Encoding quality with Premiere Elements

[omnpotnt]

Has anyone had any real experience encoding from AVI to Mpeg with Premiere? If so,, how does it compare with TMPGenc in quality and speed.

Thanks!!

(also...if anyone has any idea how many transitions there are, and how they compare to Studio 9's, I'd appreciate that as well!!

[gerfus]

Im sorry I dont know about the quality part of your question, but I can answer the other part, Even though Premiere Elements is the budget version of Premiere, it will still run circles around Studio. Also I do know that you can import the Studio transitions into the Premiere 1.5, I suspect the same could be done in the Elements version

[omnpotnt]

Thanks....I appreciate the feedback.

[lordsmurf]

From what I've seen, it still uses an implementation of MainConcept MPEG encoder, so it's probably still quite decent quality.

[TheFamilyMan]

I'm using this product. Its encoder is very good, possibly excellent, but I cannot really say the latter since I've yet to give it any extreme motion footage. For what 've given it, it has produced excellent quality MPEGs. Definately the best of any other editing package I've used (VideoStudio, WinProducer). BUT it ONLY accepts 720x480 AVIs as input! And its export options are also limited, as is its authoring options. (It can export AVI, soley as uncompressed microsoft AVI codec, which eats disk space at a dizzying rate. I've yet to find any way of importing any plug-in, such as huffyuv.)

As for transitions and effects, man this thing has far more than I'll ever get around to using, which probably isn't the answer your looking for. Its fade in/out transitions are excellent.

This product is aimed squarely at newbees with their digital camcorders. Man, IMHO adobe was on the verge of a great product here. If they only didn't limit your import and export options so much (its authoring is nearly useless, unless it's your very first project and you don't know any better). At least you can tune the MPEG settings (somewhat), but only if you choose to ignore their authoring tool.