How good is Media Cleaner as an encoder?

[cosmin]

Hi,

Has anyone tested the Terran/Discreet Media Cleaner?
According to TECO http://www.tecoltd.com/enctest/enctest.htm, it is quite bad for MPEG-2 encoding -- even if Adobe and other big companies bundle it in their products.

I didn't find an MPEG-1 comparison test, though.

Cheers

[BJ_M]

it is really bad .. slow and bad quality .. when i say slow i mean so slow that you think it has crashed or something ....

adobe i dont think bundles it in any product -- at least non of the products i have ... maybe a demo but i never pay attention to the demos that come with adobe products.

[cosmin]

I tried Adobe Premiere 6 (the tryout version) some time ago. It is using Cleaner Lite for exporting to MPEG. I cannot verify this, but I heard that the full version uses the same method. Is this incorrect? Does Adobe have its own MPEG encoder?

[tgpo]

It is SOOOOOOOOOOOOO Slow. Here at work we are giving it a try and thus far it has taken 7 hours to encode a 10 min clip using the 3ivx codec, and it's only 3/4 done! Quicktime Pro can do this in under an hour.

[BJ_M]

I tried Adobe Premiere 6 (the tryout version) some time ago. It is using Cleaner Lite for exporting to MPEG. I cannot verify this, but I heard that the full version uses the same method. Is this incorrect? Does Adobe have its own MPEG encoder?

adobe 6.5 uses the Main Concept encoder and is very fast and produces excellent results with the right settings