Can Adobe answer this, and/or fix?

[Daniel Waldron]

The article didn’t say what container he was exporting to. In my experience, the H264 Quicktime compression from Adobe is pretty horrible, but the mp4 compression seems to be very good.

[Mike Cohen]

If you read the whole thread, the best comment is from Walt Biscardi, who points out that you can’t make a blanket judgement of software based upon one person’s experience. Everyone has a slightly different experience, given codecs, formats, output requirements, sequence settings and so on.

I use Premiere on Windows where an intermediate codec is generally not available as it is on Mac (sure you can use DNXHd or whatever, but ProRes is integrated with Mac). But we often make a master full res mp4 file, and then use that to make our other deliverables. When you render out of the sequence you are asking Media encoder to do a lot all in one step, it takes longer to try different settings and is prone to frustration.

Mike Cohen

[Kevin Monahan]

Hi Kent,
Check out my colleague Dennis Radeke’s comments in this thread: https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/335/73364

I think that pretty much sums it up.

Thanks,
Kevin

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[Kent Beeson]

Thanks everyone for responses – so hard to know – was thinking about getting latest Compressor but it’ s 32-bit(?)

I almost always export a master out of PP CC 2014 as a Pro Res HQ…then also do an export out of PP CC 2014 to a h264 mp4 for vimeo – as ALL of us want the absolute best quality export for all videos, we need to know Adobe or Apple, which is best, or does it matter if they are the same.