[Paul O’brien]

Hi there,

To be sure, you work in a PAL region, correct? If somewhere in the flow you move between PAL and NTSC, that might create some peculiar field/frame issues. Does the 50′ have an option to go between the two, or are PAL/NTSC issues moot?
If that’s all aligned, where does the stutter first present itself? Do the prores files look as they should, and once Encore transcodes the files it then starts presenting the stutter?
Trying to see where the stutter begins would help diagnose what stop in the workflow is introducing the issue.
50i 1080 is the final result, correct? Have you thought of stepping down the transcoding (within Encore) to 25p 1080? If the 50i is essential to the workflow, I understand, but to test the 50i against something else might help to see if there is something unique about the 50i 1080 transcode (within Encore) that is the issue.
I hope these suggestions help. I only work in NTSC and only once have I had to pull something PAL.

Best luck,
Paul O’Brien

[Paul O’brien]

Hi Todd,

Thank you for the response. I’d have likely gone that route but the presets had to be somewhere, and I eventually found them out.
The presets all reside in their respective program folders in the Adobe folder (the default folder path on Windows is C:Program FilesAdobeAdobe After Effects CS6Support Files(MediaIO)systempresets). Within them, there are numerous other folders one each for the different file formats, and each preset is a .epr file. I went through the After Effects, Premiere Pro, and Media Encoder folders and took off the “.epr” end of any presets I didn’t want, and after refreshing the program, they disappeared. I now have a much simpler and less cluttered view of the dozen or so presets I need. If ever I need to do extensive testing of the platforms I disabled (the android and iOS presets), I’ll go back in and restore the .epr end. I don’t see that happening, but it’s an option I left available.

Thanks again. Presets do have their place, but for my need and case, they were the 2nd option. It’d be nice to have some opt-in for the presets, some way to download whatever preset packs you think you’ll need, and modularize it that way instead of getting the whole package of them. Or maybe since h.264 is so prevalent, somehow break it up.

Paul O’Brien