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Avid encoding workflow
Just wondering everyone’s thoughts on the best (both speed and quality) encoding workflow from the Avid Media Composer timeline to Mpeg2. Don’t have Sorenson squeeze as this is an academic copy of Avid. I’m looking at Procoder 3 or Tmpgenc – client doesn’t want to spend the $500 for Sorenson.
Suggested workflow so far:
1) lock edit
2) duplicate sequence
3) mixdown
4) replace sequence with mixdown
5) export qt ref movie
6) qt ref movie through 3rd party encoderAm I on the right track? What’s the best encoder?
I’m a FCP guy, so I don’t know all the Avid lingo, so…be nice–:)Jim
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I’m not totally familiar with the ways of working with Avid but as long as you are ending up with a QT file (by ref or self contained) it should work fine.
Tmpgenc just does MPEG-2 but it’s free IIRC
Procoder does everything, including MPEG-2, to a higher quality than Tmpgenc, but it costs
Squeeze is not worth the money IMHO
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Thanks Daniel.
It looks like TMPGEnc 4.0 Xpress does more than MPEG2 – it costs around $100.Thanks for your help…
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Indeed, my mistake.
Procoder is still far and away the best out there for the money.
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Nobody likes BitVice anymore. I LOVE that little app!
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Bitvice is not available for Windows last time I looked.
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oops! didn’t mean to stagger inadvertently onto the Windows forum.
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