Anyone having problems with h264 conforms from RedCine-X?

[Paul J Steinberg]

I had to cook up some proxies for a client and used the h264 Quicktime codec out of RedCine-X 356. When I play them back in the Quicktime player they play back fine but if I bring them into Premiere CS5 they are missing audio and there is what I can only describe as digital video breakup. Using the Avid DNxHD codec for Quicktimes works great but the files are much bigger.

Anyone else have these problems with h264?

 

[Magnus Tondevold]

Hi Paul,

Im having issues with both Preimere Pro and After Effects CS5 on a mac Pro. Its simply hangs upon importing the files. Im not sure if this is related to your issue or if its a separate problem.

//M

 

[Paul J Steinberg]

I have had it choke and crash when importing the h264 quicktimes. Any Adobe insight why Quicktime player has no problems but Premiere is missing audio and displays harsh video artifacts?

 

[Tom.Wong]

have you tried a more recent version of RCX?

 

[David McGavran]

I had to cook up some proxies for a client and used the h264 Quicktime codec out of RedCine-X 356. When I play them back in the Quicktime player they play back fine but if I bring them into Premiere CS5 they are missing audio and there is what I can only describe as digital video breakup. Using the Avid DNxHD codec for Quicktimes works great but the files are much bigger.

Anyone else have these problems with h264?

Can you give me a sample or a step by step way to create this problem? We don't use Quicktime to decode h.264 when possible. The reason is that QT decode for h.264 is either wrong via hardware decode (QT X) or slow via 32 bit decodes. Not to mention they add noise or something to the decode that is not in the original h.264 file. So we do it with other tech. So we need to see the file.

Cheers

Dave

 

[Paul J Steinberg]

Thanks David, here are two clips exported out of RedCine-X 452 with two channels of embedded audio.

Example 1.
H264 Quicktime
http://www.paulsteinberg.tv/video/Personal_Work/H264/A001_C003_0303C4.mov


Example 2
DNxHD Quicktime
http://www.paulsteinberg.tv/video/Personal_Work/DNxHD/A001_C003_0303C4.mov


Example 1 plays back fine in QT Player, video plays back fine in Windows Media Player but the audio is just white noise and plays back with broken video and no audio in Premiere CS5.

Example 2 plays back fine anywhere.

1¢ for your thoughts.

 

[David McGavran]

I tested the first one and it plays video fine in 5.5 but no audio. I will send these files to testing to have them look at them in 5.5 and write an audio bug and in 5.0 to see about any crashes...

Thanks!

Dave

 

[Paul J Steinberg]

Thanks Dave. Both files play back a-ok in Quicktime player. In PP CS5.0.3 the h264's video keeps breaking up and you see (uh, hear) that the sound is lost. DNxHD plays back a-ok and h264 files out of a DSLR camera also play back ok. Only h264 QT's out of RedCine-X seem to cause a problem.

 

[Paul J Steinberg]

Hey Dave, any news on the RCX h264 exports?

 

[David McGavran]

Hey Dave, any news on the RCX h264 exports?

We have a bug open to get the audio working in these.

Cheers

Dave