AUTHORING and END QUALITY

Martin, welcome to the DVForums.

 

Carbon Coder produces some of the best MPEG-2 files in the business. It's unlikely to be a problem with that. It's also a program which costs over four thousand pounds and requires you to have an annual maintenance contract.... If you can afford that I'm surprised to hear you say that you can't afford to upgrade to Edius 6.5!

 

What kind of files are you editing in Edius? HD or SD? What's your exact export method from Edius?

I ask because a lot of problems come in the downconversion from HD to SD, rather than the MPEG2 encoding itself. I don't have Carbon Coder, but use Procoder, which is the consumer equivalent. I edit in Premiere in HD and frameserve from my timeline into Procoder and let Procoder do both the downconversion and the MPEG2 endoding at the same time. I don't know if it's possible to frameserve from Edius. If not then you should export with the Canopus lossless codec (forgotten its exact name as I abandoned Edius some years ago) using the same settings as you edit in and feed that into Carbon Coder.

The choice of CBR vs VBR is, for me, one dependent entirely on how much content I'm trying to fit onto a DVD.  I always use a bitrate calculator to work that out. If you google for bitrate calculator you'll find there are several online.

HTH

Mark

 

Hi Martin,

How can you not afford to upgrade to Edius 6.5 (£400.00ish) when you have Carbon Coder costing £5,142.00 inc. VAT

http://www.planetdv.net/Content/By_Manufacturer/Rhozet/Encoding_&_Conversion/Rhozet_Carbon_Coder_Universal_Transcoding_Software.asp

 

I frameserve from Premiere Pro and use Carbon Coders CD/DVD>DVD>Presets>MPEG2-DVD-PAL(VOB) setting.

This produces  the folders I need to burn with ImgBurn. I have never had a failure.

PS  Welcome!

Edit

Oooops beaten again.

 

Now I feel stupid!!  I will do a PM to you both - I seem to have the wrong information. I have corrected my posting so as not too mislead others.