What kind of mpeg encoders are available for Premiere

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What mpeg encoders are available for Adobe Premiere?

And is there any Mpeg2 plugins out yet, I suppose they are not freeware though. :(

I tried using Panasonics encoder, but I am not happy with the avi's I converted. The quality is not to good. Pix-O-lated!!

Can't wait to hear responses. Texas,USA Jill

-- Jill (catwoman_32@juno.com), February 18, 2000

Answers

The is Digigami MegaPEG (www.digigami.com/megapeg). It has alot of features, even sub pixel blurring (great for correcting 2nd gen mpegs) but it costs $495. They have a working demo there but it makes a water mark on the file. Hey is there any law that prevents a group of people from buying software and then sharing it?

The only problem I have against Panasonic is that the colors get muted.

-- Rogan Josh (the_fool99@hotmail.com), February 18, 2000.


There are several MPEG encoder "plugins" for Premier.

There is Xing and Panasonic (panasonic is problably the best) to name a couple in addition to MegaPeg. I personally use Panasonice since I capture at 3000kbps MPEG then convert to VCD MPEG.

-- MrVCD (mrvcd@juno.com), February 18, 2000.


Jill

You got to be carefull with any plugins and cost is not an indicator of quality. You need to feed them with quality to get quality out. Mpeg2, I have not had any involvement direct from the time line but LSX have promised to "plugin" their full encoder. When that happens things will be a lot better than they are now, but at a price.

Ulead is using Mpeg2 plugins that are based on the LSX encoder but in programs that cost a lot lot less than the full professional programs you get what you pay for, or perhaps, do not pay for.

In Mpeg1 the Panasonic plug works well and if your not happy with the results I would be looking at the source material as the possible cause.

As I posted here premiere is not always the best host program, I get better VCD's using a premiere edited file in Ulead and the Panasonic standalone encoder. Most problems occur in a slow pan and that really does test the encoder and/or the source material.

-- Ross McL (rmclennan@esc.net.au), February 20, 2000.


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