Encore is one of those acquisition products, that were shaky from the start and never fully stabilized. Having said that, let's try to make the best of it.
Explains how to improve the audio from camcorders by reducing the noise, standardizing the dialog loudness and reducing the dynamic range is using AC-3.
In an ideal world, there would be a video Coder/Decoder (CODEC) that supports an alpha channel (transparency) (with full support in Blackmagic Design's DaVinci Resolve and FFMPEG. The DNxHR CODEC would be a great candidate, if only both DaVinci Resolve and FFMPEG would support the same bit depth with an alpha channel. This leaves us …