Intermediate Codec

royfphoto schrieb am 06.05.2011 um 13:20 Uhr

I am working with a MTS_AVCHD 1080p file and usually render to the Avid NxHD before going to Handbreak but lately I have been using the free Matrox Mpeg2-Iframe HD instead of Avid.
Why? It will play back in default WinMedia player (7), is digested by Handbreak,will open in (free) Lightworks, plays well in vegas preview.
I would appreciate anyones' thoughts on this work flow.
Thank you

Kommentare

reberclark schrieb am 06.05.2011 um 15:11 Uhr

Is Matrox only for Mac OS?

rs170a schrieb am 06.05.2011 um 15:32 Uhr

Is Matrox only for Mac OS?

There's a set of VFW software codecs for the PC on their site that you can download for free.
http://www.matrox.com/video/en/support/downloads/

Mike

robwood schrieb am 06.05.2011 um 15:59 Uhr

OT... i'm curious about the where/why in your workflow that Lightworks is used. thx.

musicvid10 schrieb am 06.05.2011 um 16:26 Uhr

The Matrox I-frame codec isn't working in my Vegas 8.0c. Throws an error no matter how I set it up.
I did test the Matrox uncompressed as an intermediate but it wasn't accepted by Handbrake.

Here again are the codecs I tested earlier in the year. With x264, one must always be wary of the 709 colorspace bug we discussed to death earlier (it can be corrected using Avisynth but not HB). The tests were done with AVCHD (not smart rendered MPEG-2). Helix was eventually eliminated because of issue with deinterlacing.