I dare say this has been covered to a greater or lesser extent before but here goes.....
Im on Premiere Pro CS5 and I am trying to export a movie as an h264 quicktime and predictably the quality suffers even on highest quality.
Specifically my colours become somewhat de-saturated.
As I understand it (and before everyone jumps on me) this is partly/mainly down to type of h264 encoder that comes with PP.
But hey, this is a forum where the guys with the knowledge can help out those without it, so I was wondering if there were any other h264 encoders that can work through PP
and give much more faithful results (and preferably at a low file size).
Failing that, are there any h264 encoders that are standalone that people can recommend (preferably free).
Probably a tall order, but if you dont ask you dont get 
Ive tried other codecs from PP but they all seem to fall down on something and I just thought by now it would be possible to get some great economic, lossless results right out of Premiere.
Thanks