Video Formats

[Bob Howes]

Just a quick question...

Is there a list of video formats accepted by SCS11? The next show I'm doing involves some video projection and I got lazy yesterday and tried to use the H.264 version I'd made to post on Youtube to get the director's approval of my edit. Simply loading the cue reproduced video without a problem but I couldn't find a setting to get audio via SCS.

It wasn't a problem--WMV and AVI both play fine with audio (and I can create almost any format with my Adobe Media Encoder) but I'm curious whether I was doing something wrong or if I'd need to install that 3rd party codec you mention in the warning menu.

[jmgordon]

Have you checked all the details in the Help file - 'Production Properties - Video Audio Devices' ?

[Buyaicia]

Hi Bob,
There is no special audio for video settings other than the channel output assignment in production properties, and this setup is common for all video formats.

I should think the video file you uploaded to youtube is an MP4 container.
H.264 is the video codec. You should check which audio codec is used.

There was video limits in old scs releases.
If your release is previous than 11.6.0 try to install ffdshow filters as recomended in the help file.
(https://sourceforge.net/projects/ffdsho ... 0releases/)
Download the proper release depending which SCS you have (win32 or win64)

Hope this help,
Lluís

[Mike Daniell]

Here are some details in addition to the above info.

SCS internally passes the following 'patterns' to the open file requester for video/image cues:

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"Video/Image Files|*.avi;*.wmv;*.asf;*.mpeg;*.mpg;*.mp4;*.mov;*.divx;*.mkv;*.flv;*.f4v;*.f4p;*.f4a;*.f4b;*.3gp;*.3g2;*.mts;*m2ts;*.vob;*.bmp;*.jpg;*.jpeg;*.jp2;*.jpx;*.png" +
"|Windows Video Files (*.avi, *.wmv, *.asf)" +
"|Movie Files (*.mpeg, *.mpg)" +
"|MPEG-4 Files (*.mp4)" +
"|Mov Files (*.mov)" +
"|DivX Files (*.divx)" +
"|Matroska Video Files (*.mkv)" +
"|Flash Video Files (*.flv, *.f4v, *.f4p, *.f4a, *.f4b)" +
"|3GPP/3GPP2 Files (*.3gp, *.3g2)" +
"|MPEG-2 Transport Stream (*.mts, *.m2ts)" +
"|Video Object Files (*.vob)" +
"|Image Files (*.bmp, *.jpg, *.jpeg, *.jp2, *.jpx, *.png)" +
"|All Files (*.*)"

However, the video files that you can actually play successfully will depend on the installed video codecs. We have had most success with LAVFilters which is included (with permission) as an option when you download the latest version of SCS.