Importing Polaroid Cube+ footage

EricLNZ wrote on 12/19/2018, 12:46 AM

Start here.

evileivind wrote on 12/19/2018, 10:56 AM

Thank you, EricLNZ! Added the info below, from MediaInfo and Vegas. Hopefully that will make it easier to provide some help.

MediaInfo

General
Complete name                            : C:\Users\Eivind\Google Drive\2018.12.17\M0070007.MP4
Format                                   : MPEG-4
Format profile                           : Base Media / Version 2
Codec ID                                 : mp42 (mp42/avc1)
File size                                : 248 MiB
Duration                                 : 2 min 9 s
Overall bit rate                         : 16.1 Mb/s
Encoded date                             : UTC 2018-12-17 06:33:06
Tagged date                              : UTC 2018-12-17 06:33:06

Video
ID                                       : 1
Format                                   : AVC
Format/Info                              : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile                           : Baseline@L4
Format settings                          : 1 Ref Frames
Format settings, CABAC                   : No
Format settings, RefFrames               : 1 frame
Format settings, GOP                     : M=1, N=15
Codec ID                                 : avc1
Codec ID/Info                            : Advanced Video Coding
Duration                                 : 2 min 9 s
Bit rate                                 : 16.0 Mb/s
Width                                    : 1 920 pixels
Height                                   : 1 080 pixels
Display aspect ratio                     : 16:9
Frame rate mode                          : Constant
Frame rate                               : 59.940 (60000/1001) FPS
Color space                              : YUV
Chroma subsampling                       : 4:2:0
Bit depth                                : 8 bits
Scan type                                : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame)                       : 0.129
Stream size                              : 246 MiB (99%)
Language                                 : English
Encoded date                             : UTC 2018-12-17 06:33:06
Tagged date                              : UTC 2018-12-17 06:33:06
Codec configuration box                  : avcC

Audio
ID                                       : 2
Format                                   : AAC LC
Format/Info                              : Advanced Audio Codec Low Complexity
Codec ID                                 : mp4a-40-2
Duration                                 : 2 min 8 s
Bit rate mode                            : Constant
Bit rate                                 : 32.0 kb/s
Channel(s)                               : 2 channels
Channel layout                           : L R
Sampling rate                            : 16.0 kHz
Frame rate                               : 15.625 FPS (1024 SPF)
Compression mode                         : Lossy
Stream size                              : 502 KiB (0%)
Language                                 : English
Encoded date                             : UTC 2018-12-17 06:33:06
Tagged date                              : UTC 2018-12-17 06:33:06

VEGAS Pro 14

General
  Name: M0070007.MP4
  Folder: C:\Users\Eivind\Google Drive\2018.12.17
  Type: AVC
  Size: 254.03 MB (260,126,511 bytes)
  Created: mandag 17. desember 2018, 21:46:13
  Modified: mandag 17. desember 2018, 06:33:06
  Accessed: mandag 17. desember 2018, 06:33:06
  Attributes: Archive

Streams
  Video: 00:02:09.196, 59.940 fps progressive, 1920x1080x12, AVC
  Audio: 00:02:08.640, 16,000 Hz, Stereo, AAC

ACID information
  ACID chunk: no
  Stretch chunk: no
  Stretch list: no
  Stretch info2: no
  Beat markers: no
  Detected beats: no

Other metadata
  Regions/markers: no
  Command markers: no

Media manager
  Media tags: no

Plug-In
  Name: compoundplug.dll
  Folder: C:\Program Files\VEGAS\VEGAS Pro 14.0\FileIO Plug-Ins\compoundplug
  Format: AVC
  Version: Version 14.0 (Build 270) 64-bit
  Company: MAGIX Computer Products Intl. Co.

NickHope wrote on 12/19/2018, 10:59 AM

Please share a sample file (e.g. on Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive, mega.nz, wetransfer.com or mediafire.com) for users here to test on their systems.

evileivind wrote on 12/19/2018, 11:59 AM

Sure! Hopefully this brief sample video will work.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xcvvQbOzxTR8m8kOQUZXzDf6jy0YAsTe/

NickHope wrote on 12/19/2018, 12:25 PM

Thank you. Unfortunately it's green for me too in all of VP14, 15 & 16. I tried rewrapping it to a new mp4 container (using Import Assist in HappyOtterScripts) and that didn't help. So I'm afraid it looks like you're stuck with transcoding.

Please leave the file online so I can alert the developers to it.

john_dennis wrote on 12/19/2018, 1:50 PM

"The video plays fine in VLC, so I presume the problem is with my Vegas software."

It's not just a Vegas problem. It's a Premier Elements problem. It's a VideReDo problem.

Perhaps, just perhaps, it's a Polaroid problem. Is there a Polaroid these days?

Use of Polaroid brand following bankruptcy

After the bankruptcy, the Polaroid brand was licensed for use on other products with the assistance of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom.  In September 2002, World Wide Licenses, a subsidiary of The Character Group plc, was granted the exclusive rights for three years to manufacture and sell digital cameras under the Polaroid brand for distribution internationally.[15] Polaroid branded LCDs and plasma televisions and portable DVD players had also appeared on the market.

On April 27, 2005, Petters Group Worldwide announced its acquisition of PHC. Petters has in the past bought up failed companies with well-known names for the value of those names. The same year, Flextronics purchased Polaroid's manufacturing operations and the decision was made to send most of the manufacturing to China.[16] It stopped making Polaroid cameras in 2007 and discontinued the sale of Polaroid film after 2009 to the dismay of loyal consumers.[17][18] On December 18, 2008, the post-reorganization Polaroid Corp. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Minnesota. The bankruptcy filing came shortly after the criminal investigation of its parent company, Petters Group Worldwide, and the parent company founder, Tom Petters.[19]

I'd advise the Vegas Pro development team to come in over the holidays and get right on solving this problem so anyone who buys one over the holidays can edit their holiday videos before the new year.

Maybe, we should start an industry consortium to encourage Avid, Resolve and Apple developers to help with the solution so every company on the globe who wants to use a non-standard video format can be certain their users can edit their award winning epics with real Professional software.

Edit:

Oh, by the way. AVIDEMUX gets it rewrapped so Vegas an use it..

walter-i. wrote on 12/19/2018, 2:22 PM

I will wish this great device for Christmas 😇

Musicvid wrote on 12/19/2018, 4:17 PM

Format profile : Baseline@L4

The profile your camera wrote is entirely wrong.

1920x1080 60p requires at least Main@L4.2 to decode in Vegas, so that's why the AviDemux wrap works. In fact that's what tipped me off. High@L4.2 is recommended.

Your bug report needs to be seen by Polaroid. Vegas does not recalculate Profile and Level from source, it only reads the flag.

GIGO

Marco. wrote on 12/19/2018, 4:18 PM

Strange. This Polaroid video works fine for me in both Vegas Pro 15 and 16 latest builds and using so4compound reader. It doesn't work in VP14 using compound reader.

vkmast wrote on 12/19/2018, 4:20 PM

I just tested my VP 14, 15 (b384), and 16 as well and got exactly the same experience as Marco.

Eagle Six wrote on 12/19/2018, 4:59 PM

I get a green screen in VP13, VP15, VP16, and Movie Studio 15 (all latest versions), but with DaVinci Resolve 15 it works fine!!

vkmast wrote on 12/19/2018, 5:14 PM

In VMS 15 Platinum here OK, even in the basic MS 15 as well (so4compound).

EricLNZ wrote on 12/19/2018, 8:54 PM

Okay here with VMS15 Plat Build 157 and 'so4compound' so there's something strange here.

Musicvid wrote on 12/19/2018, 10:16 PM

No luck here in VMS Platinum 13 or Pro 14. AviDemux didn't help.

So maybe so4 has some redeeming qualities. Coding those libraries must be incredibly difficult, so to the developers, Happy Holidays and thanks for all you do!

NickHope wrote on 12/19/2018, 10:55 PM

Here it gets read (green) by compoundplug.dll in VP15, VP16 & VMS16, even if so4compoundplug.dll is enabled. Very strange that it works for some others. I wonder if QSV decode is involved for those that can open it correctly. That's all I can think of. No Intel graphics on my machine.

EricLNZ wrote on 12/20/2018, 1:00 AM

Here is gets read (green) by compoundplug.dll in VP15, VP16 & VMS16, even if so4compoundplug.dll is enabled. Very strange that it works for some others. I wonder if QSV decode is involved for those that can open it correctly. That's all I can think of. No Intel graphics on my machine.

Spot on Nick. In VMS15 I disabled "Enable QSV Encoding and Decoding where available" in Preferences\General and now I also get green!.

Marco. wrote on 12/20/2018, 1:55 AM

Yes, it's Intel HD Grafics here with QSV decoding enabled.