DV-mpeg2

[Blue Star]

Does anybody know if there are any difference between these:

1. Capture as DV-AVI, edit and export as mpeg2.

2. Capture as DV-AVI, edit, export as DV-AVI and then convert to mpeg2.

[Guest]

Different MPEG2 encoders may be used in the two cases. You haven't given us enough details.

[Blue Star]

But If I use the same MPEG2 encoder in both cases. Do I get the same quality in both cases or which one is the best?

There are one more step in the second case. Maybe it get quality loss.

[Guest]

You haven't told us anything about the software you are using. If you encode externally you can choose whatever encoder you like, and you can tweak it for good results, whereas, maybe your editor's export function relies on a given encoder and won't let you tweak things. Sometimes extra steps can be good if they allow you to optimize the settings, etc.

[Blue_MiSfit]

As neuron2 said, if you export from your editing program as MPEG-2 directly, it may use some built-in, lower quality MPEG-2 encoder.

If you export DV, you can run it through whatever encoding workflow you want, like AviSynth and HC :)

~MiSfit

[Blue Star]

I use Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0.

I have MainConcept mpeg encoder 1.05 but it seems like it don't work with Premiere Pro so I use CCE. It's bad that it only use elementary I want the Video and Audio in one file like MainConcept.

In most cases I can use MainConcepts encoder external but somtimes I have one DV-AVI and one Huffyuv then I have to export directly to mpeg2 from Premiere.

[smok3]

if your doing color corrections and such you will loose one dv generation when exporting to dv (rather export to huff in those cases), with some luck you may even get some frame server plugins to work; http://www.debugmode.com/frameserver/

if you are using cce as premiere plugin then you can mux streams afterward using something like maybe bbtool or mencoder....

[Blue Star]

if your doing color corrections and such you will loose one dv generation when exporting to dv (rather export to huff in those cases), with some luck you may even get some frame server plugins to work; http://www.debugmode.com/frameserver/

if you are using cce as premiere plugin then you can mux streams afterward using something like maybe bbtool or mencoder....

Thanks for a good answer!

[bb]

The one-generation loss will be small, though - I guess you won't perceive the difference, in particular after encoding to MPEG-2.

Coming back to your original question: there is almost no difference, provided that you use the same software (codec, encoder).

bb

[Blue Star]

The one-generation loss will be small, though - I guess you won't perceive the difference, in particular after encoding to MPEG-2.

Coming back to your original question: there is almost no difference, provided that you use the same software (codec, encoder).

bb


Ok, thank you for the help!