4 Replies Latest reply: Mar 14, 2014 12:26 PM by ALLENT RSS

    Encore monitor view is horrible -- major pixelation

    ALLENT Community Member

      OK, I loaded an mv2 into Encore, and matching ac3 file, and when I view it on the Encore "monitor" it looks terrible.  What gives I have tried a number of adjustments (but I don't want any transcoding in Encore) it has already been done by other programs.  Just want to burn a DVD... but a very good HD video looks horrible in MONITOR.  I'm going to burn out anyway and see if the problem goes onto the DVD itself.  Stay tuned for results!!  PLEASE, any thoughts or comments would be helpful for those of you with alot more experience than I have w/ ENCORE.

       

      MacPro 14 RAM (os 10.8.5) Encore CS 6

        • 1. Re: Encore monitor view is horrible -- major pixelation
          Richard M Knight Community Member

          The display in Encore has always been very poor, very low rez, wrong colour and out of sync, it is only useful to tell you that you have the correct clip! The export should be fine.

          • 2. Re: Encore monitor view is horrible -- major pixelation
            ALLENT Community Member

            RESULTS from above -- OK, it did burn out much better than the monitor was showing in ENCORE (but still very poor quality overall) in my opinion.  I would not give this DVD to anyone, not even as a screener.  It is a color graded HD master shot on the EPIC... I can assure the quality of the master and the (mv2 file) I imported into ENCORE are of much higher quality that what is on the DVD I just burned in Encore.  Adobe should have went one more round (into CC) with Encore if this is all the better it is.  I will be going back to DVD Studio Pro for my burnouts (unless I am just doing something horribly wrong) with some obscure setting in ENCORE.  Let's keep the discussion alive if possible to find a potential solution.  But right now Encore seems un-usable to me...

            • 3. Re: Encore monitor view is horrible -- major pixelation
              SAFEHARBOR11 Community Member

              Highly unlikely that the DVD looks worse than the .m2v file, since it ought to be the same file on the DVD, unless Encore is Transcoding it for some reason. In the Encore Project window, to the right of the imported .m2v clip, it should say "Do Not Transcode". Something to definitely keep in mind is that DVD will always look "poor" when comparing to an HD master that has 5x the pixel count. How are you viewing the result, on a computer or set-top DVD going to HDTV? If the latter, you must use an upconverting player via HDMI. The yellow composite output will absolutely provide nasty results on an HDTV.

               

              Regarding Preview quality in Encore, please check the following, changing these worked for me -

               

              Edit > Preferences > General > Playback Quality (set to HIGH)

               

              Edit > Preferences > General > Desktop Display Mode (Accelerated GPU Effects)

               

              Edit > Preferences > General > Preview > Playback Quality (set to HIGH)

               

              Can you post a screen grab of the settings you exported with from Media Encoder?

               

              Thank you

               

              Jeff Pulera

              Safe Harbor Computers

              • 4. Re: Encore monitor view is horrible -- major pixelation
                ALLENT Community Member

                I am not able to post setting, as the mv2 was made at a POST-HOUSE, but I've seen that m2v file on the ref DVD they sent me and it was real good quality.  Just for grins I made a DVD (same files) in DVD Studio Pro, and when doing a comparison (however not side by side) as my TV's are not in same room. I did 2 Playback test (on both a PS3 and Samsung Blu-ray/dvd)... and the DVD Studio Pro version looked cleaner to me, and I am not an APPLE advocate by any means, as a matter of fact I switched my entire workflow over to ADOBE within the last year (and have been very happy) with the exception on burning DVD's in ENCORE CS6.  I will try your suggestions above when I get a break... I just refuse to think that Encore is a inferior product (when that hasn't been my past experience with ADOBE).  ALL GOOD so far!