Return-Path: Received: from qmta10.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.30.17] verified) by media-motion.tv (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.2.10) with ESMTP id 4712694 for ae-list@media-motion.tv; Sat, 12 May 2012 00:04:55 +0200 Received: from omta14.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.30.60]) by qmta10.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id 8lyN1j0031HpZEsAAm6b73; Fri, 11 May 2012 22:06:35 +0000 Received: from sz0119.ev.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.26.181]) by omta14.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id 8m6a1j00P3uShJ48am6aSi; Fri, 11 May 2012 22:06:35 +0000 Date: Fri, 11 May 2012 22:06:34 +0000 (UTC) From: pixelbot@comcast.net To: After Effects Mail List Message-ID: <1561829872.329490.1336773994844.JavaMail.root@sz0119a.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net> In-Reply-To: Subject: Re: [AE] Copy Mask in Ae; Paste into Ai MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_329489_1633161797.1336773994844" X-Originating-IP: [66.193.40.138] X-Mailer: Zimbra 6.0.13_GA_2944 (ZimbraWebClient - SAF3 (Mac)/6.0.13_GA_2944) ------=_Part_329489_1633161797.1336773994844 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Wouldn't a dedicated encoder like AME or even MPEG StreamClip give you better compression options rather than AE? I then to think that AE isn't the best for complex compressions and I try to do those elsewhere, like in MPEG StreamClip where I can use features like 2 pass encoding. tt ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert Kjettrup" Just a quick followup on the h264 issue... with several mail back and forth with Adobe, the issue was found. It is CBR vs VBR encoding in CS6, i had all my h264 presets set to CBR and they renders unwatchable files in CS6 (at least on my win7 machine). So just render h264 VBR files and everything works :-) a fix would be nice to have, and i guess it is coming now adobe is aware of it, since i tend to get better quality with CBR encoding, fades especially looks pixelated with VBR encoding. Robert Kjettrup / Grafiker / STV Mayday Mobil: 25 18 95 16 Mail: robert@stvmayday.dk ------=_Part_329489_1633161797.1336773994844 Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

Wouldn't a dedicated encoder like AME or even MPEG StreamClip give you better compression options rather than AE? I then to think that AE isn't the best for complex compressions and I try to do those elsewhere, like in MPEG StreamClip where I can use features like 2 pass encoding.

From: "Robert Kjettrup" <robert@stvmayday.dk>

Just a quick followup on the h264 issue... with several mail back and forth with Adobe, the issue was found. It is CBR vs VBR encoding in CS6, i had all my h264 presets set to CBR and they renders unwatchable files in CS6 (at least on my win7 machine).

So just render h264 VBR files and everything works :-)

a fix would be nice to have, and i guess it is coming now adobe is aware of it, since i tend to get better quality with CBR encoding, fades especially looks pixelated with VBR encoding.

Robert Kjettrup / Grafiker / STV Mayday
Mobil: 25 18 95 16
Mail: robert@stvmayday.dk

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