Free tutorial: How to encode NICE h.264 from premiere pro (and other NLE'S)

t-h-e-w-h-o

t-h-e-w-h-o

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Well, a few people around this joint have been asking me "hey dude, how did you encode that 720P HD H264.mov file?, it looked great"

well, this is my EASY way (not involving gordian knott and vdub etc), this one involves one FREE plugin and one PAY encoding program. However, it gets the job done. Also, the pay program offers a free 30 day trial. So why not test it out right?

Hopefully this is helpful. Im not a pro tutorial maker. Let me know what you think.

PS: I had to voice it over afterwards because i THOUGHT my mic was one the first time but it wasnt. heh.

This one is a little scatter-brained, but hey, thats why we have a rewind feature ;)

link:
http://www.dvxhost.com/tutorial/h264hd/H264HD.html

Also to see the other tutorial's i have made pertaining to HD, visit http://www.dvxhost.com/tutorial/

and browse around.
 
Excellent! Entertaining! Informative! What more can I say but Thanks!? :thumbup:

EDIT:
Quick Question: Did you use the Adobe HDV preset for the project in your tutorial?
 
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Kirock7 said:
Excellent! Entertaining! Informative! What more can I say but Thanks!? :thumbup:

EDIT:
Quick Question: Did you use the Adobe HDV preset for the project in your tutorial?
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Thanks guys and No, i did not use the HDV preset, i shoot with a canon A1 at 24F and used the canon A1 presets. Apreciate all the good words, for some reason i felt like i was doing something wrong with the final aspect ratio in tmpegnc, although it looks fine, my gut tell's me theres something im missing. If thats the case and i end up figuring it out, ill update it. :)
 
^^ as long as the pixel aspect ratio was 1:1 and ur resolution was 1280x720 it is perfect. (im pretty sure it was)
 
YauYin said:
^^ as long as the pixel aspect ratio was 1:1 and ur resolution was 1280x720 it is perfect. (im pretty sure it was)
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yes, for 1280x720 it is, however, when i did my personal smaller rez for that friend i was talking about i made it 720x576 and im not sure if it was.
 
Very nice, thanks!
Do you know if there´s a frameserver version for the Mac working with FCP, creating a fake .mov?
Rendering out uncompressed first is really annoying and timeconsuming, your workflow makes way more sense...
And could I do the encoding on a different machine, thus being able to continue editing while encoding?
 
t-h-e-w-h-o said:
yes, for 1280x720 it is, however, when i did my personal smaller rez for that friend i was talking about i made it 720x576 and im not sure if it was.
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720x576 is for pal, i think it was but i cannot recall if u set the pixel aspect ratio to 1.5 (which u would for pal widescreen pal if i recall correctly)
 
Spartacus said:
Very nice, thanks!
Do you know if there´s a frameserver version for the Mac working with FCP, creating a fake .mov?
Rendering out uncompressed first is really annoying and timeconsuming, your workflow makes way more sense...
And could I do the encoding on a different machine, thus being able to continue editing while encoding?
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i will search for a nice FCP frameserver, one MUST be out there. And you could always have ALL the raw data on a removable drive, or upload it across your network to another machine enabling you to continue editing on your current machine. However, you cant edit THE SAME PROJECT while frameserving, OR ELSE you wouldent be able to encode.... if that makes sense

And yeah, i set the wrong aspect ratio on my personal thing, but my tutorial for 720P is still the valid way.

Normally i use much more professional (and free) tools, so when i get time to make a HUGE tutorial on how to do it with free/better tools i will. But that is much more complex, this way was good for the user with basic know-how.
 
Nice work. Very good quickie tutorial.

Have you tried encoding h.264 with MPEG Streamclip? At least on the Mac version, you can specify a 2 pass encode with a scale of 0 to 100% quality. Anyone know if the PC version works the same way?
 
never gets old! that dvxhost stuff. :) thanks for tute bro! now actually i can encode to h264. no worries about the delay, we all have lives. :)

thanks,

d3
 
t-h-e-w-h-o said:
i will search for a nice FCP frameserver, one MUST be out there. And you could always have ALL the raw data on a removable drive, or upload it across your network to another machine enabling you to continue editing on your current machine. However, you cant edit THE SAME PROJECT while frameserving, OR ELSE you wouldent be able to encode.... if that makes sense
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But do I have to leave open the editing app with the project I´m encoding?
Or is it OK to just leave open the sequence I´m wanting to encode, start rendering via GigLan on another box and continue editing a NEW sequence...?
Like background encoding?
Further, could I do this with several sequences rendering on different boxes?
I only now "renderfarming" different frames from the same project on different computers, but this should be possible too, using slower/older boxes for the encoding, while the fastest box is used for editing - without having to render uncompressed intermediates first...
 
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Spartacus said:
But do I have to leave open the editing app with the project I´m encoding?
Or is it OK to just leave open the sequence I´m wanting to encode, start rendering via GigLan on another box and continue editing a NEW sequence...?
Like background encoding?
Further, could I do this with several sequences rendering on different boxes?
I only now "renderfarming" different frames from the same project on different computers, but this should be possible too, using slower/older boxes for the encoding, while the fastest box is used for editing - without having to render uncompressed intermediates first...
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no matter what the NLE with the main project must be open while encoding. In debugmode frameserver there is a "network frameserv" option which lets your stream over your lan to multiple boxes on the network for a faster encode.

Elton Nice work. Very good quickie tutorial.

Have you tried encoding h.264 with MPEG Streamclip? At least on the Mac version, you can specify a 2 pass encode with a scale of 0 to 100% quality. Anyone know if the PC version works the same way?
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tmpgenc doesnt allow for that with h264, however the over program "gordian knott" i use does. (this is much more diffacult though, and probably too diffacult for most users unless they really want to spend a good hour+ just following me then more time learning it)
 
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