Encore CS5 interpreting footage incorrectly.

Hi! I'm trying to use QTs in Encore CS5, and they are 720x486, given that all the sistems we use are 720x486, Flame, Smoke, Media Composer, Aja Cards, Decklink Cards, they are all 486 in NTSC not 480, but DVDs are 480, so I'm trying to make a preset that crop out those 6 lines in Encore, but there is a problem, Encore is detecting all the QTs as low filed order, when they are actually progressive, and I can not find a way where to change that, so I can not create a preset that looks good, all looks like with a really low quality resampling when encoded, this used to work in the past.
Victor Wolansky

I agree it's a bug - but a bug where? In the program or module that created the source file, or in En? Or both? That's why I asked about FCP before. Apparently there are some issues with Prog-Seg, and it would be unreasonable to expect En or any third-party app to fix Apple's problem.
Just curious: is using the AME a problem for you? The file has to be transcoded eventually, so the time factor is irrelevant. And with CS5 you now have a choice in En to use En or to use the AME as an out-of-process encoder. So some users might choose the AME anyway.
-Jeff

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Workaround? - Using Interpret Footage AME renders active content only for original movie length

I submitted a bug on this behavior, but I am hoping that someone has found a workaround or maybe I am just using Interpret Footage incorrectly.
Here is the problem:
1. Import 20 second long 23.976fps source file into AME
2. Right-click item in Queue and choose Interpret Footage
3. Choose "Assume this frame rate:" and set to 18fps - Duration will update as expected to 0:00:26;19
Results:
Output file will have correctly re-timed active content up to 0:00:20;00 and then hold that frame (which correctly corresponds to 0:00:15;00 from the source file) to the end of the file at 0:00:26;18
Expected results:
Output file should contain the full content of the source file re-timed for the new duration.
NOTE: This behavior will also be apparent in the Export settings Preview window prior to encoding.
Mac OSX 10.7.5
AME: 6.0.2.81 (64-bit)

We are actually generating the files ourselves and keeping them 23.976fps (or 25fps for PAL-country clients). We're interpreting the incoming 23.976fps file as 18fps because that is the speed at which it was shot. Super-8 sound film like most other sound film was 'supposed' to be shot / projected at 24fps, but many shooters used 18fps to get more time out of a 50-foot camera load. Our company provides 24p (or 25p) files to clients, and in addition to providing 1 to 1 representations of their film at 23.976fps, we also provide 24p files with duplicate frames inserted so they are easy to work with in NLEs, yet approximate the correct motion for material that was shot at 12, 14, 16, 18 or 20 fps. Our Apple Compressor workflow works great for the 90+% of material that is silent or is sound film shot at 24fps. We would experiment with moving the entire speed-correction workflow to AME if it solved the 18in24 sound problem, and it _almost_ does. The behavior I described is obviously a bug and not 'works as intended' - it will then be a question of whether such an outside use case gets any attention. If I can come up with another use case that would be more popular, then I might get more visibility for the bug. I suppose that some may wish to batch out 24p files from 25p files using the same technique. That is, throw a pile of 25p files into AME, interpret them as 23.976 and write them out to 24p files. I would expect that the last 4% of those files would show a freeze frame...
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CS5.5 | ProRes 4444 - Interpret Footage does NOT see Alpha Channel

I thought this problem would have been taken care of by now.
Guess the bug fixes in CS5.5 are few if at all
1) Export any movie to ProRes 4444 and set to export alpha channel straight.
2) re-import to AE
3) Open Interpret Footage Dialog....
One gets REALLY disillusioned when discovering that ALL alpha options have been grayed out.
When is this ProRes MADNESS going to STOP !!!!!

Dan,
if you are ever in Hamburg, Germany. Let me know and the brews are on ME.
In my testing madness I exported a movie WITH NO ALPHA.... That is the reason why I was NOT seeing any alpha options on import.
I dup'ed the vid layer and moved it about and set the opacity to 50... Then exported. And imported. And THERE they were ....
LE ALPHA OPTIONS....
Best Regards
M.

Kernel panic rendering AVCHD footage in Encore CS5 or CS6

I have an early 2008 Mac Pro running CS6 and 10.8.2. My usual workflow is burning two hour multi-cam live performances to DVD. Usually this is two cameras of DV, one camera of AVCHD, all in a DV timeline.
Lately I've been trying to burn DV timelines of nothing but AVCHD footage, and somewhere through the rendering process I always get a kernel panic. This happens with different projects, footage from different cameras (I'm using a Panasonic AG-AC130 or HMC40), whether I'm using Encore CS5 or CS6. The projects never finish. It seems to get 50-75% through rendering video before crashing. Rendering these projects on my MacBook Pro work just fine (though much slower). Timelines where it's not 100% AVCHD are still working fine.
I had began having kernel panics unrelated to Encore, but traced this back to a heat issue. It's an old machine after all. After installing smcFanControl, this problem has gone away. I don't normally burn timelines of nothing but AVCHD, but I'm certain there was a time in the past I was able to burn these without issue. I monitor my system temperature during rendering and I'm somewhat confident that's not what's crashing the system.
The top part of my latest crash report is listed below. Can anyone help me figure out what's going on?
Thu Mar 21 02:32:47 2013
panic(cpu 6 caller 0xffffff800fe9db1b): "TLB invalidation IPI timeout: " "CPU(s) failed to respond to interrupts, unresponsive CPU bitmap: 0x1, NMIPI acks: orig: 0x0, now: 0x0"@/SourceCache/xnu/xnu-2050.18.24/osfmk/x86_64/pmap.c:2337
Backtrace (CPU 6), Frame : Return Address
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0xffffff8101e53c90 : 0xffffff800fe9db1b
0xffffff8101e53d10 : 0xffffff800fea2330
0xffffff8101e53dd0 : 0xffffff800fea2b65
0xffffff8101e53e20 : 0xffffff800fe66a1c
0xffffff8101e53f10 : 0xffffff800fe6a8f0
0xffffff8101e53f40 : 0xffffff800fe18aea
0xffffff8101e53f70 : 0xffffff800fea5b16
0xffffff8101e53fb0 : 0xffffff800feced53
BSD process name corresponding to current thread: PProHeadless
Mac OS version:
12C60
Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 12.2.0: Sat Aug 25 00:48:52 PDT 2012; root:xnu-2050.18.24~1/RELEASE_X86_64
Kernel UUID: 69A5853F-375A-3EF4-9247-478FD0247333
Kernel slide:     0x000000000fc00000
Kernel text base: 0xffffff800fe00000
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System uptime in nanoseconds: 1380749415118119
last loaded kext at 1365787386464065: com.apple.filesystems.afpfs    10.0 (addr 0xffffff7f9262e000, size 348160)
last unloaded kext at 1360973799296735: com.apple.driver.AppleUSBEthernetHost    2.3.6 (addr 0xffffff7f9260b000, size 20480)

After a not-too-intense Bing search, the particular panic you're getting seems to be an indication of:
Your Mac Pro is dying.
Bad drivers in combo with an unforgiving OS.
I don't have any easy advice for number 1. If it is still a heat issue, you may need to redo the thermal paste on the CPU and blow the dust out of the heat sink. If it's a deeper problem than that, some serious repair work up to and including replacement may be required. Either way, it will be a painful fix. For number 2, try updating your graphics card drivers (which card do you have?) and/or going back to 10.6.x or Lion 10.7.x and see if things improve.
Jeff
EDIT: Although Encore and Premiere Pro have their share of bugs, a lot of times they expose weaknesses in a system because of how much they tax all of the hardware and software.

Encore CS5 audio not in sync

Hi,
I'm hoping someone can help me soon. I have multiple timelines that I created in Encore. I have noticed about 25% of them have their audio out of sync. There is nothing complicated with how I built the timelines. All I did was create a timeline and drop in the original video that came off the SD card. All the timelines have video from the same source. I did not even mess with the audio and I don't know if you can for that matter because I'm new with this program. Anyway, the original videos play just fine in the finder. I'm using an iMac with OS X 10.7
I've been trying to figure this out for hours and researching on Google to no avail. I'm so frustrated right now with Adobe products. Adobe staff, if you are reading this, I beg of you to please slow down. Quite trying to make more features. I bet I could safely say that 95% of your faithful users would rather have working software rather than more features. We waste so much time trying to resolve these "little" issues, because they put a halt to productivity. Time is money Adobe. This is so sad. As I'm writing this, I'm realizing that my begging or ******** will do absolutely nothing. I'd probably have better luck playing pick up sticks with my *** cheeks. You should study Luxology's way of handling customer support. Each and every email goes to the present and he replies back. They also make adjustments based off of what other customers are saying. I can't say one bad thing about their forums either. If I have issues, I don't get directed to anyone in India. I don't even have enough time to tell you how one of my last calls went with them. They are not experts. Not even close. I was pissed.
Okay, enough ranting for now. Adobe, if you want to contact me, you know how to get a hold of me.
Thanks to those that are willing to help.

Hi John,
Thanks for getting back to me.
1. I looked at that program and it doesn't get good ratings. I found one other one that does get good ratings for the same price and from what I could tell, it does the same thing with different options. That being said, I don't know if all that collected data is really going to help out in this scenario. The video is an .AVI, 640x480, 1.0 ratio, at 30 fps. A lady took the video using her little pocket camera. I did right click on it and picked Interpret Footage but nothing seemed to happen. It is a very short clip, so maybe something happened but I didn't see it. And it didn't help anyway. Like I said, all the other ones are the exact same type of file and they work fine. I don't see any kind of warning to alert me as to what could be wrong. Taking a screen shot isn't going to do anything in this case either. Simply put, if the video is a minute long, the sound lasts half of that time. There is nothing that a screen shot will help explain. If I had a symbol or a weird glitch of some kind, I would record the video and post that.
EDIT: Okay this is weird. As I went to try that Transcode thing, which wasn't highlighted anyway (and all the timelines say "untranscoded"), I double clicked the timeline in question and went to the point where the sound was ending and now it plays fine. WTH? I hope when I finally get this DVD done, the audio is in sync. I've read a lot of forum posts where it's off AFTER they burn a disc. Damn Apple for ditching iDVD. Their stuff worked for me all the time. No problems. Arrrrg.
2. Thank you for the link to the huge list of tutorials. I am new and have watch videos from Lynda.com and YouTube.com, but unfortunately all these video are perfect world scenarios. That would be cool, if these videos had situations like mine, but they focus on how easily a person can get up and running with these programs, that I don't believe they want to show these situations as they might overwhelm the customer and then won't sell as many tutorials. But I do believe they should have a whole series on problems. Believe me there would be plenty to do just from Adobe's software.
3. Here's an extra question. I own the whole CS5.5 Master Suite. I've spent thousands of dollars over the years since 1996 on their software. Shouldn't there be the ability to check the Codec information like that $3 program you pointed me to?
Thanks.

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I want to use Encore CS5 to create DVDs out of them and I have used it before but only know the basics. The problem is that after I import all the media files, that I want on the first DVD, as assets and put them on the timeline it adds up to 7.23 GB, even though the time is just under 2 hours. I know that that might be pushing it a little bit in regards to the amount of time that I can fit on a regular 4.7 GB DVD, but it should't take up that much space. I removed a bunch of files from the timeline to see what I could fit and only got just under 1 hour. I can see that it is possible to decrease the file sizes, for instance by going to 'file'-'edit quality presets' and doing stuff there, but 'm not sure of the best way to do that.
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the only thing i can think off is either to use more DVDs than I feel that I should have to, or to burn a 7.23 GB image and then shrink that using soomething like DVD shrink, but that seems unecessary.
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Thanks. Nik

hello,
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below follows my findings and more questions. I suppose I should maybe be moving over to a FCPX & Compressor 4 forum. I think I need to do some studies on Bitrate here.
I tried the option of automatic transcoding in Encore to fit all files on a DVD and the results weren't terrible, in fact they are almost good enough, but not quite. it's sequences with fast movement that really are affected. So Stan, not much difference.
the problem is that the footage i am working with is pretty poor quality to start with. I am working with a bunch of Super 8 family films that have been scanned on to DVDs.
In FCPX a film that is 32 Min Pal SD 25p surround sound keeps coming out way to big. Below are some examples:
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Name: SD Video Sharing
Description: SD for upload to web sharing sites such as YouTube and Vimeo
File Extension: mov
Estimated size: 783.36 MB/hour of source
Audio Encoder
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Video Encoder
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    Crop: None
    Padding: None
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    Min. Spatial quality: 25
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well thanks for the help both of you. it seems that outputting way too big files might be one of the many annoying bugs of FCPX.

Encore CS5: The software that's used to decode the media is not available on this system...

Hi guys, I am needing assistance with this matter. I have read up on similar threads (mostly commented on my Bill Hunt), but I fear I may be missing something. Can anyboy please assist me?
Here's the background:
OS: Windows 7 64-bit.
Video footage format: AVCHD 1440 X 1080 (1.333) 25fps, 48KHz
Photoshop Images: 1440 X 1080 (1.333)
I have been running CS4 Master collection for the past year and a half, with minimal hassles in encore (except for the early patch that needed to be downloaded and applied for some or other transcoding error in Encore CS4).
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Many Thanks,
Matt

I am having the same problem however I end up having hardware error "Sense code 52102"
My video capture is similar to yours except I am using HD (Canon HNV model Legria HV40)
The process takes a long time and I have breaks in my recording to DVD and with no sound - once it completed after 40 hours.
I have wasted over 20 DVD's trying different things.
OS: Windows 7 64-bit.
Video footage format: HD 1440 X 1080 (1.333) 25fps, 48KHz
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My questiuon is did Adobe redesign the Media encoder or Encore in version 5.5. If so I would upgrade just to fix this problem. If not is there any good external Transcoding program that I can try? I have tried just about every known setting/Encode type in Media Encoder but non do a good job.
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I have a project underway which had a combination of footage (given to me) in both 1440x1080 and 1920x1080 (all AVI files).
I have used "interpret footage" to correct the ratio on the 1920x1080 footage and looks fine. Done my edit.
I noticed on exporting that the aspect ratio on the interpretted footage exported incorrectly.
Every single time I re-open my project some of the interpretted footage has returned back to original aspect ratio. Sometimes it has not. The inconcsistency alone is annoying as I cannot fathom a logical answer.
Sometimes only some have reverted back to original aspect ratio. The 1440x1080 stuff is fine.
Can anyone explain this as I cannot export or fix it.
The only extra info I can give which MAY be significant is that in Windows Explorer, when a clip is highlighted, it says the ratio is 1440x1080, but when imported into PPro CS4 it says 1920x1080 - which I cannot explain.
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Source video is high def footage from Canon HFM41 camcorder. I edit in Pinnacle Studio on a PC. In the case of this project, the end video is 36 minutes in length. I output to a 1080i MPEG2 file, even though for the time being I will only be making a standard DVD, someday I may want to take the same file and make a Blu-Ray disc.
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Can anyone give me the settings I need in CS5 to get the max quality for a 36 minute DVD?
My next step would be to output 2 files from Studio, the 1080i MPEG2 AND a standard DVD MPEG2 file. Then import the DVD file into Encore. But shouldn't a professional level program such as Encore be able to do better encoding than a $99 consumer package such as Pinnacle Studio.
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Stan, I did a little testing last night as follows.
I took a one minute segment of some beach volleyball that was showing poor quality on my initial DVD from Pinnacle Studio, and exported this 4 different ways
1) MPEG2 DVD Quality
2) MPEG2 1080i (same as my original 37 minute problem video)
3) AVCHD HD 1080
4) MP4 1080
I imported these one at a time into Encore, encoded as DV HQ 8MB CBR (except the DVD Quality file which did not need transcoding). I burned a DVD for each. The results all looked pretty good and pretty much the same between all 4 discs. The MPEG2 1080i disc didn't show the same poor quality that my iniitial 37 minute video did, even though they were exported from Pinnacle with the same settings. So then overnight, I tried re-transcoding the original 37 minute MPEG2 1080i file using the same DV HQ 8MB CBR from Encore and burning the disc. This morning before leaving for work, I popped the DVD in and went to the volleyball clip, and it looked terrible during the fast action, same as before.
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I am exporting 16x9 anamorphic SD video from Avid. In Encore I import the quitktime reference, then choose "interpret footage" and set it to SD Widescreen. Then when I transcode the video, all I get is black.
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I have a .m2v file that Encore 2 recognizes with a 4:3 aspect ratio but it is anamorphic and therefore i would like to change it to 16:9 with the "interpret footage". However that is greyed out.
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Is there any reason to keep the CS4 libraries installed?
I ask because CS4 Prod Prem came with 4 disks + a Content Disk + a Learning Disk. CS5.5 includes just 4 disks total.
guess I'll find out when I install CS5.5, but I plan to uninstall CS4 first. So I wondered whether I should keep anything from CS4 on my machine.
Thanks for any light you can shed on this.
And Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays!

I installed CS5 only on my new machine when I made the double upgrade (PC and CS5). I left CS3 and CS4 installed on my other machine. I find it handy, but primarily for testing questions other users have. I always use CS5 for work.
There have been a few issues where a bug is introduced and users say it helped to have CS4 as a workaround.
But if I were doing what you are doing today for a production only machine, I wouldn't bother to uninstall CS4. But I might pick that moment for a fresh install of Windows, in which case I would not install CS4.
I think Adobe had a strong recommendation not to install CS4 over CS5 (which you are not planning).
Once upon a time, the Encore libraries were apparently "extra" and installed from a disk called "functional content." The CS4 and CS5 functional content disk is NOT such content. When you install from disks, you automatically install the Encore libraries.
I can't compare CS4 and CS5 directly, but the Encore Library folder for CS3, CS4, and CS5 has files/folders respectively 1316/20, 1318/20, 1316/20. A "quick contents" compare in winmerge between CS3 and CS4 had only 4 differences (for example, CS3 used a mov and CS4 m2v for one of the motion menus).
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Encore CS5 freezes opening project

I am running Production Premium CS4 and CS5 on Vista Business 32-bit.
I can't use the Dynamic Link in Encore CS5 as I don't have After Effect CS5 or Premiere Pro CS5 installed so I've created a new project in Encore CS4, imported footage from an After Effects project and saved the project. I then try to open the project in Encore CS5 and it freezes at 13% of the 'opening project' popup box every time.
Can anyone suggest how I might resolve this problem? Thanks.

Just did a search for this problem as my progam also started to hang all of a sudden - at 13% while opening.
I figured it might have been something to do with my clearing out the massive Adobe cache last night. (Useful to do if you suddenly find that you're missing hard drive space and it's not the shadow files. Look in hidden file AppData Adobe Common....)
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