Beiträge von alex2310

Whoa, great! Didn't really expect such speed when I suggested it. Thanks a lot! Hope that's something other people will find it useful as well.

About the audio track, sorry, I should have been more clear. I just disabled (grayed out) the track itself in the editor, not the Audio toggle on your picture. So basically it was just a video track with Video and Audio toggles ON. Again, it may be unavoidable default Premiere behavior that is easily fixed with the toggle you mention (plus, that there are ten other ways to export video alone), so I only reported it to help you replicate the disconnected node error I got. If it's not an issue when you do it the right way and no other disconnected nodes give such errors, the issue can probably be ignored since it was pretty low priority to begin with. Thanks again.

Hey, just some constructive criticism about a couple of minor issues I noticed with Designer.

Making sure all disconnected nodes get ignored. I wanted to skip audio output (to remux the encoded video later with a separate Dolby audio file). First I disabled the audio track in Premiere, hoping that it would result in no audio output. Voukoder still encoded an audio track – an "empty", silent one. Not sure if it's something you can address or it's a Premiere thing. To make sure I don't accidentally use such bad audio in the future, I decided to disconnect the Audio Input and Audio Encoder nodes from the Muxer without deleting the nodes from the scene. Media Encoder's job failed with an error. Removing the Audio Input from the scene worked. Again, nothing major, but maybe you'll want to tweak the designer to ignore all types of disconnected nodes in a scene without throwing an error.

Better scene management in Scene->Open. Another low-priority suggestion. I created a whole bunch of scenes for various encoding presets while testing and noticed that you can't delete them en masse. Since every deletion pops a confirmation dialog, allowing to select multiple scenes with SHIFT/CTRL before clicking DEL them would be a time saver. An easier to implement solution would be to allow deleting selected scenes with the DEL key and skipping the confirmation dialogue with SHIFT-DEL. Making scene names editable with F2/RMB context menu/Rename button would also be helpful. I must have deleted and resaved dozens of profiles before setting up on a convenient naming scheme.

Hope any of this helps and thanks for your work.

I just did a single quick 2.0.12 test for 5.1 and it seems to be working. Thank you for the quick fix and apologies about the delay.

Zitat von Vouk

Normally Voukoder Pro picks the audio layout that gets exported from Premiere / Media Encoder. I will investigate this.

What error did you get? Did you check the Voukoder Pro log file?

I didn't think of copying it at the time. I also noticed that I wasn't running the latest version after I posted this. I updated and I ran a couple of tests with a random 5.1 AC3 MKV sample:

1. Exported as MONO. Output: a 1.0 track.
2. Exported as STEREO. Output: a 2.0 track.
2. Exported as 5.1 SURROUND. Output: ERROR.

Error compiling movie.
Export Error
Exporter returned bad result.
Writing with exporter: Voukoder Pro
Writing to file: I:\test_1.mkv
Around timecode: 00:00:00:00
Component: Voukoder Pro of type Exporter
Selector: 9
Error code: -2147287026

The VoukoderPro log doesn't show any new entries since the last successful encode.

I kept the Voukoder settings the same for all tests: eac3, 320kbps. When the error occured, I tried a few things with no success:
• raising the bitrate to 640kbps (in case 320 was too low for 6 channels)
• changing the audio channel layout from 5.1 to 6 mono clips in the editor, just in case, and exporting again.
• switching the export codec to AC3.
• exporting through Premiere instead of Media Encoder.
• loading a 7.1 test video (another MKV, TrueHD) and tried exporting that one at 5.1.

Same error with all. I realize it's too obvious an issue for no one else to notice it and it's probably something peculiar on my end, but I don't know what can possibly be causing it. It's a clean, up-to-date Premiere/Media Encoder installation. I have Influx (an importer/decoder plugin, https://aescripts.com/influx/) installed which could be the thing that throws Voukoder off, but I configured it to only override not natively supported codecs so AC3 should still be decoded by Premiere. Weird.

Oh, and a related question, if you can't set it up directly in Voukoder and there's only these three settings (mono, stereo, 5.1) that are available, how would you export something like a 7.1 file with a format that supports it?

Just a small update, since I was looking for a workaround to export 5.1 in the meantime:

I tried exporting in regular Voukoder (something that's worked perfectly before, on a 2024 version of Premiere) and got the same error. I'm on Premiere 25.2.0 right now. Just to make sure it wasn't related to the Influx plugin or the MKV format (Adobe mentioned working on it in the changelog), I imported a plain WAV audio file and tried exporting it in 5.1. Regular Premiere export options (MPEG4, FLAC, Waveform Audio) exported without issues. Voukoder gave the same error.

If nobody can't reproduce, can it be related to corrupted preference or something? I tried deleting preferences.json but nothing happened. Anything else I could try?

Hi, I just started tinkering with Pro (Premiere/Media Encoder), so sorry for a noob question. How do I set up the number of audio channels for the Audio Encoder node?

So far I tried the EAC3 encoder with a couple of 5.1 and 2.0 tracks and noticed some strange/inconsistent behavior. No matter if I have a 5.1 or 2.0 track, when I set Media Encoder's Basic Audio Settings to Mono, Voukoder always seems to output a 5.1 track. To get a 2.0 output, I set the setting to Stereo and it seems to have worked. However, when I set it to 5.1 for a 5.1 audio, the job failed with an error. I only tried the last part that resulted in an error a couple of times on two jobs in a single session without a restart, so not 100% sure it's always repeatable, but it seems confusing so far. Am I missing something basic, or there no better way to deal with this and control audio channels and their order directly from inside Voukoder? Thank you.

Hi, I only found Voukoder recently but I'm already a big fan. The only minor annoyance I have is that you can see the encoder parameters in the advanced options, but you can't edit (or copy-paste them) manually. It is an issue for me for several reasons. First, I'm more used to internal parameters names like "keyint" than "GOP size (frames)". Second, if I ever want to tweak some of the values, it takes ages to find and edit them in the above list, whereas you could change them nearly instantly in the Advanced Options textbox. Please consider making the command line editable, as it would make the plugin infinitely more enjoyable in my view.

As for other suggestions, I'm not as familiar with the plugin's inner workings to suggest something definitively, but it would be great if we could use separately compiled libraries like SvtAv1EncApp.exe, x265.exe, or ffmpeg.exe to be able to update them manually on the fly, without waiting for Voukoder's dll update. Sorry if I'm missing something or if it's an impossible proposal. As I said, I just started using it recently and haven't had a chance to study this.

Another down-the-road feature ideas would include making (save/edit/rename/delete) profiles within Voukoder's own window (low priority, since you can save presets in Premiere) and adding command line parameter names in the tooltips, so when you hover over something like "Adaptive QP Level: Deltaq pred. efficiency", you'll see "aq-mode=2" listed at the bottom of the popup. The latter one would be very useful, since it took me two encodes to realize that your AV1 "Preset:Medium" refers to "preset=4", and not "preset=5" as I'm used to associating it in other programs like StaxRip.

Anyway, I hope you find at least some of these suggestions useful, and thank you very much for keeping this invaluable piece of software alive.