Setting a low point in VBR needed?

[Trenton_Net]

Hi,

When doing VBR movies, I know it is important for an adverage bitrate and maximum, but is low important? I can set a low point at say 1150 to stop it from droping, but is software like tmpgenc intelegent enough to know only to drop when needed? If not I can see how this is important so it dosn't drop low, expecialy when it misscalculates and really needs the extra bits.

Thanks,

[PimpInDaHouse]

I think VBR kinda sucks I made a movie using VBR and at some parts with no movement that switch to fast movement got all crappy but with CBR it looked better and was faster too.

[vitualis]

The newer versions of TMPGEnc doesn't do VBR properly -- I don't know if this has been fixed in the latest versions. The original TMPGEnc 12beta is still probably the best for all versions of TMPGEnc in terms of VBR encoding.

Multipass VBR encoding with CCE is VERY good.

Regards.