Hi. On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 11:44 PM, Johannes Mueller <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > seems to be a quite difficult topic. > > I am looking for a best practice to do video editing on cinelerra. I am using > a Panasonic X909 that gives me AVCHD files. According to mplayer the video > codec is h264 and the audio codec is ac-3. > > As cinelerra-cv does not read MTS files I tried to convert them by > > avconv -i $SFN.MTS -vcodec copy -acodec copy $DFN.mov > > cinelerra is reading the file but when I drag it into the timeline it starts > rendering the preview frames in the timeline. During that there is a bunch of > error messages on the terminal: > > [h264 @ 0x7f104b6c4ae0]illegal short term buffer state detected > > at some point cinelerra crashes: > [h264 @ 0x7f104b6c4ae0]Internal error, picture buffer overflow > > > The only workaround I found so far is using dnxhd as video codec, which is > bloating up my video files and takes a lot of time to produce. > > > Also the ac-3 audio codec is causing problems if I convert the video to dnxhd: > > I get error messages like: > new_acodec: couldn't find codec for "AC-3" > > and cinelerra won't stop playback until I terminate it. > > > So what's the best video/audio codec for cinelerra and how do I get it. > > I am using cinelerra-cv-2.2 from the cinelerra-ppa repos on ubuntu 12.10. The > same behaviour I get using cinelerra-cv from the stable git repo from > cinelerra,org > > > Any hints?
There is a quite limited number of formats usable with cinelerra. Please read http://www.g-raffa.eu/Cinelerra/HOWTO/get_media_ready.html Einar _______________________________________________ Cinelerra mailing list [email protected] https://lists.skolelinux.org/listinfo/cinelerra
