This IS the Avid L2: Re: [Avid-L2] Adobe Media Encoder Interpretation of Avid H

Thursday, November 19, 2015

Re: [Avid-L2] Adobe Media Encoder Interpretation of Avid H_264 anamorphic .mov?

Just saying that pretty much every H.264 encoder defaults to progressive output, and that the H.264 spec requires HP/HL in order to preserve fields. Perhaps there's some intelligence going on under the hood in Media Encoder to know this, but try it in other apps and you may be surprised…

On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 5:11 AM, David Ross <speckydave@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Mark,
I would agree that the best workflow would be to export as full quality (native codec) before running the output through an encoder, but I don't know why you think that you can't encode H264 with fields. As a test, I just ran a 23.98 NTSC file through Media Encoder and output H264 successfully with lower-field pulldown to 29.97. I exported a QT and an mp4 and both played back smoothly on my external monitor.

D.

On 19 November 2015 at 05:10, Mark Spano cutandcover@gmail.com [Avid-L2] <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
Secondly, there is almost NO formula which will make an H.264 file with fields. I believe you have to force the encoder into making you a High Profile High Level H.264 to even attempt to make an interlaced H.264 file. So if you're not doing that, your H.264 file will be a progressive 29.97 with blended frames. Maybe that's what you need and it's OK, but I would be surprised.