Compressor 2 quality worse than Compressor 1 ?!?!

I find Compressor's 2's quality to be markedly poor when compared to Compressor 1. Digital artifacts during dissolves, some very poor motion quality (even with motion estimation set to best)... what's up with this? Has anyone else noticed this?

William.
Yes, there are a great deal of us on this forum that have expereinced the same issue with digital artifacts in our dissolves. With all the testing going on it looks like it has been determined that the VBR scanner is somehow not working correctly. A work around that seems to be helping lots (Well, it solved my problem for now) is to compress using CBR and not VBR. That will eliminate the digital artifacts until Apple comes up with a fix.
A search of this forum will show you more results on this.
Your not alone! Good luck.
Graham

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