I have a dv av now card, with a sony dcr-vx2000 attack directly from the camera to the capture card. I capture with dvd ntsc quality in premiere 6.0.
When I export to to tmpgenc 2.59 with the dvd 720 quality, I get offsetting horizontal lines in the video , mainly in motion. I am not real pleased with the quality, since I was hoping to copy all of my home videos to dvd this christmas.
1. Is this lack of horizontal quality normal with tmpgenc?
2. What is the best capture card out there, and would it make any difference to upgrade the capture card?

Any suggestions are greatly appreciated in advance.
Thanks,
S. Hough

horizontal lines are common in encoding processes, try using a de-interlace feature. Play around with it, I think it may fix the problem you're describing.

If you are authoring for settop DVD players DO NOT deinterlace.

DV video is interlaced/60 fields a second which is exactly what a TV displays (NTSC). Viewing on computer software DVD players will exhibit some interlace artifacts because computer display is progressive. Sacrifice that in order to keep your video in the native TV format.

Be assured that TMPG is an extremely high quality encoder (at the expense of time). An ave/max bitrate of 5Mbs/8Mbs in 2-pass VBR mode should produce video indistinguishable from the original tape. Don't settle for anything less! (Some color/gamma/contrast adjustments may be necessary.)

Make sure the field order of the source video sheet is set properly. DV is bottom field first (I believe). If final display on a TV is jittery during motion, the field order is wrong.

If you want truly archival encoding, 15 Mbs CQ_VBR qual=100 is the way to go. For Hi8 tape, I use 4:2:2 profile to retain color resolution. This can later be reencoded to a DVD compliant bitrate determined by how much needs to fit on the particular disc being authored. (Reencoding 4:2:2P video is best done by frameserving from DVD2AVI back into TMPG.)

Your problem is interlacing artifacts. You should try and capture to progressive frames not interlaced.

If you are capturing using a pulldown method with premier, which means that the framerate is really a 23.976 progressive format, but pulldown is added which is a process of adding extra frames to create a 29.97 interlaced format the you can use the IVTC filter in TMPG which will return the movie back to a progressive 23.976. This will remove the interlacing artifacts.

Re-encode to MPEG2 using the '3:2 pulddown when playback' method with TMPG to make the file play at 29.97 fps.

ASHY

Im using some software the require two different encoders, TMPG one of them, the other Cinema craft encoder V2.5, I have the trial version that leaves there water mark on the edge of the screen, does anyone happen to know where I can get hold of a hacked copy of the software ??? any help will be great !!

Is it DVD2SVCD by any chance? You don't actually need both encoders, but one or the other.

CCE is the better MPEG2 encoder and TMPG the better MPEG1 encoder.

As for removing the watermark, come on use your noggin. Ever heard of a search engine or a crack?

ASHY

want to convert some DivX AVI file to MPEG, but when I choose those files, system always notice "File xxx can not open or unsupported".

Is here any suggestion for converting of DivX to MPEG?

thanks for your kind assistant in advance.

If i use MPEG2 files from TMPGenc 2.57 in Ulead DVD Movies Factory or in Ulead DVD Workshop for DVD authoring; in my DVD reader (a new JVC) my sound get out of sync after few minutes!
If i stop and start the DVD or if y move back a bit the sound get in sync...

If i use the in-built Ulead encoder with my initial AVI file i have no problem with sound (but the movies quality is not so good !).

With Ligos to encode the sound in TMPGenc i get the same problem !!!

What can i do ?
Is it a TMPGenc template problem ?

i downloaded tmpgenc plus 2.59 and when i start recording, i do not get a picture in the preview screen. i raised my direct show to 2 and still no picture
can anyone help

Be sure to check in ,,option,,,preview option,,, to make sure you have picked one of the 2 lower 3 options. Check the box.

S. Hough

I've recently been using Tmpgenc to convert some home videos, but recently, when I was trying to do a batch convert I moved one of the vids up in the list. It caused an error in LMPGAD.Ax. I restarted the computer like it said to and then I tried again, same thing. Now, any video I try to convert causes the error. The video still converts, but the audio does not, therefore I'm guessing that lmpgad is an audio component. Anyways, anyone know how to fix this? Any help is greatly appreciated.

Well, I kinda fixed it. Ulead installed it and I dunno why the file has gone crazy the last few days, but I found out where it was located and simply renamed it to lmpgab.ax and the videos now convert fine with sounds. If I have any problems with the new filename I'll change it back, but it's looking OK for now. Hope this helps someone else.

Dear All,

Whow can help me ? I have an .AVI file which is 699MB. I convert it to TMPGenc its became 866MB which too big,,How can i resize it ? coz. i want to burn it in a cd.

How come ? Who can help, it happens with more .AVI's by the way.

Mr Mhod
hsmohsen@yahoo.com

What's your AVI and what are your encode settings? After knowing these may I find what's the problem.

That ok divx small mpeg big.

Hi. I am new to all of this. Can anyone please explain why most (but not all)of the avi files I have encoded (to write to VCD PAL) come out with no sound? The source avi files are all MPEG Layer III but with a range of different bit rates. How do I get the sound?

I just had the same problem. Are you using DVD2AVI? I was, and couldn't get sound. I had to go into DVD2AVI and click on Audio->Track Number=>Track 2. For some reason, it was set to Track 1 and the audio portion was on track 2. This solved my 'sound' problem. Hope it helps

Thanks for the help everyone. With your help I've cracked it! Movies are better with sound!!!!!!!!!!

Hi. I'm new to this. Can anyone explain why some/most of the avi files I have encoded (for writing to VCD PAL) do not have any sound. They are all MPEG Layer III in the source avi files although they all seem to have different bit rates.

You will find all the information you need in here:
www.vcdhelp.com

You should try extracting the audio to a WAV file with "Virtual Dub" and use that as the audio source...

Thanks for your help everyone. With your help I've cracked it! Movies are better with sound!!!!!!!!

Hi,

Is there a way to convert RV9 files to mpeg2 files with TMPGEnc ?

Thank
Philippe

No....You would need to comvert the RM Files to AVI first with something like "Tinra" or "EO-Video" then encode the AVI with tmpgenc..

Thanks

I have a problem when I'm trying to start converting .vdr file which is coming from virtualdub with TMEGEnc. When I try to get it run it reports ACM cannot be initialized. I also tried to raise the Directshow to +2 but the program stops responding when I set "ok"....
Could this be somekind of codec problem or what ?

The ACM has to do with the "Audio Compression Manager" so try to encode it without the audio and encode the audio seperately and Mux them together after encodeing...

Dear All,

Whow can help me ? I have an .AVI file which is 699MB. I convert it to TMPGenc its became 866MB which too big,,How can i resize it ? coz. i want to burn it in a cd.

How come ? Who can help, it happens with more .AVI's by the way.

Mr Mhod
hsmohsen@yahoo.com

You have to lower the "Bitrate"...