OT:Yes, again: which mpeg2 encoder?

Beelzebob wrote on 10/7/2004, 1:17 AM

Due to cost, I'm looking at Procoder Express and Cinema Craft Basic. My biggest concern is that CCB only does elementary stream using VBR. I'd rather have an mpg file. Also, it sounds like PE is slow. I'm hoping it's faster than tmpgenc, though. Anyone know?

Thanks,

Bob

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allyn wrote on 10/7/2004, 8:39 AM

are any/all of these substantially better than the mainconcept encoder in MS3 and VMS4?

IanG wrote on 10/8/2004, 1:00 AM

>are any/all of these substantially better than the mainconcept encoder in MS3 and VMS4?

Probably not! "What's the best encoder" is debated endlessly on the web and there's never a clear winner. TMPGEnc often shades it on quality, but MainConcept is much quicker. Given the quality of amateur camera equipment and domestic tvs it's not worth worrying about (IMHO, of course!).

Ian G.

Beelzebob wrote on 10/8/2004, 8:39 AM

I can see why people (like myself) get suckered into the encoder quest. I look at my finished work from my camera to tv, and wish the DVD would approach that. I've been making 80 minute DVDs, so I'm in the area of compression where there's obvious loss of quality. But I think that until DL burning is cheap and glitch-free, I'm going to limit myself to 60 minute DVDs, which should solve my quality problem.

Bob

tdmalek wrote on 10/12/2004, 11:39 PM

BTW, is the same Mainconcept encoder used in both VMS and DVDAS? I presume so but I want to be sure since Ive been bringing DV AVI's into DVDAS and doing the rendering there.