What am I doing wrong?
I am trying to move to AME and forget about Compressor, but I just can't quit Compressor!
I did an encode, matched my Compressor settings in AME, and AME gave me terrible results.
Whether I checked Maximum Depth or Maximum Render Quality made no difference.
I just need someone to confirm for me that AME is just not able to produce the same level, same quality of compressions as Compressor.
Speed doesn't matter to me if the quality suffers the way it seems to suffer. Speed doesn't matter to me if it uses every core and every kb of RAM I have, if the quality suffers as it does.
I've attached examples, still frames of my screen (27” Mac monitor with 2560 × 1440 resolution).
Screen grabs are .png format to minimize additional compression.
Here are the specs for the source files:
The source video in the spot is SD 720x486, Lower Field First, 29.97, scaled up in FCP.
The graphics are HD 1920x1080, No Fields, 24fps (western), ProRes 4444.
Spot was edited and exported from FCP 7.0.3 with these settings: 1920x1080, Upper Field First, 29.97, ProRes 422.
Specs for encode using Compressor (top left box in attached screen grabs):
h.264 (.mov)
restrict data rate to 5000kbps
compressor quality: high
encoding: Best Quality (multi-pass)
Frame controls: on
Resize filter: best
Output Fields: Progressive
Deinterlace: Better
Dimensions (output) 1280x720
Specs for encode using AME (top right and bottom right boxes in attached screen grabs):
h.264 (.mov)
limit data rate to 5000kbps
quality: 80
Depth: 24 bit
Field Order: Progressive
Frame Rate: 29.97
(output) 1280x720
UNCHECKED render at Maximum Depth (top right)
CHECKED Render at Maximum Depth (bottom right)
UNCHECKED Use Maximum Render Quality (top right)
CHECKED Use Maximum Render Quality (bottom right)
UNCHECKED Use Previews, Use Frame Blending (top right and bottom right)
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Compressor (top left) AME w/o Maximum Qualities (top right) AME with Maximum Qualities (bottom right)
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