XDCam to WMV

I am recording XDCam 1920x1080 60i footage to my EX1r's. I am ingesting into FCS 7.02 using XDCam Transfer very successfully. My sequence presets are Apple Pro Res 422 1920x1080 60i and my capture preset is DVCPro HD 1080i60. Quite honestly I have know idea if this is correct but from my reading it sounded good. It looks great and I am able to edit like I want to. If it is not optimal please feel free to tell me.
My problem comes when I try to output my edit. Most of my end users are Windows users and not flexible about plug ins and such so I really have to output to WMV. I am doing export>QT conversion> and have tried various settings none of which are great. I am using Flip for Mac Pro HD which gives me many options for output. I am downsizing to 1280 x720 and using what I think are the best settings. The quality of the video is excellent until it moves (which I understand is a bad thing). It is choppy and has horizontal distortion when something moves.
Is anyone successfully converting HD footage to WMV? If so, what settings are you using? Is there a better program for this? Any help would be appreciated.

In Compressor's "Inspector" there are the little tabs: 6 of them under "Description"...
Summary, Encoder, Frame Controls, Filters, etc. (2 more)
You'd go to "Encoder". The "File Format" option here needs to be changed to "QuickTime Export Components". Once you've done that, the "Encode Type" should now hold an option, "Windows Media". Select this. Alter options to liking.
The advantage of using Compressor is:
1.) You can let it churn away, while you go on and do other stuff. (continue editing, whatever...)
2.) You can set up a QuickCluster (that's a link) that will allow Compressor to use all available cores in your machine. The more cores, the faster the encode.

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My codec, sequence is XDCAM EX 35 (1920x1080).. The footage on the cameras that I used works well on this timeline. Now comes a video rollin that I have to place within the context of this live meeting. It is an HD WMV (1280x720). I have tried placing this on the timeline and rendering it out, or converting it to ProRes. or converting it to XDCAM EX. I haven't found away to make any of these play right on the timeline. I need to mention that the original and the conversions all play smoothly on QT Player. But on the timeline, all is not well. Number one, the video stutters (skips a frame) often. The audio may pop every couple of seconds, seemingly to stay in sync. Finally the audio sometimes begins in sync, and then you notice its losing sync more and more little by little. It's a 44.1k file. I've tried converting to 48k.
I really don't know what to do. Thanks.

I think I will declare this discussion closed. In an earlier post I said I would need to keep working at this problem until I seized up the right setting. Well for my 1080ii XDCAM EX 35 timeline, I have alredy tried a number of settings. The source WWV is 1280x720. The problem is stuttering video losing every other frame, audio popping or audio continuously losing a greater amount of sync. I tried APPLE TV 1280x720 in Compressonr (I'm still making more, not all have been tested.) The Apple TV h.264 works. It has to be rendered. I know some will say that's not optimal. I have put a lot of time into this with no other good results so I'm accepting this for now. I might be cooking up another right now in Compressor that will work better. Thanks to the posters.
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Color correction challenge, PP5.5 Mac, ProRes to WMV

I'm eager to complete my transition from FC Studio to Production Premium CS5.5, but I'm challenged to ensure consistent color in my ProRes to WMV workflow. Any advice would be appreciated.
My shooting gear: EX1R, w and w/o Nanoflash
Editing gear: 2008 MacPro (3.1), OSX 10.6.7, 10 GB RAM, ATI Raedon 4870
Workflow (FCP): Acquire footage, edit native (XD CAM EX/XDCAM HD22), render sequence to ProRes 422, transcode via Quicktime 7 Pro/Flip for Mac to produce WMV files for my PC clients.
Workflow CS5.5 (intended:) Acquire footage, edit native (XDCAM HD 422 via Nanoflash), output sequence to ProRes, transcode to WMV via Quicktime 7 Pro/Flip for Mac HD. After I put a "trial" sequence together in PP5.5, I adjust footage with 3-way color corrector. Here's where the fun starts:
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Outcome (1) The results look as though color correction was bypassed completely. After much trial and error, I discovered that when I encoded using ProRes 4444, color corrections were preserved. Yet when I transcoded from 4444 to wmv, (2) the resulting files appeared to have no color correction. No good.
I'm stumped! I thought I was on to something when I noticed the "preset" for outputting XDCAM HD422 was not set for "progressive," but it appears to make no difference.
Sidebar: I experience the same issue regardless of use of XDCAM EX or XDCAM HD422 files. With the latter, I've edited clips in MOV and MXF format. Same outcome.
Until I get this workflow issue sorted out, I'm stalled in completing my transition to PP. I'd like to have acquired gobs more RAM and an Nvidia Quadro 4800 card already, but I need to know that I've fixed this issue first.
Any suggestions most welcome.
Sincerely,
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Raleigh, NC

I finally figured it out! If there are any other FCP to PP traitors out there like me in Mac land, here's a workflow that results in WMVs matching the color corrections created in your PP sequence:
1) Edit native. In my case, I'm working with "XDCAM HD 422," the result of linking a Nanoflash set for 100 mbps/long gop to my EX1R. Both FCP and PP "read" them as 50 mbps files.
2) Export media to AME, checking the box, "Match Sequence Settings." With little delay, this produces a file with an mpeg extension (the mpeg-2 codec). In Quicktime player, this yields silent footage with no audio. Bummer. End of story, I thought.
3) But this time, I brought that same "black" file into Apple Compressor. Using the Flip For Mac plug in, I exported to one of my "regular" settings, 2-pass, VBR, 640x360. The result: a perfect color match with my color corrected PP sequence.
I'm sure there are alternatives to bringing a file that won't play in Quicktime into Compressor. I'll try Quicktime Pro and Streamclip next. But the point -- I think -- is to not bother with any more intermediate formats/files than one has to.
Sighs of relief here.
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Using Sony cinemon plug-in to work natively with .mp4 files and Matrox mini MX02 on 2.2ghz quad i7 17inch macbook pro with 8gb ram and 2nd external monitor via mini-display port.
Media is located on external drive connected by firewire 800.
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QuickTime
This crash was caused by QuickTime.
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Corrupt / Unsupported Media
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MPEG Media
This crash appears to have been caused by MPEG media (or MPEG-derived media such as XDCAM, HDV or H.264) in the timeline. MPEG-based media is not recommended for editing in Final Cut Pro.
Effects Rendering
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This crash log suggests that Final Cut Pro was overloaded at the time of the crash. This can occur if your project is overly complex, has multiple Motion project layers or is using MPEG-based media (HDV, H.264, MPEG-2, XDCAM, AVCHD), particularly if you are using filters with such media. Note that overloading is more likely to be the cause of the crash than the reason below.
I feel like this is coming from the XDCAM media and want to know if there is anyone who has dealt with a similar problem and found a cause or workaround.
If any additional information is needed, please let me know and I'll provide any information I can.
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Shane,
Thanks for your response. When I was setting up this project, I asked around to multiple forums and professionals and many seemed to think that using native XDCAM EX footage was possible and that the newer systems would not have many issues working with it.
Is there anyway I can tweak my setup to help alleviate pressure on the laptop? If I didn't use the Matrox bob or was able to remove the 2.35 .png matte from the timeline, or possibly changed to medium quality for video in the timeline.
Transcoding to pro res does seem like it would help the situation but at this stage unfortunately that's not an option.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
-Fraunpetri

Creating wmv with flip4mac

Hi,
I want to transform material filmed with Sony XDCam EX3 1920 x 1080 25fps 1080i50 35Mb/s VBR into wmv for using it with power point.
With flip4mac and compressor transforming is quite easy, but to get good quality quite complicated, I think.
I get files with quality much inferior than my original. Does anybody has got some ideas or advice?
What do I have to consider most? There is a good tutorial here:
http://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/encoding_windows_flip4mac_gary.html
But it doesn't explain the bitrate I have to choose, or the size.
Thanks a lot!
Paula

I believe I actually have the correct answer to this. To convert my HD EX1 files to WMV I use Flip4Mac HD. I use the following settings:
Two pass, variable bit rate
Quality 90
Bit rate 1500 kb/sec
size 960x540 (although you can use 640x360) I do this because most of my end users don't have a 1920x1080 screen.
Then "advanced" Interlace upper. Because I shoot interlaced.
I get really, really nice WMV's from this which all of my end users can use in Power Point.
I got these settings from someone else on one of these forums after many hours of trying myself.
I also agree that H.264 files look better but they don't work worth **** on a PC with Power point.
Hope this helps.

Mac, wmv export from Premiere or MediaEncoder

Hi,
I use a mac
and worked with FCP and flip4mac.
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phil

Very strange that they want it in the Quicktime container. The only thing I can think of that you might be able to do is to use the MXF option in Premiere, then from there use FFMBC to rewrap the files into the Quicktime container. I know for the hyperdeck studio I used to be able to take the .mxf (DnxHD) files and wrap them into the .mov container ysubg ffmbc. According to their site it can do what you want it to do so I think it's worth a shot. If you're not sure about working with a CMD prompt though you might want to download a GUI that works with ffmpeg since if it works with ffmpeg it will work with ffmbc. It says right on the front page it can do the task you need so I'd at least try it.
http://code.google.com/p/ffmbc/
Also here is a link to the page where they show you the command line for encoding to xdcam 422 in the .mov container. If you do it this way you could export to a uncompressed or another lossless format and then use ffmbc to encode it to xdcam in the Quicktime container if you wanted.
http://code.google.com/p/ffmbc/wiki/XDCAMHD422Encoding

Can't QuickLook FCP 7 Reference Movies, AVIs, WMVs

Greetings!
So. Before Mavericks, one could QuickLook at a FCP 7 reference movie. That functionality is now gone, as is the ability to QuickLook at an .AVI (sent to me by my client from time-to-time), and Windows Media (WMV) files (requested by my clients from time-to-time). Self-contained MOV files work OK.
Also: Quicktime used to open FCP 7 reference movies. This is no longer true.
Anyone there at Apple have any idea if you're working on a fix for this?
Thanks!
--Ant.

We typically use reference movies from FCP (so we don't have a ton of big self-contained files laying around), then compress them using other apps (MPEG Streamclip mainly, because it does such a great job). The source files of the FCP project (the source clips, that is) are varied: ProRes 422, XDCAM, H.264, etc. Those files play OK in QuickLook (and QuickTime), but the reference movies that refer to those files now do not play in QuickLook (or QT).
It's odd to me that all-of-a-sudden the FCP reference movie is not supported by QuickLook (or the current version of QuickTime). The WMV and AVI "legacy" codec thing I get, but the idea that a reference movie is a "codec" to be left behind is confusing to me.

Improve encoding speed for WMV output?

Hi,
Firstly, apologies if I am posting this in the incorrect area of the forums. I'm not entirely sure it's a hardware issue, I think it might be codec related.
I am trying to find a way to reduce encoding times for a (on average) 4 minute clip using Premiere/AME CS5
My input format is either XDCAM HD or IMX50, my output formate is always wmv, 720x 576 (PAL) interlaced, currently single pass encoding (because of the time taken) using the Windows Media Encoder (wmvencod.dll).
There are no effects, nor transistions in my sequence. 2 tracks of video - 1 actual video, the second a logo overlay. 1 stereo pair for the audio.
Hardware is a single Intel Xeon, quad core 2.5Ghz processor, currently with 10Gb memory. I have tried doubling up on the processors and also increasing the memory up to 16Gb but the improvements are marginal. Switching hyperthreading off also provides a marginal improvement in encoding time.
I am running this on a server class 1u box. Currently it only has the standard vga server graphics card in it. I have mixed feelings about installing a graphics card as I have read conflicting information about whether it will provide an improvement in my encoding time.
I don't think MPE is relevant, given that I'm not doing any effects processing.Will the CUDA architecture provide a significant improvement?
I can only find 2 graphics cards that I think will fit in the box and these are the Quadro 4000 and Quadro FX 3800 that retail at around £650 - £800 + so it's a significant punt if they aren't going to provide an improvement.
In essence, I have a template (well a couple of) project that I add the source file to each time that gets dropped into AME for encoding. For HD source encoding takes about 4 times real time. For SD it's about real time.
If I chose a different output format, with the same input format eg h264 or DV (avi) then the encoding time is reduced to roughly 1/3rd of what I am experiencing at the moment. That gives me the impression that the wmv encoder is the bottle neck
Are there alternatives to using the standard Microsoft WMV encoder? If so, how do I go about getting AME to use them, given that prior to installing Media Player I didn't even have wmv as an export option.
Any thoughts on this would be appreciated.

I couldn't tell you whether or not it uses the same dlls as the Microsoft program... that's getting deeper under the hood than I usually go! :-) If it is, then you're correct in that going to an intermediate and using WME isn't going to speed up your process.
For more info on hardware, go to www.ppbm5.com and look at the test results page... see what folks were using who got the higher results. IIRC, your specific processor (even in its dual form) is a rather poor performer with this kind of stuff, and the Core i7 line is much better.
Out of my own curiosity, I'm running a test on my system to see if I can reproduce the similarly long encode times with WMV versus h.264. I've got a 4:23 AVCHD clip which I'm rendering first using h.264 MainConcept to PAL DV Widescreen HQ (the only reason I'm using PAL here isbecause that's what you're using, and I wondered if it would go differently than NTSC... I've never used PAL before). The full encoding time for that in h.264 was about 1:45, so a little better than double real time. The same clip, rendered with WMV using PAL Widescreen source to HQ Download is taking about 3:15, so pretty much double the h.264 clip's time, but still better than realtime, and nowhere near the results you're getting.
I don't remember what you said your HD setup was like, but make sure you've got multiple hard drives, preferably a RAID for your data disk. I learned that having a good disk configuration can really make a lot of difference, all other things being equal!

Cannot export HD from Premiere Pro CS5.5 XDCAM HD 420 projects

Most of the sources material is XDCAM HD 420 35 MPS. There are a few MOV clips in there as backgrounds and some, not many Boris Red 5 transitions. No matter what I try, I cannot export to Bluray. I cannot make a bluray via dynamic link. I was able to export NTSC AVI files of each of the five modules, rebooting the computer after each of the 5 exports and not rendering the effects in the timeline. Used the AVIs to make the FLV and WMV clips. However, I still need to make a Bluray in order to get paid.
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Peter Burn

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XDcam footage kann nicht abgespielt werden

Hallo Zusammen
Ich habe ein Problem, und zwar habe ich XDcam footage von einem Freund bekommen und will diese jetzt im Premier Pro bearbeiten. Logisch fehlt mir da der Codec aber ich habe schon überall gesucht und finde nichts richtiges. Kann mir da jemand weiterhelfen?
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Video file formats
Format
Import/Export support
Format Details
3GPP Movie (.3gp)
Import and Export
QuickTime player required on Windows
Advanced Video Codec (.mts)
Import only
AVCHD (.m2ts, .mts)
Import only
DV stream (.dv)
Import and Export
Flash Video (.flv, .f4v)
Import and Export
Microsoft AVI (.avi)
Import and Export
Export Windows only
Microsoft NetShow (.asf)
Import only
Windows only
MPEG-1 (.mpg)
Import and Export
Export Windows only
MPEG-2 (.m2v, .mpg)
Import and Export
MPEG-4 (.m4v)
Import and Export
Panasonic P2 (.mxf)
Import and Export
QuickTime Movie (.mov)
Import and Export
QuickTime player required on Windows
Shockwave Flash object (.swf)
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Sony VDU File Format Importer (.dlx)
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Greetings,
I've been using XDCam Ex-1 clips in FCP for a while now.The FCP Sony XDCam import option is seamless, however now I need to send clients the QT .mov files of the clips for them to use on their systems - both FCP and Avid. I thought these were standard QT files but after importing they can see them in the viewer but when edited to time line its just black. I've had other problems with clients saying the QT files look 'jagged'. I've searched for a concise explanation of how FCP handles the BVAP files from the SXS cards but can't seem to find. Pls can someone explain what happens and what the limitations are or further exporting to enable the QT files to be user friendly. I need to know how does FCP unwrap the MPEG4 to make QT files. Are these standard QT that can can be viewed on any system or only Mac.? Current .mov files give the format as Apple XDCAM EX - does this mean without this codec others cannot import. If so, how can I send them the correct codec/version>?
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Thanks
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