CCE problem

[BOBA_T]

Hello

I've tried CCE encoder (2.6 I guess) for export from Premiere to mpeg. I've got some strange results. Motionless scenes are pefect, but whenever sudden camera motion happens, picture became so blurry it's heavy on the eyes... Then, when camera settles picture became perfect again

I've tried multipass (up to 6), 6000 medium bitrate with 9000 max... nothing helps.

The other encoder I've tried is LSX. It handles steady picutre way worse, but those sudden motions way better... I guess I'm missing some CCE parameter but I can't guess what it is. CCE suppose to be the best, isn't it?

[DJRumpy]

That would depend on your source. Is it progressive or interlaced? The blur you describe is often a result of video that's been deinterlaced. CCE will not deinterlace video. Did you deinterlace in Premere?

[BOBA_T]

It's a 8mm video recorded on analog Sony camcorder and uploaded via iLink on Hi8 Sony camcorder. AVI file looks good, no blurring. Then I open it in Premiere do some editing, and encode in CCE and LSX for comparison. I didn't deinterlace in Premiere. LSX doesn't have that heavy blurring problem at all. But overall quality is uncomparable to CCE... So it looks like I just have some wrong parameter in CCE that do that to camera motion moments...

[DJRumpy]

Ensure that bottom field first is selected (not sure what specific version of 2.6 you have. You can either set the field order to 1, or ensure that 'Top Field First' is NOT checked). Also make sure that you use 'Alternate' instead of ZigZag for the "Block Scanning Order" setting. Other than that, I can't think of anything.