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1. Re: Best Burn Quality Encore CS 5.1
John T Smith Feb 6, 2013 11:31 AM (in response to texber2012)My personal choice is to export Widescreen DV AVI from PPro (AVCHD source) and then let Encore do automatic transcoding when building my DVD image... so I let Encore take care of all the calculation of "best fit" of movie length to selected single or dual layer disc
Other people prefer to export MPEG2 DVD from PPro, and then give the individual video and audio files to Encore for authoring
I do NOT use Dynamic Link, because I have read of some problems
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/936216
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/938108
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/938549
Encoding notes http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1094516
I also have Encore create an ISO image and use http://www.imgburn.com/index.php?act=download to write that ISO to disc, since Imgburn gives me much more control
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2. Re: Best Burn Quality Encore CS 5.1
JSS1138 Feb 6, 2013 5:39 PM (in response to texber2012)There is a fourth way which actually produces the 'best' quality.
4. Export out a lossless Intermediate and use HC Encoder's CQ mode to create a DVD compliant .m2v file.
http://www.bitburners.com/hc-encoder/
The other three are pretty equal as far as quality goes.
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3. Re: Best Burn Quality Encore CS 5.1
texber2012 Feb 6, 2013 11:49 PM (in response to JSS1138)Jim Simon - Thanks for your input. Your suggestion is a new one for me, will give it a try. For lossless intermediate export - which codec do you suggest (Animation, Cinepak or other)?
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4. Re: Best Burn Quality Encore CS 5.1
SAFEHARBOR11 Feb 7, 2013 7:41 AM (in response to texber2012)I use the Lagarith "visually lossless" .avi codec as an intermediate when working with HC Encoder. I believe when you export, look at the Codec settings and you must use either YUY2 or YV12 mode, not default RGB.
Thanks
Jeff Pulera
Safe Harbor
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5. Re: Best Burn Quality Encore CS 5.1
JSS1138 Feb 7, 2013 1:36 PM (in response to SAFEHARBOR11)Lagarith is actually mathematically lossless. It's a good option.
I use the UT codec myself, just because it encodes faster in HC Encoder than Lags does.
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6. Re: Best Burn Quality Encore CS 5.1
texber2012 Feb 7, 2013 9:53 PM (in response to JSS1138)A question for the HC Encoder users - is the quality significantly better than other methods to burn DVDs.? I am curious, why use the HC Encoder since its use adds several steps to the process, i.e. the HC Encoder does not recognize avi format, thus Avithinth or some other program must be used to open the avi files in the decoder. Am I missing something?
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7. Re: Best Burn Quality Encore CS 5.1
Alan Craven Feb 8, 2013 12:38 AM (in response to texber2012)Another alternative which gives high quality results is to down-scale the exported Lagarith AVI using Virtualdub with the Lanczos preset to an SD Lagarith AVI. Then export this from Premiere as a DVD legal file for Encore.
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8. Re: Best Burn Quality Encore CS 5.1
Ann Bens Feb 8, 2013 6:36 AM (in response to Alan Craven)I used to use the HC encoder. But been framserving to Tmpgenc for quite some time now. Found it just as good as the HC encoder. Saves me a few steps in the process.
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9. Re: Best Burn Quality Encore CS 5.1
texber2012 Feb 9, 2013 12:02 PM (in response to Alan Craven)Thanks to all for the input, good stuff.
One last question. Where can the Lanczos preset be found? My web search was not successful. Thanks.
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10. Re: Best Burn Quality Encore CS 5.1
texber2012 Feb 9, 2013 4:18 PM (in response to texber2012)Re request for Lanczos preset location - I found it.
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11. Re: Best Burn Quality Encore CS 5.1
Alan Craven Feb 9, 2013 11:59 PM (in response to texber2012)Open your file in VDub, select Video>Filter>Resize and add the resize filter, with absolute pixels set at 720x576 (I am PAL), Aspect Ratio disabled, and filter Mode Lanczos3; check Interlaced as appropriate.
Then select Video>Colour Depth and set Decompression format to Auto, and Output Format to Same as decompression format.
Now select Video>Compression and select the Lagarith Lossless Codec.
Press F7 to start encoding.
This will produce a huge file, but the down-scaling quality is very good indeed.
You will have to put this file back into Premiere and use Interpret footage to bring it back to 16x9, then export for DVD.
If you do not already have the Lagarith codec installed on your system, you will have to download it and install it first. UT is an alternative lossless codec you could use - many people prefer it.
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12. Re: Best Burn Quality Encore CS 5.1
JSS1138 Feb 10, 2013 9:42 AM (in response to texber2012)is {HC Encoder] quality significantly better than other methods to burn DVDs.?
Significantly better? No. Noticeably better? Yes.
But it's a subtle improvement that frankly most people will never notice, especially without a direct comparison.
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13. Re: Best Burn Quality Encore CS 5.1
SAFEHARBOR11 Feb 11, 2013 9:46 AM (in response to JSS1138)I would put forth that at lower bitrates, you may see more of a benefit. I had to do several dance recital DVDs at around 2.5 hours each, and saw quite a difference in quality in that instance.
Jeff
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14. Re: Best Burn Quality Encore CS 5.1
JSS1138 Feb 11, 2013 10:32 AM (in response to SAFEHARBOR11)Good point, Jeff.
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15. Re: Best Burn Quality Encore CS 5.1
texber2012 Feb 11, 2013 10:32 PM (in response to SAFEHARBOR11)Jim Simon - Re lower bit rates - would you please expand on this. Thanks.
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16. Re: Best Burn Quality Encore CS 5.1
SAFEHARBOR11 Feb 12, 2013 6:45 AM (in response to texber2012)If encoding a clean source video at higher bitrates like 6, 7, or 8, most any encoder will produce decent results.
The real test is at lower quality settings like 4.5, or 4, or 3.7...then the true quality of the encoder becomes more apparent
Jeff
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17. Re: Best Burn Quality Encore CS 5.1
texber2012 Feb 12, 2013 9:56 AM (in response to SAFEHARBOR11)Thank you for the additional info. I am using Adobe Media Encoder. Lower bitrates results in smaller files. I would have thought smaller files = lower quality. Obviously I'm missing something (for instance: what exactly does "clean source video" mean?). WIll try encoding with smaller bit rates and see what the results look like. Thanks again for all the good info you folks are providing.
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18. Re: Best Burn Quality Encore CS 5.1
SAFEHARBOR11 Feb 12, 2013 10:05 AM (in response to texber2012)You misunderstood what Jim and I were saying. When I said HC Encoder can produce better results at lower bitrates, I meant in comparison to using AME. Not that lower bitrates look better than higher bitrates. Was saying that when comparing quality, it is harder to see a difference at high bitrates, but more obvious when making longer videos at lower data rates.
And by "clean video source", I mean a nice picture. If you are working from an old VHS tape that is grainy and nasty, then it's going to look bad no matter what. If you have a clear, sharp video to begin with, it will just encode better. More picture, less noise. Noise in an image does not compress well and uses up precious bandwidth.
Hope that clarifies, sorry for any confusion
Jeff
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19. Re: Best Burn Quality Encore CS 5.1
texber2012 Feb 12, 2013 10:20 AM (in response to SAFEHARBOR11)Like I said: "obviously I'm missing something," and I was. Thank you very much for the clarification.
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20. Re: Best Burn Quality Encore CS 5.1
Matt Dubuque Feb 18, 2013 8:45 AM (in response to Ann Bens)Hello,
This Tmpgenc looks pretty interesting.
However, so many of these workflows seem carefully tailored to a Windows environment.
I have a MacPro. Have similar high quality efforts been made in the Mac arena?
I've been searching and have not had much success.
Any thoughts?
Thanks!
Matt Dubuque, 100 Trees
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21. Re: Best Burn Quality Encore CS 5.1
Ann Bens Feb 18, 2013 12:39 PM (in response to Matt Dubuque)I am a pc girl, so unfortunately i cannot tell you anything about a workflow for the mac. Sorry
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22. Re: Best Burn Quality Encore CS 5.1
Matt Dubuque Feb 18, 2013 1:31 PM (in response to Ann Bens)Yes, I seem to be in the clear minority. Oh well.




