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Media Encoder CC bug?
I’m filing this with Adobe, but was curious if anyone else has seen this since the CC update:
I’m exporting a 720×486 ProRes sequence, and the result is MUCH softer when I queue into Media Encoder, versus a straight export from PP.
Similar, not identical, bit rates and file sizes.
Greg Leslie
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Did check the Maximum render quality button in Media Encoder? Makes a huge difference…there is also a 2nd Maximum Bit Depth check box that can also help.
Lance Bachelder
Writer, Editor, Director
Downtown Long Beach, California
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Lance — thanks for the suggestion.
Before the update, sending sequences from Premiere to AME (using the Queue button during Export) resulted in encodes identical (or near-enough) to encodes processed directly out of PP.
Since PP passes the “Maximum Render Quality” and bit depth selections automatically to AME during the queue, these selections shouldn’t make the differences between these AME and PP encodes as drastic as they are.
In my case, I had not checked either box originally. I tried it after your suggestion, and while the AME encodes were a tiny bit better, they were still far inferior to the encodes straight out of PP (with the same settings).
still scratching my head,
Greg -
I worked with Greg on this issue and discovered the blurriness in AME was caused by GPU settings being set to Software Only (AME 7.1 has its own GPU rendering settings, separate from Premiere’s). Switching GPU to OpenCL sharpened the image up significantly, see this post on the Premiere blog about GPU and scaling:
https://blogs.adobe.com/premierepro/2010/10/scaling-in-premiere-pro-cs5.html
Still, the blurriness Greg was getting with Software Only was excessive so I had him send me his project and discovered his sequence had “Scale to Frame Size” enabled. When I turned that off and re-scaled the clip to the same relative size within the sequence the blurriness was much less.
-Larry
AME QE
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