[Owen Burgess]

Hi Jon,
We have AE CS3. Do you think it would just be better to import videos from AVID then encode them from there, rather then spending money on Sorenson Squeeze?

[Owen Burgess]

Thanks, that makes sense now. Most of what I do here does go on air, but this particular project is going to be a promo DVD that will be played back on computers and flatscreen TV’s, so I have still been experiencing a strange shimmering motion blur that to me looks like the same interlacing issue. Could that be because of the compression that takes place when using the old Ulead DVD Workshop 2 program that we use here, or do I also need to de-interlace the video before bringing it into DVD Workshop? Could this be all solved by a more sophisticated 3rd party Encoder that would encode nice mpegs before bringing into DVD Workshop? Right now all we have is AVID and After Effects. Should I start with seeing if they will invest in Sorenson Squeeze or is there a better alternative for a reasonable price? I know we will working on encoding for the Internet soon also, so if Sorenson is the way to go I could use that as a selling point.

Thanks for your help,
Owen Burgess