There is an issue where, if you make a preset with a blank name(on accident? or invalid name?) it creates a file with only an extension ".pst1" and then will display a blank entry in the presets menu, but also will cause any new presets even if they're named correctly, to be blank as well
there is another issue with setting default output directory to a path with '[' or ']' in it. 'D:\OFFLOADS\[2015.11.07]Technica' would be truncated to 'D:\OFFLOADS\[2015.11.07' after restarting mlvproducer and checking the settings, I suspect this has something to do with how the settings.dat stores configuration using [] as delimiters
Also I can't seem to get the export and import queue to work, it saves a 2.24mb file regardless of how many i have in the queue and claims to be an unknown format on import
edit: I see that Prores 444 FAST actually outputs 422 according to media player classic at around 250 MBps
what exactly is the difference between Prores fast and non fast?
edit:
I sought after x264 10-bit output support as it tends to be more efficient than 8-bit output with the same source, is of higher quality, and it handles gradients without needing to dither.
I discovered that 8-bit or 10-bit output depends on the specific build of ffmpeg.exe which can only output one or the other. Here are builds with ffmpeg that use the 10-bit x264
https://ffmpeg.zeranoe.com/blog/?p=435 (i just replaced the old ffmpeg.exe that's alongside mlvproducer)
I prefer x264 over prores or dnxhd since they have a set compression rate and aren't that efficient at their bitrates. (
https://ffmpeg.zeranoe.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=2270)
(
https://video.stackexchange.com/questions/13164/encoding-422-in-10-bit-with-libx264) (
http://x264.nl/x264/10bit_02-ateme-why_does_10bit_save_bandwidth.pdf)
(
http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/111886/prores-444-output-using-ffmpeg)
Though there seems to be some issues with adobe premiere pro cs6 or after effects in importing any x264 encoded source besides 420
edit:
Since I can't seem to get them to work in ppro or ae, I opted for prores444 but with reduced bitrate, currently it's being encoded with a qscale of 0 for lossless by default in MLVProducer, but that produces 250+ mbps which is a little too much as I'm sharing these "masters" I discovered where I could set the qscale 9 by editing the parameters MLVProducer sends to FFMPEG
http://i.imgur.com/x9aBdO4.png which allows around 142 mbps instead
