What is the intended purpose of the video ie the final method of playing the mpg - on computer, for putting on the Internet or what?
John
Hi John
Thanks for the response. Its for TV broadcast. Our playout system uses Mpeg2. I normally just export usin standard settings. But the other day I noticed a quality difference between my Mpeg and that of a client. Mine was worse. Both files were Mpeg2. It seems their file had higher bitrate, I'm lookin to optimise my Mpeg. ( I must stay within 720 x 576 ). The playout system is SD.
I then looked at the MEP advanced settings in the export to Mpeg section and noticed that I can adjust the Bitrate and Video Encoding. This is where I'm stuck.
I would suggest you get in touch with the tv company and ask them for the specification they have for submitted material for broadcast
Increasing the bitrate will certainly improve the quality as will setting the quality setting to maximum.
It may be that if you increase the bitrate and quality settings you may make things worse by exceeding their systems specs or they then have to re-encode the video. They may even be re-encoding to a different format before broadcast.