Here I am again. Using AVI video capture card I have captured a video segment in MPG format (MPEG1). I am now using the Tools/ MPEG option to edit the clip. I hae identified the beginning and end of the clip to be saved. When I play the saved clip the audio and video are out of synch.

I have tried to then go through the wizard and manipulate the sound using the add/ detract sound miliseconds but this seems to do no good. What should I be doing?

You are Probably not doing anything wrong, The Merge & cut Isn"t the Most acurate editor there is and it oficially only supports the acurate editing of Files that were encoded with Tmpgenc, and it doesn"t acurately edit VBR Mpeg streams..You might best be off trying a Different Mpeg editor, if you are useing Mpeg1 then you can Probably find a freeware mpeg1 editor that will give you better results than tmpgenc"s editor..Another thing that sometimes can cause sync Problems in Captured Mpeg files after editing is that some Capture Software will add padding to the stream to compensate for dropped frames, so when editing/re-Muxing the Padding can get removed which causes the File to go out of sync, But I have only heard of this with PVR satalite cards...If you are Planning on Re-encodeing this File anyways you can edit out the Comercials by Useing the Cut editing feature in the "Source Range"......

There is no help available on the free version. I need to know which options to use under VIDEO ARRANGE METHOD and SOURCE ASPECT RATIO, on the Advanced tab in the Settings.

Download the Plus-Version, and you have all the Help you need. :)
You have not to purchase the Plus-Version to use the Help-Function.

The "Source Aspect Ratio" is NOT a Setting for YOU to Adjust, Tmpgenc adjusts this to the Correct aspect ratio automaticly, which is the aspect ratio of the file you have loaded into it..Usually "Full Screen Keep Aspect Ratio" is the Best setting in the "Video arange Method"....

@Minion
To be correct: It is the best setting, if you use TMPGEnc directly. But if you use a frameserving tool like AVISynth or VirtualDub, often Full Screen or Center may be the best Settings.

As an Example: If i'm Capturing from PAL VCR, i'm using the Crobbing-Function of VirtualDub to cut off the flickering lines at the Bottom of the Video (result: 704x560).
If i load this Video into TMPGEnc, it says, the Video has 1:1 VGA Aspect Ratio, which is incorrect. So Full Screen Keep Aspect Ratio is also incorrect. I have to use center to make it right.

Well that is Why I said "Usually", I personally use "Center Custom size" and set the Image to the Correct aspect Ratio, But everyone Does something different But as a General Rule your File will usually look OK with this setting But you can usually get something better if you Experiment a Little But Poeple Don"t want Long Drawn out Answers then want what will work...

Hi idownloaded a film from internet. It is part 1. I also dowloaded part 2 and i want them together on a dvd. The size of the dvd is 4,7 GB so each film must be less then 2,35 GB. I have tried several settings, but i cannot get the job done.

I have use the templates and i also used VBR (0 to 3000 average= 2520) but i cannot get it right. Can u plaese help me with the correct settings.

Eugene
Holland

Mpeg-2 480x576 25fps CQ_VBR 50, layer-2 44100HZ 224kbps

doesn't make my 680 AVI file small enough. Suggestions ??

Try 2pass-Encoding with the Bitrate, a good Bitrate-Calculator will give to you (like FitCD).

The Bitrate you need depents on the Play-lenght of the Video. For Example:
To fill a DVD with 2 Hours, 30 Minutes of Video, you can use 3900 kbps AVG for Video and 192 kbps for Audio (i suggest you to use AC3 2-Channel, can be produced by the Freeware BeSweet).

Possible 2pass-Settings:
6000 Max.
3900 AVG.
2000 Min.

If you are Makeing a DVD "480+576" is Not the Correct Resolution and you would have a Hard time Getting a File with that Resolution on to a DVD, this is the Resolution for Pal SVCD..You would have to use either "352+576, 352+288, or 720+576" ,And the Fact that your AVI file is 680MB has No bearing on how big the Mpeg file will be, your AVI file can Be 100MB or 1000GB, what Matters is How Long the Movie is, A 2 hour Movie at an average Bitrate of about 5000kbs should fit on a Single 4.7gb DVD-R with Mpeg or AC3 audio at 224kbs, Probably about 4000kbs with Wav audio, a Bitrate calculator would help you determine what bitrate you should use for the length of your Movie and size of Medium...

So many things wrong with what you are trying to do. A Dvd has to have a sampling rate of 48000. and you should use a bitrate of 384 for audio. Use the wizard to automatically adjust your video bitrate to fit on a 4.7 GB DVD. You can usally go to 103 to 104 % capacity and still fit it as TMpenc doen'y do a very good job of this

I just downloaded a ripped copy of "The Matrix" and I'm trying to get it so that I can put it on VCD. The original format was an avi so I downloaded a converter and now I've got a copy in mpeg that I have tested and works. Unfortunately the mpeg file is too big to put on a single disk so I need to split into 2.

Here's my problem. I used TMPGENC.exe and tried to see if I can get it to split. I set the exact split location I wanted and ran it. It should of then made a single cut of the mpeg for roughly 540MB's but when i opened up the cut. It was only 11MB's long and like 20 minutes into the beginning of the movie. No where close to where I had set it up to be cut. Now this is the second time this has happened with 2 different peices of software. Is this some sort of registration issue where i have to pay something in order to get a cut of the size i'm looking for or is something just not working right?

Also I'm curious as to how I'd convert the size of the mpeg down. Currently the dimmensions are around 640X4?? or something like that. If understood correctly, I need to cut it down to a 352x2?? to be able to be viewed right when played. How would I be able to do this?

Any help would be greatly appreciated. If possible, email me with the answer. JHaigwood@Hotmail.com. If not, I'll just keep checking back for your help. Thanks in advance.

Well the Movie should be in Mpeg format and at 352+240/288-pal before you even tried to cut it in Half with Tmpgenc..You just take the Original AVI file and Load it into Tmpgenc and choose the Correct VCD template and encode it, then it should be at the correct resolution then you can use the "Merge & Cut" in the Mpeg Tools to cut the File in Half...

I used WinMPG to convert the original AVI to VCD so maybe that was my problem. I'll try it using TMPENC this time I guess.

Yeah, I've got the conversion running now. Geeze, when i converted it last night using WinMPG it took like 8 hours, this one only takes an hour and sets it in the needed format. Sweet! In case you hadn't noticed I've never done a VCD before. I'm gonna be making it with Nero. Did a test run using the new World of Warcraft trailer to see if I can actually make a VCD and have it be viewed on my DVD player. It works, unfortunately I couldn't figure out how to get the menu working. Hmm. Thanks for the help though.

its not converting the whole avi file to mpeg now, could it be that the version of TMPGEnc isn't a full version and only limits to so many megs of a file. Or did i do something wrong when trying to convert to mpeg and its only doing the first 30 megs of the file and wont do any more? I'm so confused now. :(

Well this Can Be From a Number of things..Did you get an error?? Did it Just Crash?? What type of AVI file is it?? Did you get it off of the net Cuz Many Downloaded Movies are Corrupted???If it is a Xvid File you might be better off useing the FFDShow Decoder to decode the file..As you Probably noticed there is a lot to makeing VCD/SVCD"s especially if something goes wrong which does quite often when dealing with Downloaded DivX or XviD files...

First TMPGEnc has no limit on mpeg-1 encoding but limit on mpeg-2(svcd/dvd). So you may have file error. Also if the source avi file has ac3 audio, tmpgenc can't handle it. I recommend you to use AVI2SVCD software which extract audio from avi source and encode it to mp2 audio and automatically encode video with tmpgenc and mux it using bbmpeg.

I found matrix 2 mpg file(svcd) but it was pal format. So I demultiplexed and encoded video as ntsc format and muxed them, burned them to 2 svcd. Now it works file. SVCD is much better than vcd.

Good Luck!

I use DVD decrypter to rib my movie, then dvd2avi. I then try and load the files into tmpeg but it wont recognize the video file. Audio works/is recognized fine. Any thoughts, suggestions? I have tried using both the newest and some of the older versions of tmpeg. I am running Windows XP home edition. Thanks.
BigDaddy

Do you have the DVD2AVI.VFP VFAPI Plugin installed???You do this By copying the DVD2AVI.vfp file from the DVD2AVI Directory into the Tmpgenc directory then make sure it shows up in the VFAPI Plugins..

I cannot convert the AVI movie files created by my Canon digi camera to MPEGs using v2.511. I get an error message saying that the file type is not supported. It will convert audio but not video. Any suggestions?

TYIA

tssfka

Well What Format does your Camera Produce??? is it DV?? if it is DV you will need a DV Codec installed, and if it is DV what type is it ,Type 1 or Type 2??

I'm having the same issues with my Polaroid Digital Camera. How do you find out what format the camera produces. ie, DV1, DV2 etc.

Use something like "GSpot" it will tell you everything about your AVI file But I"m sure it is Type 1 DV as Most use Type 1 DV these days...Just download a Couple DV codecs and see if that helps...

Better try to raise the priority of Directshow multimedia in Environmenal setting VFAPI Plugin. I have sony pcr-7 6m digial camcorder and normally I capture it to 25mbps dv-avi using ieee-1394 card.

Ok, how exactly does normalize work? does it compare all the files I am encoding and average them? how would I make a mass amount of files all the same? just put set it the same # all the time? also.. what happens if you change the volume settings on your computer in between normalizes? would that change what is "normal"?


Thanks

Normalize Just Averages out the audio for the File that is loaded into it, The Volume settings on your Computer have nothing to do with the Audio levels inside the Audio File...

Let's say I have a clip that's too quiet. What do I do with normalize once I'm inside Audio Edit? It goes between 0%-100% but what does it mean?

Likewise for a clip that's too loud.

I have found that there are three chioces in the audio channel in the setting.
Stereo, joint-stereo and dual-channel.
I'm converting Dvd to vcd but what is the difference between stereo and joint-stereo?
I have read something related to this issue but the one who answered just said it depends on what you wnat????
please I need to know what is the difference between them?

Well sterio is the Right chanell comeing out the Right speaker and the Left chanell comeing out the Left speaker, Joint sterio is Both the Left and Right Chanells being Played out of each Speaker, and Dual Chanell is one audio track Being Played out of one speaker and a Seperate audio track being played out the other so when Panning to the Right you can get a different audio track as when you pan to the Left..Just stick With Sterio for most Movies...

@Minion

Your explanation of Joint Stereo isn't right. What you descriped is Mono, not Stero or Joint Stereo.
Joint Stereo is a methode to save bitrate. It mixes right and left channel only for compression. If the right Channel can be compressed higher than the left, Joint Stereo use the "extraspace" for Data from the left channel (an vice versa). A Decompressed Joint Stereo-File will be in Stereo.

I"m sure Your Probably Correct,But how can you save bitrate when doing CBR audio encodeing???

Hehe, good Question. Joint Stereo is designed for low Bitrates. It does not realy save Bitrate, but does a better use of the given Bitrate.

Work's like this:
Encoder: Hey, there's a part in the left Channel that can be encodet with only 128 kbps instead of 192 kbps, and hey, there's also a Part in the right channel that need's more than 192 kbps, so why i don't use the Space in the left for the overhead of the right channel?

OK, it's not an exact description, but the best i can write in english... ;)

Im using the latest version (2.511) of tmpg but ive noticed that every now & again in an encoded film i get discolouration in dark areas, i encoded harry potter 2 as the dvd film is (no clippin, no resize) just to bring the size down to a single layered disc.

Any ideas on this problem ?

by the way i am framserving from dvd2avi.

There are Other ways to Make a Retail DVD Fit on a Single DVD-R while retaining all of the Menu"s and chapters, Programs Like "DVD2One" and "DVD-Shrink" can do it very well and DVD2One can do it very Fast Like in Just a Few Minutes..But if you are getting Bad Discoloration then that can be caused By Haveing a Bad codec installed on your System ,The codec is called "Angel Potion" if you have it you should delete it as it causes Purple and Pink discoloration on encoded files, But it really shouldn"t have a Problem useing D2V files, Make sure in DVD2AVI you have the colorspace settings set to "Yuv" and to "TV Scale"....

@yamyam
Minion is right, but there's an other possible reason for lightened dark areas if you are using DVD2AVI. What settings did you use? RGB-Colorspace or YUV? TV-Scale or PC-Scale? That's important!

I was using YUV - PC Scale all the time but at the moment im encoding the movie again with YUV - TV Scale to see if this makes any difference, never used the RGB setting. Hoping TV Scale Will cure my problem.

When trying to convert an NTFS AVI to PAL MPEG 2 using system(video-audio) the final MPEG has no sound when using the same avi for video and audio. Extracting the audio to wav using VirtualDub then using this wav as a separate audio file to create the MPEG leads to a file with sound out of synch by about 1 second after half an hour. Any suggestions

Firstly you can not use Tmpgenc to Properly Convert from NTSC/Pal,It just doesn"t work Properly, Tmpgenc Does not do Proper Frame rate conversions so when watching your Movie on TV you will get a Jumping or Skiping effect about every second or so.You might not see it Now But you will Once you are Watching in your DVD Player,If you watch it closely now I"m sure you will Notice it, And Trying to convert NTSC/Pal with Tmpgenc Can cause Sync Problems like you are getting....You can use AVISynth to Frameserve the file and use it to do the NTSC/Pal conversion But it is a Complicated tool to use if you have never used it, if you have a Good Video editor Like Vegas 4 or Premier you can use it to convert NTSC/Pal, Or if you can get a Copy of ProCoder it does good NTSC/Pal Conversions..There are also a Couple of other methods that Entail Changeing the Framerate of the AVI file then Changeing the length of the Audio to Match the Video...

Version 2.511 unstable?
TMPGEnc 2.511 may hang (blank window, TMPGEnc not responding, HD LED permanently "ON", processor load 100%) after quite some time of successful encoding. Strange: After a couple of re-starts the encoding of the entire movie my eventually succeed.
Never had this problem with older versions.
P4/XP/DX9/80GB HD/512MB RAM.

Hi.

Same problem for me. With 2.511 version, sometimes encoding is ok, but some other times not. I have dual processor and I discovered that if I disable multithread the hangs almost dissapear, but not completely anyway.
I hope it will be fixed in the following version.

Regards.

There seems to be a Bug in the Multi-threading in this Version so Poeple with Multiple Processors might find Problems useing the Multi-threading ..I would either just disable it till the next version comes out or use an older version till they fix this one...

With a couple of AVI file I receive a very green screen in TMPG while converting it to MPEG. What can I do to prevent that?

You will have to tell us a Bit more about these AVI files you are haveing Problems with, Like there Compression and were they are from, But off the Top of My head I would say that you should first try Raiseing the Priority of the Direct Show File reader in the Vfapi Plugins to about 2...

It concerns some XVID MPEG-4 coded files. They look very greenish and the pictures are as well unclear.

This is often a problem when using an older xvid codec to run newer xvid encoded videos. Uninstall the old codec, and download and install a new build of xvid.

What Might be better is to Install the FFDShow Filter, it decodes all Mpeg-4 and Other Formats usually better than the actual codecs do pluss it has a Lot of usefull decodeing options to optimize Playback Quality...