TMPGEnc Movie Plug-in AVC for EDIUS Pro 7

[antonsvideo]

Anton, I don't know what you refer to, I see a list of generic or specific templates, the one I have been using is "Blu-ray (BDMV, PAL) - H.264/AVC", "Blu-ray standard" (blah, blah).

Since this one is for PAL there are no PAL/NTSC settings in it's advanced page. Perhaps you refer to the "H264/AVC" template as the default? This one needs setting to PAL or NTSC, hopefully this one can be edited and saved as a legal Blu-ray template but with correct colours.

yes, I meant the H264/AVC

[Claire]

I deleted this until later

[Claire]

did you go to advanced settings of the default template?

by default, the template is always set to NTSC in advanced, change it to Pal and it should be fine

Anton, I don't know what you refer to, I see a list of generic or specific templates, the one I have been using is "Blu-ray (BDMV, PAL) - H.264/AVC", "Blu-ray standard" (blah, blah).

Since this one is for PAL there are no PAL/NTSC settings in it's advanced page. Perhaps you refer to the "H264/AVC" template as the default? This one needs setting to PAL or NTSC, hopefully this one can be edited and saved as a legal Blu-ray template but with correct colours.

[Hawke]

Hawk, I am pleased you got the FCB working, it has it's own hardware encoder so you may not have used the X.264 encoder yet, I suggest you try it when you need the finest possible quality.

I had a breakthrough myself tonight, the problem I had trying to get Disc Burner to use the plugin's x.264 files to folders or disc are behind me now.

The solution? I installed EDIUS_7.21_1530_Updater.exe

It's now working properly!!! So first a cheer for me... cos I need it, HURRAY! :) Seems Disc Burner WAS BROKEN!!!...

I had already updated to EDIUS_7.21_1530 so that was the reason it worked for me. My main interest was to utilize FCB as I am only using an i7 3.2GHz CPU, FCB reduces the time to encode to 1/3rd. I will try the straight X.264 encoder, I did use it initially before finding the Spurs drop-down but it did take 3 times as long.

[antonsvideo]

I believe it only encodes timelines and sequences and seemingly not when you use the Add File button (movie tab), which makes sense since it looks for files such as mpeg and vob.

after further testing, I found that it fails if loading Blu-ray compliant mpeg2 HD program stream and you choose mpeg2 Blu-ray in disk burner

diskburner will re-encode the file regardless

[antonsvideo]

did you go to advanced settings of the default template?

by default, the template is always set to NTSC in advanced, change it to Pal and it should be fine

[Claire]

Hawk, I am pleased you got the FCB working, it has it's own hardware encoder so you may not have used the X.264 encoder yet, I suggest you try it when you need the finest possible quality.

I had a breakthrough myself tonight, the problem I had trying to get Disc Burner to use the plugin's x.264 files to folders or disc are behind me now.

The solution? I installed EDIUS_7.21_1530_Updater.exe

It's now working properly!!! So first a cheer for me... cos I need it, HURRAY! :) Seems Disc Burner WAS BROKEN!!!

Now if only TMPGEnc fix those wrong colours in the standard template so I don't have to struggle and make my own from the generic ones, if they do this I will buy it since for sure it's very fast indeed to now be able to author with beautiful X.264 direct to folders and then to a disc, all direct from the Edius timeline. Fantastic stuff when it all works...

[Hawke]

Claire - As I reported earlier, after getting over my finger trouble! I Called up a 15 minute 1920x1080i program, exported from the timeline via the plug-in using FCB placed the resulting file in Edius Disc Burner via the add file button, set a simple menu and pressed the go button. Disc Burner did not re-code producing a working BD in a little over 2 minutes complete with animated menu.

[Claire]

I did not use menus, so maybe that's why it worked for me.

Correct, I have done many tests and found that it's when a menu is added in Disc Burner that things go wrong.

The plug-in's std template "Blue-ray (BDMV, PAL) - H.264/avc" when used to export an Edius 50i timeline is flawed. In addition to producing incorrect colours it also has motion stutter problems unless written to disc from Disc Burner without a menu.

Exception is with a 24p project where if I manually change the menu frame rate in Disc Burner from auto to 24p motion is then fine but of course still has incorrect colors.

In my many attempts with 25fps I have continuously inspected the m2ts files in Disc Burners output folders and sometimes found that while the movie file is correct at 25fps, the menu file is only 24 despite being on auto! I feel sure this is to do with the menu frame rate selector in Disc Burner only having two options, either auto or 24.

What I would like to know, since I cannot select 25, is the auto working when files are added rather than just letting Edius export mpeg from the timeline?

[antonsvideo]

I exported a Blu-ray compliant m2ts using the built in EDIUS exporter and loaded it as a file in Disk Burner

there was no option to tell the Disk burner not to re-encode, but it did not re-encode

so your assumption was correct

[antonsvideo]

hmmm, I have to try that in order to believe it

[Claire]

I believe it only encodes timelines and sequences and seemingly not when you use the Add File button (movie tab), which makes sense since it looks for files such as mpeg and vob.

[antonsvideo]

I am unaware of the fact that disk burner can compile without re-encoding

possibly due to the fact that I avoid disk burner

[Claire]

Hello Anton,

Well, the plug-in makes the avc files which if it worked Disc Burner could author them into a simple menu Blu-ray disc. It does not attempt to recode them.

[antonsvideo]

why would you use the Tmpg encoded footage as a source for disk burner? the disk burner will re-encode it again, in other words you waste time

or are you making a complete BDMV folder structure and only using the disk burner to burn?