Cinema Craft Encoder Picture Quality

[pboong]

After capturing of video using BlackMagic Design, I will put in the .mov feature in CCE and start encoding.

Often after this stage, I tend to see drop in picture quality. I playback the captured feature on my computer and it seem great (Source is DigiBeta), but after CCE stage, I have no idea what goes wrong.
Although I have setting to follow, I am wondering what else I need to take note of.

I have both CCE SP and SP2.

Apparently, on CCE SP2, I do not see SETTING button when I double click on the file, whereas CCE SP have. I need that to either include my 2nd video or to select my chapter stop for in and out point.

Appreciate and thanks.

[poisondeathray]

There should be a drop in quality from uncompressed capture of digibeta , it's normal . You are encoding MPEG2 at <9Mb/s for DVD. It's quite lossy .

What encoding settings did you use ? What bitrate? Can you desribe the drop in quality ? What specifically is wrong ? Did you use a low pass filter ?

Right click the file to access settings

[pboong]

Hi posiondeathray,

Thanks for the prompt response.
As for the bitrate varies a lot because I have to follow using BitBudget to calculate for me as there are menus involve. Usually the setting is around avg 8000, min 3000 max 9050.

the drop in quality is somehow crispy and I can see a lot of noise especially on Green Zone feature.


(I will right click and see if I can get into the setting stage after my system is free)

Is there any significant different while encoding using SP or SP2?

[poisondeathray]

I don't think there is a big difference between SP or SP2

What do you mean by Green Zone feature ? Do you mean CCE's quantization scale graph ?

How noisy is the source to begin with ? Consider using preprocessing filters if it's noisy

[pboong]

The movie: Green Zone.

I can see quite a lot of noise especially in dark, but of course I am comparing the digibeta with the final output result tho.
I do know that there's drop in quality but never expect it to drop quite bad, IMHO.

Under the Picture setting, I am not suppose to change anything as been requested before.

Simple Setting:
Natural

Low (tick) - 32 4.500mHz - 100


Quantizer Characteristics - 16

Intrablock DC precision
10 bits

Block scan order
Zigzag

Progressive frame (tick)

[poisondeathray]

Not sure , maybe if you posted some samples or screenshots of the source and encode, someone might have some suggestions

Also post your script