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CS4 Media Encoder-MPEG 2 Quality?
Well, I’ve run into my first disappointment with CS4.
Actually I might be one of the few who was quite pleased with most innovations of CS4, and had almost no bad surprises.
Now however, I have run into one: the quality of MPEG-2 encodes from SD PAL material. Granted, the material is rather noisy, and on the “up-side” I have found the media encoder in CS4 to be one of the fastest ones around… BUT:
it seems the black-values and contrast are quite bad when encoding at CBR, 7,5 Mbps. I have encoded the same material with Canopus ProCoder at the same settings and the results are MUCH better… i.e. Contast/Black values are spot-on and the noise/block-iness are absent.
I have also tried using a bit of Gausian Blur in the Adobe encoder but it doesn’t improve anything.I wonder if part of the problem is the fact that the original material is an Apple Quicktime PAL-DV file, and Adobe-PC has some wrong way of interpreting this format?
Any comments/tips would be much appreciated.regards,
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Did you you use the “use maximum quality” option in the little contextual menu on center right of the export window ?
I never understood why it’s hidden there, but do forget about fast renders with this enabled, hope that helps…
On a side note, Procoder alone costs about as much as the entire Adobe suite (at least it did when we got the 2.0 version, so you would expect a bit of improvement 🙂
Vince Becquiot
Kaptis Studios
San Francisco – Bay Area
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