http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ Videomaker Community Forums » Tag: H.264 - Recent Posts en Wed, 15 Feb 2012 09:58:39 +0000 http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/codec-and-compression-confusion#post-74089 Thu, 19 Jan 2012 09:01:54 +0000 robGRAUERT 74089@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Mark,</p> <p>First, what do you mean when you say, "I set the output to H.264?" Are you changing the Compressor setting of the timeline in FCP, or are you going to Quicktime conversion and choosing H.264 compression? If you're changing your timeline Compressor, that's wrong. Keep that at ProRes422.</p> <p>Second, don't even use Quicktime Conversion. Export a Master by going to File &gt; Export &gt; Quicktime Movie. Make sure you're exporting at Current Settings and the Make Movie Self-Contained option is check marked. Then bring your Master into Compressor to create your H.264 and MPEG files. Compressor will do a better job.</p> <p>Also, you didn't explain your H.264 settings...</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/codec-and-compression-confusion#post-74075 Wed, 18 Jan 2012 14:01:17 +0000 Ian James Smith 74075@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p> Mark,</p> <p>             I take my m2ts clips, archive them 'as-shot', then make a conversion to the PAL equivalent of your format (720 x 576) in mpg2 of good quality. I am not familiar with the procedure to be followed in Apple's 'Final Cut', because I do not use it. A great deal depends upon the quality of 'codecs', (I use 'Main Concept') and what settings you employ. For example I have reduced my GOP's to twelve, from the default fifteen. Taken overall, that sometimes gives your clips an 'edge', because of the increased density of the all-important 'I-frames'. Within mpg2, itself, I tweak everything up close to the upper-limits permitted by the DVD-Standard. That makes for somewhat larger files and longer processing-times, but pays dividends in the quality of the finished product. My philosophy is that having my footage, for editing, available as good-quality mpg2 saves a lot of hassles and permits a very direct route to disc. But, some purists might not agree with that, with (say) my bit-rate of 9200, for example, as standard. There is another school of thought which regards hoisting the rate above 7000, as a waste-of-time, just the same as there are those who say that you cannot 'improve' on 'ffmpeg' as a codec. What I do know, is that I am quite happy with the comparatively minor amount of the original m2ts image-quality which has to be sacrificed on the way to DVD. None of this addresses your problem, directly, but some of it may be helpful.</p> <p>Ian Smith</p> <p>Dunedin, New Zealand.</p> <p> </p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/codec-and-compression-confusion#post-74073 Wed, 18 Jan 2012 13:20:31 +0000 Mark 74073@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>I take my ,mts files and throw them into Toast converting them to Apple ProRes 422, to edit into Final Cut Pro 7. I will edit my piece, then using Quicktime conversion in FCP, I set the output to usually h.264, and the size sometimes to 720x480, 16:9 since I seldom need pure HD, and export it to my external hard drive. If I compress I use MPEG Streamclip, but I don't usually compress all that much since I editing short pieces mostly.</p> <p> </p> <p>Thanks</p> <p>Mark</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/codec-and-compression-confusion#post-74066 Wed, 18 Jan 2012 10:47:03 +0000 robGRAUERT 74066@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Describe in detail the process you go through to create your H.264 or MP4 files, please. </p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/codec-and-compression-confusion#post-74057 Wed, 18 Jan 2012 00:42:07 +0000 Mark 74057@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>I am having some trouble with codecs and compression when I am outputting in Final Cut Pro Studio 7. </p> <p>I transfer all my .mts files to Apple ProRes 422, and proceed to edit. When I am done with the edit and ready to output, I generally select h.264 but sometimes I use Mpeg 4. When I output my video looks a little pixelated and not near as sharp as others that use h.264. I might be overlooking a setting when I export, hence the question here in the forum.</p> <p>Thanks</p> <p>Mark</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/h264-in-widescreen#post-64589 Mon, 03 Jan 2011 20:26:18 +0000 kuemmet 64589@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>There is a small chance that the monitor is not set to the correct settings.  Can you view any video in 16/9 widescreen?</p> <p>I have encountered this when clients view my video files.  </p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/need-help-3#post-62601 Sat, 09 Oct 2010 19:38:00 +0000 EarlC 62601@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>I use <a href="http://dv-kitchen.com">DVKitchen</a> to accomplish my QT upload video file needs. I'm not smart enough to dig down and find the magic moments without a program that does most of the work for me. I'm happy with what's happening for me.</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/need-help-3#post-62585 Fri, 08 Oct 2010 16:35:38 +0000 XTR-91 62585@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>I really think it's a problem with Apple, now.  I've tried a couple of code presets that should allow my video to stream, and neither of them worked.</p> <p> </p> <p>I hope that there is more of you out there that can share your experience.</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/need-help-3#post-62579 Fri, 08 Oct 2010 12:42:36 +0000 XTR-91 62579@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>I wish I could be a little more specific, but apparently, this is the only way I get responses.  It's about web players in specification to their formats, so I could have just titled it "mac vs. pc" (which is what I'm going to try next time).  I am unable to save WMV files in Vegas Pro without getting a dropout, so all of my luck seems to be going H.264.</p> <p> </p> <p>I can watch H.264 files through web pages on my PC through Explorer 8, but am unable to make them buffer when watching online.  <strong>NO MESSAGE... JUST A WAIT OF TWO HOURS IN ORDER TO GET THE QUICKTIME LOGO TO DISAPPEAR AND PLAY</strong>. Bottom line IS THAT <strong>IT WON'T STREAM AT ALL</strong> - just a strenuous download.  How do I get the h.264 video online embedded (or configure QuickTime) where it is actually able to stream? This is not intended to be a 55-hour discussion, or comment that gets nothing at all. <strong>I just want an answer.</strong></p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/h264-in-widescreen#post-61430 Tue, 10 Aug 2010 10:54:31 +0000 birdcat 61430@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>I was under the impression that 1440 X 1080 was for HDV which uses an anamorphic pixel so when viewed in comes out 1920 X 1080 (like CinemaScope).  </p> <p>Just set your properties to NTSC DV Widescreen (720 X 480) and modify the size on render.</p> <p>For MP4 or MOV containers (using H.264 codec) the target in either computer or web playback, so if you just adjusted the size of the output to 720 wide using 16:9 screen ratio (720 X 406) still using 1.0 for your pixel ratio it should work fine.</p> <p><img src="http://birdcat.com/7squared/avc4.jpg" width="568" height="666" /></p> <p> </p> <p><img src="http://birdcat.com/7squared/avc5.jpg" /></p> <p><img src="http://birdcat.com/7squared/avc6.jpg" /></p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/h264-in-widescreen#post-61409 Mon, 09 Aug 2010 17:27:32 +0000 XTR-91 61409@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>But before shooting in HD, have you ever been successful getting QuickTime to play 720x480 files in widescreen format? 1920x1080 is a native widescreen resolution - you get widescreen video out of 1920 by 1080 square pixels. 1440x1080 you don't, which QuickTime's given me trouble with that also.</p> <p> </p> <p>I'm still confused about where the problem is - QuickTime or export. If nothing else, I'll save 852x480, but I'd rather keep it 720x480 for the web.</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/h264-in-widescreen#post-61397 Mon, 09 Aug 2010 13:15:46 +0000 birdcat 61397@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>I have set up a number of templates which I use in Vegas Pro 8.  Here is one with it's settings and results (right click and view image for non-squished look):</p> <p><img alt="Template 1" src="http://birdcat.com/7squared/avc1.jpg" width="561" height="662" /></p> <p> </p> <p><img alt="Template 2" src="http://birdcat.com/7squared/avc2.jpg" width="422" height="596" /></p> <p> </p> <p><img alt="Template 3" src="http://birdcat.com/7squared/avc3.jpg" width="978" height="665" /></p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/h264-in-widescreen#post-61395 Mon, 09 Aug 2010 12:49:34 +0000 XTR-91 61395@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Time and again (or maybe it was only once), I've tried exporting H.264 (AVC) format in widescreen using Sony Vegas Pro 9. When I playback video in QuickTime, the video is always 4:3 - no letterboxing, just a squish from 16:9 to 4:3. Is '1.3' the correct 'pixel aspect ratio' for exporting H.264 in widescreen, or is this a limitation of the player version I am using? If not, <strong>how do I export H.264 video in widescreen?</strong></p> <p> </p> <p>I've never been able to successfully view widescreen video in QuickTime before, even with the assurance of DV-AVI video that I know is widescreen.</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/rendering-blu-ray#post-57286 Sat, 10 Apr 2010 17:24:47 +0000 webvideo 57286@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>I suggest you convert and burn your video files to AVCHD. All the blu-ray player (including PS3) can play AVCHD disc directly as a blu-ray disc. And AVCHD supports 1920x1080 also.</p> <p> </p> <p>I often use total video converter to make this conversion. Total Video Converter supports convert an burn any formats <a title="video to AVCHD" href="http://www.effectmatrix.com/total-video-converter/">video to AVCHD</a> directly.   <a href="http://www.effectmatrix.com/total-video-converter" rel="nofollow">http://www.effectmatrix.com/total-video-converter</a></p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/rendering-blu-ray#post-56784 Thu, 25 Mar 2010 18:24:00 +0000 vivili 56784@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>The PS3 surely can playback h264 video + ac3 or DTS. To achieve this<br /> you have to mux the h264 elementary video stream and the ac3 or DTS<br /> sound track into an MPEG2 Transport stream.</p> <p>The BluRay-compliant MPEG2 transport stream output from Adobe CS3<br /> encore is directly playable on the PS3 with 5.1 audio also from the XMB<br /> (if transferred to the internal harddrive on the PS3 ) or streamed from<br /> a UPNP server like for instance TVersity. The file is also seekable<br /> using FF/REW both when playing from the PS3 harddrive or when streaming<br /> from for instance TVersity.<br /> (do remember to rename the file produced from .m2ts to .mpg though before transferring to the PS3 )</p> <p><a href="http://blurayripper.blu-ray-softs.com/blu-ray-to-ps3.htm">Blu Ray to PS3!</a></p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/too-many-output-options-in-pp#post-54935 Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:36:05 +0000 BruceMol 54935@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>I can confirm that on a PC, WinXP, CS3, with Quicktime (free version) loaded, the choices are as Jerron describes them. The Quicktime option is second last in my drop down list.</p> <p><img src="/Documents%20and%20Settings/Default/Desktop/Sprite%207.jpg" /></p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/too-many-output-options-in-pp#post-54929 Mon, 08 Feb 2010 14:15:11 +0000 jerronsmith 54929@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Are you on a PC?</p> <p>Try downloading the Quicktime Player. That may be required to output to Quicktime format from Premiere Pro on a PC.</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/too-many-output-options-in-pp#post-54900 Sun, 07 Feb 2010 14:09:43 +0000 skoegler 54900@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Thanks Jerron - but...</p> <p>My format list includes H.264 but not Quicktime. So I selected the H264 format. Then looked in the Video tab, and The codec is listed as MainConcept H.264, but there is no dropdown list to select from.</p> <p>Do I need to install a Quicktime codec? and from where?</p> <p> </p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/too-many-output-options-in-pp#post-54882 Sat, 06 Feb 2010 15:59:11 +0000 jerronsmith 54882@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>.mov is the extension for a Quicktime file. To produce that the following steps should help.</p> <p>step 1: Choose File&gt;Export&gt;Media</p> <p>step 2: In the Export Settings dialog box chose Quicktime from the Format pull-down menu at the top of the dialog box.</p> <p>step 3: Click on the Video tab at the bottom of the dialog box. In the Codec pull-down menu choose h.264.</p> <p>That should give you the format/codec that you need.</p> <p> </p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/too-many-output-options-in-pp#post-54868 Sat, 06 Feb 2010 08:10:10 +0000 skoegler 54868@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Most of the time I export to FLV/FL4V in PP-CS4 and that works pretty well. Even so there are so many options in the preset category that I keep trying different ones. I upload to TubeMogul.com that does some transcoding and crossposting to a variety of server sites, so I don't need to worry much about the specifics.</p> <p>But - I'm not really happy with the quality of the viewing on some of the sites. </p> <p>Question 1 - is there a preferred/best Format/Preset for Youtube HD?</p> <p>Question 2 - I've been asked to provide H.264 with .MOV container. I can't seem to find an option for .MOV output. There are several iPod output presets, but nothing that creates a .MOV file. They all create .mp4 extensions.</p> <p>Confused.... </p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/creating-an-internet-tv-channel-with-simple-web-tv#post-52934 Mon, 07 Dec 2009 13:28:42 +0000 elsal 52934@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>I am looking to create an Internet TV Channel for a customer. We are producing all the video material and plan to enconde new and existing videos to FLV and H.264. Today I received an E-Mail offering the "Simple Web TV" hosted software <a href="http://www.simple-webtv.com">http://www.simple-webtv.com</a> for creating video portals and WebTVs. Does anybody know anything about it? </p> <p>Thanks. </p> <p>Elsa</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/rendering-blu-ray#post-52741 Mon, 30 Nov 2009 22:29:38 +0000 david5566 52741@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>H.264 codec provides high video quality at substantially lower bit rate, and is most popular for its use on HD DVD, Blu -ray disc. It requires fast CPU and lots of RAM to play it. Your portable player may not have the fastest CPU to support the nice playback of most H.264 files, so I suggest when editing your video in Premiere Pro, you'd better choose lower bitrate.</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/rendering-blu-ray#post-52723 Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:46:37 +0000 oposky2006 52723@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p> yea, are you check the setting ,codec</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/rendering-blu-ray#post-52700 Sun, 29 Nov 2009 08:47:01 +0000 robGRAUERT 52700@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Well what settings have you tried for your previous H.264 encode? </p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/rendering-blu-ray#post-52698 Sun, 29 Nov 2009 07:24:49 +0000 eckleys 52698@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p> I'm using Adobe Premiere Pro and rendered an hour long video in both H.264 and MPEG4.   When played in a PS3, the H264 played for about 20 minutes then started getting jerky; became un-watchable.  The MPEG4 copy worked fine.  </p> <p>I've never had much sucess with H.264 - either in rendering, and now in playing the DVD.  </p> <p>Anyone have any suggestions on other settings with H264, like frame rate?  </p> <p>S</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/an-alternative-to-acdsee-on-h264avchdmpeg2-video-browsing-and-managing#post-52330 Wed, 18 Nov 2009 02:40:05 +0000 famering 52330@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Today, I was cleaning up files on an old hard disk. In it, I met again many softwares I used to be using during last decade. ACDSEE, PHOTOSHOP, ULTRA EDITOR and many others, some of them are still my favorite tools today.</p> <p>Watch the Windows Vista I am using now, what a similar looking between the explorer and the old ACDSEE classic. The so called thumbnail-view layout, which I first saw in ACDSEE classic, is nowadays a most common user interface standard.</p> <p>Thumbnail-view is not the only strong point that ACDSEE holds. <br />ACDSEE is still the best when the image browsing speed is measured. That's why I am still using ACDSEE as my picture browser, although the Windows now can do it natively(but slowly). This shows, there is always a chance to survive for an unique technology, like the image browsing speed of ACDSEE.</p> <p>On the contrary, when we turn to the speed of video browsing, ACDSEE falls into the common category of DirectShow filter based applications. ACDSEE does not decode video itself, so its video browsing speed is limited by the DirectShow.</p> <p>This gave an opportunity to the video manager I am using now, the Smart Mate for DV and DVB.</p> <p>Based on special video technology from FameRing, Smart Mate for DV and DVB is 20~30 times faster than DirectShow based softwares when browsing and taking thumbs of movies.</p> <p>I have a Hauppauge HD PVR DVB Box with a tuner installed on PC. I've recorded about several hundreds of H.264/AVCHD movies on my hard disk. They are .ts files, aka transport stream. Every now and then, I need to organize them, search them, bookmark them, share them with my friends. Just like what I did to my Jpeg photos. Further more, I want to edit the movies, like cutting commercials out of them, this leads to the most valuable part of Smart Mate for DV and DVB. It has the world's first H.264/AVCHD/MPEG2 frame accurate cutter without re-encoding.</p> <p>Smart Mate for DV and DVB not only supports frame accurate cutting on H.264/AVCHD/MPEG2, but also does it in a fastest way. It only re-encodes the gop on start point and end point, middle part of movie remains untouched. This gives the highest speed cutting while reserving highest video quality. So called, "Smart Cut".</p> <p>If anyone else needs an easy but professional management solution for H.264/AVCHD/MPEG2 movies from Satellite video receiver, DVB HD PVR, DV Camcorder, or INTERNET, the Smart Mate for DV and DVB is the software you must have. FameRing also has video manager for all popular formats, called MovieShop, I was only using the version customized for H.264/AVCHD/MPEG2.</p> <p>Come back to the ACDSEE, it will always be my image browsing tool, but not for the video browsing and managing.<br /> <br />To me, the Smart Mate for DV and DVB is an alternative to ACDSEE on video files. That is why we like competition, which gives us more and more better softwares.</p> <p>May be some time later, Windows will be able to browse H.264/AVCHD/MPEG2 .ts movies natively(cuts frame accurately? I do not think so), like the thumb-nail view it learned from ACDSEE. But it will never be the only software left, because the unique technology always survives, as it is unique. The customers will always have alternative and better choices.</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/hf20-export-problem-help-needed#post-50490 Mon, 31 Aug 2009 15:52:36 +0000 J. Jackson 50490@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Hey, thanks for the info. </p> <p>Was wondering, what kind of projects do you use your Canon HF299 for?</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/hf20-export-problem-help-needed#post-50485 Mon, 31 Aug 2009 07:45:21 +0000 OSD 50485@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Since the HF20 is similar to the HF10, you may want to check out this post. <a href="http://multimedia.journalism.berkeley.edu/tutorials/canon-vixa-hf-10/" rel="nofollow">http://multimedia.journalism.berkeley.edu/tutorials/canon-vixa-hf-10/</a></p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/hf20-export-problem-help-needed#post-50482 Mon, 31 Aug 2009 06:45:58 +0000 cuba1902 50482@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Yeah by default its set to AV. If you go into your menu options by hitting the Function key and scroll down to menu from there in the black screen search for AV/Headphones and select headphones. When your in AV mode you will get the buzzing sound when wearing headphones. Once you select for headphones when you go back out you will see an icon at the bottom of your lcd with a pair of headphones. </p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/hf20-export-problem-help-needed#post-50456 Sun, 30 Aug 2009 14:22:43 +0000 J. Jackson 50456@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Hey, thanks for the reply. Yeah, after searching around the internet I found the page you linked to.</p> <p>I usually don't use headphones while filming, but I plugged the headphones in and was surprised to hear a loud buzzing noise instead of the video audio. For me, the noise is also heard in photo and dual shot mode. </p> <p>I'm probably missing a step. Will update if I find a solution to this problem.</p> <p>-Josh</p>