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Is it posible to pad the edges of my video with black? My source video has hard coded subtitles which do not fit into TV safe areas, as such when played back on a tv the subtitles go off the bottom of the tv screen, i need to somehow add several pixels of black (padding) around the edge of my video.
The crop feature can add black borders but this decreases the actual image size so isn't useful for my problem, i need to actually shrink the image down slightlighy leaving black around the edges. AVI Synth has a "AddBorders" function that can do this but i was hoping i could get a plugin for TMPGEnc that could do this for me.
I do this by doing a crop filter (with no mask), then doing a resize filter to
(image position - center and custom size) and st the resize to exactly the same as the cropped size.
I believe that if the "resized size" is exactly the same as the "cropped size", then no resize is actually perfomed (so the quality does not degrade), and you still get black borders. I checked the quality by doing this (using TMpg251) and it was pixel to pixel perfect (no real resize happened).
I use this to eliminate any garbge around VHS and SAT captures (thinking that if the encoder does not try to encode the garbage and overscans, it can do a better job on what I really want to see). Also, by the time you trim the left and right side, you can drop a 720x480 to 704x480 (thinking that x-bitrate would produce better results on 704 than 720). An added bonus is that 352 is exactly half of 704, making 352*240 movies encode both faster and with better quality.
If someone wants to dispute the ideas presented, please chime in, as I am only trying to follow "logical thinking" here...
THe crop filter removes pixels, where as i need to keep them, i have subtitle text that is about 2 pixels from the bottom of the image, when played back on a tv this text goes off the bottom of the screen so you cant read it, i need to shrink the video down lets say by 10 pixels around each edge (thats 20 in total), resizing it rather then cropping it and then add 10 pixels of black around each edge to bring it back to the correct resolution, this way the text will be visible on the tv screen (not pushed off the bottom).
Iv been trying to do it with avisynth's addborders function but avisynth doesn's seem to like my avi files (using wmv3 codec), if it would open my video (well it does but with no sound) this would work fine, i can resize the video to 700 * 556 then add 10 pixels around each edge to bring the resolution back to 720 * 576.
Its fansubbed anime im trying to convert to dvd so they all have subtitles, not much use without them since i dont speak japanese :)
Just thought id add, i wish id remembered id pposted that question lol, iv been messing about for ages trying to find a way to do it and the answer was here all along.
I get this sometimes on a VBR enocoding. I also get it sometimes when I do the front end work on one computer, and the actual encode on another (when using hot swapable firwire drives). For some reason, it went away...
First I upgraded to the most recent version: 3.1.3.70
Then the error message changed. It began complaining that there was not enough space free on my output destination disk. This was not true - I have a second 80GB hard drive I use just for video, and it had over 50GB free.
However, I switch the output destination to the Desktop on my C: drive and retried. It has finally gotten past the initial choke stage and is working its way through the batch. I don't know if it will finish... but at least it's working.
So:
1) upgrade
2) fiddle with your output destination if possible
I set the output to a drive which only had about 7gb free, when I got that error message, I changed the output to C: which has 20gb free, and the error message went away. I guess it just needs a bit more space to encode. Hope this helps everyone, pity the error message couldn't be more helpful.
Well as you all must know, life can be really busy sometimes. The only time I can find for converting movies is at night, when I sleep. I was wondering will running two TMPGENCs at once cause quality degradation or worse, skipping? Furthermore, as the number of TMPGENCs increases will the overall quality of the all the converted movies decrease?
I run a P4 2.6G HT, 512M DDR400, with a 7200RPM HDD with 22G of free space left and hardware set page file.
I have tried it, and have no problem running multiple instances, however the overall speed will decrease.
Instead, add the project to the batch list (batch encode). It will encode several movies in a row.
Also, I set the CPU priorty for both tasks to idle, and have actually noticed a small increase in encoding speed, and it makes it easier to do other tasks. I think that giving it idle priorty may give the codec I am using a little more CPU time.
>Also, I set the CPU priorty for both tasks to idle, and have actually noticed a small increase in encoding speed, and it makes it easier to do other tasks.
Of course it will allow you to do other tasks because you have given prority to other applications. However I very much doubt you would see an increase in speed doing this.
Infact it would must likely decrease the speed as you have taken priority from the encoding and given it to other tasks on your system.
Doing this will afford less CPU time slices to the encoding and thus slow down the process.
Well, as far as low priorty speedups, I am speaking of when the encoder is the only task running (aside from services etc), and it only seems to work when using against the MainConcept DV codec.
hello, i was just wondering how i can take an avi file i downloaded, use TMPGE to convert it and burn it onto a dvd so i can watch it in my living room. plz help, thnx a lot
I tried to convert a avi movie to mpg with TMPGEnc 2.5 & it converted it but I was left with no sound. Can someone PLEASE tell me that this problem will be solved when I convert it with 3.0 express. I'm in the process of doing that now.
I'm using trial version.
I tried to convert AVI file in DV2 format. File is 18GB large.
When I try to open it in TMPGENC program claims "File .... can not open, or unsupported". If I cut from this file new file <4GB everything is OK.
Is there any limit in TMPGEN?
I am using the free version at the moment and trying to re-encode a 7.5Gb mpeg-2 file. I get the same error that Mariusz was getting. Is there a similar easy fix?
>Go to File>options>enviromental settings>VFAPI plugins.
>Raise the priority of the 'OpenDML file reader' to 2 and make sure it's top of the list.
This weekend I tested. It works.
Great thanks.
Does anyone know why TMPGEnc suddenly stops working without any message? Here is what I do:
1. I use Virtual VCR and the huffyuv codec to capture.
2. I load the captured file into VirtualDub 1.5.10 to edit the video
3. I start the framserver in VirtualDub
4. I then use TMPGenc 2.5 to create a PAL DVD mpeg using the edited video
The Direct Show priority is at +2. I have done this over and over again, with different captured files. Once only a message showed up: Read error occurred at address 000922F4 of module TMPGEnc.exe with 0DDD8230. Any idea what that means? And what do I do wrong?
Hi everytime I encode with tmpgenc avi to vcd after 10 min, the computer shutsdown and I only get 5 min of encoding on average. THis is not a problem with corrupt avi files and the progamm was working fine before a couple weeks ago.
I go to mpeg tools, merge and cut tab, and add my 8 mpeg-2 files i need to merge together. I order them all correctly etc, choose mpeg-2(program vbr), set the output, and click run. It all semms to merge together OK. The resulting file, when I play it back, the bits where its merged, it cuts off say the last 3 seconds of each clip. Which is really bad... I cant have these random chunks missing in the final mpeg file. Can anyone please tell me what the problem is or give me an alternative tool to use that would work for me? TIA
I go to mpeg tools, merge and cut tab, and add my 8 mpeg-2 files i need to merge together. I order them all correctly etc, choose mpeg-2(program vbr), set the output, and click run. It all semms to merge together OK. The resulting file, when I play it back, the bits where its merged, it cuts off say the last 3 seconds of each clip. Which is really bad... I cant have these random chunks missing in the final mpeg file. Can anyone please tell me what the problem is or give me an alternative tool to use that would work for me? TIA