From: "Brendan Bolles" Received: from spike.lmi.net ([66.117.140.17] verified) by media-motion.tv (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.2.10) with ESMTP id 5564582 for AE-List@media-motion.tv; Thu, 04 Sep 2014 16:45:56 +0200 Received: from [192.168.1.13] (c-73-167-88-176.hsd1.ma.comcast.net [73.167.88.176]) by spike.lmi.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF5D815413E for ; Thu, 4 Sep 2014 07:45:48 -0700 (PDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1085) Subject: Re: [AE] Compression issues article In-Reply-To: Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2014 10:45:47 -0400 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: References: To: "After Effects Mail List" X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1085) On Sep 4, 2014, at 9:54 AM, Byron Nash wrote: > Just wondering what everyone made of this article. I think I have = noticed that sometimes the compression isn't up to par and have to go = back and adjust settings.=20 Hmmm, I believe it. There is room for vast differences in encoder = software quality. I assume the Adobe one was written in-house. x264, part of FFmpeg, is generally recognized as the best H.264 encoder. = You could output your video from Premiere to an intermediate format an = then play with settings in FFmpeg. You'll have to learn a little = command-line mojo, you'll have access to every possible setting. Or if = you want a GUI, you can use VLC and others. If you want to do it all within Premiere/AME, there's this: = http://www.x264pro.com/ Brendan