How do you change the wmv profiles in Pinnacle Studio Plus 12?

[yoda313]

I have Pinnacle Studio Plus version 12 and I am converting a m2ts muxed from a hd-dvd and I can't seem to find how to edit the wmv profiles.

They have quite a few settings but I don't know how to tweek the one I like. The custom mode just has all the settings for uploading video. I am using the 720p 5.1 setting for a 2+hour movie. I know this will take quite awhile to convert but it seems like Pinnacle Studio is the only program I've tried that will accept the muxed m2ts file. A lot of the trial software I've plucked off the net gives error messages when it reads the file - they must be expecting something out of a high def camcorder instead of "faked" m2ts file.

Anyway what I'd like to is keep the 720p 5.1 wmv setting exactly as it is except boost the video bitrate from 4000kpbs to 8000 kpbs. As far as I can tell there is no way to manually manipulate this type of configuration in the profile.

Is there a way to edit the wmv profiles outside of Pinnacle and import them in so they will accept the changes?

[poisondeathray]

I don't use Pinnacle Studio, but it probably uses the .prx profiles that windows media encoder uses, most programs that use WME use the same profiles. You can use Windows Media Profile Editor (comes with WME) to edit it. Just dig around the Pinnacle directory and look for a profiles directory.

I think I've already suggested this to you in another thread, but WMNicEnc can also do this, with a simple .avs script for input.

[yoda313]

@poisondeathray - my goodness your right! I just looked up the subfolders for Pinnacle Studio and there is a folder for wmvprofilesand they have prx files in them.

I'll give it a look. Though I'm gonna let my encode go on. I will try this after its done - probably Sunday if my guess is right

EDIT - I'm gonna cancel my encode after all. Turns out the preconfigured setting I was using was for WMA 9.2 audio instead of pro 10 which is what the xbox 360 needs for good 5.1 wma audio in movie files. So I'll reset it to maybe 7500 or 7400 kpbs. I want to make sure I can burn to a dual layer dvdr. Even though I have the wd media tv and have the macdrive 7 for hfs drives for the 360 I still want to be able to back it up to a physical backup to save space.

Thanks again poisondeathray.

EDIT 2 - it doesn't look like the changes are being read by pinnacle. I made the changes in Windows Media editor but they are still reading as 4000 in the settings menu in pinnacle. Could it just not recognize the change in the text display in pinnacle? Should the settings still be recognized? I did close and start pinnacle again thinking maybe it didn't recognize the edited file but its not reading it. I'm gonna try to start it and see if the projected file size is larger than the first encoding attempt.

EDIT 3 - well it looks like it didn't accept any of the changes. Even after selecting the edited file it still came out with the same projected file size.

I'm actually trying something different right now. I'm gonna try making a dvd out of it. I have the dvd profile set and the pcm audio set to 48khz multichannel. I can always extract the original ac3 I had downmixed from the hddvd if this doesn't work out well.

Another thing I want to experiment with is high def mpeg2. Isn't that part of the bluray spec? Shouldn't the ps3 be able to read mpeg2 high def files? My thinking is if I set the output 1280x720 mpeg2 and keep it low enough to burn to a dual layer I should be able to get a good video out of it.

Video codecs MPEG2 - MP@HL and MP@ML
AVC/H264 - MPEG-4 AVC: HP@4.1/4.0 and MP@4.1/4.0/3.2/3.1/3.0
VC-1 - AP@L3 and AP@L2
Video frame size High Definition Video
1920x1080x59.94i, 50i (16:9)
1920x1080x24p, 23.976p (16:9)
1440x1080x59.94i, 50i (16:9) AVC / VC-1 only
1440x1080x24p, 23.976p (16:9) AVC / VC-1 only
1280x720x59.94p, 50p (16:9)
1280x720x24p, 23.976p (16:9)
Standard Definition Video
720x480x59.94i (4:3/16:9)
720x576x50i (4:3/16:9)



Yes mpeg2 is part of bluray spec so I'm thinking that might work out. Worth a try anyway.