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CS2 V CS3 – Is BM the culprit?
This is kind of a long shot but I’m stumped so here goes….
I’ve got an installation of CS2 on my machine and CS3 on my editing machine, with the BMD presets added on. I’ve created identical project presets (desktop, D1 PAL etc) and identical steps, when I create WMV’s. The result is strange, the CS3 WMV’s are SIGNIFICANTLY worse than the ones created in CS2. Now if the CS3 encoder were worse than CS2, I’d expect forums to be alive with debate on the subject – they are not and so I have to assume it’s something on my system. With this in mind, I can only think of BMD that has altered the Adobe Premiere installation in any way – so could that be affecting my encoding, even when NOT using a BM preset (such as desktop)? Has anyone else got worse WMD (and DVD) results out of CS3 than CS2? I’d really like to hear your experiences….
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Solved (thanks to a chap called Mike). It seems that CS3, unlike CS2, has the deinterlace box ticked by default in the media encoder output tab – thus removing half of your data (and then doubling that half up). This leads to low quality encodes when using progressive media. It’s useful in some cases but I’m not convinced it should be the default setting – beware you don’t have half your footage thrown away!!!
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