Encoding with LSX MPEG plugin for Adobe Premiere - Need Help

[benway]

I've managed to import a DVD rip into Adobe Premiere 6 after ripping with Smartripper, frameserving with DVD2AVI and making an avi with VFAPI. When exporting the mpeg with LSX mpeg encoder (http://www.ligos.com) the standard videocd setting in LSX yeilds a mpg file of modest quality. Anybody have suggestions on tweaking the settings to get better quality mpgs?.

Thanks,
benway

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[freelander]

are you sure it should be better ?
I mean : you already tryed other times same procedure and got better results ?

or is your first trial and you are not satisfied ?

the problem is if you need a standard vcd quality or if you want to improve it because you' ll always see this mpg on a pc and never in a stand-alone player ( that has different kind of problems reading not compliant mpg.

[benway]

freelander,

Yea, this was my first attempt at encoding with LSX/Premiere. The LSX has a "standard setting" for VCD compliant mpgs but the results seemed worse than TMPGenc. I'm interested in doing this because of the editing capabilities of Premiere. You can tweak the importing and exporting settings of the programs and hopefully get good results. Then maybe I can paste myself in the next love scene with Angelina Jolie.

benway

[freelander]

in my opinion there no appreciable differencies between same video encoded with ligos insted of tmpeg -
you can try by your own : take a few minuts of the same video and encode it in standard mode vcd with ligos and tmpgeg : i see no "visible" differencies between two.

a very big difference is your source file : where does it comes from ?
minidv tape ? tv program ? already encoded file (avi-divx-mov ?)

and another question is : where do you want to play your encoded file ?
if you want to see it only on your pc (so compatibility is not a "must" for you ) you can set a very high bit rate per second .

You'll loose standard vcd setting and you probably loose compatibility with almost of stand-alon players , and get a big file to be played with windows media player that should absolutely be very good looking.

I think that before you start you have to read here on left the "how-to" section and get into compression features to understand what does it mean exactly , and then learn all methodts to overcome standard setting , problems , work-around and so on .

[benway]

Thanks for your comments Marco.

I got the source file from a DVD rip. I may need to play around more with the import settings of Premiere to get the avi loaded.

benway