CCE Vs Canopus Pro Coder ?

[XGeo]

what is the best??? cinema craft encoder (multipass VBR)?? or canopus pro coder (2pass VBR) @ high quality seting??

thanx... im trying to convert some 7 GB DVD's , but i want super quality

[JasonK]

I've read from others that Pro-coder is slightly better for interlaced source video.

[BJ_M]

main concept , CCE and canopus will all yield pretty well close the same quality on high bit rate 2 pass VBR (so will tmpgenc) - progressive source and using near the same settings ...

you will have to frame serve it with CCE ...

[tsantsa]

Interesting...I have always heard people rave about CCE being THE best encoder out there. And are you also telling me that I can skip the frameserving step if I use Pro Coder or Tmpgenc Plus? AND get the same results?

[BJ_M]

yes -- main concept , tmpgenc and canopus all will accept mpeg2 directly ..

with canopus - you may have to install the mpeg2 reader app - which is on the reg'd users support site (after you log on - look at downloads)

[tsantsa]

What about time differences...I know that with converting avi's and such with Mainconcept, it is usually about half the time as Tmpgenc, but (IMHO) with a price for quality.
But...if it works just as well as CCE does, then maybe I can give it a go. I mean over all which ones are quicker compared to quality? Is there a comparison chart that you can link me to?

I may try Tmpgenc just because I have it though!

[BJ_M]

MC and CCE are the fastest , canopus is next and tmpgenc last ...

[tsantsa]

Thanks

[Gurm]

CCE is just a pain in the ass to use. I continually wonder why, after YEARS of being the best and one of the most popular encoders out there, the idiots at CinemaCraft haven't bothered to include a halfway-usable GUI on their product.

- Gurm