Edited Clips won't play back

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I am using Edius 6.01 version and when I edit clips , everything is fine,export to file, etc. Now when I try to play back the clips in VLC I get the following message "VLC does not support the audio or video format 'CUVC' ". The clips will play in badly in Windows media player, by badly I mean a lot of shaking and stopping, in other words they don't play smoothly. I also get a 'pillar box' effect on the clips after they come out of Edius. I've looked at my project settings and I'm not sure if I am overlooking something. The Clips are HD AVCHD 1920 x 1080 and PAL format. Thanks

[GrassValley_SL]

Use another player Media Player Classic

http://mpc-hc.org/

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Downloaded Media Player Classic, still got the same problem, comes up with the "CUVC". So now I'm guessing it's not the VLC or MPC, but EDIUS, as the un-edited clips play no problem , it's only when I've edited them and put titles on etc that they won't play.

[CentralEurope]

everything is fine,export to file, etc

and the "exported" file makes the problems ??

please give us more info about your PC (big NLE workstation or small notebook)
please give us more info about your file => go to: http://mediainfo.sourceforge.net/
load down the (free) MediaInfo .... install it ... open the the "exported" file with MediaInfo

go to "View" ... set it to "Text" ....copy the infos from this view ... and paste it in your next replay
like the following example from a HQ-file

General
Complete name : F:\xyxyxyxyxyx_2009_HQ-Avi\20090521071640.avi
Format : AVI
Format/Info : Audio Video Interleave
Format profile : OpenDML
File size : 103 GiB
Duration : 1h 28mn
Overall bit rate : 167 Mbps

Video
ID : 0
Format : Canopus HQ
Codec ID : CUVC
Codec ID/Info : Canopus HQ
Duration : 1h 28mn
Bit rate : 165 Mbps
Width : 1 920 pixels
Height : 1 080 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate : 25.000 fps
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 3.181
Stream size : 102 GiB (99%)

Audio
ID : 1
Format : PCM
Format settings, Endianness : Little
Format settings, Sign : Signed
Codec ID : 1
Duration : 1h 28mn
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 1 536 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Bit depth : 16 bits
Stream size : 972 MiB (1%)
Alignment : Aligned on interleaves
Interleave, duration : 40 ms (1.00 video frame)

[Thor]

snatch media: You might want to put your workstation specifications in your signature block. It may help in diagnosing the problem.

I have trouble playing HD clips in Windows Media on one of my computers, (not listed below) but it is old and has some performance issues with hardware.

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General
Complete name : C:\UxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxGeneral
Complete name : C:\Users\Janus\Documents\student walk\masie 3 sequence.avi
Format : AVI
Format/Info : Audio Video Interleave
File size : 1.20 GiB
Duration : 2mn 7s
Overall bit rate : 80.8 Mbps

Video
ID : 0
Format : Canopus HQ
Codec ID : CUVC
Codec ID/Info : Canopus HQ
Duration : 2mn 7s
Bit rate : 79.3 Mbps
Width : 1 920 pixels
Height : 1 080 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate : 29.970 fps
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 1.275
Stream size : 1.18 GiB (98%)

Audio
ID : 1
Format : PCM
Format settings, Endianness : Little
Format settings, Sign : Signed
Codec ID : 1
Duration : 2mn 7s
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 1 536 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Bit depth : 16 bits
Stream size : 23.4 MiB (2%)
Alignment : Aligned on interleaves
Interleave, duration : 300 ms (8.98 video frames)
sequence.avi
Format : AVI
Format/Info : Audio Video Interleave
File size : 1.20 GiB
Duration : 2mn 7s
Overall bit rate : 80.8 Mbps

Video
ID : 0
Format : Canopus HQ
Codec ID : CUVC
Codec ID/Info : Canopus HQ
Duration : 2mn 7s
Bit rate : 79.3 Mbps
Width : 1 920 pixels
Height : 1 080 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate : 29.970 fps
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 1.275
Stream size : 1.18 GiB (98%)

Audio
ID : 1
Format : PCM
Format settings, Endianness : Little
Format settings, Sign : Signed
Codec ID : 1
Duration : 2mn 7s
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 1 536 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Bit depth : 16 bits
Stream size : 23.4 MiB (2%)
Alignment : Aligned on interleaves
Interleave, duration : 300 ms (8.98 video frames)

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Complete name : C:\UxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxGeneral
Complete name : C:\Users\Janus\Documents\student walk\xxxxxx sequence.avi
Format : AVI
Format/Info : Audio Video Interleave
File size : 1.20 GiB
Duration : 2mn 7s
Overall bit rate : 80.8 Mbps

Video
ID : 0
Format : Canopus HQ
Codec ID : CUVC
Codec ID/Info : Canopus HQ
Duration : 2mn 7s
Bit rate : 79.3 Mbps
Width : 1 920 pixels
Height : 1 080 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate : 29.970 fps
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 1.275
Stream size : 1.18 GiB (98%)

Audio
ID : 1
Format : PCM
Format settings, Endianness : Little
Format settings, Sign : Signed
Codec ID : 1
Duration : 2mn 7s
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 1 536 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Bit depth : 16 bits
Stream size : 23.4 MiB (2%)
Alignment : Aligned on interleaves
Interleave, duration : 300 ms (8.98 video frames)
sequence.avi
Format : AVI
Format/Info : Audio Video Interleave
File size : 1.20 GiB
Duration : 2mn 7s
Overall bit rate : 80.8 Mbps

Video
ID : 0
Format : Canopus HQ
Codec ID : CUVC
Codec ID/Info : Canopus HQ
Duration : 2mn 7s
Bit rate : 79.3 Mbps
Width : 1 920 pixels
Height : 1 080 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate : 29.970 fps
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 1.275
Stream size : 1.18 GiB (98%)

Audio
ID : 1
Format : PCM
Format settings, Endianness : Little
Format settings, Sign : Signed
Codec ID : 1
Duration : 2mn 7s
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 1 536 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Bit depth : 16 bits
Stream size : 23.4 MiB (2%)
Alignment : Aligned on interleaves
Interleave, duration : 300 ms (8.98 video frames)

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General
Complete name : C:\xxxxxxxxxxxxx\rehearsals.avi
Format : AVI
Format/Info : Audio Video Interleave
File size : 326 MiB
Duration : 27s 294ms
Overall bit rate : 100 Mbps

Video
ID : 0
Format : Canopus HQ
Codec ID : CUVC
Codec ID/Info : Canopus HQ
Duration : 27s 294ms
Bit rate : 98.7 Mbps
Width : 1 920 pixels
Height : 1 080 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate : 29.970 fps
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 1.588
Stream size : 321 MiB (98%)

Audio
ID : 1
Format : PCM
Format settings, Endianness : Little
Format settings, Sign : Signed
Codec ID : 1
Duration : 27s 294ms
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 1 536 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Bit depth : 16 bits
Stream size : 5.00 MiB (2%)
Alignment : Aligned on interleaves
Interleave, duration : 300 ms (8.99 video frames)

[tingsern]

About that PC that gave you problems - does it have the Canopus codec installed? Is the PC you got problems on the same PC that has EDIUS installed on it?

[John Hooper]

Is the frame rate the problem?

You say PAL but you are using 29.97

Also you might want to update to Edius 6.08, if you are using 6.01

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Tried frame rate for PAL, have still got problem VLC does not recognize it, will play the audio, but that 's it. The files will play in media player, now getting fed up don't want to revert to Premiere Pro.

[antonsvideo]

why are you trying to play Canopus AVI files in media players?

Windows Media Player is incorrectly preset by Microsoft to play all avi files with lower field first, but Canopus files are correctly upper field first, so they will flicker in media player

if you want flicker free playback in media players, export to mpeg2 HD (very fast) or Windows Media HD

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why are you trying to play Canopus AVI files in media players?

Windows Media Player is incorrectly preset by Microsoft to play all avi files with lower field first, but Canopus files are correctly upper field first, so they will flicker in media player

if you want flicker free playback in media players, export to mpeg2 HD (very fast) or Windows Media HD

Well, it's because my files won't play in VLC media player which normally plays anything that you put in it. I'm not technical 'upper fields' and 'lower fields'. Yest clips play no problem before I edit in Edius, so I don't know. I did think it may have something to do with me putting a watermark on the clip before exporting to 'print to file'.

[GrassValley_SL]

VLC will not play them but the player I pointed you to in post number 2 always plays them if:
1 it is installed on a machine with EDIUS
2 It is installed on a machine without EDIUS, on which the codec pack is installed.
note: the free codec pack should not be installed on a machine with EDIUS as EDIUS installs its own canopus codec pack.
We are at post 14 now.......

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Have sorted it, VLC will play if rendered first too suitable format when exporting. I was exporting without rendering . Thanks for advice guys much appreciated.