Preview compression in AME

Hi - is there any way to preview the compression effect on a clip using AME CS6? I'm looking in the output pane which only seems to show the effect of crop/scale type adjustments, not compression settings. The problem I'm having is controlling nasty colour shifts with FLV output - so I'm hoping to be able to see an output frame without having to render out successive movies try to get a decent match.
Thanks for any advice - Chris

The problem is I do not want to save anything but notes.
And if just one note is made in original pdf file Preview needs to save it, and doing so the program removes jpg compression from original file.
It's got nothing to do with increasing quality (jpg is an lossy compression) of images placed already in pdf file, but with the size of it.
After placing one note the file size can increase up to 6 or even 10 times.
The second problem is that Preview is changing texts code page in searchable pdfs, after putting notes in such file.
And then searching this document is completely useless, because I can't find any phrase or word after Preview has changed, or rather replaced the signs like: "ł" with " ̆ ", "ą" with "‡" and so on.
It's the point.

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I have searched high and low but cant figure this out:
I have CS4 Master Suite installed on HPZ600 workstation Windows 7 Enterprise 64bit
Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X5550 @ 2.67GHz, 2661 Mhz, 4 Core(s), 4 Logical 6GB ram.
I created a 720p PremierPro (PP) sequence. I added a “Black Video” then rightClick- replaced it with an aftereffects (AE) comp. I added several screen captures to the AE file and animated a few graphics over the images. When I jump back into PP the source preview (linked Comp) looks great, the Program preview looks good and when I Export media the 1st preview (still in PP) looks good. Once it opens in Adobe Media Encoder the quality (mostly text on white background) looks terrible.
I have tried endless combinations of settings and options with no luck. I render out the AE file and it looks great. Import it into PP, looks great. Send it to AME, looks like poop. If I take the images (used in AE) and import them directly into PP I get a good export in AME but I need them in AF to animate.
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No, but that does seem to be a good indicator. When the preview (AME) is bad, the rendered video comes out bad. When it is good, the video comes out good. I just rendered this. The preview showed about 1 second of good quality and then the busted look (with linked AE only, video was good). This is a 1280 x 720 png in AE with no animation or effects.
The linked AE is video2 in PP on top of 720p video in video1. If I create a new sequence and place (copy/paste from the old one) the linked AE alone it previews and renders great. Once I add the video (AE fades in over the video) and have 2 720p elements, the AE will randomly look bad.
Do you think it could be a RAM issue?
Here is an example: This is a rendered WMV about 20 seconds in.
Here is the same WMV 21 seconds in. It is the same image in AE. This quality shift was also identical in the AME window.
thank you for your time and info, I appreciate it.

Making client previews..

Since the mp4 encoding option was removed It's quite a detour make client previews using AME.
Rendering to to lossless format and let AME pick that up is quite a waste and sending AE comp to AME directly takes a lot of time, memory and longer encoding times among other problems.
Can something be done to fix that workflow? Are there 3th party mp4 encoders other then quicktime? I've tried moving the encoder files from cc to cc2014 but no luck there..

I have used the AME to render client previews directly from the AEP project files since AME was introduced. This works because I have never produced a project for a client using Ray-traced rendering. It also works because I can send a comp to the AME, start it rendering, and keep working in AE on more projects. This results in NO down time waiting for renders. The days are long gone when you could bill a client for rendering previews. For final delivery and for archiving I set up the Render Cue to render to a 10 or 12 bit lossless 444 master and drop those in a watch folder for the AME when I leave the office at night and render my deliverables while I sleep. AME is, if properly utilized, a great addition to the workflow. It's the only way to render things from Premiere Pro, which is where most of my final deliverables come from because I use AE to create shots and composites and almost never produce a comp that is more than a few seconds long. All editing is done in Premiere Pro, sound mixing is done in Audition via dynamic link, and the final color grade for the most part is done in Premiere Pro or Speed Grade.
If AME rendering directly from AEP files slows down AE or is really slow in AME then you need to check your memory settings. If you happen to be creating a project that would seriously benefit from MP rendering in AE then you are better off rendering a lossless production master or DI in AE because AME does not use MP rendering.
I have found very few projects that did not benefit from this workflow. Any projects that do not benefit from this workflow are rendered directly in AE to a DI (digital intermediate) using a frame based 10 or 12 bit codec and 444 color at a minimum. BTW, as much of a fan as I am of Apple, Quicktime, in it's current version is a mess and I don't use it for any rendering or encoding or compressing. AME is almost as good as any of the third party compression software out there and it's free with PPro or AE so I have long abandoned use of 3rd party compressors but feel free to explore them.
BTW, the next version of AE and PPro are just around the corner. It sounds like you can expect some major speed increases with these new versions.

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It seems that queuing sequences from Premiere Pro to AME via Ctrl+M is forever broken as that causes Premiere to hang and crash on the "Export Media" dialog box. This has been broken for several months. I have talked to developers with no resolution to this. Because of this, I now can only export projects by dragging sequences over to AME from Premiere. This has worked fine until a few days ago.
What happens now is that AME gets part way through encoding a video and then hangs and fails encoding. I get the super helpful
12/19/2014 03:25:14 PM : Encoding Failed
Export Error
Error compiling movie.
Unknown error.
I have created new sequences with the same media, removed 3rd party audio plugins, moved all the footage over to a different drive, tried to encoded to a different format like AVI, and I have tried setting the encode to save on several drives. It always fails at the same point. It seems hang and fail on clips that I created in AE, which are rendered using PhotoJPEG .MOV. I tried rendering the clip where AME fails using a different AVI container, but it ended up failing in the same spot.
The strangest thing is that when I disable the clips in Premiere and dragged tried rendering, it hangs on the same clip as if it wasn't disabled! I have also deleted the clips from the timeline and they still show up in the preview window in AME and it hangs on them and then fails!
Here are my system specs:
Premiere Pro CC (up to date)
Win 7 64bit (up to date)
i7 970
24GB Ram
NVIDIA 470GTX (driver up to date)
3 x 1.5TB internal
4TB internal
3TB internal
12TB RAID 5 via USB 3.0
USB 2.0 and 3.0 drives
FireWire audio device (M-AUDIO FireWire1814)... although, I am not using it for playback. It is connected.
Footage is from C100 H.264 .MTS, PhotoJPEG .MOV from AE, JPG Stills, simple titles made in Premiere Pro, color mattes, and .WAV audio clips
All stock video effects and transitions.
Thanks for your help.
Mark Mapes
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I should be more specific. It seem like close to 5 Mbps is need for full HD, but I remember Flash expert Fabio getting great results in less than 1:
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lamont wrote:
I have read that the Aperture screen display of the newly-created Versions is influenced by the settings in Preferences/Preview.
Where did you read this?
lamont wrote:
But do these Preview Quality and Preview Compression settings *also* affect the JPEG's I create when I perform the Export Version function ?
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lamont wrote:
I want to convert the touched-up RAW master files into the highest-quality JPEG's possible.
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lamont wrote:
At the same time I was hoping to shrink the amount of hard drive space gobbled up by these previews. Can I lower the Preview quality and still have high-quality JPEG exports?
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But now: I'm dead in the water.
I gurantee you that i will not 're-up' when my CC subscription expires, and, I guess right now, I have to start from scratch with my raw clips and find some other tools to use? I wish all my expensive plug-ins (like MB Suite) would work in whatever the tools I will move to...but...I guess I'll just have to write them off as a loss, just like the next 8 months of paying for my Adobe CC Software that no longer works.
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3) Try to encode to Quicktime Codec=Uncompressed 4:2:2. FAILED
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7) Try to encode to Quicktime Codec=Uncompressed 4:2:2. SUCCEEDED - but ENORMOUS FILE SIZE *very nice quality though* :-)
8) Try to encode to Quicktime Codec=H.264. SUCCEEDED.
9) Try to encode to my 'usual' H.264 Preset FAILED, just hung up during the 2nd of two passes. My preset is a VBR with 2 passes, see bitmap below. In this particular case it got 'hung' at this frame. But, It never 'hangs' in the same place?
So, I don't know why I was able to encode the sequence using the Quicktime Wrapper and botn Uncompressed and H2.264 Codecs after updating AE CC and rebooting, but not before. Surely there is no interaction between AE and AME?
But, the re-boot should not have caused it alone, since I had rebooted several times last night, and I've installed nothing but the new update for AE since last night?
So, I guess I'm OK now. Please excuse my tone last night, I was very frustrtated.
It is interesting that I still can't encode this particluar sequence using my "standard" H.264 preset.
And, BTW Jim: What I mentioned in my previus post was not that I had brought and old PP 6.0 sequecne into CC and encoded it successfully, but that I just re-encoded one of my most complex sequences AGAIN in PP 6.0, just to wanted to make sure nothing was haywire with "good old" PP 6.0.
But, I did just re-encode a sequence from PP CC from before the Dec 13 update using my "standard" H.264 preset, and...yes...it DID encode.
SOOOOO...Jim, you were correct. My inability to encode was not due to the DEC 13 PP CC update, but something very peculiar about this one sequence. But, it is a very simple sequence. The only effects applied is some light color grading using MB Colorista, and Warp Stabilizer to a stabilize a few hand held shots. No other effects. And...the encode that fails using my standard preset, never fails at the same frame.
But...at this point I'm OK. Instead of an encoded file in MP4 I have an ecnoded H.264 rendition in the QuickTime MOV wrapper. At least I've got that sequence done and can move on to the ton of others I need to get to (without having to learn an entirely new tool). :-)
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* * * MediaInfo Mac is ©2010 by Diego Massanti - http://mediainfo.massanti.com
* * * MediaInfoLib by Jerome Martinez - http://mediainfo.sourceforge.net
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    Total Audio Streams for this File.................1
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    Audio Codecs Used.................................AAC LC
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    Codec (FourCC)....................................avc1
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    Scan Type.........................................Progressive
    Color Space.......................................YUV
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    Codec Settings (CABAC)............................No
    Codec Settings (Reference Frames).................2
    Video Stream Length...............................55s 760ms
    Video Stream BitRate..............................1 995 Kbps
    Video Stream BitRate Mode.........................VBR
    Bit Depth.........................................8 bits
    Video Stream Size.................................13.3 MiB (94%)
    Video Stream Language.............................English
    Date of Original Encoding.........................UTC 2011-01-07 13:20:32
Audio Stream #1
    Codec.............................................AAC
    Codec (FourCC)....................................40
    Audio Stream Length...............................55s 808ms
    Audio Stream BitRate..............................125 Kbps
    Audio Stream BitRate Mode.........................VBR
    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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Hello,
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I've a similar, but different "Unsupported Image Format" error.
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the inconvienence i found with my current version is that it can't read flv files. so if i want to compress it i have to convert via Super and then go back to compress with AME. it just inconvenient. i wish AME can just read flv like Super can so i don't have to go through several apps to compress.
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