http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ Videomaker Community Forums » Tag: transcoding - Recent Posts en Fri, 17 Feb 2012 11:16:58 +0000 http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/mpeg2-codec-missing-on-premier-help#post-73043 Sat, 03 Dec 2011 20:59:14 +0000 cfxcorp 73043@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Adobe article on CODECs.</p> <p><a href="http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/515/cpsid_51528.html">http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/515/cpsid_51528.html</a></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/mpeg2-codec-missing-on-premier-help#post-73041 Sat, 03 Dec 2011 19:23:51 +0000 cfxcorp 73041@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Try downloading the following file from muvee Reveal help forum:</p> <p><a href="ftp://muveeUserMedia:UM12oPLkadtunb9@ftp.muvee.com/codecPrinter_ToDesktop.zip">ftp://muveeUserMedia:UM12oPLkadtunb9@ftp.muvee.com/codecPrinter_ToDesktop.zip</a></p> <p>It prints a list of your installed CODECs to a text file on your desktop.&nbsp; May be useful in troubleshooting your issue.&nbsp; You may have a corrupted CODEC or another program installed an inferior MPEG-2 CODEC.</p> <p>Sony Creative Software site offers the MainConcept MPEG-2 CODEC for sale if the Adobe site doesn't help.</p> <p>Did you have any Adobe updates lately that may have caused the problem?&nbsp; Maybe you need to update or reinstall the progrm?</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/mpeg2-codec-missing-on-premier-help#post-73037 Sat, 03 Dec 2011 15:20:00 +0000 pseudosafari 73037@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Have you tried importing it into Adobe Media Encoder and then exporting it to the codec you prefer?</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/mpeg2-codec-missing-on-premier-help#post-73001 Thu, 01 Dec 2011 16:39:37 +0000 Charles Schultz 73001@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>When you look at the footage file in finder, what is the file extension that is being displayed? For example, whatever.mpg2 is there anything past the extension?</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/mpeg2-codec-missing-on-premier-help#post-73000 Thu, 01 Dec 2011 16:10:09 +0000 hogtown 73000@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Hi guys, I am a new chap here and having some issues importing my media on Premier. A bit of background I am using Mac 10.7.2 and Adobe Premier 5. Shot my media on a JVC GY-HM100U and it was ingested by copying the whole folder into my computer. My video is 1080 60i the .xml file says:</p> <p>dataFormat="xdvb" </p> <p>videoCodec="MPEG2_VBR35M_1920_1080_60I_MP@HL" ch="STEREO_2CH" </p> <p>audioCodec="LPCM16_48K"</p> <p>Neither Premier nor imovie can't open the media and the error I get is that the codec is missing. I tried to convert my media using the Video Converter by iSkysoft but the quality decreased exponentially. I also tried Calibrated{Q} XD Decode, but it won't play in real time in Premier and looks choppy. </p> <p>Went and downloaded the JVC HD pro clip manager but ironically it doesn't recognize the media either and the error is that is not a m4p file. JVC site and other reviews say that there is no need to wrap or transcode and the media formats are compatible with Mac which is false or I am missing something.</p> <p>Does anyone have any advice how to get around this issue? Your thoughts would be highly appreciated!</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/transcoding-avchd-files-for-editing-elements-3#post-47467 Tue, 02 Jun 2009 12:59:57 +0000 Cyberlink 47467@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>One more suggestion... PowerDVD will let you play AVCHD clips and titles natively.  So you may want to purchase the Cyberlink Suite, rather than buying PowerDirector directly, as you will get PowerDVD included for very little difference in price.  PowerDVD Ultra will play your Blu-ray discs very nicely (drives are getting pretty affordable these days... a BD-ROM for about $77, and a BD-R drive for about $160).</p> <p>If your final target is standard definition DVD, you don't have to worry about the loss of quality nearly as much, since you will lose far more when you scale the video down from 1920x1080 to 720x480.  If you can play your final video from a PC, you can output your final production to AVCHD, which can be written to DVD.  PowerDVD can be used to play back AVCHD on DVD. Still, it's better to preserve the quality, then have multiple output options from your editor.</p> <p>So check out PowerDVD, and you can show your boss the video without even having to edit anything.</p> <p>Tom</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/transcoding-avchd-files-for-editing-elements-3#post-47466 Tue, 02 Jun 2009 12:27:54 +0000 Stowey 47466@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Thanks Chuck will look on the Muvipix site &amp; Tom, I appreciated that some loss of quality would ensue by transcoding, but didn't realise quite how much. My main reason for doing so, in my panic, was to get something out and onto DVD as quickly as possible in order to prove to "the boss" that the purchase of the new camera was at least worthwhile. Am just beginning to understand what is going on here and will look at 'PowerDirector' as soon as possible.</p> <p>Ian.</p> <p>I   </p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/transcoding-avchd-files-for-editing-elements-3#post-47459 Tue, 02 Jun 2009 10:57:24 +0000 Cyberlink 47459@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>I wouldn't suggest converting AVCHD in order to make editing easier.  This defeats the purpose of buying a good camcorder.  Rendering and re-encoding is a lossy process, and it will permanently degrade the quality of your video.  It's even worse if you transcode before editing, only to have your editor render and re-encode your finished movie when you are finished (as most editors do).  Going from AVC at 12 to 15 Mbps to HDV (MPEG-2) would require you to use a very high bitrate in order to minimize the loss of quality, as MPEG-2 is less efficient than AVC.</p> <p>It is possible to edit AVCHD without transcoding... either on import or export (as long as you are exporting to AVCHD or Blu-ray disc).  I don't want to come here to advertise (VM has a different department for that)... but I don't want to see my fellow video editors struggle.  Remember, friends don't let friends transcode HD video.  It is possible (with PowerDirector) to edit AVCHD natively without transcoding.  Give it a try, and you will see that it is very responsive.  It doesn't require a quad core CPU.  Enable SVRT (Smart Video Rendering Technology) when you produce your final movie to AVCHD or Blu-ray, and all segments of video that don't include effects or transitions will not be re-encoded.  The original quality is preserved, and you'll get your result much faster.  And I promise that you won't get "running low on memory, proceed with caution" messages.</p> <p>Tom</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/transcoding-avchd-files-for-editing-elements-3#post-47452 Tue, 02 Jun 2009 07:28:24 +0000 chuckengels 47452@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>No matter what editing software you have it is a very intensive process to edit AVCHD files.</p> <p>Quad Core processor is highly recommended, version 3 or version 7 doesn't matter.</p> <p>If converting to AVI you need to make sure the conversion is to DV-AVI, you are correct that there are many forms of AVI.</p> <p> </p> <p>Lots of good stuff about editing AVCHD in Premiere Elements is available at the Muvipix Community<br /><a href="http://muvipix.com" rel="nofollow">http://muvipix.com</a></p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/transcoding-avchd-files-for-editing-elements-3#post-47427 Mon, 01 Jun 2009 14:44:00 +0000 Stowey 47427@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p> Thanks for your response. </p> <p>Yes, Premiere Elements 3.0.2 patch has been applied. However, didn't know that 3.0.2 has limited HDV support. Will certainly consider upgrading to version 7 but understand that to encode directly using PE7 some fairly hefty computer power is necessary. This I think I have so maybe PE7 is the answer. As far as transcoding to .AVI files is concerned, have tried that but PE3 would not recognise them. I believe that AVI is just a container for a number of different file structures, so maybe I do not yet have the appropriate codec/s installed.</p> <p>Interestingly, I met two other people today who have recently bought HD camcorders. Neither have yet attempted to edit their clips. I wished them the best of luck.</p> <p>Shot 81 new clips today. Will transcode them (to WMV for now using Roxio) tomorrow &amp; drop them into Windows Movie Maker &amp; Roxio Creator 9 video editors just to see whether the same problem occurs. If not, and having used 15 clips in them both to date without problems, then I will have to consider whether the Roxio application will be adequate for my requirements or whether I need to buy PE7.</p> <p>A recent article in Personal Computer World would suggest that the general problem of successfully editing some HD file content is somewhat serious - anyway will continue to try.</p> <p>Thanks again.</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/transcoding-avchd-files-for-editing-elements-3#post-47409 Mon, 01 Jun 2009 05:51:19 +0000 chuckengels 47409@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Do you have the Premiere Elements 3.0.2 patcch?</p> <p>Version 3 does not work at all with HDV, 3.0.2 has limited HDV support.</p> <p>You really need to upgrade if you plan on editing HDV with Premiere Elements</p> <p>If you are going to convert the files then use DV-AVI, not WMV.  But I would recommend upgrading and then editing the originals.</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/transcoding-avchd-files-for-editing-elements-3#post-47402 Sun, 31 May 2009 22:42:53 +0000 Stowey 47402@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p> Thanks for your help. </p> <p>My OS is Vista 32 bit with 4GB of RAM, so can do nothing much there. However, will try increasing available space for swap files &amp; your comment on rendering a limited number of clips at a time is a good one.</p> <p>Am experimenting with, and seem to be having more luck with, would you believe, Windows Movie Maker &amp; the resident video editing app. in Roxio Creator 9. So, maybe PE3 will reluctantly be put on the back burner.</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/transcoding-avchd-files-for-editing-elements-3#post-47365 Sat, 30 May 2009 09:01:35 +0000 CraftersOfLight 47365@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <ol> <li>Increase available RAM on your computer (may be limited by OS in use)</li> <li>Increase available space on your hard drive for swap files.</li> <li>Work with reduced number of clips by rendering smaller groups into "chapters".</li> </ol> <p>Most NLEs do not touch the actual video clips but record file locations and your edit marks until the session is rendered. This is very memory intensive.</p> <p>For any better info to help you please post your computer stats so we can review further (OS, RAM, Processor, Free HD space, Number of HDs, etc.)</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/transcoding-avchd-files-for-editing-elements-3#post-47363 Sat, 30 May 2009 07:22:03 +0000 Stowey 47363@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p> My new Sanyo Xacti VPC-FH1 camcorder shoots AVCHD H.264 files (with a .MP4 extension) at various quality levels - the highest being FULL HR 1920 x 1080 at 60fps. I have elected to use the less demanding 1920 x 1080 at 30fps for editing in Premiere Elements 3. I am attempting to work with files which I have transcoded into .WMV files using a native application within Roxio Creator 9 - having first tried SUPER and AVS transcoding software. Roxio works fine (as did one of the others) for a small number of clips, the WMV files being good on both video and audio, and transitions added appear to be good also. However, when a larger number of clips (say 20) are initially added a dialog box appears in Premiere Elements 3 stating:-</p> <p>"Adobe Premiere Elements is running very low on system memory. Please save your project and proceed with caution". Attempted further work in PE3 such as rendering caused the application to fail. I tried but was not able to transcode successfully to .AVI files. PE3 would not recognise them.</p> <p>Can anyone suggest a solution to this problem please.</p> <p>Stowey.   </p> <p> </p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/powerdirector7-transcoding-and-burning#post-47303 Thu, 28 May 2009 10:34:38 +0000 Cyberlink 47303@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Good question! (RE: Cyberlink section in these forums)</p> <p> </p> <p>I'm not sure what you mean by "flip over".  Do you want to have the video rotate horizontally or vertically?  Or do you want the layers to flip (one video is "on top", then the other is "on top")?</p> <p> </p> <p>Tom</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/powerdirector7-transcoding-and-burning#post-47246 Tue, 26 May 2009 23:53:30 +0000 7Phil7 47246@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p> Why is there no separate section devoted to Cyberlink?</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/powerdirector7-transcoding-and-burning#post-47245 Tue, 26 May 2009 23:52:29 +0000 7Phil7 47245@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p> Yes, I created a DVD disc but it seems it was probably burnt on a different system in error as I now have perfectly good DVD discs burnt from the same file! Duh! Me learner!</p> <p>Thanks for the advice though.</p> <p>Somewhere else I pointed out that the rendering for this 40 min video took only 4 mins using 17-920 processor. Much better than I ever hoped for after putting up with P4 taking over 3 hrs before and using Pinnacle Studio 9.4.</p> <p>Since downloading the trial software for PD7 and my failed burning event I have been experimenting with PiP and titles etc and all is going well.</p> <p>Question - How to make a PiP flip over and over like on that Supermen movie where the three crims were sent packing? Any ideas? I got an answer from Cyberlink that you add two PiP tracks at once but they didn't say any more than that. I tried that and naturally got two PiP tracks at that point in the video. They don't flip over though - of course!</p> <p> </p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/powerdirector7-transcoding-and-burning#post-46838 Fri, 15 May 2009 09:02:42 +0000 Cyberlink 46838@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Yes, commercial DVD movies are physically different than recordable or erasable DVDs that you burn with a DVD-R/RW drive or set-top recorder.  If you want "replicated" DVDs, there are many independent CD/DVD manufacturers who can do this, but the minimum order cost is several thousand dollars (for a minimum quantity of 1000 discs).</p> <p>Fortunately, most DVD players are able to read DVD-R or DVD+R media, so it usually isn't an issue.</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/powerdirector7-transcoding-and-burning#post-46814 Thu, 14 May 2009 18:03:28 +0000 XTR-91 46814@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>So you're saying that the commercial DVD movies and video discs are different than the kind that you burn with a DVD writer or a real-time consumer DVD recorder. I guess the universal DVD-Video discs are recorded with equipment that is too sophisticated for the unpaid.</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/powerdirector7-transcoding-and-burning#post-46803 Thu, 14 May 2009 14:36:57 +0000 Cyberlink 46803@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>All DVDs are DVD-ROMs (logically). DVD-Video is an application format.  Logical formats are independent of physical formats.  The DVD movies that you buy are DVD-Videos.  The DVD-Video specification is built on top of the DVD-ROM specification.  Note the DVD-Video logo on movies that you buy.</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p>DVD-R, DVD+R, DVD-RW and DVD+RW are physical media types (recordable and erasable).  They are designed to emulate a pre-recorded DVD.  But due to the different physical properties, they are never quite as readable as a pre-recorded DVD.  </p> <p>The movie that you buy on DVD are not "burned", they are pre-recorded.  The information is encoded on a glass master, and the glass master is used to make nickel stampers.  The stampers are mounted in injection molding machines, and the polycarbonate is injected into the mold, pressing up against the stamper on one side of the mold.  The track of pits is molded into the polycarbonate.  The clear plastic substrate is metalized with a silver alloy (for dual layer DVDs... which most movies are), and then bonded to another substrate.</p> <p>Recordable DVDs (-R, +R) are different.  They are molded using a stamper with a "pre-groove"... a continuous groove with a wobble.  The clear substrate is coated with a dye layer which is sensitive to the recording laser.  Then the substrate is metalized to make it reflective.  Instead of a track of pits (bumps, actually), a recorded DVD has a track of burned marks that emulate pits.  Instead of changing the amount of reflected light of the laser that is reading the disc by diffraction (pre-recorded), a recordable disc changes the amount of reflected light through absorption.</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/powerdirector7-transcoding-and-burning#post-46796 Thu, 14 May 2009 09:52:31 +0000 XTR-91 46796@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p><strong>Cyberlink said:</strong><br /><em>The first question is... did you create a DVD-Video disc? ... DVD players are designed to play DVD-Video discs, although some may play video files on a DVD-ROM disc.</em><br /><em>If you have a legal DVD-Video disc, the next question is - is it readable?</em></p> <p>I think that DVD-Video and DVD-ROMs are just fancy names for the standard DVD R discs. When researching disc formats, I come across DVD-R, DVD+R, DVD-RW, DVD+RW, DL (dual layer) DVD, Double-side, and DVD-RAM. These are the formats that I see available to buy (there are no "DVD-Video" or "DVD-ROM" discs). If someone else knows better, they can correct.</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/powerdirector7-transcoding-and-burning#post-46793 Thu, 14 May 2009 09:31:11 +0000 Cyberlink 46793@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Hi Phil,</p> <p>Cyberlink has a support website ....</p> <p><a href="https://membership.cyberlink.com/prog/support/cs/index.do" rel="nofollow">https://membership.cyberlink.com/prog/support/cs/index.do</a> </p> <p> </p> <p>There are several possible reasons that a DVD you create won't play in a DVD Player.</p> <p>The first question is... did you create a DVD-Video disc?  If you used PowerDirector's "Create Disc" function, the answer is yes.  If you used PowerDirector to create a video file, and then you copied this to a DVD, the answer is no.  A DVD-video title has a VIDEO_TS folder, with IFO, BUP and VOB files inside.  DVD players are designed to play DVD-Video discs, although some may play video files on a DVD-ROM disc.</p> <p>If you have a legal DVD-Video disc, the next question is - is it readable?  If you can play the disc on your PC (using PowerDVD, or Windows Media Player), then it's readable as far as your DVD drive is concerned.  DVD players don't always play DVD-R or DVD-RW (or +R, +RW) media... especially older players.  Did you try the disc in some other DVD players?</p> <p>I hope this helps.</p> <p> </p> <p>Tom</p> <p>Cyberlink</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/powerdirector7-transcoding-and-burning#post-46776 Wed, 13 May 2009 23:33:14 +0000 7Phil7 46776@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p> I have just downloaded the trial version and created a test DVD with 40 mins of video which plays ok on the computer but not on a DVD player.</p> <p>I tried to email Support at Cyberlink but came up against a brick wall.</p> <p>Any ideas please?</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/transcoding-settings#post-36489 Tue, 13 May 2008 14:18:34 +0000 htalents 36489@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Hello, I'm pretty new to this but I have a question about the transcoding settings on Encore.  The manual doesn't say much about the settings (what are they and what each does).</p> <p>Can anyone possibly explain these?</p>