***Encoding/Compressing

Hi,
I shoot interviews that are about an hour long. 1080/24p.
I do about 5 a day and really looking to speed up my workflow when compressing the files for uploading to vimeo.
Right now, after I edit, I export a reference of each sequence to compressor where I use my cores from my 3.66ghz 6-core, 32GB RAM computer to process the files. In compressor, I export to h.264, full resolution (need it), 5000mb/s.
It takes all night to make these files. Is this normal? Is there any other method that would speed this up? Maybe flash? Different format/settings?
Thank you!!

Matrox makes an enhanced version of the mxo2 with h.264 encoding acceleration.
Elegato makes the Turbo.264 HD.
Both have been used by regulars around here.
The matrox does more than simply accelerate the conversion process - it is a full i/o system.
x

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What would be a good rate (I'm in the New York Metro area)
Thanks for your help!

Might be a chance to cover the costs of something like Bitvice. Currently the Compressor 2 highest quality settings are not ideal, and Bitvice might do a better job. You could charge them $300 and cover the cost of the program:
http://www.innobits.se/ssl/phform.php
Incidentally, there's a company just around the corner from me in SoHo who charge about $100 per hour of footage, so including tapes and everything they would be under $300, and that's for high quality hardware encoding.

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Export/Encoding/Compression Error

I have been trying to burn a DVD for the last week without any success using iMovie and iDVD.
When trying to burn the DVD on iDVD, the program would "Unexpectedly Quit" while it is encoding the movie. It would encode the first 2-3 minutes of the movie before the program quits. Furthermore, when I try to save the project to a Disk Image, the program unexpectedly quits too.
Since I noticed that the program was quitting during the encoding process of the first movie, I tried exporting the first movie into another format such as QuickTime and MPEG-4 using iMovie. QuickTime immediately prompts the message:
"A file compression error occurred. The movie could not be properly compressed. THe movie may contain some data that is invalid for the type of compression selected."
The project consists of JPEG's, Quicktime MOV's with sound(from a Kodak Digital Camera), and M4p's (purchased through iTunes). I would believe all these formats are compatible with iMovie since they are all imported successfully. When trying to export to MPEG-4 with Audio (AAC-LC), the encoding processes half way, then quits unexpectedly.
On an interesting note, when I encode the same movie using MPEG-4 with NO AUDIO, the encoding process completes successfully. I am suspecting that the issue may have to involve the Audio.
Out of the 9 iMovie Projects I included in my DVD, 5 of them could be exported into Quicktime MOV's correctly, while the other 4 would cause the program to quit. I noticed that the 5 that do work are all under 5 minutes of video and audio. The other 4 that say "A compression error occurred". I do not know if this somehow attributes to the problems.
Is there anything I can do to encode these 4 movies correctly?
If it is an issue with the audio compression, is there a work around for it?
If I am able to encode these movies correctly on iMovie, should the encoding process for iDVD work correctly also?
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Hi ebm - not sure that I can help much, but a few observations:
iMovie converts M4P files to AIFF, so that shouldn't cause a problem.
The .MOV files from the Kodak still camera may be more problematic - are you sure that the audio on them plays in iMovie? What format are those files - perhaps they're mpeg4?
I cannot see why you would want to convert the movie to MPEG4.
What about creating a QT (Full Quality) file of each movie, then open iDVD and drag them into the iDVD window. If their combined length is less than 60 minutes, you could use the Best Performance setting with background encoding ticked (in iDVD Preferences) - you can then watch them as they encode.
Of course, Best Quality may produce a slightly better result, but the encoding occurs after you click Burn.
Good luck!

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Message was edited by: djmulryan - amended screen shots

Hi all, I hope somebody can help.
This morning I encoded from a 1080p QuickTime .mov file to a 360p .FLV file.
I have previously used this work-flow with CS4 and CS5.5 and have had great results.
When I attempted the same thing this morning, for the first time with CS6 Media Encoder, the .FLVs came out glitchy in places (screen shots 1 & 2 attached).
Thinking it was a process error, I tried several different methods and all yielded the same results.
So I returned to CS4, thinking it might be a software issue, and "hey presto" no glitches!
All updates are present and correct from the Creative Cloud/ Adobe Application Manager, so am I missing something?
Has anyone else experienced anything similar? Lots more encoding to be done this afternoon and would like to use CS6 ME if at all possible.
Any help would be massively appreciated.
Darren
Message was edited by: djmulryan - amended screen shots

Premiere / Media Encoder Compression Question

Hey all -
Been banging my head on this one for awhile, thought I'd present my problem here - hope I can find a viable solution.
So, I have a 20 minute HD short film that I finished editing in Premiere last month. My sound engineer is working on the film, and requires the video it to be no larger than 100mb so he can work on it... and he needs it exported as a .MOV. My question is, I can't seem to get the file size down to less than 1gb.
What's the best way to compress a 20 minute HD video to a 100mb .mov? My options seem limited to size and 'quality' settings ( no VBR settings for .mov) ... but when I push the quality settings down super low, the video gets seriously degraded and the file size doesn't crunch down that small ...
Desperately need your advice here, friends! Can this be done, and how?
thanks !!!
-mark

The problem is that 100MB is hardly getting started with a 20 minute HD video.
There are a number of ways to cut down the file size. The first is to use an efficient codec. If you must use a Quicktime wrapper (.mov) then select H.264 as your codec.
The second is to cut down the bitrate (quality), which you have seen is rather destructive.
Once you have cut the bitrate, then there are ways to make the quality come back up. You could cut the frame rate to about 15. It would make it a bit jerky but since this is for sound and not color or other video related editing, you can cut the bitrate in half when you cut the frames in half and still get something decent.
You can cut the bitrate even more and get good quality if you export a standard definition video instead of HD. Does the audio guy really need HD?
In any case, 100MB is barely anything nowadays. Not for a 20 minute video.
Why does it have to be so small? Can't you post it where it can be downloaded> At around 1GB or so?

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There are a lot of effects, such as, alpha chanel clips of smoke, explossions and stuff like this.
When I export it into H264, or Mpeg2,4 or avi or H264(blu ray), I get a bad quality encoding in some parts:
I get bad quality in the glow effect I have attached to the titles.
I get bad quality in the clips of smoke (bad color) (tha alpha chanel of the smoke)
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I consider myself a pretty seasoned pro at creating many types of digital media, but I am not a specialist in any one area. I do illustration 2d and 3d, high-end 3d animation, simple editing and effects, photoshop work, illustrator work etc. and have been at this for many many years. I say this as a preamble because I am frankly flummoxed at having to decipher the best compression settings for creating a 720p clip that will look as good as possible, yet play back without stuttering on my clients' less than stellar hardware. Yes, I can try this and that and iteratively get to my goal, but the trial and error approach doesn't cut it under production deadlines. I am sure I am not alone judging from the many forums and questions I have found on the net.
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Cannot add TV commercial .mpg file to encoder - error while decompressing source

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I'm attempting to add a .mpg file to the CS5 Media Encoder but receive the error "Error while decompressing the source file". This file was recorded and is being used as a TV commercial. Would this mean that the file has a different encoding/compression that makes it impossible for the Encoder to decompress? I'm stumped because It is a .mpg file, which should be accepted. I've attempted adding other .mpg files and have no trouble. Is there any way around this?
Thank you, in advance, for your help!
Best Regards,
Kathy

i think we should file a bug report through here with adobe premiere pro cs 5 as program.. anyway this is what i wrote:
******BUG******
Concise problem statement:
Steps to reproduce bug:
1. Open Adobe Media Encoder CS5
2. Add/Import an ".mpg" video file from Sony Camera DSC-W50 (used high quality format setting in camera) to Adobe Media Encoder CS5
3. Click open in the explorer window that appears to select video
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Videos encoded with Apple Animation Codec won't play properly in QT7.5

Quick Time version I have installed is 7.5 (149.5). I also have Perian 1.1 and Mpeg2 codec for QT.
All of a sudden, all videos I render using Apple Animation Codec with alpha channel won't properly play in QuickTime, nor in Preview (when you click on .MOV file and press Space). They actually play, but colors are all screwed up and it looks like it's playing only alpha layer. I tried same movies on my work buddy's Mac and everything looks perfet. I also tried importing those videos into Flash, and everything works fine, but when I have to preview them in QT or using Finder's Preview, they look crazy. I can't send any screenshots since this thing happens on my work iMac (new aluminum one, Leopard 10.5.4, all updates installed) and I am at home now.
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Hah, found out what's the problem. It is not my computer, it is not my QuickTime got corrupt. It is QuickTime's bug decoding movie file encoded using following combination of settings:
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Depth: Millions of colors+ (alpha channel included)
Quality: Best
ParticleIllusion
Output options
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In the same time, if you import such animation rendered with this option enabled into Flash, everything looks perfectly fine. It's just QuickTime won't play it properly.
Every single Mac I checked has this same problem, and it's not Mac's problem, it is QuickTime problem.
I have two examples, you can see it yourself:
First one is when black bg is still present in RGB channels (animation looks exactly as it should):
http://www.sasha-z-creations.com/quicktime/Example_BlackPresent.mov
And second one is when black bg is removed from RGB channels (colors looks weird):
http://www.sasha-z-creations.com/quicktime/Example_BlackRemoved.mov
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Adobe CS5 has the ability to encode AE comps and add to the queue without even having AE open. But i wonder what situations are better to render AE comps from the AE render queue or the standalone Media Encoder. Should a user expect better 64 bit performance from one? i know that codecs can limit that from happening, but i find that Media Encoder works all my processors into a frenzy when i render a comp from either AE or Premiere.
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sorry -- need to revise this post after clarifying some test results
Message was edited by: John Bertram

So if Best Quality uses a lower bitrate perhaps it should be called Less Quality
Bitrate isn't everything. A good encoder may well produce better quality with a lower bitrate than another encoder with a higher bitrate. And often good quality takes more time to encode, too.
I have done some tests and at least with that particular test material I got slightly better quality in a very few high-action scenes with Best Performance.
But since most of my DVDs are >60 minutes, I always use the Best Quality setting.
should a DVD from videotape have the same quality (good, bad or indifferent) as the original?
MPEG encoding compresses data so the quality will always suffer. But usually you don't notice it. It also depends on the input material: difficult to encode scenes include high action, noisy low-light scenes, water, smoke etc.
With Best Performance or with <75(-90) minutes' Best Quality the iDVD output quality has been OK for me.
But I'd wish iDVD used compressed audio because uncompressed PCM audio steals way too much bandwidth from video in long (90-120 min) DVDs!

Configure Soap Adapter for compress, gzip.

HI to all experts,
do anyone know how can configure a soap adapter with the parameter for compress, gzip.
i found a document which explain so:
localejbs/sap.com/com.sap.aii.af.soapadapter/XISOAPAdapterBean
XMBWS.XMLEncoding Content-Type charset iso-8859-1
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Delivery of the message to the application using connection SOAP_http://sap.com/xi/XI/System failed, due to: com.sap.aii.af.ra.ms.api.RecoverableException: SOAP: response message contains an error XIAdapter/PARSING/ADAPTER.SOAP_EXCEPTION - soap fault: Could not access envelope: Unable to create envelope from given source: ; nested exception is com.sun.xml.internal.messaging.saaj.SOAPExceptionImpl: Unable to create envelope from given source:.
seems that it have any difficult to read the payload.
let me know if anyone have an idea.
best Regards
Claudio.

Hi Stefan,
is it enough this response?
POST HTTP/1.0
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User-Agent: SAP-Messaging-com.sap.aii.messaging/1.0505
Content-ID: <[email protected]>
Content-Disposition: attachment;filename="[email protected]"
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Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Content-Encoding: gzip
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Claudio.

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I'm used to getting materials that are already pre-encoded/compressed from Final Cut Pro to a format I can use in DVD Studio Pro. I've been asked to bid on a project that would be 90-100 minutes in length that would have me do the encoding via Compressor and I'm not quite sure what to charge (as it would take hours and hours to do, I'm not sure my regular hourly rate would be appropriate, but don't want to screw myself out of $$$ either, especially since it would tie up the computer for a while).
What would be a good rate (I'm in the New York Metro area)
Thanks for your help!

Since it wouldn't be entirely fair to charge for the time due to equipment to some degree, I have found that if I charge an average for encoding at a certain quality for so many minutes of film that would be more fair. For instance I would charge maybe .50 a min for a high quality compressed file. The idea isn't the price's I'm giving but rather a structured way to think of how to charge the customer. You're in an area that could charge more depending on the client and the availability of your serivces for a given price. Come up with things per hour and things per minute of film for the type of service you'll be rendering.

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What are my options in terms of compressing it down
With just iDVD, no "pre-compression" options really, as iDVD will always re-encode (compress) anything you give it. You'll have to edit it to make it shorter. And you'll probably need to get rid of more than you think too, as the "two hour" limit doesn't include the menus, etc.
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http://www.hardmac.com/niouzcontenu.php?date=2005-05-26#4090
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