Produce - H.264 AVC profiles missing

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Produce - H.264 AVC profiles missing - please advice

Lineta

Newbie Joined: Dec 23, 2012 14:02 Messages: 1 Offline

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Dec 23, 2012 14:15

Hello,

My favorite production format is AVC H.264 1080 50i or 50p, I have produced several projects with it - best result for me, I mean best video quality and really fast production time (1-2 hours for 1 hour project). The reason probably is that my Canon Legria HF M41 is recording in this format.

But one day our of no where the only option in <Produce - H.264AVC - Profile name/quality> I have is AVCHD 720 x 576/50i, all previously available formats have disappeared. I tried to create my own 1080 / 50 p - but then producing takes like 8 hours for 1 hour project.
Any suggestions what could have caused that, how can I fix that, could it be that some of the updates have caused this?

Thank You

Linet

Mergen

Newbie Joined: Nov 20, 2012 23:44 Messages: 20 Offline

Dec 23, 2012 23:42

Some suggestions:

1) Have you downloaded & installed the latest patch (version 2231)? Some members reported problems relating to their graphic card drivers. Not sure whether this might relate to you. But worth patching & trying.

2) Attach a short excerpt of your video clip so that other members can try to produce & see if they face the same problem. Generate & attach a dxdiag text file so that other members can analyze if a problem occurred with your hardware. Download & install a free software MediaInfo which generates a detailed breakdown of your video properties. Post a text file of the results so that other members can analyze and help you.

3) Do a clean uninstall and reinstall PowerDirector software.

By the way, my camera is similar to yours - M400. Produce MP4 instead of AVC H.264. Use 24mbps (or the same recording mode bitrate you use in camera), 1080p 50p/50i High Profile. Make sure you disable/uncheck hardware acceleration, SVRT and fast encoding. Depend solely on software rendering (CPU intensive). Under Preferences, enable/check removal of artifacts using SSE4. Under Produce Profile Details, set Best Quality 6. Enable/check deblocking option. The picture is much better, at just slightly larger file size (~1Gb more). Rendering time is around the same as AVC H.264, maybe 30 mins more. I compare MP4 vs AVC H.264, and the former shows better detail and colour contrast. Maybe because MP4 use less compression.

But it's just my opinion. One man's beauty is another man's witch. So try MP4 and see if you like the result.

Be warned: Video files at 1080 50p/60p likely cannot be played via most external media players. They either reject the file or down convert to 24p/25p/30p. The playback quality is not so good, especially if you have fast moving scenes. If you want to watch on HDTV, have to play via computer (use HDTV's Full HD screen resolution) and connect via HDMI. 1080 50p is so much prettier. Intel i7 3770 CPU
Asrock H77 Pro4/MVP Motherboard
16 GB Kingston DDR3 PC3-10600 1333Mhz RAM
EVGA GTX 660 Superclocked 2GB Video Card
Hitachi Deskstar 1TB 7200rpm SATA2 Harddisk
ANTEC EarthWatts 500W Power Supply
Windows 10 Home 64-bit OS