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AnotherPerspective
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November 13, 2017
Question

CS6 - Problem editing H.265 and converted H.264 Hero 6 Material

  • November 13, 2017
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Hey everyone,

I never had any problems working with 4K30 or 1080/120 material using this configuration:

32GB DDR3-1866 DIMM

AMD FX-8350 8x 4.00GHz

750 Watt Inter-Tech Combat Power        

6144MB Gainward GeForce GTX 1060

Gigabyte GA-970A-DS3P AMD 970 So.AM3+ Dual Channel DDR3

2 TD HDD, 500 Gb SSD       

Since I got Hero6 and started shooting in 4k60/1080p240 I was not able to import

any data into CS6. Ok, I use Windows 7 and maybe an upgrade to CC and Windows 10 would be a solution,

but I would like to find a solution working with CS6 and Win7:

I used handbrake to convert H.265 to H.264 and the import worked fine, but

it is ultra laggy and almost impossible to edit the footage in a proper way.

Tried downsizing the footage to 40,20,10 Mbit without any differences.

Maybe my CPU is the problem (it raises up to 80-95% when trying to play converted footage).

Do I need a new computer (I think 8x4,7Ghz is the limit for my mainboard)

or maybe just a new CPU or and ideas how convert H.265 in an other way?

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2 replies

John T Smith
Community Expert
Community Expert
November 14, 2017

What is a hero6? Is that a Go Pro camera?

If yes, go to the Go Pro site and find THEIR converter... to, I think, Cineform

Legend
November 14, 2017

That Cineform converter came with the now-discontinued GoPro Studio product. Sadly, its "replacement" product, Quik, no longer includes the converter, starting with version 2.4 of that program. This is because GoPro Studio (which included the encoder) is now EOL'd (End-Of-Life'd). And although GoPro will continue to make updates to its Cineform encoder, its own software products will no longer include it (but instead, the codec will be "licensed" to third-party software companies such as Adobe, which incorporated the encoder in later versions of its Premiere Pro CC software but not in CS6).

Ann Bens
Community Expert
Community Expert
November 13, 2017

CS6 does not support H.265.

If you cpu is up to 80-95% it proofs it cannot handle the footage.

Actual it is somewhat underpowered.

AnotherPerspective
Participant
November 14, 2017

Would an update from 8x4,0Gb to 8x4,7Gb make sense or just wasted money? Any other workaround like converting raw data to ???