ProRes files act crazy and transcoding to Animation codec gets ugly
So, allegedly, the Animation codec is lossless. However, when I take something encoded with Apple ProRes 422 HQ and transcode to Animation within the Quicktime Pro software, I see noticeable differences. Including: color change and increased aliasing.
The same is true when attempting to export stills from ProRes, even in the highest, most lossless formats. I am wondering if ProRes for PC is actually not quite ready for prime time? When I import a ProRes file into After Effects, I notice the same quality drop associated with trying to transcode it to a lossless format. It seems as though ONLY QT Pro has the capability to display ProRes files properly. If this is the case, this is largely useless, since I can't then USE these ProRes files for anything. What the heck guys? I wouldn't have had clients deliver me ProRes encoded stuff if I knew that it didn't actually maintain its integrity.
Please help out as soon as possible. Clients with deadlines are waiting on a solution that doesn't involve me spending 4000 grand on a new machine and FCP.
As a test, try nesting the problem sequence in a new empty sequence then export that new sequence using QuickTime. Let us know whether or not that succeeds.
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Pre-render (preview) acts crazy and crashes Premiere - QT Bug?
I have a MacBook Pro 17", 2GB RAM, 2.4 GhZ dual core
Looks like some sort of QT Bug:
I have set my sequence preview settings to render with QT Animation codec. When I preview the sequence, it gets stuck at a specific location on a timeline when it reaches a still image. Then I try to cancel the render, but instead it crashes Premiere. Funny thing, that putting the image at some other location on timeline renders perfect. I have tried everything - I've changed the image to another one - same thing. I've deleted all the preview files - nothing changed. Then I've tried to change the codec in the Sequence Preview Settings and I found out, that when it's on DV-PAL, or I-Frame Only, it renders just fine!!! So I suppose that it's some sort of a bug that is in QT native codec probably... (it only happens to a still image on a specific location on timeline)As a test, try nesting the problem sequence in a new empty sequence then export that new sequence using QuickTime. Let us know whether or not that succeeds.
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hello.
am having a proble with adobe premiere cs3
i have exported the file as quicktime using the animation codec, with 100per cent quality as it needs to be the highest quality
when i play the file with media player the sound is there, but when i burn it onto a dvd the audio is not there anymore... i really dont understand what i am doing wrong! can anyone help please?
i am using quicktine as im told this the best for optimum lossless quality
if i cannot burn it with audio using the quikctime animation codec, then i might try exporting it as an avi file. if so, what is the best codec to use for lossless quality?
thankyou!!!!And when you follow Jim's suggestions, Export as elemental streams, i.e. one Video-only file and one Audio-only file. Encore will like that better.
Good luck,
Hunt -
HELP !!! IdeaPad U510 Touchpad is acting crazy and wierd.
I recently got a lenovo U510 and i find the Trackpad acting all wierd. I did update the Elan Trackpad driver to version 11.4.8.1 but dint seem to get rid of the problem. I am regretting having bought this laptop. Need help .
hi akbp,
In addition to what SEAlaa have suggested, have you tried adjust the sensitivity and palm tracking settings by going to the Control Panel (large icon view) > Mouse:
Screenshot:
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File I/O and figuring out how to get this working
I need to get this code to readi in a file from anywhere, which it does, and then calculate the sentences, words per sentence and syllables per word, this is my code so far
// Standard imports.
import javax.swing.*;
import javax.swing.event.*;
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import java.io.*;
import java.util.*;
class WritingFilesWithChooser extends JFrame implements ActionListener {
JButton myButton, myButton2;
JTextArea myText;
// Usual setup stuff goes in here.
public WritingFilesWithChooser() {
Container c = getContentPane();
myButton = new JButton ("Write To File");
myButton.addActionListener (this);
myButton2 = new JButton ("Load from File");
myButton2.addActionListener (this);
c.add (myButton, BorderLayout.NORTH);
myText = new JTextArea (10, 10);
c.add (myText, BorderLayout.CENTER);
c.add (myButton2, BorderLayout.SOUTH);
// Usual main stuff.
public static void main(String args[]) {
WritingFilesWithChooser mainFrame = new WritingFilesWithChooser();
mainFrame.setSize(400, 400);
mainFrame.setTitle("WritingFilesWithChooser");
mainFrame.setVisible(true);
// The actionPerformed for this class is a busy little beaver. It handles
// opening and saving files, trying and catching exceptions, and dealing
// with the chooser dialog.
public void actionPerformed (ActionEvent e) {
// We need these variables for our File IO.
FileWriter base;
PrintWriter out;
FileReader readBase;
BufferedReader in;
String temp;
JFileChooser myChooser;
// We create an instance of JFileChooser, which allows us to use a
// GUI style file manager to choose filenames.
myChooser = new JFileChooser();
// Okay, they've chosen the save button.
if (e.getSource() == myButton) {
// First we show the save dialog, which lets the user specifiy a
// filename to save. If the user clicks 'save', then this if
// condition will evaluate to true and the code within will be
// executed. If they select cancel, then nothing will happen.
if (myChooser.showSaveDialog(this) == JFileChooser.APPROVE_OPTION) {
// There are often exceptions thrown when dealing with file I/O,
// so we need this code to deal with it.
try {
// We create an instance of the FileWriter object using the
// Chooser object. GetSelectedFile of the chooser object returns
// a file reference, and we call getAbsolutePath on that to get
// the full filename, which is returned as a string.
base = new FileWriter (myChooser.getSelectedFile().getAbsolutePath());
// We use the FileWriter object we created above as the base of
// the printwriter object.
out = new PrintWriter (base);
// We grab the text out of our textbox and write it to a text
// file.
out.write (myText.getText());
// When we're done, we close the file.
out.close();
catch (Exception except) {
// This will appear if there is a horrible error. More on this
// in week twelve.
JOptionPane.showMessageDialog (null, "A Horrible Error!");
else {
// First we show the open dialog, which lets the user specifiy a
// filename to open. If the user clicks 'open', then this if
// condition will evaluate to true and the code within will be
// executed. If they select cancel, then nothing will happen.
if (myChooser.showOpenDialog(this) == JFileChooser.APPROVE_OPTION) {
// There are often exceptions thrown when dealing with file I/O,
// so we need this code to deal with it.
try {
// We create an instance of the FileReader object using the
// Chooser object. GetSelectedFile of the chooser object returns
// a file reference, and we call getAbsolutePath on that to get
// the full filename, which is returned as a string.
readBase = new FileReader (myChooser.getSelectedFile().getAbsolutePath());
// We use the FileReader object we created above as the base of
// the BufferedReaderobject.
in = new BufferedReader (readBase);
// We read a single line from the file we selected.
temp = in.readLine();
temp.toLowerCase();
String i;
String word;
word = temp;
int nsyl = 0;
int leng = 0;
boolean last = true;
for (int j=0; j<word.length(); j ++)
if(word.charAt(i) = ' ')
leng ++;
for (int k =0;k<word.length(); k++)
if (word.charAt(i) == 'a' || word.charAt(i) == 'e' ||
word.charAt(i) == 'i' || word.charAt(i) == 'o' ||
word.charAt(i) == 'u')
nsyl++;
if (word.charAt(i) == 'a' || word.charAt(i) == 'e' ||
word.charAt(i) == 'i' || word.charAt(i) == 'o' ||
word.charAt(i) == 'u')
last = false;
else {
last = true;
if (word.length(word) == "e ")
nsyl --;
// We clear the textbox, ready for us to dump our goodness into
// it.
myText.setText ("");
// This loop will continue while there are still lines to read.
// When the readLine method gets to the end of the file, it will
// assign the value 'null' to the temp variable.
while (temp != null) {
// While the temp variable isn't null, we append it to the
// text already in the textbox. We add the \n character to
// the end to force a new line.
myText.append (temp + "\n");
// We read in the next line of the file.
temp = in.readLine();
// Finally, we close the file.
in.close();
catch (Exception except) {
// This will appear if there is a horrible error. More on this
// in week twelve.
JOptionPane.showMessageDialog (null, "A Horrible Error!");How about taking a look at the String class. In jdk1.4 and later there are methods such as split() which can
split a paragraph up into sentances. (split(".") ) then can split the sentance up into words (split(" ")). Push
all of the words into a HashMap with an integer indicating the number of times they have occured.
Then run through the HashMap and for each entry search for vowels/sylables/whatever.
This is probably the easiset method of doing what you want but it is limited in the size of file it can parse
efficiently.
matfud -
This has been an ongoing problem, and it does not occur with IE, Opera, Chrome, Browzar, Safari or Avant browsers.
If I click "File" and then "Open File" it will frequently crash. Sometimes I can navigate to an actual filename in a director, however clicking on that file to open it will crash it. The files can be text files, web pages or photos. It crashes equally among them, or any other file I try to open. There are approximately 65 forwarded messages created by my browser and sent each time this happens but I have never heard from anyone at Firefox about it.Ooops. I haven't updated my sig in a while. I'm on 10.8.2 and it happens on a late 2008 Alu Macbook.
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I have a question on the PROJECT RENDER settings in FCP X. It’s seems to me that one could theoretically import and edit entirely with original h.264 video files without needing to Transcode to ProRes422. Once you’re done with your edit and want to get the added benefits of COLOR GRADING in ProRes422 color space, it seems that FCPX will automatically render your edit in ProRes422 according to these preferences. In that case, a color grade could be applied to the whole edit, and be automatically transcoded/rendered into ProRes 422 during the render process. After rendering, what would show up on the viewer and what would EXPORT would be the rendered Prores files and not the original h.264 files. This saves a lot of time and space of transcoding ALL your media, and in theory should enable you to edit NATIVE video formats like h.264, with automatic benefits of ProRes during render. I'm assuming the render may take longer because FCPX is having to convert h.264 video files to ProRes422 while rendering. This may be one drawback. But will you your color grade actually use the 4:2:0 color space of the h.264 native media, or will it utilize 4:2:2 color space, since the render files are set to render to ProRes422 ? Can anyone please confirm that this theory is correct and optimal for certain work flows?? Thanks!
Thanks Wild. That's what I thought - in that the render files would be converted to ProRes422 codec. So do you or anyone else think that there is an advantage to having the 4:2:0 original file be processed in a 4:2:2 color space?
Yes there is an advantage, any effects and grading will look better than in a 4:2:0 space.
Most professionals online seem to think so. Also - will rendering of heavy effects and color grading take longer using this method because it's having to convert h.264 media to ProRes during render?
Yes, it will definitely take longer.
Can anyone verify from a technical standpoint whether editing and color grading in this workflow will see the same benefits as having transcoded the h.264 media to ProRes in the first place?
Same benefits from a final product view point, you lose on rendering time though and if you have lots of effects things will seem slow as it will have render everytime from the h264 file rather than a Pro Res file for every change you make. This may be fine on a higher end mac but I'm sure just pummels an older lower end mac as to being almost useless. -
Original and Transcoded (ProRes 422) Media
Hi all
Can anyone explain to me what exactly is the point of having both original (say H264, for example) and transcoded media in a library? I fail to grasp the point since I am only interested in dealing with prores files.
ThanksHyphen.
If FCP has the choice between original and optimized versions it will always use optimized.
It is not necessary to copy both versions to your library. If you check leave files in place in the import window and also check create optimized, it will link to the external original media and copy the Pro Res version to your library. Of course, it the clips are still on the camera, (or if you are importing from a camera archive) there will be no leave in place option and you would need to manage the library files after import.
Final Cut Pro X: Manage optimized and proxy media files
Russ -
I deleted aperture and now my sistem is acting crazy.The dock disappeared and almost all icons are gone except for their names.I have an important project for tomorrow and I desperately need help fixing it.Can anyone help me please?
Well it all started with Aperture 3 trying to import some photos from my iphone.It took ages to import those photos and like I was in a hurry to finish my work in Illustrator so I tryied to force quit on A3 and it didn´t, so I shut down the computer and started over.it was all ok but I uninstalled the A3 and the I realized the icons were back to original form and a few fonts changed.so I Installed the trial version of A3.I did a restart of the system and then there was.aperture lauching but no dock and a 80% of the icons disappeared, but the names of the files and folder remained.and I cand acces the apps from the apple sign on the left corner.I tried also restarting a few time but it´s always the same.I am a recent user of a mac , and please excuse my bad english.If this is in any way useful please help me!
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AE CC doesn't import Mov Files. Apple Prores / Animation Codec
hallo,
After Effects doesn't import my Prores / Animation Codec Files.
at very first it did not work and the message appeared: "after effects error: file "xxx.mov" cannot be imported - this "moov" file is damaged or unsupported. "
Then i restarted AE and my computer a few times and suddenly it worked. but after closing AE again, AE does the same error. It does not work even with its own rendered Files from CC!!
I have considered to use only files i know they have worked in the past.
i also asked some freelancers to open it. and yes they confirm it works on CS 5, CS 6.
also
System:
iMac, 27-inch, Late 2012
Prozessor 3,4 GHz Intel Core i7
Speicher 16 GB 1600 MHz DDR3
Grafikkarte NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX 2048 MB
Software OS X 10.8.4 (12E55)I can not reliably import/export ProRes or Animation QTs with After Effects CC. I believe accepting the latest update to CC initiated this problem. I did not have this problem last week. I have converted all of my source QTs to .PNG sequences and .AIFs as a work-around.
System Details:
CS 6 CC | Mac OS 10.8.4 | MacPro5,1 | 96 GB Ram | PROJECT & MEDIA drive: Mercury Accelsior > 500 MB/s read/write | CACHE drive: Mercury Accelsior > 500 MB/s read/write | Nvidia Quadro 4000 Mac | CUDA Driver: latest update.
Troubleshooting Info:
• I don't have Blackmagic or Aja, but I do have Nvidia Quadro 4000 Mac with the latest Nvidia and Cuda drivers. I'll try uninstalling... but I may want to raytrace in the coming days.
• I've trashed the 12.0 folder and rebooted many times
• repaired permissions
• Multi-threding on/off doesn't matter
update
• "QT32Server process" appears then disappears Activity Monitor when I try to render ProRes (output module fails...)
• No firewall
• Uninstaled Nvidia driver. Restarted. Same problems.
and then
• Created a fresh admin user. This seems to work for now: I can read and write QTs through AE again. I'll update if there are any changes.
update again
• Once again, I can not import ProRes QTs into AE CC. Making a new user only worked for 2 launches. The only software I used with this system/new user was Adobe AE CC, PS CC, and Safari.
Any suggestions?
Best,
Benjamin
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hey guys, so I have a DVD stuck in the CD drive on my mac. It reads it as being in there, but I cannot eject it and it is causing my a lot of issues with my mac. If i try to eject it, Finder acts up and I have issues saving projects or even browsing files. I feel like it interferes with iPhoto as well because it says it is locked and I have no rights to view it. I wanted to see if anyone else had/s this issue and how you fixed it before lugging it into the apple store and being without a computer for a few weeks...
A few other suggestions here as well:
http://osxdaily.com/2009/08/28/eject-a-stuck-disk-from-your-mac-dvd-super-drive/ -
I am making a cartoon, which was created in FLASH,
Then the SWF's were put into After Effects and exported out as MOV's. (I've tried both AppleProRes4444 and Animation codecs).
Then I put those Mov's into Premiere. Everything looks crisp until I render. Once rendering is done, the video quality degrades. Here's a screen shot of Premiere:
On the left is the source MOV (exported from AE), on the right is the timeline viewer (after rendering). The quality on the right is degraded. Help?
If I use MP4 versions, exported out of Flash, through Media encoder, quality is not degraded.
(Read on for additional info)
It was easy and quick to create my MOV's out of AE, which is why I did it this way. I'm exporting to MOV's so I can edit quicker in Premiere. I find editing to sound in AE really difficult, and I don't edit in Flash (employees provide SWF files to me).
Here is sequence settings in Premiere (these setting were created by dragging an MOV into the sequence and choosing "change settings" to match clip settings.
Help? Please?I am making a cartoon, which was created in FLASH,
Then the SWF's were put into After Effects and exported out as MOV's. (I've tried both AppleProRes4444 and Animation codecs).
Then I put those Mov's into Premiere. Everything looks crisp until I render. Once rendering is done, the video quality degrades. Here's a screen shot of Premiere:
On the left is the source MOV (exported from AE), on the right is the timeline viewer (after rendering). The quality on the right is degraded. Help?
If I use MP4 versions, exported out of Flash, through Media encoder, quality is not degraded.
(Read on for additional info)
It was easy and quick to create my MOV's out of AE, which is why I did it this way. I'm exporting to MOV's so I can edit quicker in Premiere. I find editing to sound in AE really difficult, and I don't edit in Flash (employees provide SWF files to me).
Here is sequence settings in Premiere (these setting were created by dragging an MOV into the sequence and choosing "change settings" to match clip settings.
Help? Please? -
My Macbook pro is acting Crazy....the Cursor just keeps on jumping everywhere and not responding when I use the trackpad....Even when it does respond it is very slow...I thought it was the trackpad acting up but realized it wasnt when i plugged in a mouse and it still did the same thing...this happened one other time and shortly after my computer froze...I had to restart for it to work but restarting dosent help this time...can someone please help?...Is this a Virus?
It is not a virus. See my Mac Virus Guide*.
As to what it might be, that's hard to say. You should try some basic troubleshooting... Repair the hard drive with disk utility. Boot in safe mode and see if it happens then, log in to a different user account and see if it happens there, reboot from another system and see if it happens.
Apparently some people have had this kind of problem caused by swelling batteries that push on the underside of the trackpad and cause all kinds of strange problems. Is your machine's underside deformed at all?
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[SOLVED]Mouse and keyboard acting crazy. I have to restart gdm via ssh
Here's the output from dmesg after boot.
http://pastebay.com/14045
Basically, I'm getting errors from my USB mouse and keyboard. If I wait long enough udev will find them and they'll start working. GDM starts too fast so Xorg is stuck without keyboard and mouse. I had to ssh and restart GDM then mouse and keyboard worked. For the meantime I've disabled gdm in rc.conf.
I usually see these messages from devices that are drawing too much power from the USB power bus.
These devices work fine in the Win32 and OSX installs on the same hardware.
thanks ya'll
[EDIT]
daemons from rc.conf
DAEMONS=(syslog-ng network netfs crond @sshd dbus hal fam @alsa @cups @portmap @avahi-daemon @ntpd @ntpdate !gdm)
Last edited by bloodniece (2009-05-21 15:32:59)Well, my media card reader, an internally mounted one, decided to act crazy. Unplugging it from the mobo seemed to fix it. wonder what happened, it's only 3 months old and has no moving parts
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my iphone is acting crazy plz help asap my phone is giving reading me everything i lay my hand on and is not letting me scroll down or select anything i must have accidentally switched some voice thing on plz help me close it:(
First off, try triple clicking the home button.
To scroll use three fingers and I think you have to double tap to get into something.
Go to Settings>General>Accessability>Voiceover and then turn that off.
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