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Has anyone got any suggestions for settings to encode mpeg2 files to H.264 with very little visual loss. I would like to archive files using this format, but can't seem to work out all the settings... any ideas are greatly appreciated
i have video source material recorded in transport .m2t files.
my video editing system is avid media composer. unfortunatly avid has no support these files to directly import in aplication. and im using xpress to convert m2t to quicktime mov files. using option without compression full frames. ouput files becomes very large. its more then 10 times increases file sizes. what option i should use to save video quality unchanged and decrease file ouput sizes?
I am trying to recode 30 minutes of Full-HD .mts (Panasonic AVCHD - 3.3 GB) as WMV and it takes about 11 hours. :-( Surely this is a little over the top?
I note that .wmv is the only video I can work with on my Intel Core 2 machine with 4 GB of memory. Anything else just judders and jars.
I first used a bitrate of 8000 instead of the default of 1000, but am now trying 4000 deinterlaced. However I can leave my machine on for several weeks if I want to transcode everything. Is there a better way?
(Sorry if this is a dupe, but this forum interface is the least intuitive I have seen in years. I feel like I'm back in the Fidonet era! :-)
Martin
It could simply take that long.
I converted a 6 second full HD .m2ts file to WMV (default settings: bitrate of 1000, 1pass CBR) just to see how long it would take. It took 1 min 41 seconds. Doesn't sound long, but for a six second video, that's a long time.
Then again, I'm only on a Pentium4, so that's probably not helping.
It is taking exactly as long as it is supposed to. I have a Quad Core for my setup and it takes me anywhere from 5 to 8 hours to convert a movie to VMWHD. The problem isnt their software, but the way Microsoft does their WMV encoding. It is by far the slowest convertor that I have seen these days. I don't know why, it is just like that. So don't feel bad, I have heard of other people needing over 24 hours to do a conversion.
Unfortunately, that's how long it takes. I'm in the process of ripping/converting/upscaling my DVD collection to 1280x720 (720p) using WMV9AP (it has the best output over all other WMV codecs, even WMV9) and it takes 24 hours or so on my Quad Core Q9300 w/ 2GB of RAM .... per DVD.
On my Dual Core E6750 it took just over 48 hours per DVD.
XViD and H.2764 just don't provide the same quality for streaming to my XBox 360 since they are limited to 4GB in size.
I am using TMPGEnc to convert from AVI to MPEG2 so I can build DVDs from these files. For some reason the resulting MPEG2 files are much larger. The AVI files are ~300M and the MPEG2 files are 700M-1GB. Since MPEG2 is compress and lossy I would expect them to be smaller.
I have gone directly from AVI to MPEG2 and am also considering going from AVI->VirtualDub->AviSynth->TMPGEnc->MPEG2.
hello!I have some standard MPEG-2 files,I want save these file into a stardand DVD-R to play it on home DVD player.I use TDA3 to import these file,I want to know whether re-encode will done or not.thanks.
Actually, it depends on the source files. If your MPEG file is already DVD-compliant, it will not re-encode unless it's too big for the media. To easily check to see if your clips will re-encode or not, look for the "SR" or "FR" icon in the Source stage of the program. The icon will be next to the thumbnail of your clip in the source list. SR stands for Smart Rendering, which is what you are looking for, and will only re-encode edited sections of your clips, making output much faster. If you see the FR icon, then that means Full Rendering and your whole clip will be re-rendered.
Just to add some info...
If you mix aspect ratios in a track, then the non-matching aspect ratios will be re-encoded.
For example, if you have 2 16:9 clips and 1 4:3 clip in a single track, then the 4:3 clip will be fully re-encoded (to add black bars at the sides).
To avoid this, create two tracks, one for your 16:9 clips, and one for your 4:3 clips. Then all clips will be Smart Rendered.
Does 4.0 support blueray mkv encoding to divx or any other format? If so why wont it allow me to import it as a source file. but will allow a 1920x1080 wmv file as a source. The result of this encode is wonderful, but will I only be able to use wmv and not blueray mkv?
Whenever i bring 1440x1080 HDV clip to the program it reads it correctly as 16:9. Unfortunately when rendered to QT it creates black bars on top and the bottom so to work around it i force the program it present the clip as 4:3 -- that gets rid of the black bars... But when i bring in loots of clips they all read 16:9 and i have to manually set their aspect ratio -- can i just highlight all clips and do it just a few clicks or do i have to do it manually one clip at a time?
I cannot install this product on my machine....I keep getting 'wizard was interrupted" error and then it goes to finish and foes not install. I am able to install other software. I have tried everything and still it does not install...HELP PLEASE...
Yes, this is possible.
In the Menu Stage, go to the Page Editor tab and double-click on the thumbnail you want to change.
The Menu Item Editor window should appear.
Move the playhead to the frame you want to appear as your thumbnail image and click on the "Set as start frame" button (it's the button with the downward arrow).
The blue bar indicating the active frames should change once you click on that button.
That's it! This frame will now appear in your menu, but when you play the clip, it will start from the beginning.
Setting the start and end frames can be used in conjunction with the motion menus as well in case you only want a certain section of the clip to play as the menu thumbnail.
You can change the encoding with a text editor. A nice one I like using is called EmEditor. You can download a free trial of it here: http://www.emeditor.com/
Once it's installed, you can open the .srt file with EmEditor, then select "Save As..." in the File menu. In the Save As window, there is a drop-down menu where you can select UTF-8 encoding.
>You can change the encoding with a text editor. A nice one I like using is called EmEditor. You can download a free trial of it here: http://www.emeditor.com/
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>Once it's installed, you can open the .srt file with EmEditor, then select "Save As..." in the File menu. In the Save As window, there is a drop-down menu where you can select UTF-8 encoding.
How can I thank you man? this little trick make things easy to me for now, I just saved it with "UTF-8 no siganture" and import it, it work like charm! thank you so much tkrave.
My problem is it keeps freezing and than vista hav to close it down
doe anybody know what can help
Also if i save een projekt i can cut/edit it then is vreezes also
thanks
I am having the same problem and just submitted a request for tech support. What are the details of your problem? The program hangs for me when trying to convert a 9GB AVCHD file to MPG-2 DVD format. It finishes through the analyze step and then hangs when it starts the writing the file output. It works fine for smaller files. I'm running Vista with 4GB of memory and 500GB of free HD space. Intel Duo 2 Core process. The computeris more than up to the task ofsupporting this type of workload.
I Just tried TMPGEnc DVD Author 3.0 With Divx Authoring and I have
a few questions about it.
What does it transcode the video for?
Can't it just author the DivX files without encoding them?
and another thing...
Why does the only subtitles language it support is English?
If your video is too big, it will transcode it to fit your target media (dl dvd, single layer dvd, etc.).
DivX DVDs will always be re-encoded because of the DivX Ultra file structure and the fact that "Smart Rendering" can't be applied to DivX files. A DivX Ultra DVD is basically one huge file which includes the tracks and menus. So it will take all of your separate clips and re-encode them together even if your clips are already in DivX format.