Which Software is the BEST for MPEG1 Encoding?

[Kyong Song]

Hi.
Oh, well. You can check my homepage for that. I made comparisons of those
MPEG encoders.
http://members.xoom.com/ksong1222/start.htm

It is under "MPEG Encoders" menu.

K.S.

John <Jo...@someplace.com> wrote in message
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> Hi
> I'm about to purchase an mpeg encoder, but I can't decide which encoder
> software will do the BEST job (in terms of quality). Assuming price
> isn't an issue, and neither is encoding time (since I'd be encoding
> small MPEG1 clips only), which encoder software gives the best image
> quality, for a given bitrate?
>
> a)Xing Encoder
> b)LSX Encoder
> c)Panasonic
> d)DvMpeg
> e)Others that I haven't heard of?
>
> Many many thanks in advance for your suggesions...

[Jukka Aho]

"John" <Jo...@someplace.com> wrote in message
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> I'm about to purchase an mpeg encoder, but I can't decide which encoder

> software will do the BEST job (in terms of quality). Assuming price
> isn't an issue, and neither is encoding time (since I'd be encoding
> small MPEG1 clips only), which encoder software gives the best image
> quality, for a given bitrate?
>
> a)Xing Encoder
> b)LSX Encoder
> c)Panasonic
> d)DvMpeg
> e)Others that I haven't heard of?

Panasonic is generally agreed to be the best amongst your options.
However, Heuris MPEG-1 Professional gets occasionally mentioned as
_the_ quality encoder, although I haven't seen it in action.

-- znark

[Sean and Jan Conner]

I own Xing and Panasonic. I now use the Panasonic encoder all the time as
Xing doesn't give me the quality I want (however it is fast). I've heard a
lot of good things about LSX, but don't know how the quality is personally.

As of right now, the Panasonic encoder is a real bang for the buck.

Sean.

"John" <Jo...@someplace.com> wrote in message
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> Hi

> I'm about to purchase an mpeg encoder, but I can't decide which encoder
> software will do the BEST job (in terms of quality). Assuming price
> isn't an issue, and neither is encoding time (since I'd be encoding
> small MPEG1 clips only), which encoder software gives the best image
> quality, for a given bitrate?
>
> a)Xing Encoder
> b)LSX Encoder
> c)Panasonic
> d)DvMpeg
> e)Others that I haven't heard of?
>

[SOS Engineering]

From Premiere, if you were lucky enough to get ahold of it from the early get
go, the Panasonic Plug-in works very well for me. Better yet, but quite
expensive is Media Cleaner Pro 4.x. Gotta love that multi pass thing it
does. Takes forever but is truly beautiful.

Sean McHenry

Jukka Aho wrote:

> "John" <Jo...@someplace.com> wrote in message
> news:38AEB080...@someplace.com...
>

> > I'm about to purchase an mpeg encoder, but I can't decide which encoder
> > software will do the BEST job (in terms of quality). Assuming price
> > isn't an issue, and neither is encoding time (since I'd be encoding
> > small MPEG1 clips only), which encoder software gives the best image
> > quality, for a given bitrate?
> >
> > a)Xing Encoder
> > b)LSX Encoder
> > c)Panasonic
> > d)DvMpeg
> > e)Others that I haven't heard of?
>

[SOS Engineering]

Found a link to the Panasonic Encode site. It is still available. Go here :

http://www.networkserve.co.jp/mpeg/index_e.html

Sean McHenry

It's only $79 and it's really good!