I have tried consistently importing and re-importing, changing file names, moving where files are located, or destined, I have re-encoded the film twice today and still getting the same error code, it would seem adobe no longer support this software fully, how do I go forward here? I have a client waiting on a Blu-ray disc of their wedding.
A great point Neil. I pointed out the ampersand in post 3, and I don't think we ever heard how that poster fared.
But in the many tests that followed, simple, legal filenames have a problem. I can find no difference (e.g. MediaInfo) between a 2017 file that works, and a 2018/19 file that does not.
And fascinating that Win 7 compatibility works.
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A great point Neil. I pointed out the ampersand in post 3, and I don't think we ever heard how that poster fared.
But in the many tests that followed, simple, legal filenames have a problem. I can find no difference (e.g. MediaInfo) between a 2017 file that works, and a 2018/19 file that does not.
And fascinating that Win 7 compatibility works.
Fascinating - and I suspect bloody infuriating for those affected.
There are 2 other solutions I can give though, both of which involve spending money unfortunately.
1 - x264 Pro plugin.
2 - TMPGEnc 264 encoder plugin
Whilst spending money to work round a bug in the AME is not ideal, it does have the serious advantages of
A - working, and
B - producing a far superior output compared to the AME Stock codec.
Both these plugins are built around the same encoder, and for the computer literate amongst us you can always try writing your own from the source files at the linked location.
I use both of the encoders above for all projects we do. Sometimes it is the x264 Pro that gives the superior result, sometimes it is the TMPGEnc version - strange huh? It just goes to show that encoding is a skill and an art all of it's own & in the heyday of DVD large authoring houses used to employ specialist encodists - that was all they did, all day long. Encode the final assets. Why? simply put because there is far more to getting the best looking final assets than simply clicking through presets - you really do need to understand how they work and more importantly how to tune the results and it takes time.
We seem to live in an age where everyone is always in such a hurry all the time, but some things cannot & should not be rushed and authoring is one of them.
Adobe really do need to fix their bugs, although sadly this no longer seems to be a priority for them as they seem to regard physical media - and the people who work in the field - as an embarrassing anachronism in a streaming age. Future generations will call this worse than short-sighted once the streamers hold the strings, content gets sanitized and anything that offends the progressive liberal ideals is immediately banned & removed from the platform. Physical media is important and Adobe should keep sight of this. It is all about the freedom to watch what I want, when I want to do it and not to be restricted to the stuff Netflix & Amazon think I should be allowed to see - and believe me that is where all this will end up.
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