H.264 Encoding Options

Does anyone have any suggestions for a H.264 encoder that will speed up the encoding process...for iMovie '09?

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Do you need to use H.264 encoding?

Good morning.
I'm using VisualHub to convert/encode my movies for my AppleTV. Do you need to use the H.264 encoding option or is it just a personal preference?
Thanks.
Mac Mini Mac OS X (10.4.4) 20" Apple Cinema Display, iBook G4, MacBook Pro

Do you need to use the H.264 encoding option or is it just a personal preference?
I can't speak on VisualHub specifically (though I hear great things about it) but, yes, I'd would say that it's personal preference.
I'm sure you've read this elsewhere, but the benefit to h.264 is that it's a more efficient algorithm compared to MPEG-4. In non-tech speak, that means that it produces smaller files size at the (relatively) same quality. The major downside, of course, is that h.264 takes substantially longer to encode than MPEG-4.
Depending on the your needs – how demanding are you about quality? - and constraints - do you have a lot of stuff to encode, but not enough time? - MPEG-4 should be fine.

H.264 encoding issues with Premiere Pro CC 2014

After updating to Premiere Pro CC 2014 yesterday, I see encoding artifacts on my H.264 exports.
Same source video imported into CC v2014 and v7, and exported using the YouTube 1080p 29.97 fps settings. The artifacts manifests itself as softness/blurriness in parts of the image every few seconds, especially notice the area with a red circle below.
Here are the source file (GoPro HERO3 Black Edition), the v2014 render and the v7 render.
Original: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2rJe0xgMTxFYXJiMjZpZ0stUzQ/edit?usp=sharing
CC v2014 render: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2rJe0xgMTxFQ1B0Z09GS3I0a1E/edit?usp=sharing
CC v7 render: Premiere Pro CC.mp4 - Google Drive
[Version numbers corrected.]
Message was edited by: Jim Simon

Mark Mapes wrote:
This is a known issue introduced in CC2014.0. Some h.264 encodes have blurriness or noise periodically in some areas of the frame. The problem is most pronounced in regions of the frame with very little detail, like grass or pavement--or the T-shirt in the sample frame. We are working on a fix. Before you ask when the patch will be forthcoming, I'm not authorized to even hint at the timeframe.
Unfortunately, the only real workaround is to export to a format other than h.264. If that's not an option for you, then your best bet is probably to keep working in CC7.2.2 until the patch is released.
Sorry, but thats not completely true and by far not the correct answer:
The problems with random artifacts occurred with the introduction of a new version of H264 in CS6 but there you still had the option to export with the previous H264 Version via Media Encoder.
Since the previous H264 version is not available in CC, using CC7.2.2 is not a solution either.
BTW
Updating to CC and using the new Mac Pros with Mavericks is currently a total mess - no open cl rendering, random crashes, no usable h264 ... thanks adobe!!
... but we can track masks in premiere now ... wow!

AME CS5, Quicktime & H.264 encoding - very poor

Hi all,
I seem to be stumped on an encoding issue - whenever I encode .mov files with the H.264 codec, they always come out looking like, well like a first generation web video - ie like S$*T.
My best guess is that the profile is preset to use 'baseline' - if so, is there a way to change this? I can't find any options to change to change the profile, or levels, or anything with regards to H.264 - there is a "codec settings" button, but that is grayed out.
Am I just a dummy and missing some key setting in the interface?
If I go back to CS3 and export with the same settings, I get great looking video - but of course since the project was edited in CS5, I can't go backwards.....
If I am a dummy, can anyone point me in the direction on how to get good looking .mov videos out of AME CS5?
Thanks,
~Mike

whenever I encode .mov files with the H.264 codec, they always come out looking like, well like a first generation web video - ie like S$*T.
I did a quick test of an H.264 MOV earlier today for someone else; check it out here. This is PAL DV to H.264, at about 2Mbps; I think it looks OK. I can get much better from the MainConcept H.264 encoder, or an external encoder, but it's usable.
My best guess is that the profile is preset to use 'baseline' - if so, is there a way to change this? I can't find any options to change to change the profile, or levels, or anything with regards to H.264 - there is a "codec settings" button, but that is grayed out.
According to MediaInfo, the H.264 MOV generated by Premiere is actually using the Main profile; the Level varies based on frame size and where you limit the bitrate. You don't have a lot of options here because, well, I don't think Apple's/QuickTime's implementation of H.264 gives you many options. It's a pretty rotten encoder, at least in comparison to some of the other choices out there.
If you want more flexibility in creating an H.264 encode, use the H.264 format; it's in the same list as QuickTime. You'll have much more you can choose from and more flexibility when controlling your encode. It still doesn't give you as much control as, say Sorenson Squeeze (MainConcept codec) or x264 (open source H.264 encoder, which gives you even more than MainConcept), but you can get some decent looking encodes. The video will be put in an MP4 container, which will playback in QuickTime.
Do you need an MOV? If so, check out MPEG Streamclip. I'm assuming you're using Windows, so that's where the link goes; there's a Mac version as well, however. Anyway, MPEG Streamclip is my go-to gadget when I absolutely have to send an H.264 MOV. It's still using Apple's encoder, but it looks better, and you have a little more control. Just spit out an uncompressed file from Premiere (has to be an uncompressed AVI or else any kind of MOV) and encode from Streamclip--works a treat.

H.264 Encoding Questions...???

I am now starting to convert different video files to my iTunes for my AppleTV and have some questions...
BTW, I am using VisualHub and using H.264 - high quality setting for encoding on a G5 iMac with 1GB RAM.
1. Approx. how long should it take to encode a 700MB .avi file to .mp4, using H.264?
I am transferring all these TV shows I have that are around 700MB .avi files and they are taking anywhere from 400-600 minutes per file!!! That seems very long to me.
2. Do .VOB files typically take even longer to encode using H.264?
The few .VOB files I have tried are taking 800 or so minutes for a 2-3GB .vob file.
Is there something else I should be doing? Are these times normal?
Any tips or suggestions for encoding?
Thanks in advance.

Don't use VisualHub myself, but do know that h.264 encoding is extremely processor intensive and time consuming. The actual source material probably won't matter too much unless it's high definition or uses a particularly computationally intensive algorithm to decode (and for most decoding is miles faster than encoding).
For example, on my iMac (2.16GHz Intel core 2 duo) converting a 2-3GB '.rec' TV recording from a Topfield PVR (which in essence produces MPEG2 transport streams), via MPEG Streamclip can take 3-4 hours for say a 90-120 minute program, and that's without using 2 pass encoding.
VisualHub is regarded as one of the faster converters, but High Quality setting will take longer than 'Standard' and the 'Go nuts' option will take even longer.
Hopefully (though it may not be what you want to hear) someone with a G5 and VisualHub will reply to confirm the sort of encoding times you're experiencing - I say hopefully as if their times are much faster it points to some other factor than VisualHub.
Elgato make a hardware USB h.264 encoder which is supposed to speed up encoding considerably but it only accelerates specific applicatiosn (eg iMovie) or their own conversion application (so far - the latest MPEG Streamclip release suggests they will add an option to harness it if possible/feasible - it may not be).
There are mixed reports on the Elgato device - biggest gripes being lack of customisable settings and an 800x600 resolution maximum. I've got one on order - for some older stuff recorded off a PVR it'll probably be more than adequate but for newer things software encoding is likely to be better. Time vs quality trade off really.
Best h.264 encoding results for most at the present time will almost certainly be achieved in customisable converter software - there are probably professional high quality h264 hardware converters available but these would be prohibitively costly for most of us.
AC

H.264 encoding hardware

We're cranking these things out now, and the render times are killing us.
Any suggestions for quality hardware for H.264 encoding?
Budgets aren't what they used to be around here, so I'd like to keep the cost somewhere between an arm or a leg - not both.

Typically I export a QT Movie, and uncheck SELF CONTAINED. This makes a reference movie, that is a clip that points to the existing media on the media drive, and not a self contained movie containing footage within. This export is way faster than exporting a self contained movie.
Then I take that into Compressor or into the Elgato software and let it encode. Then I can go back to work in FCP. You CAN, if you want, choose QUICKTIME CONVERSION, and I think the Elgato options pop up there, but then you are stuck while FCP is busy encoding. And I don't think it is any faster.
Shane

Have plan feature H.264 Encoding for Cameras on Mobile?

Have plan feature H.264 Encoding for Cameras on Mobile?
Thank you

Generally speaking H264 is supposed to be about twice as efficient as MPEG2. I think that's probably overstating the case somewhat (i.e. H264 isn't really twice as "good"). However you can certainly cut back somewhat from what you'd use with MPEG2.
Next consideration is the resolution/dimension of the final video. Do you want to go 640x480 (NTSC 4:3 aspect ratio) or something smaller? Since you're starting with video tape I'd suggest something like 480x360 (that should be large enough by a good margin to get all of the quality from a video tape). However, you might even want to drop down to 320x240 since that would be compatible with the video iPod and potentially other mobile, hand-held devices.
Finally, if you go with 640x480 I'd suggest something in the 3Mb to 4Mb per second range (for relatively demanding material, less for so-called "talking heads," and perhaps a bit more for extreme action), that would scale to 1.7Mb to 2.3Mb per second for 480x360, and 750Kb to 1Mb per second for 320x240. If you plan on using Front Row and want to store your video on a remote server (accessed either wirelessly or over ethernet) then you will definitely want to enable the "streaming" option when you encode the video. In fact you may want to use the streaming option in every case (for future compatibility).
If you plan on viewing this video on a computer display or any type of LCD or high-definition device you may also want to consider a de-interlace step for the 640x480 and 480x360 resolutions. You won't need that for the 320x240 video since 240 is exactly one half of the vertical resolution for standard NTSC DV (720x480). However, if you're using PAL you'll need to adjust all of the above resolutions to fit the proper form factors.
As always, the beauty will be in the eye of the beholder. Thus I'd suggest that you try something near the above and adjust accordingly (based upon what you see and like or dislike).

Why am I not seeing file.encoding option in file sender/receiver communicat

Good Morning Everyone,,
I am not able to find file.encoding option in both sender/receiver communication channels on my XI system. Is it something to do with Java Runtime character sets installed on the XI system?
Do we need to setup something to make it available? thanks in advance...

Hi,
Please specify File Type parameter as Text (By default it is Binary)
For File type parameter Text the file encoding will be displayed, UTF-8 is by default encoding used.
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How to set(add) an e-mail encoding option in iPod Touch Mail?

Hi.
When I'm sending multi language e-mail in my iPod, it is shown in my desktop below.
?섏씠
?섏쓽 iPod?먯꽌 蹂대깂
2009. 04. 06 ?ㅽ썑 6:16 "Kwansu Lee" <[email protected]> ?묒꽦:
But I can read in Outlook2007, if I set encoding options as UTF-8.
하이
나의 iPod에서 보냄
2009. 04. 06 오후 6:16 "Kwansu Lee" <[email protected]> 작성:
It has no character set like
<meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
How can I send an e-mail in my iPod without multilanguage encoding problem?
Message was edited by: leesof

I opened e-mail in IE Browser, I can get encdoing type like below.
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
boundary="----=NextPart_000_019C01C9B765.4C8DA160"
여러 부분으로 구성된 MIME 형식의 메시지입니다.
------=NextPart_000_019C01C9B765.4C8DA160
Content-Type: text/plain;
charset="euc-kr"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
------=NextPart_000_019C01C9B765.4C8DA160
Content-Type: text/html;
charset="euc-kr"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
What program produced that email? iPod? The one you sent me had two different charsets.
I wrote a html e-mail in Outlook, and a plain text e-mial in my iPod.
I think It's mismatch in character set and contents. Is it right?
Sorry, but I can't understand what you are referring to. You sent me a message from your ipod. It had two different charsets. That is not a bug. Outlook does have a bug which makes it misread messages with two different charsets. Apple could accomodate that bug by having the ipod use the same charset instead of two different ones, and that is the easiest fix, because MS makes garbage software and never fixes its bugs.

Where is the Character Encoding option in 29.0.1?

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FLV supporting but .mp4 (H.264 encoded) video not supporting in mobile browser?

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I want to know one things, is there any other settings required to publish the swf file for playing mp4 file in mobile browser also. I am able to play ".FLV" in mobile browser but not able to play ".MP4" (H.264 encoded) in my mobile browser.
MP4 file required Flash Player 10 to play video I know this,I can watch video from youtube.com in mobile bowser also.
Please look at the following url which is not opening in Mobile browser but can open in computer broswer.
http://karzzzz.bigflix.com/m/
I want the above url to be play in both computer and mobile browser also as it calling .mp4 file from Flash Media Server.
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Sunil Kumar Sah

Are you using Flash Lite Plug-in or Flash Player Plug-in on your mobile browser. I have a feeling that you are using Flash Lite Plug-in and flash lite plug-in (latest is 4.0 i suppose) does not support H264 encoded files.
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I have problem in osx 10.8 i cannot see the encoding option while connecting to the my pc server ?

MR.Eric please help ?
i have problem in osx 10.8 i cannot see the encoding option while connecting to the my pc server ?
this option was in osx 10.6 see it here
because if i create any file in Arabic name from osx 10.8 the others old mac os see it only in unreadable letters ?
please help
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Aw geez, they sure have messed up OSX.
Do you have a backup of 10.8.2?
Maybe...
Bootup holding CMD+r, or the Option/alt key to boot from the Restore partition & use Disk Utility from there to Repair the Disk, then Repair Permissions.
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Add encoding option to embeded OC4J

Hi,
Can you help me to add the -Dfile.encoding option to embeded OC4J?
I like to know, where this line is built when starting OC4J?
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Thank you

Hi,
Can you help me to add the -Dfile.encoding option to embeded OC4J?
I like to know, where this line is built when starting OC4J?
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Thank you

Where are encoder options in cs5.5?

I just picked up a trial version of this so I'm just learning. I have to compress large files but I'm not sure how. My coworker (using Audition cs3) told me to do File > Save As > Options for something called 'encoder options'. I can't find that on my trial of cs5.5. Is there another location? I don't know much about this stuff, but I guess I'll have to change the file to 20 kbps and 11025 Hz if those options make it any clearer of what I need to find.
Thanks!

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When you select File > Save As.. you should see the following dialog:
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Please clarify availability of H 264 encoding in AIR for iOS/Android

Hello,
I've written an app to send a live camera stream via RTMP in H 264/Nellymoser from mobile devices. The app works fine on AIR when tested on my Win7 desktop, but when I publish to AIR 3.2 for Android or AIR for iOS, it seems that the H264VideoStreamSettings are simply ignored and the video ends up in Sorenson. Is H264 supported for encoding/publishing on AIR for mobile devices? If not, is this planned for the future?
Thanks!

Unfortunately, the release notes say H.264 encoding from AIR is for the desktop version only:
http://helpx.adobe.com/x-productkb/multi/release-notes-flash-player-11.html
H.264/AVC Software Encoding for Cameras (desktop) — Stream high-quality video from your computer's camera with higher compression efficiency and industry stanard support, enabling both immersive real-time communications such as video chat/conferencing and live video broadcasts.

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