Wrong Configuration To Imrove Rendering Speed?

[John Fishback]

The 2600 is a good card, but the 4870 is faster and has more memory. I haven’t seen any speed comparisons, though. And while there would be some render enhancements, I dont know how much.

John

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[Dennis Radeke]

“Faster, maybe. Quality, not so much. Adobe Media Encoder’s deinterlacing and scaling quality is downright abysmal. “

We had some of these issues in past versions for certain presets, but have worked hard on improving the overall quality, so I think it fair to say give CS5 a try before you give up on the quality aspect of it. Also, as with any encoding product, a lot depends on the actual settings. For example, I know that some people make the same comments about Compressor, but a buddy of mine sells a set of hundreds of Compressor presets to help address a lot of those problems.

Good luck either way.