Adobe Media Encoder MTS to Lagarith

[fitch.j]

I've recently upgraded to the CS4 Master collection, and had a new machine to go with it. I have as few codecs on as i need in order to keep any issues to a minimum, and also as little software as possible.

I'm wanting to use the Adobe Media Encoder to convert my MTS AVCHD footage to a lossless intermediate. I dont normally use an intermediate as my own footage is always HDV which is dealt with fine by all of the suite, however this is someone elses footage. The files load into Media Encoder fine, however even tho i've installed the codec, it's not showing as an option for any containers. Anyone else use this and know of how to fix it?

If not, anyone able to recomend which of the intermediates available in Media Encoder are good lossless codecs (i would install Huffy only i fear the issue would be the same as Lagarith).

Cheers for the advice...and my loathing for AVCHD is getting more and more by the day!

[poisondeathray]

Lagarith, HuffYUV, ffdshow huffyuv, UT all work in AME CS4 for me (basically any VFW codec installed on your PC)

The "microsoft avi" format setting must be selected to access them

There were a few patches/updates a few weeks ago, maybe try updating?

[fitch.j]

I'll try updating. Cheers.

For future reference would you recommend any of the other Codecs available in AME CS4, specifically as an intermediate?

I normally just work with the HDV footage and then encode as a High Quality H.264 file Fpr my export format.

[guns1inger]

I would also look at the Avid HD intermediate codec (DNxHD), which is free and very good. Works like a free version of Cineform, without the need for NeoScene.

See here for details and links : https://forum.videohelp.com/topic369594.html

[fitch.j]

I'm really interested in that DNxHD codec. Had a look into it a bit and found its download page:

http://avid.custkb.com/avid/app/selfservice/search.jsp?DocId=263545

Although the PC Zip file seems to be corrupted. Could anyone else please confirm this? (i downloaded it twice, on different machines)

[guns1inger]

That is the same download link I used two weeks ago without issue, but today it is corrupt. The version I downloaded was 1.8, so it appears the update to version 2 is the problem. I have attached the archive for 1.8 that I downloaded, and which does work



avidcodecsle_1.8pc.zip

[fitch.j]

Cheers for that, I'll have an experiment with that this morning and see how it goes.

[guns1inger]

Avid have fixed the link to version 2 of the quicktime DNxHD codecs for Windows. If you want them they are here : http://avid.custkb.com/avid/app/selfservice/search.jsp?DocId=263545

[Baldrick]

Added the Avid DNxHD to the tools list. WIth both the old 1.8 and newest version.