State of h264/265 support in PT

[@tention]

Guys maybe you can chime in with your experience here.
I occasionally work on TV shows that just need a little care from the sound department. They are usually VERY long (3hrs+)
For my other jobs I usually ask for DnxHD, but the amount of data just seems inappropriate for those kind of jobs.
Do you have any experience with the state of h264/5 support in PT 2022.4 and could maybe hint me into a more workable solution?

Thanks

[diamondschwin]

I use H264 on long and short form… definitely a bit sluggish compared to ProRes or DNX but it has not been an issue for me. Haven’t worked with H265 yet.

[gives]

Originally Posted by @tention

Guys maybe you can chime in with your experience here.
I occasionally work on TV shows that just need a little care from the sound department. They are usually VERY long (3hrs+)
For my other jobs I usually ask for DnxHD, but the amount of data just seems inappropriate for those kind of jobs.
Do you have any experience with the state of h264/5 support in PT 2022.4 and could maybe hint me into a more workable solution?

Thanks

ProRes or ProRes 422 is the standard editors send me in LA work I do, especially for longer form. 422 is compressed for size, but very accurate. I can't afford to mess around. H.264 is the safe bet if you want to know.. H.265 is pretty new and not everyone can open it. It's good for storage though.

[smurfyou]

Playback sync is sloppy and scrubbing is choppy. General sluggishness. I avoid it whenever possible but it can be done.

I feel like H265 has been a little better but it probably depends on the bit rate and keyframe interval.

Always remember to check your video sync offset when you change codecs.

[minister]

Originally Posted by @tention

Guys maybe you can chime in with your experience here.
I occasionally work on TV shows that just need a little care from the sound department. They are usually VERY long (3hrs+)
For my other jobs I usually ask for DnxHD, but the amount of data just seems inappropriate for those kind of jobs.
Do you have any experience with the state of h264/5 support in PT 2022.4 and could maybe hint me into a more workable solution?

Thanks

Ask for an H264 or H265 and convert it yourself.

Use this.
https://www.shutterencoder.com/en/

Done.

[BScout]

Better (lighter/smaller) than ProRes or ProRes LT is ProRes Proxy. 44% the size of ProRes LT. And for audio work, pretty great looking. I don't bother with the others. It's the closest to DNxHD36 rates (which was the standard for Skywalker)

Still won't be as small as h264/265 but smooth as silk.
And, yeah, I'll take anything submitted and convert it with ff-Works (another program, like ShutterEncoder, that is a ffmpeg GUI front end -- they both use the same "engine" so should be the same speed to do decoding/encoding)

[gives]

Originally Posted by minister

Ask for an H264 or H265 and convert it yourself.

Use this.
https://www.shutterencoder.com/en/

Done.

Yes a great product I also like this one as well especially for ProRes and it's fast.

http://www.ffworks.net
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[TVPostSound]

Originally Posted by minister

Ask for an H264 or H265 and convert it yourself.

Use this.
https://www.shutterencoder.com/en/

Done.

Definitely encode your own!!

Ive been real happy converting to DNXHQ

[diamondschwin]

Adobe Media Encoder is a great conversion tool (among many other things)

If you have an Adobe subscription, check into that. Its what I use, mainly because lots of people in picture departments are using it as well.