How do I fix an error with "Picture Timing SEI"?
457657576547657 Aug 21, 2010 1:23 AMHello, sorry about the terrible screen name, they were all taken. I'm Tom.
I am having a disappointing and difficult problem creating a Blu Ray with Encore CS5.
I've successfully created a PAL format BD disc, using H.264 720p50 for the main feature, and MPEG-2 576i25 for the extras. Now it's time to go back and make a NTSC version. So I took the 720p25 master (yes, 25p - used 50p for PAL-BD as demanded) and placed it in After Effects, using a 59.964 composition and thus re-creating the frame rate. The result was an AVI which plays OK. I then passed that to Adobe Media Encoder and asked for an NTSC H.264 file VBR 12-24Mbps. Seemed OK.
Placed that into a new NTSC project in Encore, it built OK - but the quality was very poor here and there where the encoder had run out of bandwidth. So I did it again but this time let Media Encoder take 2 passes. Encore now wanted to transcode it! Huh? It's the same settings?
So I gave the original AVI to Encore and allowed it to transcode that, 2 passes. Seemed OK. But when building the disc it said:
"Error Invalid Format , code 14, this stream doesn't include Picture timing SEI."
Same result if I forced the original output from Media Encoder - "doesn't include Picture timing SEI."
I pulled out a third party encoder, ran that, and gave Encore a pretty quick and dirty transcode. Yes, that would build OK. So then I set the encoder to be high quality and again 2 passes. Encore barfed - "doesn't include Picture timing SEI."
Somehow, using 2 passes is creating a file that breaks Encore's rules. BUT - when I mux the audio and create a BD disc using the same file in Nero - it plays in a PS3 perfectly fine. So whatever Encore is griping about, it's something that other software can figure out.
Right now I am trying to feed the 720p25 file to a NTSC Premiere sequence and from there to Encore, but after a week of this I'm really disappointed, especially when Encore itself did the transcode and flubbed it.
My question then please: how is using 2 passes in an NTSC transcode creating this problem that doesn't happen in PAL, and is there means by which I can correct the problem so that Encore will accept this file? Thank you.



