[Alan Okey] “I’ve discovered that Adobe Media Encoder’s scaling (CS4) is inferior to that of Compressor with frame controls turned on and scaling set to Best.”
I’ve found the exact opposite. At least with 1080 footage.
For 720P neither compressor nor adobe do an adequate job in my opinion.
I always end up running it down through after effects to get it better and the kona card if it’s really aliased.
A lot of it depends on the kind of footage you deal with though…
I use compressor and media encoder for different things.
Only media encoder can create the super high bitrate mpeg transport streams some of my local stations require for HD broadcast, compressor just doesn’t allow that.