Hello,
I have been using Magix for more than 10 years with 360 videos, I have the 2023 and now 2024, and in both of them when I uploaded 360 video I got a white screen, and also when I exported I got black screen.
I need your assistance, please :-)
Thanks
Hi.
First make sure that your operating system and graphics drivers are both completely up to date by visiting the relevant websites. You cannot rely on Windows to keep you up to date for this. Manually search such things out.
If that doesn't work then upload a suspect file to Google drive and make it available to be downloaded either here in this topic or invite anyone who replies here via a personal message to download the file for testing to see if a bug has crept into the programs.
Last but not least, it is important that you publish your complete system specs in your signature section as a lot of problems often start at the hardware level. See this post for those details.
Ray.
Thanks, friend
I have been using this computer for the last 2 years to edit 360 videos without any problem.
this is for example the file - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_ru0tl35_jV32k4RGjXEa-NKoqUE0y3V/view?usp=sharing
my computer-
Thanks
Hi.
I can confirm I have the same results you are seeing.
The file though is not from a 360° camera but from some sort of app.
The file's attributes are not being read correctly upon loading into the program in either of my copies of MMS / MEP or VPX and refuses to see it as a 360° file.
I have not seen a video file with this recorded data attached to it before.
If you could keep that file available for a few more hours until @johnebaker comes online as he is more experienced than myself at the technical side of video content and may be able to come up with an explanation.
The file data I am seeing is as follows.
General
Complete name : C:\Downloads\360_RisingOfTheWave.mp4
Format : MPEG-4
Format profile : Base Media
Codec ID : isom (isom/iso2/avc1/mp41)
File size : 70.8 MiB
Duration : 25 s 3 ms
Overall bit rate mode : Variable
Overall bit rate : 23.7 Mb/s
Frame rate : 60.000 FPS
Recorded date : 2023/03/17 21:59:20
Writing application : Lavf59.16.100
Video
ID : 1
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : High@L6
Format settings : CABAC / 3 Ref Frames
Format settings, CABAC : Yes
Format settings, Reference frames : 3 frames
Codec ID : avc1
Codec ID/Info : Advanced Video Coding
Duration : 25 s 0 ms
Bit rate : 23.7 Mb/s
Width : 4 320 pixels
Height : 2 160 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 2.000
Frame rate mode : Constant
Frame rate : 60.000 FPS
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.042
Stream size : 70.7 MiB (100%)
Writing library : x264 core 164
Encoding settings : cabac=1 / ref=3 / deblock=1:0:0 / analyse=0x3:0x113 / me=hex / subme=7 / psy=1 / psy_rd=1.00:0.00 / mixed_ref=1 / me_range=16 / chroma_me=1 / trellis=1 / 8x8dct=1 / cqm=0 / deadzone=21,11 / fast_pskip=1 / chroma_qp_offset=-2 / threads=36 / lookahead_threads=6 / sliced_threads=0 / nr=0 / decimate=1 / interlaced=0 / bluray_compat=0 / constrained_intra=0 / bframes=0 / weightp=2 / keyint=18 / keyint_min=1 / scenecut=40 / intra_refresh=0 / rc_lookahead=18 / rc=crf / mbtree=1 / crf=20.0 / qcomp=0.60 / qpmin=0 / qpmax=69 / qpstep=4 / ip_ratio=1.40 / aq=1:1.00
Codec configuration box : avcC
Audio
ID : 2
Format : AAC LC
Format/Info : Advanced Audio Codec Low Complexity
Codec ID : mp4a-40-2
Duration : 25 s 3 ms
Source duration : 25 s 24 ms
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : 2 277 b/s
Maximum bit rate : 256 kb/s
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Channel layout : L R
Sampling rate : 48.0 kHz
Frame rate : 46.875 FPS (1024 SPF)
Compression mode : Lossy
Stream size : 6.95 KiB (0%)
Source stream size : 6.96 KiB (0%)
Default : Yes
Alternate group : 1
In the data I have made bold the bits that concern me and have no idea how a video file can contain no I frames.
My first though would be to look at the export settings of whatever produced the files. Have you altered the export settings at any time?
A normal file would have a GOP structure of IBBP or similar containing Intra Predictive and Bi-directionally predicted frames. Without any I frames the B and P frames have no image to work from and I'm guessing why the frames are all white.
I'm guessing the file does have I frames or it would not be playing in a video player but the Editing program and MediaInfo is not seeing that data. That is an uneducated guess on my part. John may have a clearer idea of what is going on.
Ray.
Hi
Assuming the video is an export from animation software:-
From the MediaInfo data
. . . . Format profile : High@L6 . . . .
The High@L6 appears to be causing the issue.
Converting to Main@L4 and Main@L5.2, both at a bitrate of 28Mb/s, ie matching the original bitrate, import OK into Movie Studio 2024.
. . . . Bit rate : 23.7 Mb/s . . . .
For the resolution and framerate of the video clip as a source video for editing, you ought be looking at higher average bitrate in the 60+ Mb/s range.
I tested a conversion to Main@L5.2 60Mb/s 60fps and this also imports OK into MMS 2024.
Hi Ray
. . . . constrained_intra=0 / bframes=0 / . . . .
These, and the other items in that section, are the parameter settings used by the x.264 encoder during the encoding of the video clip, for the most part they can be ignored for what we are looking at.
HTH
John EB
Forum Moderator
Thanks champ :-) !!
You assisted me
Hi John.
I knew you would pick up on what was wrong.😂👍
I was aware the bit rate was low but because it was playing in a video player thought it was only affecting resolution and subsequently of no consequence to the problem.
I'm always wary of applications producing video files as they seem to have endless ways of producing video files that are not compatible with video editors.
I missed the Format profile of : High@L6 even though the Magix video editors never have an export option beyond High 5.2. It never occurred to me that it could also affect the ability to read such a file on import. It also never occurred to me that there was a relationship between the MediaInfo data of Main@L5.2, and the settings within the programs export options and the fact those options do not include High or Main 6.
What I don't understand is why some applications produce all that bumph around the Encoding settings. OBS has never produced that no matter what settings for export I've used.
As far as I understood the Main / High differences and the associated numbers available, it is about how much compression is used with a higher number used resulting in less compression in the variable bit rate between the B and P frames. Or have I misunderstood its function?
So at some point the apps export settings must have been changed, yes?
Ray.
Hi Ray
. . . . What I don't understand is why some applications produce all that bumph around the Encoding settings. OBS has never produced that no matter what settings for export I've used. . . .
The info is embedded in most FFMPEG encoded video, if you have the option of using the x.264/FFMPEG encoder the data should be there, if using the h.264 encoder then the data is missing.
John EB