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Barry Gilbert August 1st, 2003 07:57 PM

Canopus ProCoder questions
 
I am trying out the Canopus ProCoder program.

Everything went fine durning the install, or so I thought. I keep getting this message when I try to start the program : error #7 "Please connect the hardlock and try again"

Does anyone have an idea what I have done wrong or what I should do to correct this problem?

Thanks,
Barry

Mike Rehmus August 3rd, 2003 04:47 PM

Go to the Canopus forum and ask the question. ProCoder is fairly specialized. Probably not a lot of us use it. Testing Testing

Chris Hurd August 3rd, 2003 08:04 PM

Procoder uses a dongle, that might be the "hardlock." I don't see how or why a trial version would be prompting for one, however. Agree with Mike; this is a question for the pro's at the Canopus forum.

Rob Lohman August 11th, 2003 05:23 AM

Hardlock is indeed the same as dongle. It is looking for one. If I
remember correctly ProCoder just runs as a demo if it can't find
one. If you can get into the application you have no problem.

David Hurdon March 19th, 2004 08:33 AM

Canopus Procoder Express in P.6.5?
 
I became aware today that Procoder has an Express version for $60 that includes a plug-in for 6.5/Pro. I'm wondering if it does its encoding faster or better than the Main Concept1.3b/WME plug-ins? I'm particularly interested in the QT output since there is no way to do it well (file size to quality ratio) without the relatively expensive Squeeze software.

David Hurdon

Rob Lohman March 20th, 2004 05:39 AM

In my opinion the ProCoder MPEG2 encoder is definitely better
than the MainConcept one. BUT, do check out the exact
specifications of the product before buying to know for sure you
are getting what you want (express must have some things less
then the full version). Then again, $60 might not be too much
to take a "chance".

David Hurdon March 23rd, 2004 06:18 AM

Thanks Rob. I did buy it and have played some with it. It does the best job of QT files I've seen without the Sorensen Squeeze version of the codec (pro), although my results were washed out compared to wmv running side by side, and the file size double that of the MS format. Still the best ratio of quality to size I've been able to make. It also does a very nice MPEG-2, and I'll take the time to test its speed versus Main Concept when I can. I do a lot of web/CD encoding and having the extra tool kit is worth the price. One feature that grabbed me was its variety of input types. I imported a 500 kbps wmv and re-encoded it to 106 kbps wmv. This is a one-minute, fast cuts, camera moves piece and considering that, the results were amazing. I was looking for a way to repurpose for the web many hours of seminar material the client wanted (and got) on CD, done at 500 kbps. This is it, and compared to the cost of recapturing and exporting 18 hours of DV material they're giving it away. I'm told Windows Movie Maker 2 will do the same thing, but not on win2kpro, which is my O/S.

David Hurdon

Andrew Kiu April 20th, 2004 06:37 PM

Canopus Product detail missing on B&H ??!!!
 
Canopus Product detail missing on B&H ??!!!

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/bnh/cont...=312378&is=REG

Is this a package with Canopus DV RAPTOR RT 2 MAX with EDIUS 2 ???

I send email to B&H and no answer....

Frank Granovski April 20th, 2004 06:41 PM

They are probably closed now. It's after 9:00 PM in NY. I'm sure they'll reply tomorrow.

Jason Bixby August 31st, 2005 07:40 AM

canopus pro encoder hardware options newbie help
 
i hear that for the fastest encoding speed, you should use two hard drives. One where the source file is and the other when you want the encoded files to go. I want to use raptor drives. Regarding the source drive and the drive where files are, does it matter if the source drive is a raptor drive or not. Will using a regular 7200 rpm drive as the source give me the same speed as if i was using a raptor.

Jason Bixby September 1st, 2005 09:30 AM

no one can help

Glenn Chan September 1st, 2005 01:02 PM

Unless your encoder is close to real-time speed, I doubt having 2 10k rpm drives over 2 7200rpm drives would help. Even then, you'd get a very maginal speed increase.

Quote:

Will using a regular 7200 rpm drive as the source give me the same speed as if i was using a raptor.
The raptor is obviously a faster drive.
But if the bottleneck is not in the hard drive (which it probably isn't), there's a neglible speed difference between the two.

2- If you want to see if a faster hard drive would help, you could try doing your own test using a software RAM drive (i.e. RAMdisk).

Maybe someone has done their own test.

Jose Skaf May 5th, 2006 02:50 AM

Canopus ProCoder 2.0 problem.
 
HI all:

I have a problem I havenīt been able to get by for a couple of months. After exporting from Avid Xpress to QTRef I encode my videos with Canopus ProCoder, but the final result has a strange effect on the aspect ratio. It puts two black lines on each side of the video and squeez it a bit. This happens with when converting to every formant: QT, WM, DV, etc...

Any help on this?

Dan Euritt May 5th, 2006 03:15 PM

could it be a problem with the qtref format? i'd be looking to frameserve off of the xpress timeline to procoder with the satish workaround, or if that's not possible, export in the same format(dv?) that the footage was shot in originally.

some of the formats you quoted, i.e., wm(windows media?), are typically for web use only, so be sure that you are using square pixels for a format that'll be played back on a computer only.

Jose Skaf May 8th, 2006 03:06 AM

Ok fixed the problem!!
Thanks a lot!


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