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Encoding Question/CS4
Hello,
I own Premiere CS3 and will be upgrading to CS4 in two weeks. When i checked for pricing on B&H, i saw an option to purchase “Sorenson Media Squeeze 6”.
My question is, with Premiere CS3 I was using Adobe Media Encoder to transcode my projects to DVD. Is AME not included with Premiere CS4?? Is Sorenson Media Squeeze 6 a more capable program than AME?
Thanks in advance for any help,
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3 Replies
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Hi Marc,
Yes AME does come with Premier Pro CS4. The good thing about AME is that it is integrated with Premier very well and can handle many of your encoding projects with little effort for anyone not ready to mess with the fine tuning of the settings and codecs. The only problem is that sooner or later you’ll find that some renders aren’t very stable and could look pretty bad. But then again, same quality goes for any program if you don’t know the right settings.
Sorenson Squeeze is a great 3rd party program that is very powerful when it comes to compression on certain things. For example, Let’s say you just rendered a video for a client in High quality. Your client turns around and says they now want a youtube version, ipod version, flash version, and if possible a few other versions.
You could open up Premier and Render each one (which AME can que different renders at a time), or open squeeze, drop in the video you made, then drop in all the other options and press “squeeze” and it renders everything with, in my opinion, good quality. and like other programs, you can fine tune the settings and codecs in Squeeze too.
Me personally, I also have quick time pro do some of my compressions too so I look at it all as just one more tool added to your arsenal. Some people will swear by Squeeze while others prefer only to use AME.
Jeff Bonano
http://www.bonanoproductions.com“I want to have a cool quote at the bottom of my signature, just like everyone else on the cow forum!” -Jeff Bonano
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Thanks Jeff for the informative response.
After researching a bit on the Cineform forums (im using ProspectHD with Premiere CS3), I think i’m going to bypass the CS4 upgrade and just wait till CS5 comes out.
Btw, just for clarification sake, AME, Sorenson and even Compressor, all do the same thing right? Like in terms of producing media for DVDs or Blu-Rays, i won’t achieve higher quality with any particular product right?
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The end product is pretty much the same. The quality may very but if you need it in a certain format you can do that with any of the programs. In an example with quality, I recently had to render an HD footage to a small yet high quality .avi file. AME end results just couldn’t get it right and it would look great but then choppy or have a frizzled look. So when I finally was desperate I did a dynamic link of the Premier project through After Effects and had it render out the file in the same darned codec and format and it came out fine…go figure eh?
Anyway, Glad I could help.
Jeff Bonano
http://www.bonanoproductions.com“I want to have a cool quote at the bottom of my signature, just like everyone else on the cow forum!” -Jeff Bonano
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