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Eric_Daoust
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Jul 24, 2012 3:43 PM UTC
Question

Encore always transcodes my x264 compressed files

Hi everyone. I'm about to go crazy working on my first Blu-Ray disc! I work on a Mac Pro using Encore CS6 on Mac OS X 10.6.8. I am looking to use an AVC/H.264 encoded file by the x264 compression engine, which is supposed to be the best out there. For this, I have tried using FFmpegX and Handbrake with regular settings (1920x1080p, 23,976fps, 16:9, constant quality) starting from an Uncompressed 10-bit output from my Premiere timeline.

I am very satisfied by the compressed H264 outpout file, but no matter which application I use and the different configurations (tried different profiles inside Handbrake), everytime I import the  file, Encore sees it as a file that has to be Transcoded again. And of course you can imagine how the result looks like when an h264 file is encoded twice...

I have tried reading every possible forum on the subject of H264 Blu-Ray compatible files... without any success. I desperately need your help!

I have even tried pointing to the "encoded" file on my hard drive by telling Encore it has been encoded already, but the compilation of my Blu-Ray fails everytime when I does this.

I have succeeded once to create a file with Handbrake that is "sometimes" accepted in Encore (happened twice, I think), but it's bitrate was too risky to my taste for compatibility (38mbps) and therefore was only a test. I have no idea why this one worked...

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PMK3
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Jul 27, 2012 11:29 AM UTC

Eric_Daoust wrote:

I have tried reading every possible forum on the subject of H264 Blu-Ray compatible files... without any success. I desperately need your help!

Hi Eric,

Can you download and try the sample pmk3.264 in encore. The sample can be downloaded from here: http://hem.bredband.net/b131706/

This sample is blu-ray compliant and works perfectly with Sony DVD Architect Pro 5. but I need to know if it also work with encore.

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Eric_DaoustAuthor
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Jul 27, 2012 11:57 AM UTC

Hi PMK3! Your file works perfectly fine. When imported, it says "Do not transcode" in Encore. Now please allow me to ask a way to encode a file like this with x264 on mac?

I've also tried compiling x264 yesterday on my mac, but I'm such a newbie I couldn't add mp4 support to it. I've installed Xcode, then Mac Ports, then the basic tools. But I would probably require more guidance on install it properly.

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excited_Genie16B8
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Jul 24, 2012 5:16 PM UTC

Upload a small sample so others can test.

http://www.depositfiles.com/en/

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Eric_DaoustAuthor
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Jul 25, 2012 12:17 PM UTC

Hi Jim. I'll try to compress a small exceprt tommorow. You mean the final H264 file that isn't accepted by Encore, right?

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tjh65
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Jul 25, 2012 8:31 PM UTC

Hi Eric

Join the club. I have spent over a week now trying to resolve this problem without success. I have found that it  fails to get the correct aspect ratio or recognise the correct interlace with 1440x1080i25 HDV video. As you probably know Encore is riddled with bugs but I have been kooking for a work around. The built in mainconcept encoder does work but is greatly inferior to x264. There is a plugin called x264pro which seems to work with progressive video. I have been testing this and found there is a bug with interlaced video which they are fixing now. I have done alot of web searching without success.

Regards Trevor

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