• Adobe Encore DVD

  MainConcept MPEG encoder pro version?

  Posted by John Ghadimi on March 31, 2009 at 6:13 pm

  Hi;

  My co-worker and I recently did a shootout between DVDSP and Encore to compare the qualities of the encodings. In the end, DVDSP had a much “brighter” output with less artifacting. Encore just muddied the output too much. Is there a “pro” version of MainConcept out there? I wasn’t sure if that was even an option.

  Thanks;
  J.

  Joe Bowden replied 17 years, 1 month ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  Jon Geddes

  March 31, 2009 at 9:01 pm

  If there is, I don’t know anyone that uses it. Most of us who require the highest quality transcoding don’t use adobe products (Main Concept Encoder) at all, and instead use Cinema Craft Encoder, Procoder, or TMPGEnc.

  Jon Geddes
  Motion Graphics Designer
  http://www.precomposed.com
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  John Ghadimi

  April 1, 2009 at 1:05 am

  Thanks Jon. These are all PC apps. Any comparable mac apps out there?

  J.
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  Joe Bowden

  April 1, 2009 at 1:50 pm

  Compressor. MainConcept also makes a standalone encoder for Windows and Mac.

  But I would ask – did you use any custom presets in Encore? If you did, do you know the fundamentals of MPEG-2 encoding for DVD?

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