Hello

Does anyone on this forum use the Western Digital player (WD TV HD) to play HDV 1080i videos edited with AL ?

It generally works fine, but I have a strange brief color cast problem near the cuts.

WD's tech support answer: "Main@High-1440 at the moment is not supported" ...strange for such a popular format, which is, after all, only a subset of the profiles they do support: "MPEG2/4, H.264, and WMV9 support up to 1920x1080p 24fps, 1920x1080i 30fps, 1280x720p 60fps resolution" 

The recommended workaround is to convert to a supported format...too bad, I purchased this thing in the hope of watching my HDV movies with the least transcoding possible....

Any comments ?

Someone suggested me that the cause of the problem could be open vs closed GOP, i.e. media players like the WD TV HD etc. apparently only support closed GOP MPEG2 clips. If that is true (and if that is the root cause of my problem), how could I force AL to encode the edits needing re-encoding with closed GOPs (using Fuse) ?

If you select the tab 'modify presets' when you are exporting an HDV2 clip there should be a check box for the option export closed GOP. You could create a new preset with this option selected and try that.

That is correct,

 

However, using "export MPEG2/HDV2" instead of "Fuse" introduces its own set of problems (e.g. full re-rendering etc.)

So I'm looking for a way to "fuse"...with closed GOP...

Consider TmpGe Express 4. Very fast mpeg encoding, uses all 4 cores, many encoding options.

TVJohn:

Consider TmpGe Express 4. Very fast mpeg encoding, uses all 4 cores, many encoding options.

I do use TMPGEnc Xpress 4 & love it (even if I have only 2 cores )

But this means I have to somehow export my project from LE to feed into TEXP4...using what codec ? if I fuse, I get the original problem ...if not, I get an extra transcoding generation degrading the video, even slightly....

TVJohn,

 

Any idea for my last question (What codec to export from LE to go into TEXP4, in order to avoid generation loss ?)  ?