xVideo problems
Posted: Sat Dec 17, 2011 5:28 am
Although I’m very pleased with SCS10, really an outstanding product, but I’m facing some problems when I want to fade in/out video’s.
I shoot my video’s using the Sony HDV 1080i Z5 camera and edit in Adobe Premiere Pro and for more effects I use Adobe After Effects. I also make video’s from scratch using After Effects.
Render settings in After Effects are Lossless with frame size 1920x1080. Then I convert the AVI-video using NCH Prism Video Converter (thanks for the tip!) with the AVI-H264(native)-codec which gives me very good results; no quality loss whatsoever.
Footage I render in mpg. I found out that xVideo in SCS10 can’t fade in/out interlaced video’s (upper/lower fields first) so I render them Progressive. You also have to make sure that you’ve got the frame size correct (ratio 4:3/16:9). 1024x576 will play, 1023x576 will not play in SCS10, although the video will play problem less in Windows Media Player. So keep your eye on the numbers.
On my studio-computer (Windows7) I have no problems with mpeg- or AVI(H264(native)- files. But when I transfer them to our new Laptop (Intel I5, 4Gb memory; windows7) the video’s will not fade in/out (problem of the shrinking video during the fade). Installing the K-Lite codec pack did not bring the solution. Neither did installing the Haali Matroska Splitter.
On our old laptop everything worked fine. I only needed a codec to play MPEG-video’s so I installed the K-Lite codec pack with the result that I could play MPEG-files, but no more fade in/outs in SCS10!
Uninstalling the K-Lite codec pack gave me back the fade possibility.
What does the K-Lite codec pack changes? What checkbox do I need to tick or untick? Any glues?
But still no fade possibilities on my new laptop. Converting everything into wmv-files solves the problem, but I can’t use wmv because of the dramatic loss in picture quality. So for me that’s not a satisfying solution.
In the SCS10-helpfile it is said that working with AVI or wmv should do the trick. What it doesn’t say is which codec the AVI-files should be. In NCH Prism Video Converter you can choose a number (DVPal (directshow) will not work).
Where I’m I going wrong? Why won’t it work on my laptop? Is my workflow not in order? I sincerely hope that you or whoever could help me out here.
We have a big production coming up and the only thing I can do now is unmount our big studio-computer and take that under me arm to the theatre….
Keep up the good work!
Ron Akkerman; RRA Productions, The Netherlands
I shoot my video’s using the Sony HDV 1080i Z5 camera and edit in Adobe Premiere Pro and for more effects I use Adobe After Effects. I also make video’s from scratch using After Effects.
Render settings in After Effects are Lossless with frame size 1920x1080. Then I convert the AVI-video using NCH Prism Video Converter (thanks for the tip!) with the AVI-H264(native)-codec which gives me very good results; no quality loss whatsoever.
Footage I render in mpg. I found out that xVideo in SCS10 can’t fade in/out interlaced video’s (upper/lower fields first) so I render them Progressive. You also have to make sure that you’ve got the frame size correct (ratio 4:3/16:9). 1024x576 will play, 1023x576 will not play in SCS10, although the video will play problem less in Windows Media Player. So keep your eye on the numbers.
On my studio-computer (Windows7) I have no problems with mpeg- or AVI(H264(native)- files. But when I transfer them to our new Laptop (Intel I5, 4Gb memory; windows7) the video’s will not fade in/out (problem of the shrinking video during the fade). Installing the K-Lite codec pack did not bring the solution. Neither did installing the Haali Matroska Splitter.
On our old laptop everything worked fine. I only needed a codec to play MPEG-video’s so I installed the K-Lite codec pack with the result that I could play MPEG-files, but no more fade in/outs in SCS10!
Uninstalling the K-Lite codec pack gave me back the fade possibility.
What does the K-Lite codec pack changes? What checkbox do I need to tick or untick? Any glues?
But still no fade possibilities on my new laptop. Converting everything into wmv-files solves the problem, but I can’t use wmv because of the dramatic loss in picture quality. So for me that’s not a satisfying solution.
In the SCS10-helpfile it is said that working with AVI or wmv should do the trick. What it doesn’t say is which codec the AVI-files should be. In NCH Prism Video Converter you can choose a number (DVPal (directshow) will not work).
Where I’m I going wrong? Why won’t it work on my laptop? Is my workflow not in order? I sincerely hope that you or whoever could help me out here.
We have a big production coming up and the only thing I can do now is unmount our big studio-computer and take that under me arm to the theatre….
Keep up the good work!
Ron Akkerman; RRA Productions, The Netherlands