[Mark Abney]

I deleted the AME folder from my machine and did a reinstall of just AME from my original disc.

2-pass transcodes to f4v are now working as expected.

I did not have to reinstall the entire suite.

Mac OSX 10.6.4
Production Premium Suite CS5

AME now shows up as v 5.0.0.402

[Mark Abney]

Just found this on the Adobe forum.
https://forums.adobe.com/message/3125179#3125179

Going to reinstall AME only and see if that works.

[Mark Abney]

wow.

Well, CBR still works in AME & I have Squeeze loaded on my machine… I’ll give that a try for the f4v files and see how it does.

Think I should re-install the whole suite anyhow?
You know, something else might be screwed up and It just hasn’t reared it’s ugly head yet.

Thanks for your help.

[Mark Abney]

Thanks for your response.

Have to say their solution seems heavy handed.
I was hoping it would be as easy as deleting a preference file or something.

Did they say you have to reinstall the entire suite? or will a custom install of just AME do the trick?

[Mark Abney]

Hi Marcus,

I am happy with DoStudio so far…. have really just scratched the surface but has been pretty intuitive and there is 30-day trial an a good tutorial you can download from the Netblender website.

We tested the DR hardware about a year ago so I have not used any DR AVC files since then.

I use SONIC Cinevision, Apple Compressor and Adobe Media encoder… depending on the project. All three programs produce files that work with DoStudio and Encore CS4 on Windows.

-mark

[Mark Abney]

No… we are not using Digital Rapids anymore.
We are using SONIC Cinevision for encoding.
We have also abandoned Encore due to the fact that you cannot send the Blu-ray output to replication.
We are now authoring with Sonic & DoStudio.

-mark

[Mark Abney]

Hi Gina,

Reason I liked a CBR for this particular transcode was the content had lots of text graphics over solid color backgrounds. The VBR encodes would drop the bitrate way down at these points and I was seeing some artifacts around the edges. Using the CBR setting forced the bitrate up in these areas and the text graphics looked great.

Since every transcode is different,I can’t really suggest settings to make your content look good.

Some things that can cause poor results are:
– bitrate too low
– poor scaling
– interlacing issues
– pixel aspect issues
– framerate issues

I would suggest playing around with some of the presets in AME and find one that gets you close…. then tweak that setting to dial in your final settings.

Good luck with your project.

-mark

[Mark Abney]

Thanks Jeff,

That did the trick.

-mark

[Mark Abney]

sorry… I should clarify

we are attempting to make a simple drop & play Blu-ray disc.

we have a StreamZ HD box here for testing, but have yet to create a file that Encore doesn’t want to transcode.

thanks

-mark

[Mark Abney]

[Ayman Farahat] “So… I’m thinking… there is nothing to loose if I go for a 10-bit 4:4:4 capture in post-production… if the information is not there, then I have only lost some disk space. This is, of course, unless there is some technical reason/difficulty that I’m missing, again because of my technical naivety, which would “prevent” me from capturing an 8-bit 4:2:2 footage as 10-bit 4:4:4… any thought on that? “

Well… first off… do you have a 4:4:4 monitor to check your work?

Also, can your editing/composite system/software handle the 4:4:4?

My suggestion would be to ingest a short test at 4:4:4 and run it through your ENTIRE workflow…. all the way back to final deliverable.

This way you will find any potentially project-killing roadblocks.

We recently colored a feature in 4:4:4 and it was quite a learning experience.

Good luck with your project.

-mark

Good luck with your project