Hey Harmy,

year, I'm still around, though I have had very little time lately due to university stuff going on. Unfortunately it'll probably stay like this until mid of May at least. I'll see if I can help you with improving the script, but I can't really make any promises, sorry.

Congrats to your new PC;-) What kind of specs does it have?

I've just taken a look at the comparison pics you posted. Honestly I can't remember if SW AVCHD looked considerably better. Did it?

Anyway, as a first thing change "--preset slow" to "--preset slower --subme 10". It will slow down the encode considerably, but quality should improve. You can also try "--me esa" instead of "--me umh", but don't expect too much here. I don't think that's enough though as probably x264 options have changed over time and the command line should be adjusted to those changes. I also think that settings like pay-rd, aq and deblock should be fine-tuned to the differing grain structure etc. of SW and ESB. That however needs a lot of test encodes.

Regards Jan

Edit: One thing that just came to my mind is your rendering/encoding process. Do you have a lossless intermediate of some kind and then encode using x264.exe? Or does all that happen within the Adobe software?