Say What!?! I thought the max rate was around 10 kbps. In fact, my intro was encoded at 9 kbps, and I was getting some stuttering from my player, so I re-encoded at 8 kbps and it was fine (although I think I was using CBR). Am I missing something?
"This is ultra simplified, but that is why VBR is usually better - The difficult scenes get a higher bitrate (less blockiness) than they could possibly get with CBR. If your software is crappy at analysis though, some static scenes may not get enough bitrare and look a little off.
Thats where the pro software is great, it allows you to set bitrates on a scene by scene basis if you are not happy with the automated process."
Oh no, it makes sense. I was thinking VBR for that very reason, but I just wanted to make sure CBR didn't have some advantage I wasn't aware of. I've been so efficiency-minded about this DVD and VBR, and I wanted to make sure it was still a better process when disc-space wasn't an issue.
BTW, Vegas uses the MainConcept encoder (and I have the stand-alone version as well.) Now, as far as I know, I don't recall a "scene-by-scene" setting, but I can highlight specific sections, and presumably combine the resulting MPEGS. Not the greatest method, but certainly workable. Of course, I'd have to have a good eye for which scenes deserve what kind of bit-rate, or a way of measuring potential bit-rates from the AVI.
//sigh....there's always something more, isn't there?
(BTW, the minimum setting I can achieve with this software is 192,000 bps. I've heard that using a setting of 0 is better, but it's not something I can do with this software. Your opinion?)
(Also forgot to add - it's a good thing I'm re-encoding anyways. I forgot to add my Greedo subtititles to my last MPEG!
BTW, any idea how to get the Closed Captioning on capture? I was just curious, and thought it would be fun to add.)