[Waverideco]

I tried the settings you suggested and it worked great. I also changed the frame rate to 23.976 which I believe also was a important factor. I tried a couple clips at 30fps and the same dropped frame problem happened. I don’t think it would even play if I exported something at 60fps.It’s interesting that you can export 720p@60fps and it plays well. Would you happen to have a sample? The trailers look and play great from that site.

The colors seem to shift a bit which is still something I’m trying to figure out, but all in all it’s something I can use. Thanks for your help.

[Waverideco]

Thanks mate I’ll give that a try. Which encoding profile do you use, eg windows 8? or 9 advanced? can’t remember the options. Also, what audio codec did you use? Finally what frame rate are you using?

I’ll export some uncompressed Avi’s from Affx put em in prem and export with those settings and see how it goes.

Cheers,

[Waverideco]

Whoa man that sounds like a pretty sweet setup. I’ll have to have a look at that for the future because at present I think it would be a little too expensive. You bring up some good points though.

You said that you can export to 10Mb/s VBR and they play great on customer laptops. This would be perfect. If you don’t mind answering a couple questions.. cheers

Do you use the adobe media encoder? Can you tell me the exact settings?

Do you think your intermediate codec helps improve the end result? The hardware?

I

[Waverideco]

You haven’t been happy with any of the suggestions offered in this thread for one reason or another.

Mate, I’m sorry if you think I’m being difficult, I’m just trying to find a solution. I’ve tried getting a new hard drive and using cineform – they have been good suggestions and have helped but haven’t solved the problem.

You say you have an example of a format that you’ve called, “Professional HD material” from Microsoft. You say that you have run GSpot on that format and know the specific information about the format. Yet you won’t share that information, even though I specifically asked you for it.

As far as I know Gspot can only read AVIs. I said

Yes I’ve tried programs like Gspot. I know the end format, just not how to get there. (see the period)

To be honest, your best bet is to get your footage into the same format as those “Professional HD” files are that you like. The only way for anyone to help you get your files into that format is if you share with us what that format is.

I’ve mentioned multiple times about the final format.

WMV@8500 or quicktime H.264(AAC)@6.85~9.98 30fps

Would you be able to expain what other information I can get?

The Problem is when I press export from premiere (with those settings) or another compression program my export does not look (gamma shift) or play as well as these:

https://www.apple.com/quicktime/guide/hd/3
or
https://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/musicandvideo/hdvideo/contentshowcase.aspx

At Microsoft I doubt they use premiere to export to this site. I would like to know how they do it. What process is used.

Thanks for your patients mate.

[Waverideco]

To be honest I’m quite open to any high quality codec that plays well. As I

[Waverideco]

Sorry for the long reply I’ve been on vacation. Yes I’ve tried programs like Gspot. I know the end format, just not how to get there. I gave cineform a try and it’s a great system. It improved system performance a lot, not perfect, but very good. I’m getting to the point now where I think a quicker raid system (4 hard drives in raid 0) would probably help things as well as a system upgrade all around. Because of the problems at this point I’m probably gonig to produce it in SD for concept to speed up the workflow and then redo it in HD later. Thanks for all your advice and help. Cheers!

[Waverideco]

For Premiere Pro performance I’ll give cineform a try and see how it goes.

But still my major problem is playing clips that I export in delivery formats. Eg Mp4,H.264,WMV@8000,Jpeg,PNG, etc.. don’t play very well. But Professional HD material from windows and microsoft play great. Working backwards.. how do they do it?

I think the JVC device is an option for the future screenings, but there must be another way during the editing process.

The show will not be push play and let it rip, but more of a interactive (screen and presenter) kind of like Hollywood Vs powerpoint presentation. So the JVC option might not work that well. I will need to integrate the HD material into a type of “mac Keynote presentation” likeness. (please don’t suggest mac, all my software..etc is windows.) lol.

Playing H.264 plays the same as the others but there is a massive gamma shift that I do not know how to correct. (colors are washed out). They look great in the preview window…When trying with a 8500GT it played pretty good because of the hardware decoder, but again the gamma shift issue.

Keep coming with all your great suggestions.
Cheers guys.

[Waverideco]

Thanks for the suggestion for showing HD, it’s an interesting way to go about it.

Well I mean business so was I went out and bought a 150gig Raptor. Unfortunately, it still hasn’t fixed my jitters. There is virtually no change on playing performance.

Would someone be able to get me more specifics about exporting? There has got to be someone out there that has a machine that can play HD without these problems. I

[Waverideco]

Thanks for your replys.

I actually have 2×80 in raid 0. The reason I don’t think it’s a I/O problem is because the files are only 10-50meg exported directly from AfFx. I also have exported the same clip copy and pasted in the timeline and exported from Prem.

Isn’t the clip just playing from memory? I think there is some I/O problems on Large AVI/Animation files, but even when exporting from afFx in a final format (mp4/windows video/etc) the problem still exists.

Do you have any idea why QuickTime plays clips differently when the mode (full/windowed) is changed? If it was an I/O problem wouldn’t it be more consistent?

Also when I disable directX video acceleration the clips play much smoother but their is horizontal line tearing..

I have no problem going and buying a Raptor to see if that fixes the problem, but I’m not sure if it will. Do you still think so?

Does anyone know a tried and true method to use, that I could try. I’ve tried andrew kramers suggestions @ video co-pilot.net my exports just don’t add up. I need a start to finish workflow that works, and if it doesn’t I suppose I’ll have to upgrade.

Cheers for your help!