Adobe Media Encoder question

[James Carruthers]

I seem to get the best video quality output (short of uncompressed avi) on my machine with Bongo's encoder using Windows Media Video 9 Advanced Profile and a high bitrate.

We've been told here that to get the best possible quality we need to use a 3rd-party encoder, like say,Adobe Media Encoder. But I can't seem to really get better quality out of it, I don't know if the frame compression is necessarily worse but the motion is noticeably unsmooth for a simple turntable animation. What could I be doing wrong, could I be trying to use too-good settings(VBR 2-pass constrained)that are making it take too much cpu power for playback? 

[Marika Almgren]

What is the actual problem that you want to solve here?

As I understand it you're getting a great result using the Video Encoder, so why would you need to get it done in another program?

[James Carruthers]

I'm getting a "good" result, not what I'd call a great result(compressed just a bit too much no matter how high I put the settings,) and for a multi-shot composition I'd have to render frames out of After Effects to then feed into the Bongo encoder.

[Andrew le Bihan]

Jim

It's really difficult to suggest anything without seeing what your artifacts are like.

 - Andy