In the first installment for this month, I looked at Telestream’s new Episode Pro for Windows, detailing the interface, I/O, and preview function. This time out, we’ll look at encoding quality, performance, and compatibility. Let’s jump right in with Blu-ray and DVD. Figure 1. MPEG-2 encoding parameters in Telestream Episode Pro. DVD/Blu-ray Episode Pro offers only two Blu-ray presets—one for …

In addition to the deinterlacing issue discussed here, Squeeze 5.0 also suffered two H.264 encoding problems. One related to very ugly key frames like those shown in Figure 1. On the left, you see the poor quality frames incident to Squeeze 5.0. S

If you work with interlaced source footage, the quality of your deinterlacing filter is one of the key components to final compressed quality. Unfortunately for Sorenson Squeeze users, the quality of Squeeze's deinterlacing filters prior to version 5