Adobe media converter (P Pro1.5) vs TMPG Plus 2.5 results differ.....

[bufalo]

Lately my adobe media converter n premiere pro 1.5 (Mainconcept) has been doing really bad conversions. I had an hour on the timeline, chose NTSC generic mpeg-2 vbr 2 pass and when converted, the video was a smidgen blurry, started to jump, them froze.

I then exported as an avi and used tmpgenc with the same settings (and motion to normal) and it came out fantastic.

This happened for three different projects, I had used the media encoder before with fine results. Any ideas as to what I might have done to it?

On both projects, no other programs were on, internet pulled, antivirus off, defragged, plenty of external hard drive space.

If this helps, a 20 minute project in Mainconcept came out as 640KB with 83% quality (AVIcodec), but it was jumpy and froze. The same one exported as an avi, the using TMPG came out 1.1G with quality at 73%.

Thanks for any help or comments.



ONe other question, I chose mpeg-2 for both conversions, but according to AVIcodec, using Mainconcept came out mpeg-2, but all my projects in TMPG keep registering as mpeg-1 (VCD).
Using G-SPOT, they are all registered as MPEG-2s. What gives?

Thanks again

[Baldrick]

I wouldn't take the quality report in avicodec that serious.

What bitrate are you using? 640kb for 20 minutes doesn't sound correct.

[bufalo]

avicodec says the bitrate was 8000 for tmpg, and 6000 for media encoder, is this what you mean?

Bitrate is actually the next step in the learning process for me.