. Plenty of ways to frameserve from other apps to AE, but that’s not what I need. I hope I’m wrong, because it’ll take me days to wrap my mind around such an inexplicable lack.

[Marc Brown]

Sorry, it was PPro 2.0.

Thanks to your suggestions, I was able to at least get as far as turning the imported video “offline” and using “link media” in an effort to replace it. This time things broke down because of a complicated matter.

I’m actually replacing the videos with Avisynth scripts that use the same exact videos, just with the following modification:

ConvertToRGB(matrix=”PC.601″)

The point is to bypass PPro’s poor handling of non-compliant YUV. Unfortunately, I have only now discovered that Avisynth does not spit out the video with its audio. And of course Premiere Pro complains about that.

So I guess now what I need to know is the syntax which will tell Avisynth to keep the audio channel, since it is evidently not kept by default.

[Marc Brown]

Shutter Phase was what I was looking for. Thanks. Now if only it hadn’t been staring me in the face all that time. ;p

[Marc Brown]

I don’t know how it works, but it works. Thanks! It’s a sure bet that without your help, I’d have spent the whole day puzzling it out rather than starting a fresh render.

I’ll worry about the ins and outs of that formula when I have more time. ;p

[Marc Brown]

The plugin was discontinued, so yeah. (Besides which, this isn’t my pc I’m using this software on, so updating software on it, even if an update existed, is an option that I effectively don’t have.)

Again, it’s not a solution I’m after. If I really, truly had to, I could separate the project into 480 horizontal lines and adjust their x position individually, and that would, as far as I can tell, be a fix that works. (It’s probably obvious why I don’t pursue that option.) That’s all I’m after.. something that can correct the problem.

[Marc Brown]

Alright, I’ve got the screenshots. Hopefully this will work.

Before turning plugin on:
https://s305.photobucket.com/albums/nn238/Colmino/?action=view&current=ppro_greatproject_minidv001_2m51.jpg

After turning plugin on:
https://s305.photobucket.com/albums/nn238/Colmino/?action=view&current=ppro_greatproject_minidv001_2m5a1.jpg

Remember, I’m not really looking for a _solution_ (as I doubt there is one) but rather a _fix_, as in an expression (or whatever) which can correct the very elementary problem this plugin is engendering. Again, thanks in advance!

[Marc Brown]

I could do that. Anyone want to recommend a (free, no strings attached) image hosting service? Never had to make use of one before.

[Marc Brown]

Here is my suggestion. As I have been discovering with apps like AE and PPro, there seems to be this reliable rule of thumb: If the elegant is elusive, go with the inelegant. In other words, rather than further attempting to solve the problem AE is generating (which, to me, is sounding more and more like a bug), try adjusting for it. In my experience, this is a stress-reducing philosophy, particularly upon acknowledging the fact that these applications are not completely bug-free, however much one might wish they were.