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  1. Also, Moderators, I have been a member on the forum for a bloody decade. When will I be able to post something without moderator review every time lol?
  2. I agree, I always try to stay a version behind with all my software. Unfortunately the racks the AV company is providing are on 6.7.2, so I need to build to their spec.
  3. Yes, I created this show last year on a different production laptop, with Watchout 6.5. I am tempted to try installing 6.5 on this machine just to test, but my current workflow using Joyko encoder and Watchout 6.7.2 is working well, and I am too busy worrying about this years show to try and make an old one work. (I had just loaded it as a test of the new hardware) I was just baffled by the fact that files that worked previously aren't working in the current version of Watchout and was wondering if anyone had a clue why. My biggest worry is that there is an unknown bug with the current version of watchout that is going to come back to bite me later....
  4. No quicktime on this laptop. Never has been. Clean install as of January.
  5. So why would it work with a previous version of watchout, and not this one? I have always used Adobe Media Encoder in the past, as I am an After Effects guy, it fits my workflow nicely.
  6. May seem that way, but that is the case. Different laptop last year, that I believe did have quicktime on it. This is my first show with this laptop, just set it up in January and followed Dataton recommendation not to install quicktime. I am actually tempted to install it just to see. Possibly on my old machine quicktime was doing the decoding for those files?
  7. Mac for creating and encoding, PC for production. PC is a Lenovo Legion, i7-12700H, 64gb ram, windows 11. Joyko media encoder files seem to work fine in all my tests, it is my old files that were encoded in Adobe Media encoder that are problematic. But only some of them. I inspected the files in Joyko, and the only difference between them is that the ones that work fine, are all 29.97, where the other files are 30fps. But both worked last year, has something changed in Watchout?
  8. So I recently set up a new laptop as my production machine. I have a big show coming and am trying to finalize my production pipeline. I fired up the same show from last year, and files that were fine last year, are now showing Quicktime Error 2095. These are all HAP files encoded with Adobe Media Encoder. This is content and a show that ran flawlessly last year, and now my new machine cannot read any of the files? What is especially weird is that every file that I rendered and then encoded has this error, but a bunch of videos that were from a third party, sent in ProRes 422 (same format as all my renders) and that I encoded into HAP on the same media encoder preset, have no error. This is consistent throughout all the media. Can anyone explain to me what is going on here? Why would HAP files be erroring when they played back fine previously? How could two files that were encoded with the same HAP preset have different results? I had previously made this post back in January as I was making plans for this show. I am planning to encode with Joyko Media Encoder, those files appear to be fine in Watchout with my tests I have done, but now I am concerned that Watchout is having issues with HAP files. It is especially concerning that files that worked a year ago are no longer playable.
  9. Yeah I have purchased the Jokyo plugin, going to test that against AfterCodecs. Too bad the Disguise plug for Media Encoder isn't a viable option, that was really the most straight forward method for me.
  10. You already lost me, lol. I do have the AVF encoder which is exactly that, a UI for ffmpeg. I am mainly just looking to see what other people are using successfully. I am sure I could figure out ffmpeg if I wanted to, I would just rather a more packaged solution.
  11. So, due to a computer failure, I am now set up on a new Mac for content creation. I build / animate content as well as program watchout, so I am looking for encoding solutions on the new machine. Previously I was encoding everything within adobe media encoder, which is certainly a convenient workflow. I already own AfterCodecs, (https://www.autokroma.com/AfterCodecs/) although I has stopped using it after Adobe allowed HAP back into ME natively, as I found AfterCodecs quite slow. I had been using the presets from Disguise, (https://github.com/disguise-one/hap-encoder-adobe-cc/) but on my last show I was having some difficulty with HAP files from ME, especially anything with Alpha. I ended up using the AVF batch exporter instead, which worked great but I also found to be a little slow (https://github.com/Vidvox/hap-in-avfoundation/releases) compared to ME. There is also the HAP quicktime component, (https://github.com/Vidvox/hap-qt-codec/releases) but that hasn't been updated since 2016, and I think the disguise presets basically replaced that? I am also interested in the Jokyo encoder, either the ME version or the standalone, (https://jokyohapencoder.com/jokyo-hap-meencoder-hap-encoder-plugin-for-adobe-media-encoder-and-premiere-pro/) as it is recommended by Dataton now, and none of the other above methods except After Codecs are listed on the official Dataton site. I know many people use FFmpeg, but I am looking for something with a bit more of a UI, doing tasks with code isn't my forte. I have a big show coming up in a couple months, and I am looking to set up the best workflow. Ideally it would be within Media Encoder if possible, as I like that I can set up a watch folder, but I am really looking for the best solution as far as quality assurance for files playing properly in WO, and of course encoding speed. Would love to know what people are using on here these days, as some of these methods seem a bit outdated.
  12. So I keep getting an error on a .wav file I am trying to import - "Error : empty scene : no meshes" I have tried re-encoding the file and renaming it, and no matter what I do, I can't seem to import it. I can't find anything on the forums about this error. Weird thing is, that all the other .wav files seem to be just fine, and this one I can't seem to figure out the problem. Any advice appreciated.
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