Hello,
I have tried both of these products, with differing results. I used Premiere to edit up a 60 second spot (dv quality, 720x480), and used the LSX plug-in to convert the spot to mpeg. I did the same thing with TMPGenc. My goal was to get the file as small as possible to upload to the web for viewing, keeping the best quality. TMPGenc seemed to do a little better. I used the template that allows you to manually set everything, and set bitrate to 350, and size to 240x160. It ended up being just over 3 megs, and the quality was just teetering on unaccepatable (blockiness, blurry, etc). Is that an acceptable size for people out there to view? Anybody have optimized settings for TMPGenc or LSX for web purposes that give the best quality and smallest file size? There are a lot of settings, and I don't understand a lot of them.

Thanks.