CCE Basic Adobe Plug-in vs. Frame Serving using AVISynth?

[WeeJavaDude]

I just bought CCE-Basic and I am getting ready to create my first DVD of some home footage shot with a DV cam. I would like the best quality from my encoder and was wondering if using the plug in produces the same quality as frame serving. Is there a quality loss? I know I will take a performance hit but I was wondering if I also take a quality hit going with the plug in.

Any thoughts? If I go Frameserver with Adobe, any recommendations which one to use. Is AVISynth a good one?

[Poplar]

You should be concerned with quality first, then performance. If you have Premiere, you don't need AVISynth at all. It can do everything AVISynth can, and much, much more. I don't know if CCE basic comes with plug-in for Premiere or not. If it doesn't, you are really screwed, because many people get CCE SP with Premiere plugin for free :P

[WeeJavaDude]

Maybe I was not clear. CCE Basic does come with a plug-in for Adobe and I like the fact that it is all in one application. The questions was do I lose quality using the plugin vs. frame serving. I would like to use the plug-in but not if it means a quality loss.

[pijetro]

U shouldn't see any quality loss. But yes, Poplar was correct. Your input footage is more of a concern..