Advise on re-encoding

[MarkLV]

Hi,

I have interlaced MPEG-2 video with very high variable bitrate -
average ~9Mb/s, max more than 10Mb/s. I want lower bitrate
to half of original (average ~4.5Mb/s, max up to ~6Mb/s) with
MINIMUM QUALITY LOSS.

What is the best (i.e. MINIMUM QUALITY LOSS) way to do it:
1) Reencode by TMPGENC;
2) Reencode by built-in Video Studio 6 mpeg encoder (MPEG.now);
3) User REMPEG utility;

May be other ideas?

Thank you all in advance, Mark.

[Poplar]

I recommend CCE SP, which is fastest and best MPEG-2 encoder available, although it is challenged by other newcomers. It is still the fatest and perfect for re-encoding. Don't use some no-name encoder.

[DJRumpy]

Definately, CCE if you can get it. If not, use TMPGenc. I've also had some luck on REMpeg, and the speed isn't too bad.