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Has anybody experimented with settings on you DV camcorder that produce better MP2 results when later converted? For example, I can change the shutter speed to decrease smearing on fast camera or subject movements. However, increaseing shutter speed means you need more light which lowers you depth of field which can make non-subject areas of the shot out of focus, etc. etc.
Wondered if anybody had done some work in this area to find optimal config. I understand that the movie makers had to send their directors and camera operators back to school to learn how to shoot film for optimum DVD results. Different techniques from the old celluloid days.
I am having problem opening a AVI file created by Premiere. I added some title
to the original film (avi also, and tmpgenc had no problem with it), and exported to the following format:
what error does premiere give when you try to open the file?
what codec are you using to encode the file in tmpgenc? sounds like premiere is not happy with the format your video is in..
I am trying to convert an AVI file to VCD format and I get the error message "Illegal floating decimal point calculation order." with both TMPGEnc 2.58.44.152 and TMPGEnc Plus 2.58.44.152. I have searched these forums and in accordance, have tried the following to no avail:
- Unchecked all the Environmental->CPU settings (MMX, MMX-2, SSE, etc)
- Increased the DirectShow Multimedia File Reader Priority to 2
- Unchecked "Use floating point DCT" under the Quantize Matrix settings
This file was captured with VirtualDub 1.4.10 build 13870 (using PICVideo MJPEG compression) and I have done "Scan video stream for errors" in VirtualDub which hasn't found anything.
I have tried more than one AVI file that I've captured and all give the same error message at one point or another. Note that the frame it fails on seems to be random: sometimes it will only run for a few seconds and sometimes it will run for 15 minutes or more without failing.
My machine is an Athlon XP 1800+ with 512 megs of RAM, running Windows 2000.
Now here's an interesting part: I have found an old copy of TMPGEnc, version Beta 12i (0.11.27.111) Core version 1.76.112, on my machine and have tried using that to convert the files. All of the files convert perfectly with that version, even with all the options like SSE and "Use floating point DCT" on. I have tried each version many times so I think the results are probabalistically sound.
Does anyone have any suggestions of anything to try? If there is some way of turning on some debugging mode I'd be happy to try it and email or post the results. Also, if anyone has a link to an older version of TMPGEnc but newer than Beta 12i I can try that and see if I can identify which version starts having these problems. Thanks for any help.
If you want maximum quality during fast motion for replay on an interlaced display (TV), do not use the deinterlace filter. The resulting file may look worse on a progressive display (computer), depending on how well the player software does deinterlacing.
Deinterlacing is a compromise and you have to decide which type of display you want the best result on.
Use a two step process here. Archive the camera footage with least amount of loss and then do all authoring from that. This allows you to go back and work at a higher quality levels in the future, even if the tapes are lost.
Archival settings would be 15Mbs/CQ_VBR/qual=100 and interlaced (bottom field first, I believe, for DV). Audio should be 384Kbs, or even save a wav file.
One gotcha: TMPGEnc seems to clip all black and white levels outside the CCIR limits (8-235) no matter how the CCIR checkbox in the quantization sheet is checked. Serve through Virtualdub "levels" filter to accurately get your footage within the 8-235 limits (you can also cut unwanted footage here.)
Discard the larger AVI files and use these archives as source for DVD compliant encoding. Burn them to DVD-R as raw mpeg files for backup. These can even be decoded to Huffyuv AVI for future editing with no visible loss.
I've worked with the former versions of this product and had no probs whatsoever.
Now I installed the latest version and tried to put Lord of the Rinds (AVI format) to SVCD again (it worked in the former versions without any problems).
Now I get this Error -272762914 98304 that pops up every 3-5 seconds. When I click OK it goes away, tmpgenc starts encoding again en stops 3-5 seconds later with exact the same error.
I run an Athlon 850Mhz with 384Mb RAM and 5Gb free on the temp folder and 8Gb free on the partition the SVDS's are written to.
Hey..
i was trying to convert some .avi files
(actually, i dont even know if they are .avi. they are the
warcraft 3 cinematic files, they came as .mpq, but in WMP they work
ok when renamed to avi...)
well i wanted to convert them to mpeg to create an svcd, and what i got is
tons of green fields in the movie (so there's some part of the movie, but
lots of it is covered with green).
i tried filters, but i didn't change anything...
Depending on whether the files are MPEG or AVI, try raising the priority of the MPEG1 decoder or the directshow multimedia file reader in the VFAPI plugins to 2 as it seems this is simply a decoding problem.
this is what i figured..
the file is some sort of a divx file, with a codec called blizo or something
(as in blizzard, the warcraft developer).
and ashy, i don't see where im supposed to set the settings u told me to..
That is not how you Make a VCD from a DVD...You are doing a lot of stuff that does not need to be done and you are looseing Quality in the Proscess..You do NOT need to make a AVI file to encode to VCD..You can encode straight from the Vob file useing DVD2AVI to frame serve to Tmpgenc it is a totally easy proscess and the Quality is MUCH Better and it is a Much Faster proscess cuz you don"t need to make a AVI file first...You need to Download "DVD2AVI" then all you do is after you have ripped your VOB files to your Harddrive you load the VOB files into "DVD2AVI" and make a "D2V" project file and a WAV audio file then you just load the "D2V project file into Tmpgenc as the Video source and the WAV audio file in as the audio source the encode to VCD...This is the Best way to encode DVD Rips and get the Best Quality Possible and it is way easier and faster..There are Tutorials for useing DVD2AVI and doing DVD Rips at "http://www.vcdhepl.com/....
after ripping the dvd, i get a pop up window saying batch encoding, start 00:00, finish 00:00, when i press ok or try to close this window, another screen comes up and says, you new file is in "my folder" but it has disappeared when i try to search for it.
are you using a VFAPI plugin to read the mov file? perhaps tmpgenc is understanding the video but not the audio, by some primitive method.. if you can't find the plugin then email me. otherwise perhaps you could try a different program to extract the audio from the mov file.
I was converting a 104 minute avi (MSmpegv2) to vbr mpg1, and got a 90 hour estimate. That's doable. however after about 17 hours of processing tmpgenc hung on a frame that is the last 10 seconds of the movie.. the 'analysing' is still there, but the process bar wasn't even at 15%, and the estimated time left kept dropping faster than the processing time it took as of that moment...
are there movie conditions that make tmpgenc hang and just think it's still processing?
It is most likely a problem with the file you are encodeing , there could be some sort of header anomily that tmpgenc is reading incorrectly..You might be able to fix this bt useing the "Source Range" to set the Begining and End points of the file..or you can try frame serveing it with "Virtual Dub"...
im just wondering if anyone else out there has the same problem as me...for ages now ive been unable to convert from avi to mpeg with tmpg without the sound being out of sync.The avi plays in sync with "power DVD" ...but when the wav is extracted with virtuadub and inserted into tmpg ..then encoded its always out of sync...no matter how much i retard or advance the audio (done in source range).
Its as if the audio has been stretched or shrunk in size but the video and audio are same length ???
This never happened before so ive done summit wrong :(
Ive even encoded the same film which was ok before i had this trouble and even that is now of out of sync ???
I dont want to do a full system wipe just to get it back to normal
by the way...if i encode the movie using MGi videowave 4...the audio comes out fine...but the quality is crap compared to tmpg..so i dont really want to use it
Before encodeing with TMPGENC you have to extract the audio from your AVI to a WAV file with "Virtual Dub" then encode that as the audio source with Tmpgenc...
I have noticed that with "Virtual dub" sometimes when extracting the audio the audio files goes out of sync cuz the original avi files audio has a slight audio skew at the begining of the file..So what I have been useing which works Much better than V-Dub for extracting audio is "Sound Forge" cuz it extracts the audio starting from the start of the video file as opposed to extracting it with the original audio skew at the begining,you can probably find links to a full version at h**p://forum.cdrsoft.cc/ it is a great information site...