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lookin4grip wrote on 2/8/2011, 1:04 PM

What SVMS10 encoder will produce the best rendered output Mpeg-2, 1920x1080x60i or the Sony AVC, 1920x1080x60i. I understand there are probably situations that favor one or the other. In general what would prevail? My native AVCHD source is shot with Sony HDRCX12 camera at 1920x1080x60i@16mbps and has a .M2T extension. What are the guru's recommendations...

I almost forgot to mension, is also compatable with DVDA5

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Eugenia wrote on 2/8/2011, 3:27 PM

Your camera is AVCHD, so you should export in AVCHD. You see, you favor and help the encoder encoding a better output when the kind of artifacts/encoding is "similar" to the one an AVC encoder understands. If you try to export in MPEG2, except the fact that MPEG2 has only 2/3s of the quality at the same bitrate compared to AVC, MPEG2 will try to re-encode different kind of artifacts, so you will end up in a mud. So stick with your kind of video.

lookin4grip wrote on 2/9/2011, 8:47 AM

Thanks Eugenia, thats what I have been doing with good results, I was just confiming my understanding. Now is it always best to encode the video and audio streams seperatly? I know that I have had sync issues in the past when encoding together, however if I just want a single file format for use with say USB flash drives that is what must be done, correct? What are your thoughts?

Eugenia wrote on 2/9/2011, 12:52 PM

You only encode separately if you're trying to use DVDA after that.