Quote Originally Posted by Spam Butterfly
....Motion-Jpeg A medium quality works pretty well with Catalyst... It has similar issues to photo-jpeg in the variable data rate stakes.
Often you have to use MJPEG-A as everybody seems to always need the maximum of layers.With that codec you anyway can make bigger content then 720x576 (pal) when zooming in the clips.

I agree that medium quality is work pretty well, but when doing contents with gradients,you see the actual quality and that is not always what you want.
I prefer to do the "gradient stuff" in Photo-JPEG high quality when using it as max 2 layers and the rest in MJPEG-A medium quality.