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Media Encoder CC17 renders HDR HEVC files to

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Executive Summary: Adobe’s HEVC implementation renders footage to <7 bits when HDR is selected, even when set to deliver 10 bits.

 

Description:

 

I’ve been experimenting with UHD HEVC encoding options for a while now, and was very interested in the new HDR options.

Unfortunately, while the Rec2020 option now renders smoothly to SMPTE range, when the HDR switch is enabled, the same setting will render to less than 7 bits, producing a lot of banding artifacts.

 

Here’s some screen grabs:

 

Source comp in AE:

SourceSample.jpg

 

This was made from an Illustrator file, when I did a blend with the specific number of steps (Blend maxes out at 1000 steps, so I couldn't do 1024 for 10 bit). Just note that there is more and more banding the further down you go in the chart.

 

If I output enable Main10 (gives me 10 bits/channel instead of default 8), and enable Rec2020 and render it, I can get this:

 

SDR-OK.jpg

 

It is clipping the blacks, but OK, that's potentially resolvable with an Adjustment Layer. We'll deal with that another time. But my 8 bit gradations are still nice and smooth, so far so good.

 

Here's what happens when I take the exact same setting, and turn on the HDR switch:

 

HDR-flawed.jpg

Notice I now have banding where I didn't before - the top three bars that were smooth before are now in discrete steps.

 

If you look carefully at the 128 steps - 7 bit bar (the one under those words), you'll see some inconsistencies - it isn't a smooth blend. There are a lot of these inconsistencies, where the width from one step to the next varies every few bars. 6 bit, with 64 steps, seems to be OK, so I'd say I'm getting between 6 and 7 bits of detail out of this.

 

Well....[expletive]. This format is supposed to have 10 bits. And in fact, you can't access it UNTIL you turn on "Main10" which is what gives you 10 bits/channel.

 

This is just a bug. OK Adobe - this needs fixing STAT.

 

Want to prove it yourself? Here's a link to my Public Dropbox so you can download the After Effects file, media, and Adobe Media Encoder settings used to create this situation. I've done a ton of testing with the Media Encoder presets to try to work around this, and after 40 or 50 settings and innumerable attempts, I can't get it to work and I'm confident the problem is with Media Encoder.

 

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/46125841/HDR_ProblemDemo.zip

 

Proof:

 

Attached is a .zip archive, which contains an After Effects project, and two Adobe Media Encoder settings.

 

Open the After Effects Project, and the GradationTest will be open. Go to the Composition pulldown menu and select Add to Adobe Media Encoder Queue.

 

In Adobe Media Encoder, in the Preset Browser, select Import Settings (the fifth icon under the words Preset Browser).

 

Navigate to the folder I provided, in MediaEncoderPresets, and select the two .epr files starting with 11- and 12-.

 

These settings are otherwise identical, but 11 is HDR and 12 is SDR.

 

Apply these two settings to the queued GradationTest and render.

 

Open and compare, as you’ve seen in the above description.

 

Comments? Suggestions?

 

-mike


Cannot encode h.264 4K portrait video 2160x3840

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I'm trying to encode 4K portrait h.264 .mp4 and I get the following message "Frame dimesions are not supported. Please check that both width/height alues are within limits."

 

As a temporary work around I'm rendering Landscape 3840x2160 with my content rotated 90 degrees. This will not be good enough in the long run though as I have to produce content for a digital signage player that outputs portrait 2160x3840.

 

Screen Shot 2014-11-13 at 3.27.36 PM.png

 

Is there a way to force 2160x3840 or will this resolution be supported in the near future?

 

Cheers,


R Wallace

How to render out JUST Alpha in Media Encoder

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So apparently Adobe has changed their settings in CC 2014 and Adobe After Effects no longer has the H.264 container, and is only offered as a codec for Qucktime. I've been told I have to go into Adobe Media Encoder for the H.264 codec. That's fine, problem is that Adobe Media Encoder does not really have any options for Alpha. From my understanding you have to set it to 32bpc for it to do alpha in a file, which did not seem to work, but that's irrelevant now because that's not what I need. I need to render out two files for a batch list, one with just RGB files and one with just alpha. I talked to someone from Adobe and they suggested I post here. Let me know if you need details.

 

Thank you very much.

Dolby Codec not installed

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My mac lab runs Adobe CC.  Recently I ran RemoteUpdateManager through ARD to update CC on these macs.  Now users are getting the warning: DD.png

 

User profiles are wiped upon logout, so this error pops up any time a subsequent user edits AVCHD footage or exports audio as Dolby Digital.   Is there a dolby digital codec I can download/install?  Or, am I stuck having to create a new user template for each workstation...   

Where are the AE render settings in Media Encoder?

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I'd like to use Adobe Media Encoder for background rendering, but how do you set the render settings (like bit depth, motion blur, solo switches, guide layers, ect)?

 

Also, how do you select the output color profile from AME?

how do i purchase adobe media encoder?

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how do i purchase adobe media encoder?

I want to buy it and use it to make mxf files for television material, my 30day trial period has expired.

Please help urgently.

Thanks

Conversion to WMV file

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Is it possible to convert MOV file to WMV file?

If so, what is the best way/ application would recommend?

Adobe Media Encoder CC 2015 H.264 export, very bad quality compared to VLC

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Hi

 

I make some screencast with VLC Media Player (www.videolan.org, free and open source), it captures my desktop and exports the file in H.264 at 25 fps. Then I edit this in PPro and also export the clip in H.264.

 

All is well but... The original video files from VLC has a top quality with a very low bitrate (200 Kbits/s), and when I try to export the edited video with the same bitrate from AME, the quality is just horrible! Artifacts, blurred, with some blocks... Even if I export with a bitrate more than 20x higher than the original file (4400 Kbits/s), the quality is not as good as the original.

 

Here is a comparison between the three exports:

comparison.png

Can you explain me why there is a so big difference even if the bitrate is multiplied by 20? Here are the export parameters (with a bitrate of 400 Kbits/s):

export.png

 

Thanks a lot for your help and please excuse my poor english


Media Encoder CC17 renders HDR HEVC files to

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Executive Summary: Adobe’s HEVC implementation renders footage to <7 bits when HDR is selected, even when set to deliver 10 bits.

 

Description:

 

I’ve been experimenting with UHD HEVC encoding options for a while now, and was very interested in the new HDR options.

Unfortunately, while the Rec2020 option now renders smoothly to SMPTE range, when the HDR switch is enabled, the same setting will render to less than 7 bits, producing a lot of banding artifacts.

 

Here’s some screen grabs:

 

Source comp in AE:

SourceSample.jpg

 

This was made from an Illustrator file, when I did a blend with the specific number of steps (Blend maxes out at 1000 steps, so I couldn't do 1024 for 10 bit). Just note that there is more and more banding the further down you go in the chart.

 

If I output enable Main10 (gives me 10 bits/channel instead of default 8), and enable Rec2020 and render it, I can get this:

 

SDR-OK.jpg

 

It is clipping the blacks, but OK, that's potentially resolvable with an Adjustment Layer. We'll deal with that another time. But my 8 bit gradations are still nice and smooth, so far so good.

 

Here's what happens when I take the exact same setting, and turn on the HDR switch:

 

HDR-flawed.jpg

Notice I now have banding where I didn't before - the top three bars that were smooth before are now in discrete steps.

 

If you look carefully at the 128 steps - 7 bit bar (the one under those words), you'll see some inconsistencies - it isn't a smooth blend. There are a lot of these inconsistencies, where the width from one step to the next varies every few bars. 6 bit, with 64 steps, seems to be OK, so I'd say I'm getting between 6 and 7 bits of detail out of this.

 

Well....[expletive]. This format is supposed to have 10 bits. And in fact, you can't access it UNTIL you turn on "Main10" which is what gives you 10 bits/channel.

 

This is just a bug. OK Adobe - this needs fixing STAT.

 

Want to prove it yourself? Here's a link to my Public Dropbox so you can download the After Effects file, media, and Adobe Media Encoder settings used to create this situation. I've done a ton of testing with the Media Encoder presets to try to work around this, and after 40 or 50 settings and innumerable attempts, I can't get it to work and I'm confident the problem is with Media Encoder.

 

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/46125841/HDR_ProblemDemo.zip

 

Proof:

 

Attached is a .zip archive, which contains an After Effects project, and two Adobe Media Encoder settings.

 

Open the After Effects Project, and the GradationTest will be open. Go to the Composition pulldown menu and select Add to Adobe Media Encoder Queue.

 

In Adobe Media Encoder, in the Preset Browser, select Import Settings (the fifth icon under the words Preset Browser).

 

Navigate to the folder I provided, in MediaEncoderPresets, and select the two .epr files starting with 11- and 12-.

 

These settings are otherwise identical, but 11 is HDR and 12 is SDR.

 

Apply these two settings to the queued GradationTest and render.

 

Open and compare, as you’ve seen in the above description.

 

Comments? Suggestions?

 

-mike

Media Encoder Export to h.264 Keeps Erroring

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I am using the YouTube 1080p 30fps preset and twice now I have had an export of the same project fail. The error log states:

"File importer detected an inconsistency in the file structure of Accident Reenactment.mp4.  Reading and writing this file's metadata (XMP) has been disabled.

 

Adobe Media Encoder

Could not write XMP data in output file."


The result is a small file of 24 bytes, so the video doesn't even get created. I have exported this same project to DVD and ProRes with no issue, so I have no idea what the problem is.

 

Here is the whole section from this export:

05/12/2014 12:44:25 PM : Queue Resumed

- Source File: Accident Reenactment

- Output File: /Volumes/Macintosh HD 2/Output Files/Accident Reenactment.m2v

- Preset Used: DVD

- Video: NTSC, 720x480, 29.97 fps, Upper, Quality 75

- Audio: PCM Audio, 48 kHz, Stereo, 16 bit

- Bitrate: VBR, 1 Pass, Min 2.80, Target 5.00, Max 7.00 Mbps

- Encoding Time: 01:19:24

05/12/2014 02:03:50 PM : File Successfully Encoded

 

- Source File: Accident Reenactment

- Output File: /Volumes/Macintosh HD 2/Output Files/Accident Reenactment.mov

- Preset Used: Quicktime Archive

- Video: 1920x1080 (1.0), 29.97 fps, Upper, Quality 90, Apple ProRes 422

- Audio: Uncompressed, 48000 Hz, Stereo, 16 bit

- Bitrate:

- Encoding Time: 02:32:23

05/12/2014 04:36:24 PM : File Successfully Encoded

 

- Source File: Accident Reenactment

- Output File: /Volumes/Macintosh HD 2/Output Files/Accident Reenactment.mp4

- Preset Used: YouTube HD 1080p 29.97

- Video: 1920x1080 (1.0), 29.97 fps, Progressive

- Audio: AAC, 320 kbps, 48 kHz, Stereo

- Bitrate: VBR, 2 pass, Target 8.00 Mbps, Max 8.00 Mbps

- The source was deinterlaced

- Encoding Time: 04:12:14

05/12/2014 06:16:14 PM : File Encoded with warning

------------------------------------------------------------

File importer detected an inconsistency in the file structure of Accident Reenactment.mp4.  Reading and writing this file's metadata (XMP) has been disabled.

 

 

Adobe Media Encoder

Could not write XMP data in output file.

 

Edited in Adobe Premiere Pro CC on an iMac running OSX 10.9.2.

Core i7 2.93 GHz

8GB RAM

Built in YouTube HD 1080p 29.97 preset in Media Encoder.

 

Any help would be great. Please let me know if you need any addition info.

No audio when using 2017 Media Encoder

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Hi,

I'm having issues with the 2017 version of Media Encoder.

 

To start, I exported my files from Adobe Premiere CC 2017 version. I have no problems with audio. Sound is there with the file(s). Everything looks good.

 

Then, when I use the media encoder to change to another format, I get no audio at all. All of my clips from the new ME has no audio.

 

I have cleaned the media cache from both Premiere and ME. I also re-installed Media Encoder 2017. So far, nothing has worked. Still no audio on files.

 

Everything was fine with previous version. Any suggestions?

AME CS5.5 hangs on "Reading XMP"

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Been having this issue ever since I upgraded to 5.5...

 

Finish a video in Premiere, export to AME, click the play/start encode. In the encode status, it gets to "Processing: Reading XMP" and simply hangs there indefinitely (hours). Clicking to stop/pause the encode doesn't actually stop it, only way to do anything is to force-quit AME. Then it won't re-open until a restart. Only way I can export my final video from Premiere is the direct export, which works well enough when it's a single video basis, but when I want to do a batch of exports, or continue editing something else while exporting, this completely puts me at a stand-still.

 

Any idea what's with AME just stalling out on me here?

 

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h265 (HEVC) preset in AME 9.1?

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I see that finally the new version of AME supports encoding in h265. I opened AME but I'm not able to find the h.265 preset. Where is it/what is its name?

 

Thanks in advance

Media Encoder CS6 doesn't export any of the common formats like .MOV, .AVI, .AIFF .WAV, etc.

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When I queue exports from Premiere CS6,  Media Encoder totally ignores any custom export settings, and chooses some completely different system defined default settings, which I did not choose in Premiere. In previous versions Premiere would always pass the encoding settings to the Media Encoder.

 

Update: When I tried to import the custom settings into Adobe Media Encoder, I got an error message: "Preset could not be imported. No exporter found for this preset." Then I've realized, that AEM doesn't even have a QuickTime export format!!! Actually it offers only 4 export formats: H.264 (MP4), FLV, F4V, and MP3. Then, when I queue an export with Premiere with one of those 4 formats, then AEM would accept it. Anything else - it just wouldn't work!!! So wait - am I missing something, or I literally cannot queue any other common format exports with AEM??? I need to work with MOV, AVI, AIFF, WAV etc. files, which all aren't accepted by the Media Encoder... Or am I missing something???

 

This is ridiculous. I am becoming quite fed up with Premiere CS6 bundle - in 20 minutes I have found already 4 diferent features, that worked in previous versions, and work no more in CS6

 

I don't know how it worked in CS5.5 - anybody?

incompatible video codec found in the preset

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Hello, First post so apologies if I am in the wrong section.

 

I am trying to export a sequence from premier pro through the media encoder.

 

for my project I am required to produce a 720p, 25fps h.264 .mov  however when selecting the format "Quicktime"  there is no drop down in the codec options to allow for H.264 compression.

 

Under format I have attempted selecting a preset that matches the above settings but I receive the error message

 

"incompatible video codec found in the preset"

 

I am using a new laptop (around 2 weeks old) on the windows 7 os

 

Thanks for your help!


Where are the AE render settings in Media Encoder?

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I'd like to use Adobe Media Encoder for background rendering, but how do you set the render settings (like bit depth, motion blur, solo switches, guide layers, ect)?

 

Also, how do you select the output color profile from AME?

How to change variable frame rate to constant?

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Hello,

 

I am exporting a mpeg HDV file that has a constant frame rate to a H264 video (.mp4) video to upload to a web-base video player. I'm actually using the preset in Media Encoder "YouTube HD 720p 29.97".

 

The online video web interface I use requires a constant frame rate. But when looking at the video in MediaInfo it shows the video file as a variable frame rate. After looking through the settings in Media Encoder I cannot find any option to correct that.  I see where you can change the frame rate and it is at 29.97. So you would think it would be constant but it is not. And it does not have any settings, that I can see, to change from variable to constant. I do see the bitrate settings, but that is not the issue.

 

I also have Apple Compressor and that successfuly does a constant frame rate, but if possible I'd rather use Adobe Media Encoder. So does anybody know how to change this setting? Thank you

Cannot encode h.264 4K portrait video 2160x3840

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I'm trying to encode 4K portrait h.264 .mp4 and I get the following message "Frame dimesions are not supported. Please check that both width/height alues are within limits."

 

As a temporary work around I'm rendering Landscape 3840x2160 with my content rotated 90 degrees. This will not be good enough in the long run though as I have to produce content for a digital signage player that outputs portrait 2160x3840.

 

Screen Shot 2014-11-13 at 3.27.36 PM.png

 

Is there a way to force 2160x3840 or will this resolution be supported in the near future?

 

Cheers,


R Wallace

how do i purchase adobe media encoder?

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how do i purchase adobe media encoder?

I want to buy it and use it to make mxf files for television material, my 30day trial period has expired.

Please help urgently.

Thanks

Does Adobe Media Encoder save/export in swf format?

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Does Adobe Media Encoder save/export in swf format?

If yes how?

 

Thanks

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