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Can anyone recommend a Video Encoder software?
What does everyone use for DVD/Blu-Ray encoding?
I’d be using CS4 for the video editing and dvd/blu-ray authoring, but could someone recommend a better encoder than Adobe Media Encoder?
How is Adobe’s signal flow with a seperate encoder?
Many thanks,
ClintAdobe CS4 Master Suite
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Matrox RT.X2 LE Capture Card
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Here’s a fairly complete list of compliant and non-compliant encoders:
https://dostudio.netblender.com/wikipapers/Encoders1.asp
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HC Encoder is a great free mpeg2 encoder, with extremely professional results, comparable to Cinema Craft Encoder.
For HD content, you will want to export from Premiere in the Matrox HD MPEG2 I-Frame codec in the same framerate/resolution as your source footage. Bring that into a program like Virtual Dub and Apply a resize filter using the Lanczos3 algorithm, or if you use AVISynth, use the Spline32Resize algorithm.
As for Blu-ray Encoding, I typically do everything in h264. Since Encore can be picky about Blu-ray compliant files, I let Adobe Media Encoder do those. Matrox has a new product called Compress HD which does faster than realtime h264 encoding from within the Adobe Media Encoder. You might want to look into getting that.
Jon Geddes
Motion Graphics Designer
http://www.precomposed.com
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