I have been creating movie previews by using the "Merge & Cut" feauture under "MPEG Tools". However, it's rather time consuming to manually enter each edit point from an entire movie file, just to create a 30 or 60 second clip. Is there an easier/faster way to do this? It would be nice if there was a feature in TMPGEnc that all you had to do is load the movie file(s) and, with after entering a few parameters, it would generate a preview clip for you. Any ideas? Any programs currently available that does that?

You can choose the parts of a avi file that you want to encode by useing the "source range" feature in the "advanced settings"..say you want to save a 5 minute clip of a movie and the clip is in the middle of the file ,you load your avi file into "tmpgenc" go to the "source range" and choose were you want your clip to begin and were you want it to end ,then when you encode it will just encode the part you chose.If there are a bunch of clips you want to save out of an avi. file, instead of encodeing after chooseing your clip you save the project and then choose the next clip and save the project till you have set up and saved project files for all your clips in the avi file, then you go to "batch encode" and load in all your project files then click "run" and "tmpgenc" will just encode the clips that you want from the avi file...I hope this is what you were looking for ? this is just one of the excelent features of "tmpgenc" ......

I'm converting some of my DVDs to VCD for my son (He doesn't have a DVD player).
I have a Region 2 DVD that has 3 languages. TMPEnc seems to select the Italian track. Is there a way to tell TMPEnc to use the english audio track?
regards

iain

What are you doing ?are you loading the vob files directly in to "tmpgenc"..If that is what you are doing, don"t!, get "dvd2avi" and it will extract the right audio track for you and downmix and convert it to wav,and it will give you a d2v file with all the info for all your vob files, and you load that in to "tmpgenc"...It is a great tool

Thanks for the info. I'm pretty new to this stuff. When I first started I used the AVI format but found the files were enormous. Thats why I wanted to go straight from VOB to MPEG.

Does the tool you reccomend extract the video also or should I still dump the VOB into TMPEnc with the wave?

regards

Iain

Need a bit more help. I tried using DVD2AVI and extracted the WAV file. TMPEnc reported that it was an "ilegal MPEG Audio Stream"

I can get AC3 files out of DVD2AVI. Is there an application that will convert AC3 to a valid MP2?

regards iain

The new version of TMPGenc plus includes a full guide as to how to use the software...It is very well written and gives tyou step by step instructions as to how to use all the functions....That is one of the benefits I think of the plus version....

I am a registered user of plus. I liked it so much I paid for it.
what manual are you talking about??...I didn't get one.
-veloborg

The new version of "TMPGEnc Plus version 2.54" includes it.
If you are registered user, you can get it for free!

I just went to the "pegasus " download page for the plus version and there doesn"t seem to be a new "plus" version the one there is still the "2.53 plus" version,I think that they just put a manual in the 2.53plus zip file..don"t matter to me cuz the last 2 versions have been great with no problems you can"t fix........

Well I downloaded it yesterday so I don't know where you were looking but I just checked and it's there all right.
http://www.pegasys-inc.com/e_download.html

ASHY

whenever I used merge/cut with an mpg file, it introduced a screeching noise
in the audio track.
2.54 seems to have fixed this.
-veloborg

I understand that Nero can "normalize" all the tracks on an audio CD
so that one does not have to constantly adjust the volume.
What setting for normalize is best?
sorry for being off topic.
-veloborg

Way off topic!!!!!!!!!!!!

not as far off topic as you might imagine.
I note that the same people who use TMPGEnc also use Nero.
-Don

I have an interlaced source file and would like to deinterlace it. However, I don't want to blend (Double) the 2 fields. Using TMPGEnc, is there a way to determine exactly which field to deinterlace (odd or even)?

In the "settings" in "advanced" double click the "de-interlace"and a screen with your movie and a slider so you can scan your movie,and there are many settings for deinterlace,what I do is scan through my movie file and go to some realy bad scenes were the lines are really noticeable and just go through the settings till I find the best one that seems to get rid of the lines in each scene,It takes time but through trial and error you will find the best setting for you..........

I have tried to convert .mov file to MPG, but TMPGEnc freezes at 33/5401 everytime. I have the QTReader,vfp codec but it still won't work. It is 80Kb in size but I have no date of Construction fo the codec.

I have the same problem. I captured some video with MS MovieMaker and whenever I try to convert it using TMPEnc, it frezees after about 10 seconds of video. I have tried the latest version (2.54a) but the problem still persists. The program even freezes after 10 seconds if I just try to 'preview'.

Thanks for any help.

Jatin

I try to convert an avi file i downloaded, but get a message that the file cannot be opened or unsupported. If it is an avi why am i getting that?

i don't know if this helps any but i just looked at the file and it is a mpeg layer 3..

Go to your "enviromental settings" then to "vfapi plugins" and raise your "direct show" to "2" and everything else to "0" this should solve yer problem.....

I have an AVI file of a movie which is widescreen (letterboxed). When I encoded it to MPEG-1, it was expanded to full screen, which compressed the picture horizontally (everyone and everything was tall and skinny).

So I tried re-encoding it with the aspect ratio set to 4:3, and nothing changed (it had been originally at 1:1).

Is there any way to do this so that the resulting MPEG-1 comes out letterboxed like the original?

Thanks, and if you can e-mail me as well, that'd be great.

Lisa

Hello,
I hope I can help you with this information.
(My English isn't the best)

I can give the following hint if you are using version2.53.
Start the Project Wizard (it's the easiest way) and on screen 3 of 5 Check the box "Clip Frame" and modify the settings. As follows.

1.Click Arrange settings
2. selcet Arrange mode: "Center (Custom size)"
3.Enter 354 x 202 or 352 x 200

I hope I helped you
George

George,

Im sure that works for avi files you encoded so far but the best method is to stick with the intended settings and only try out manual adjustments if the AVI isnt exactly 16:9.

Allow me to quote Ashi for the procedure:
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Under the advanced tab choose the source aspect ratio as 16:9 display and the Video arrange method as 'Full screen (keep aspect ratio)'
If encoding in MPEG1 then make sure your output aspect ratio is 4:3 PAL or NTSC depending on your TV system.
If encoding in MPEG2 choose you output as 4:3 display.
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If youre using an template you already have the correct output aspect ratio.

Is it possible to set the audio setting smaller to 32 kbits/s ?

The idea is to create an mpeg video which will streams through a 56k modem.
With 32 kbits for the audio, we only have around 8 kbits for the image which is not really enough for a good quality.

Any idea? Request for next version?

Thanks,

Marc

Mpeg is not a good format to stream over a 56k connection due to the lower compression.
I would use a different format for streaming such as WMV which is far more efficient for streaming.

ASHY

Yes, I know but this is a client request and I couldn't persuade him for another format...

Hovewer, this doesn't resolve my problem.

Ok, my only suggestion is to create an mp3 out of your audio and multiplex this with your video. Some mp3 encoders will let you select a bitrate as low as 8kb.
TMPGenc will let you do this.
I recommend downloading the latest version 2.54 for this first.
Load your audio file into TMPG then click File>output to file and choose 'wave file'
In the audio section click the setting button on the right to chooses the Mp3 codec, the lowest one here seems to be 8kb at 8,000hz.
Once you have selected your codec then click 'save as type' and change to 'All files(*.*)' then name your output and give it an .mp3 extension and click save.

Then multiplex the output with your video. As long as the player at the other end has the ability to decode mp3 which of course media player has then there should be no problem with decoding the stream.

Note: You may have download and install the radium mp3 codec for full mp3 encoding options.

ASHY

How do you grab the settings from an existing mpeg file? i hear this is possible, but where do i go?

http://teco.emg.hu/bitratev/BV.EXE

ASHY

Will someone please help!!!!!!!! when i just began using tmpgenc and when i started to decode an avi file into a mpeg file i get this error saying "an error occurred when audio was decoded" what does this mean?!?! please help!!!!!!!

Are you using 2.53? I used to get this error in 2.53, but it's not happening for me in 2.54.

Steve Anderson

i have that problem too... so will 2.54 help then??? i should try that.