Media Encoder support for 4K XAVC-S (H.264 Level 5.2)

Has anyone heard when encoding for H.264 Level 5.2 (XAVC-S/XAVC) might be available for Premiere CC/Media Encoder?

Premiere Pro in Creative Cloud does support XAVC-S, along with XAVC.
Regards,
Fergus

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1. I live in Australia so I assume PAL.
2. My camera is a Sony HDV. HCR HC9 1440 x 1080i. I assume this is irrelevant to export encoding settings for Blu-Ray.
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4. I will play on a TV 1920 x 1080 pixel capable and on slightly lower resoultion widescreens. The encoder preset is for 1920 x 1080 so I assume that's ok for all widescreen TVs even lower definition ones.
As you can tell I am a learner. Any suggested links to basic reading on the subject would help me.
Robert
PS Put this item in wrong forum previously.

Since no response I've been searching and found the following.
When encoding to make a Blu-Ray disk from my HDV 1080i footage:
1. Tell encoder the source is 1080i That is interlaced and it's TOP field first for HDV footage.
2. Tell it to encode to 1440 x 1080 resolution. You could tell it 1920 x 1080 but it will take much longer to encode. Will be good but why bother. All BD players will automatically up the 1440 to 1902 full screen.
3. Beware, not all players support BD-R and BD-RE recordable disks.
Seems Panasonic is good. Samsung probably good. Sony and Sharp probably not able to read (yet).
4. All players read MPEG-2 compression and H264 compression. Use a bit rate of 25 Mbps for MPEG-2 encode or 18 Mbps for equivalent result in H264 encode. Can use higher rates. These are minimums for a very good result
5. One pass encode is pretty damn good but use two pass if you have the time to wait for the encode.

Media Encoder Update for Captivate Subscription

I see news that Adobe Media Encoder CC (7.2) is now available.
http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=5703
When I check for updates within Media Encoder CS6 (version 6.0.3.1) that came with my Captivate 7 subscription it says there are no updates available, same case within Captivate 7 itself.
Should I use the update from the URL above or wait until it is enabled within Media Encoder or Captivate? I am assuming there would be an update.

Hello ,
Yes the updated version of Adobe Media encoder which gets packaged along with Adobe Captivate is CS6 (6.0.3.1) .
The link which you have shared is for Media Encoder cc version which gets installed along with cc appliations.
You will be able to install from the above link which you have shared with me if you have installed Media Encoder as a part of CC applications
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Support for NVidia GPU hardware H.264 encoder (NVENC)?

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It is similar in function/purpose to "Intel's Quicksync" (except that Quicksync works with more codecs: MPEG-2, VC-1, and H264. NVENC only supports H264 encoding.) The company claims the hardware-block can encode 1080p video much faster than the host-CPU alone (probably at the loss of some image quality.) This feature is supported on desktop NVidia GPUs with the model GT640, GTX6xx. And in laptop NVidia GPUs GT640M, GT650M, GT680M (and a few others.)
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If not, I'd like to try writing a plugin that uses NVENC, though that'd definitely be an ambituous undertaking!

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The following comments are based on my proof-of-concept NVENC-exporter plugin, run on a Geforce GTX650 1GB. The plugin is compiled from the NVidia NVENC Public Beta SDK 2.0 (Dec 2012) and Geforce 314.07 drivers (Feb 2013). The programmer-API to access NVENC is protected by a license-key. The SDK comes with a free trial-key, but doesn't indicate how it compares to a (purchased) retail-key (i.e. does it perform the same but with restricted features/functionality, or does a retail-key offer higher quality encodes?)
First off, how is the video image-quality (compared to the MainConcept H264 that Adobe bundles with CS6)? Based on naked-eye comparisons, NVENC is anywhere from slightly to somewhat worse. As such, since the quality delta was easily discernable at all bitrates, I didn't find it necessary to take objective psnr measurements.
(1) At "low bitrates" (eg. 6mbps or less at 1920x1080 24fps), NVENC is noticeably worse than Mainconcept. The fixed GOP-pattern (group-of-picture) really kills the output-video at scene-transitions, because the encoder doesn't make intelligent decisions about where to place reference-frames.
(2) At "high bitrates" (eg. ~25mbps for 1920x1080 24fps), NVENC is slightly worse than Mainconcept, though now the two are almost neck-to-neck. NVENC seems to have problems tracking very subtle color transitions. For example, on animated/computer-generated scenery (like a Disney cartoon), NVENC had shows a tendency to introduce blocking artificats into sky gradients and other tonal-gradients. Mainconcept was much better in this regard.
Next, what about speed? Speedwise, NVENC easily wins (as expected.)
(3a) For 1080p video, NVENC consistently finished straight "media-export" jobs in Adobe Media Encoder (i.e. straight "in to out" without any adjustments/changes to the source video) roughly 3x faster than the Mainconcept H264-Bluray codec. For example, NVENC needed 30 seconds to re-encoded a 120second Bluray clip. Mainconcept usually took 90 seconds. (Both encodes were single-pass VBR; run as video-only, no audio, no muxing.)
(3b) for 3840x2160 video, NVENC's speed-advantage shrinks to roughly 2x. (This is likely due to a very slow hostmem-hostmem frame-copy operation inside my plugin.)
(4) NVENC CPU-usage hovers between 30-40% during the Adobe Media Encoder session. Mainconcept always used near 90-100% CPU. (My machine is an Intel i5-3570K 4-core CPU.) If someone were comparing NVENC/Mainconcept on a 2-core laptop, the speed-difference would be closer to 6x. Even so, NVENC falls behind Intel's "QuickSync" technology (unfortunately, Intel doesn't offer a Quicksync exporter-plugin for CS6.)
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Using Adobe Media Encoder CS4 for MTS files

Hey everyone, I did some searching on this topic to no avail so here I am.
Anyway, I recently got an HD camcorder that records in 1080i AVCHD.
I have no problems getting the MTS files off of my camera but as I'm sure you can imagine, working with those files is a whole other issue.
I've found that Adobe Media Encoder CS4 works great in encoding these files to QuickTime format (.mov) but the problem is that the resulting file size is actually bigger than the original MTS file which is unacceptable, especially considering I'm encoding the files from 1920x1080 down to 1280x720.
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Any ideas as to why the encoded file sizes are actually larger than the MTS file sizes? Maybe AME CS4 is not what I should be using for this task?
Thanks for your help,
Tom

I figured it out.
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This will set everything up to convert your MTS file to 720p and reduce the file size by around 30% with little quality degradation in my experience so far.
The only problem I encountered was the video was kind of choppy when the camera panned but that was remedied by upping the frame rate from 24 to 29.97.
Hope this helps someone and if anyone has any suggestions to improve efficiency or reduce file size post it in here.

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Process:         Adobe Media Encoder CS4 413
Path:            /Applications/Adobe Media Encoder CS4/Adobe Media Encoder CS4.app/Contents/MacOS/Adobe Media Encoder CS4
Identifier:      com.adobe.ame.application
Version:         4.1 (4.1)
Code Type:       X86 (Native)
Parent Process: launchd 72
Interval Since Last Report:          994 sec
Crashes Since Last Report:           2
Per-App Interval Since Last Report: 20 sec
Per-App Crashes Since Last Report:   2
Date/Time:       2009-11-16 01:08:40.998 -0500
OS Version:      Mac OS X 10.5.8 (9L31a)
Report Version: 6
Anonymous UUID: 90D2C0AC-0761-460C-ABEF-1D7D12EF944A
Exception Type: EXC_BREAKPOINT (SIGTRAP)
Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000002, 0x0000000000000000
Crashed Thread: 0
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image not found for lazy pointer at 0x222e65b9

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>> In a normal case AME is installed together with Adobe Premiere, isn't it?
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* * * MediaInfo Mac 0.7.36.0 file analysis report.
* * * MediaInfo Mac is ©2010 by Diego Massanti - http://mediainfo.massanti.com
* * * MediaInfoLib by Jerome Martinez - http://mediainfo.sourceforge.net
Created on: 8 jan 2011 17:50:03 CET
Report for file: test_b3_0.mp4
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    Total Audio Streams for this File.................1
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    Audio Codecs Used.................................AAC LC
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    Color Space.......................................YUV
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    Codec Settings (CABAC)............................No
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Audio Stream #1
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    Codec (FourCC)....................................40
    Audio Stream Length...............................55s 808ms
    Audio Stream BitRate..............................125 Kbps
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    Number of Audio Channels..........................2
    Audio Channel's Positions.........................Front: L R
    Sampling Rate.....................................48.0 KHz
    Audio Stream Size.................................854 KiB (6%)
    Audio Stream Language.............................English
    Date of Original Encoding.........................UTC 2011-01-07 13:20:32
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