DVD compliant MPEG-2 get re-encoded

[RichLux]

I'm using EMC10. When creating output MPEG-2 or DVD files, I know that VideoWave will do "smart encoding" and not re-encode parts of your project that are already in MPEG-2 (DVD) format. I can see this is true when it creates the MPEG-2 file because only the parts that are not already MPEG-2 get played in the video output window. This works great if my source file was from EMC10 already. However, I have other MPEG-2 files created by other programs, but when I use them in VideoWave, it DOES re-encode the file and there is noticable quality loss in the output.

 

Has anyone else experienced this and is there anything that can be done about it?

 

Thanks,

Rich

[Beerman]

I'm using EMC10. When creating output MPEG-2 or DVD files, I know that VideoWave will do "smart encoding" and not re-encode parts of your project that are already in MPEG-2 (DVD) format. I can see this is true when it creates the MPEG-2 file because only the parts that are not already MPEG-2 get played in the video output window. This works great if my source file was from EMC10 already. However, I have other MPEG-2 files created by other programs, but when I use them in VideoWave, it DOES re-encode the file and there is noticable quality loss in the output.

 

Has anyone else experienced this and is there anything that can be done about it?

 

Thanks,

Rich

As a matter of fact I've been having things very similar to this happen to me lately and can't figure out why. I'm not aware if anything in v10 has changed in this regard from v9 but it appears in my playing with this that what worked for me before (v9) is no longer working the same now (v10).