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Hello everyone, can i know the settings to convert an AVI file to mpeg format that can be burn in a VCD. Any help will be appreciated. thanks very much.
When you Run Tmpgenc the WiZard will pop up and Guide you through setting up your File to be encoded to VCD....You just follow the Directions..If you are Haveing a particular Problem then Post it ....
I'm trying to "frameserve" a 5-minute avi file from Premiere 6.5 to TMPGEnc Plus (latest update). Everything goes fine up until exactly 50%. No matter what settings I use, 50% and it stops and goes black.
Any ideas. In using a P4 2.4GHz, 1 GB RAM, 70GB free HD space. All my background apps and services have been shut down.
Could the fact that I'm trying to do a VBR 2-pass be the problem? It goes through the first time and can't go back for the second pass? Don't know what else to try.
Well Try not useing the 2-Pass setting, In Tmpgenc you get Just as good results useing the "Constant Quality" setting as you do the "2-Pass" setting..And it is twice as fast...Multi-Pass In Tmpgenc is a Bit of a Joke in this regard...Sometimes you have to wait a few minutes after the First pass before it starts the second Pass so maybe you just didn"t wait long enough, Or Maybe the Premier Video server has Problems with Multi-Pass, I have never used the Video server in premier for Multi-Pass useing Tmpgenc but I have with CCE and didn"t have any problems...If the Clip is only 5 minutes and you got over 70gb empty on your Drive then just render the File as an AVI file and load it directly into Tmpgenc.....Good Luck
That's what I ended up doing... exporting as avi. I was hoping I could skip this step and serve right to TMPGEnc.
The CBR will be something I will try with this size project. The final size may come into play where I have a much larger project and would use the VBR to help minimize the final file size as much as possible.
Do you have any insight as to how low a bit-rate I could set in CBR and still maintain a reasonably high quality DVD output. (Of course, I can experiment with this myself.) I'm just wondering if you have any knowledge of this upfront?
Pulled a section of movie from a VOB file but donÃÕ have the GOP info. I went through my normal settings and noticed that TMPGEnc can auto-detect the GOPs. More importantly, how good is the auto-detect? Normally, I just load the TmpgTemplate file generated from IFOEdit.
When you go into the "Force Picture Type" settings, there is a button called "Auto-setting". When that is selected, TMPGEnc will go through your source and automatically detect the I frames based on the sensitivity level you select. 0% is the lowest sensitivity setting and 150% is the highest. My question is, how well does TMPGEnc perform the GOP, or in this case, the I frame prediction of the source? Are there other programs that can better detect or read the GOP structure?
In the "Force Picture Type" Setting it does not Detect the Gop structure of the File you are encodeing, it is Predicting how it will Encode each frame and were it will Insert I frames upon Detecting a Scene change...So it has nothing to do with the Gop of the Source File ,it has to do with the Gop of the Mpeg file it is or will be encodeing..The Scene change detection isn"t perfect, The Human eye is allways better, and if the Sensitivity is to high it will insert I frames were none are needed so the Default of "100" is probably the best setting...The Gop structure of the File is Up to you but you should stay within the Specifications of the standard or format you are encodeing to..Most poeple don"t even touch these settings cuz you really have to know what you are doing to do it better than Tmpgenc can do it and in most cases changeing the standard GOP will cause more bad than Good...If you have the Plus version of Tmpgenc it has a Help file that explains all about the settings in the Gop tab and what they do....Cheers
>Pulled a section of movie from a VOB file but donÃÕ have the GOP info
What do you mean it doesn't have the GOP info.
This is impossible as it wouldn't be a standard VOB file nor would it play correctly.
What are you using to determine the structure?
I guess what you mean is you don't have the IFO and BUP files.
Demultiplex the VOB with TMPG to seperate the video and audio then use IFOedit's 'DVD author' option to re-author these files as a DVD to create the IFO's and BUP's then just load the new IFO into IFOedit. Now you should be able to create the TMPG frame list.
>When you go into the "Force Picture Type" settings, there is a button called "Auto-setting". When that is selected, TMPGEnc will go through your source and automatically detect the I frames based on the sensitivity level you select. 0% is the lowest sensitivity setting and 150% is the highest. My question is, how well does TMPGEnc perform the GOP, or in this case, the I frame prediction of the source? Are there other programs that can better detect or read the GOP structure?
I suppose you are both correct in a way.
The automatic setting is for detecting scene changes in a source and in reality this should mean that if the source file is encoded properly then all the scene changes should be 'I' frames and therefore TMPG should select to encode each 'I' frame in the source as an 'I' frame in the output.
In my experience TMPG is pretty good at this and it's not worth checking each file by hand just incase TMPG makes one or two mistakes.
TDA is the only product that would completely read and edit a DVD+RW video created with a Philips DVDR 985. It would be nice if TDA could "edit on disk" when all I need to do is update the menus.
You open WinDvr Mpeg2 files the Same as you would any Mpeg2 file..First you have to either have the Proper Mpeg2 decoder installed or be useing the newest Plus version of Tmpgenc cuz it comes with it"s own Mpeg2 decoder, But if you don"t have the newest Plus version then install this: http://www.marumo.ne.jp/mpeg2/m2v_vfp-0.6.38.lzh ...After installing this you should be able to open any Mpeg2 file in tmpgenc....Or you can use DVD2AVI to frame serve the Mpeg2 file.......
If there a way to edit TMPGEnc DVD Author templates, I mean TME files? Can I modify them or place my own graphics like frames and buttons? If not this is really sad and this great tiny authoring tool is useless with its default templates.
Hello. My AVI file is in mono and has 192 kbits/sec. I want it to be stereo. Then, I find all these other options. Like "Dual Channel" and "Joint Stereo". What does those do?
Stereo: This encodes the left channel sound and the right channel sound separately. So if you encode at a bitrate of 224 the left will get 112 and the right will get 112. Use this at higher bitrates.
Joint Stereo: This takes advantage of the fact that some of the time the left and right channels are the same, so it encodes them together. When they are detected as being different the left and right are encoded separately. You can sort of think of this as a combination mono and stereo. This is very useful at lower bitrates.
Dual Stero: The left and right channels are encoded separately like the stereo above. However, it is usually made up of two mono files. So you could put English in the left and Spanish in the right channel. The player will then play back one of the sides.
If you have a mono file there is no way to make into a true stereo file.
Unless you mean the audio is only coming out of one side of the speaker. If this is the case you can use a program like CooldEdit or SoundForge to copy the single channel into the other channel, so now it plays out of both sides of the speakers.
I would also not re-encode that file since it is compressed to 192 and another round of compression would cause a huge loss is sound quality.
>Joint Stereo: This takes advantage of the fact that some of the time the left and right channels are the same, so it encodes them together. When they are detected as being different the left and right are encoded separately. You can sort of think of this as a combination mono and stereo. This is very useful at lower bitrates.
Don't use Joint stereo for audio which has been down mixed to PRO LOGIC as it destroys the channel data required to produce the surround sound effect.
>I would also not re-encode that file since it is compressed to 192 and another round of compression would cause a huge loss is sound quality.
I don't think the sound loss will be huge. There will be a slight loss in quality, but will probably not be noticible as long as the sample rate is the same. In any case there is no choice, but to re-encode unless the format is already MPEG1 layer 2 audio (mp2).
I am using v2.52 and trying to convert a .avi file to a .mpg file, using the Wizard. When I browse to the file in Step2, I get a message saying that the file cannot be opened or is unsupported.
I don't know much about this encoding business, but it *may* be a divx avi file (???)
Any advice on what to do (in simple easy to follow steps) would be appreciated
Well you should know the Format of the AVI file cuz how do you know if you have the Correct codecs installed?? If you have the Correct codec installed and you still get the error then close the Wizard and go to "Options" to Enviromental settings" to "vfapi Plugins" and Raise the priority to "2"...This should get rid of the error....
I am using v2.52 and trying to convert a .avi file to a .mpg file, using the Wizard. When I browse to the file in Step2, I get a message saying that the file cannot be opened or is unsupported.
I don't know much about this encoding business, but it *may* be a divx avi file (???)
Any advice on what to do (in simple easy to follow steps) would be appreciated
As Long as you have the Divx codec installed Properly you should be able to solve this Problem by closeing the Wizard then going to "Options" to "Enviromental settings" to "Vfapi Plugins" and Raise the "Direct show" to "2".. This should get rid of the "Unsupported" Error....
Some DVDs (including some Criterion ones) include a little bit of film grain which doesn't come from the master but from the MPEG2 conversion. Does this program have an option to add grain to AVI files during compression.
If you add grain to the DV file and then compress "normally", the results aren't what you could possibly expect.
Sorry for my poor English and thanks for you help.
Yes you Can with the "Plus" Version, But you have to change the profile,I think you have to change it to MP@HL or HP@HL, You can not use these Resolutions for DVD....