A friend wants some of my HDV video in AVCHD format, similar to his Sony HD camcorder output. What shoud I select as the output format?

I'm running a new system with i7-2600k @ 4.5GHz (Sandy Bridge) on win 7 x64 with 8GB ram, an Nvidia GTX560 card w/ 2GB memory, on an Asrock Z68 motherboard. I convert both MPEG2 and VC-1 files to MP4 with 5.1 sound for my home network video server. Any suggestions on best settings to use for good quality with best transcoding speed? (sources are either 720x480 or 1080p from DVD and/or blu-ray rips) The best I've been getting so far using a 720x480 source and same resolution output in x264 mp4 format is around 18 minutes to process a 2 hour movie. I have the intel HD grahics available, the cuda access, or straight cpu (with 4 core / 8 threads). Any thoughts on best settings for this?

Use Intel SDK Hardware.
The fastest one.

i have the exact system you have (great minds think alike)i've used version 4 for a while now with diferent systems and output speed now is great it would take me anywhere from 1.5 hr to 4hr per movie, now start to disk exit in 15 minutes is great i can't think of a faster system now of coures is technolgy gets better it will get faster but the system we have now this is great just keep the setup as you have it

I need to convert many files and I want output them as separate files. I cannot for the life of me find a way to do this. I can add them one at a time and then do a batch encode but that is time consuming. Is there no way to do this? I see options that talk about "outputting clips separately" but I find no tick box to select that option. Google search says this was an option in 4 xpress. I'm sure there is an easy way and I'm just overlooking it. Thanks for your help.

The "output clips separately" option is only for Normal editing mode. It allows you to output each clip in the Edit Stage as a separate file.

I've been using TMPGEnc since the version 4 days. I like it. V5 with x264 seems to scale better (or at least use more of the CPU consistantly) on my quad system. I prefer to set every setting on the most cpu-intensive/quality settings. This means that encoding takes a long time... even for my over clocked quad core system. AMD opteron CPUs are relatively cheap and I was wondering if it were worth investing in a rendering system. Can TMPGEnc scale up to 16 or even 48 cores well.

I'm guessing it will, but I don't know for sure since I've only used it with up to 8 cores. The x264 encoder uses nearly 100% of my CPU. Optimization varies for the other formats/encoding engines.

Thanks for the feedback. I've only seen v4 on an 8 thread machine (i7 4 core with HT). It did not load the entire cpu. I believe v5 probably does use a cpu better, but I still can't help but wonder about much higher scaling. In other words I could spend like $1,000 for get 12 cores at ~2.2Ghz-2.6GHz or I could spend around $3,000 and get 48 cores. Could you imagine the let down when only 8 cores were being used?

I am trying to emulate the behaviour of a DVD within one DivX file and this program seems to be doing the trick except for one (rather important) feature, and I hope I'm just missing something.
I have multiple pages of menus, but when each clip (movie) reaches the end, it always returns to the title menu, no matter which menu the clip was linked from in the first place - which means that to play the next clip in line, one must navigate back to that menu every time. Very frustrating, is there a way around this??
I'm hoping there is some sort of "End Action" behaviour function like in Adobe Encore which can be set for each individual clip and basically orders a function like "On clip end, return to menu x, button x"

It's not possible with DivX menus. I'm pretty sure this is a limitation of the DivX Ultra format.

When I am encoding a Windows Media Video (recorded tv) .wtv, the encoding process completes, however, the finished video ALWAYS freezes about 15 minutes into the viewing process. Any suggestions on how to fix this?

Thanks

This happens with every wtv file or just one? Are you converting to DVR-MS?

This does not happen when I convert it to DVR-MS. It only happens when I load the file in its native form. It does happen with every recorded .wtv file. I was hoping to bypass DVR-MS process, but it doesn't seem like that is possible.

I have the same problem. The hotline doesn't do anything...I have the problem when WTV are in Full HD with E-AC3 sound (Dolby Digital plus)

Please can someone advise me how to import mov file with metadata such as time code track and two audio streams.
It seems that this works perfectly in TMPGEnc 4.0 XPress.
Many thanks in advance.

Trying to get Pal export on mpeg-4 at 1280x720.
Question - Is their a way of setting up a custom templete for this.
I'm not in an ntsc Country and moving the video into other editing programs that need pal for the workflow.I know about my generic 720x576 pal,its the 720p for working in higher resolutions.My choices are mpeg-4 and avi for my programs.

I found the Avanced MPEG output button which is only to do with detail settings
for your current codec choice mpeg-4 720p where you can change it to pal.
The GUIs for various programs can be so different,that secondary box on the left was only a advanced settings output box.

Is there a way to change the permanent filter list?
I mean every time you add a new subtitle to a file you need to edit the filter list so to add the subtitles filter. If you got many files this is getting annoying.

Thanks/

Yes. Create your filter list with your preferred filters. Save it as a filter template.

Then in the preferences-->Clip editing-->Clip default settings, you can select your filter template as the default filter list.

Note that any filters and settings active when you save the template will be active by default, so save the template before you make any changes to the filters.

Thank you.

Hi,

when I try to export to QuickTime, I get errors:

An error occured during the file output processing. (-50)


Are there any logs I can post for further information?


Kind regards,
A.

I have a HP dual-core AMD computer with Windows 7 , running on 3 gigs DDR3 memory and I just recently purchased Mastering Words 5.
I tried to encode Blue-ray and it took over six hours for a 120 min movie.
I tried to encode a tv dvd that I own and convert the files to AVI and one file with a time length of 24 mins took over 4 hours!!!
I have used this program in the past and I noticed that sometimes it would encode very slowly and then sometimes it would work fine. I tried the batch encoding and the times were even longer.
thanks.

6 hours for a 2 hour HD movie is not bad I think. At this price point, you aren't going to get realtime encoding...Definitely not with those computer specs.

As for your AVI, what codec were you using? The codec could be your bottleneck. That could also be why the encoding times were different in the past; you could have been using a different codec.

Hi...

Using TMPGEnc Master Works 5, I'm trying to encode an uncompressed AVI at 923x421 into an MP4 at the same dimensions. Importing the video, the software recognizes the dimensions, but when I try to encode it, it changes them to 924x424.

No matter what I try, I'm not able to use my 923x421. What's happening?

thank you!

MP4 must be even numbers. You cannot make a 923x421 video in MP4.