I'm ripping a VCD and them getting an MPEG but the MPEG is not compatible with the program Im using DVDit so I have to TMPEG it. but I have a feeling the quality is being lost to do this and I have to use a MPEG1 formate to work with this program what would be the best codes to use to keep the quality cause it seems like the video quality is fading and what would you think would be the best codes for MPEG1 or MPEG2 quality period.

I don"t have a total grasp of what you are trying to say but re-encodeing a File will allways loose some Quality ,It can not be avoided..Useing a Higher bitrate will give you a picture that is closer to the original picture than if useing a Lower bitrate...I didn"t know that DVDit did VCD"s...

Ok, I have tryed all the options to remove the interlacing lines from my video footage, and it is never any different, Question, I only have the trial version of tmpg, (which is a good job if this doesn't work), is the trial version restricted in any way ?, Why can I not remove this Interlace problem, this is the only thing now stopping me from buying the software, apart from that it's the best encoder ive used.

N E help ????

My favorite subject. Here are things to consider:

- If goal is to author for settop player and TV viewing, leave it interlaced but make sure the source page in tmpgenc has the correct top/bottom field order setting.

- If goal is to watch on a computer with DVD player software consider that they have pretty decent deinterlacing which may be acceptable. The artifact is far less noticeable than processing tools which display the raw merged frame. Forget about using Media Player, it does no deinterlacing and does not display a proper aspect ratio for 720x480 video.

- If pristine stop frame appearance is needed, use Virtualdub. The builtin deinterlace/blend followed by mild sharpening is great for low motion material. The add-on plugin, "Smart Deinterlace", with motion threshold set very low is great at interpolating a single, crisp frame from two fields with a lot of motion. Follow this with a smoother if it has artifacts.

- If the video is deinterlaced, always set the output format to "non-interlace" otherwise settop players may not frame step through the material properly.

I have a question regarding video cards. I buying yet another new system, and was advised to spend an extra 220.00 on a better video card. Both cards are 64mb nVidia. Would a better card make the encoding go faster? If I'm spending the money is it best to do it on memory or processor?


Steven

A Video card will have little or no effect at all when it comes to encodeing..what you need for fest encodeing is a Fast prosessor and a whack of ram helps too...

How much memory would you suggest. I have systems with pc800 ram. It costs a lot of $$$$$$ . I'm using downloaded movies (AVI) 700mb . Would that suggest that I should have at least 700mb in ram too?

Steven

Ram isn"t as in portant as Prosessor power..Usually 256-512mb should be fine..I use PC2100-DDR and it is the same price as PC133-sdr were I live..Tmpgenc isn"t the fastest encoder around and if you are just looking for fast encodeing speed then it might be cheaper to just use a faster encoder...And I would sugest not useing Downloaded movies cuz they cause a lot of problems like Corupted files incorect frame rates audio sync problems uncompatible audio formats and wierd resolutions and they aren"t the best Quality..Get a DVD-Rom and rip DVD"s and you will get the best Quality with out the problems that come with downloaded movies...

Hi, firstly i must say that Tmpgenc is really great! considering it free to encode mpeg 1 files for VCD! Anyway here's my question:

Is there a way to export from premiere timeline to Tmpgenc? currently i have to export to avi first then use Tmpgenc to convert avi to mpeg 1. thanks in advance for assisting!

I think that with avisynth export plugin you can export premiere timeline to Tmpgenc.

Great! I think Premiere is great for editing and Tmpgenc is an excellent encoder. Where would I be able to get this plug-in?

Thanks....Daniel

AviSynth isn"t really a Plugin,but I think you can install the Video server to export files into Tmpgenc try going here :http://www.videotools.net/ and read up on it cuz useing AVISynth isn"t like useing any other video tool it can be a lot more complicated but the video server should be fairly straight foreward..

hi guachiquey / anyone...

Can you tell me how to use avisynth export plugin to export premiere timeline to Tmpgenc? THanks a lot!!

ps: By the way, where do i get the plug-in? :P

I've been using Tmpeg for years now since it started and I agree with Sam that this is a great tool. It would be a great combination if TMPG Enc Net can give us a version that is plug-in to Premiere. Please ! can we have a plug-in. BBMPG premiere plugin is ok but I sill prefer TMPG......

Hi,

I've recently purchased TmpgEnc Pro. Great product. Nice price!

Originally I noticed that I could adjust the settings. But now they are locked at some default setting (everything is greyed out).

What do I need to do to be able to manually adjust the settings again under Stream Type?

Thanks,

Jim

You mean Tmpgenc Plus?...you need to load the "Unlock.mcf" Template from the "Extra" Folder..this will unlock ALL the settings...

Hi I have your 2.58 version (free) and have been able to take a mpg movie and cut it into different parts/segments (under mpeg tools/cut-join), but when i play them there is no audio to them at all. The video is great.. but no audio ! I want to be able to join the different segments of the movie and have audio with it.. what do i do to get the audio back, it's in the original mpg movie.. thanks.. Nedburt.

Use something else to edit your Mpeg files...

Can you recommend something to use to do the audio portion ?? and then do I just "join" the two files into one mpg file ?? thanks.. N.

If you can"t get tmpgenc to cut the file with the audio then there are no magic settings to make it reapear..Try useing a Different Mpeg editor like Mpeg2VCR or m2-edit pro..Go to http://apachez.net and go to the tools section a Download a Mpeg editor...

Does the author of TMPGEnc read this BBS? I'd like to know why rendering an MPG
from multiple AVIs (of same res/specs) isn't possible... or is it planned? There's
no technical reason why it can't be done, and it's a much-needed feature.

I'll put in my 2 cents before the other guys.

Appending AVI files is not as simple as it seems. I can't even get Virtualdub to do it properly on ATI captures. The sound goes out of sync.

Everyone using tmpgenc must eventually learn to use support tools (Virtualdub, Avisynth, DVD2AVI, etc.) for one reason or another so the makers of tmpgenc probably see little reason to add complex functions handled by those tools.

In this case, Avisynth's AlignedSplice does the trick:

AVISource("clip1.avi") ++ AVISource("clip2.avi") ++ ...

I think there is also a segmented source command.

There is certain version which supports the feature although such version is bundled with Sony Vaio PC only.
So, I guess it MAY be planned, but do not know when, which version, free or charged.

I have read that it is a Function that they do plan to do in the future but I guess there is no big hurry for them..Tmpgenc does support segmented AVI file as long as they are in the Canopus DV codec Format..

Here's why I'd like to see it: When capturing video from my camcorder, I often
have to stop/start the capture for various reasons. So it's a hassle having to
load another app (VirtualDub) to trim and then join the files into one AVI just
so TMPGEnc can convert it to MPG. :( Would be far better if TMPGEnc would just
let me select the in/out points of every AVI in sequence, then convert them all
into one MPG. It's not like it's technically difficult to do. I use the free
version of TMPGEnc at the moment and won't pay for it until it can at least do
such a simple thing... so if the author is reading, please consider doing this.

I have alot of pairs of video/audio files that I'm converting to MPG.
The files are like *.d2v/*.wav (which I created from DVD2AVI)

TmpegBatchList v2.92 seems to work with only a single file.

Is there any shortcuts I can use? My main issue is that I want to set every
file to high quality motion search and the audio to greater than 100%. It's
quite tedious doing it manually every time.

I ripped a DVD and used this program to convert it to MPEG and it worked. But when i tried to convert the rest of the movie it wouldnt load.

A little information would be nice..Like how you ripped the DVD and how you encoded the DVD and what format you are encodeing to and the settings you used and what error you are getting???ECT...

LOL...Where's your crystal ball minion, can u not read minds?

I agree with minion. We can't help without some sort of detail on the problem.

ASHY

Hi there,

I've been looking at the board archives for tmpeg quality settings and while I've found good info, I think my question is a bit more specific.

The source I'm recording is:
640*480 - Japanese Anime, 24fps
A typical episode is around 24min.
I'm going to be output'n via VGA out from a laptop to a CRT projector.

I'm trying to get the best quality MPEG2 possible that can fit on a standard 700MB CDR.

Currently, I'm using:
CBR: Total bitrate: 3982kbit (Audio 384, Video 3598)
motion search precision (highest)
quantize matrix (default profile) /w "Use floating point DCT

I've read that using CQ instead of CBR could yield better results. What settings would be most optimal for my needs?

Thanks in advance!
- Will

If you are outputting from your Laptop to a Projector then there is no need to Encode to mpeg2..You would probably get better results useing a DivX/Mpeg-4 format..It has a Better compression for file size and there for better Quality for file size..You should only really be useing Mpeg2 if you are going to play it on a DVD/VCD/SVCD player...if we could use a mpeg4 format we probably would but seeing as mpeg is the only format to use on DVD players we are stuck with it but since you aren"t then you should use a better compression format...I"m sure if you used WMV you could get a few hours on a CD-R with good Quality.. and since you are just outputing it to a Projector then it would probably suit you needs also...

Hi Minion,

We tried that originally, using max DivX bitrate (10Mbit). However my laptop wasn't able to cope with it's mad compression. CPU usage was really high and it was all choppy (500Mhz P3). Even on a 900Mhz Athlon certain scenes were a tad choppy.

I'm thinking using the new DVD templates in TMPEG might work out well, but you have any other tips that'd be cool. Since the source file is the original VOB, I guess re-encoding using DVD bitrates might do the trick. (re-encode so I can add subtitles that is :)

- Will

> motion search precision (highest)

Use High to prevent Search Errors.

> quantize matrix (default profile)

Use the CG_Smooth-Matrix

>Use the CG_Smooth-Matrix

This setting is only for Computer animated Graphics not ordinary animation.
This setting won't have any benefit for ordinary animation and would be better with a regular matrix setting.

ASHY

hi

when trying to encode an avi file, im getting the error "invalid pointer operation" after about 1 second.......any ideas?

Hello !-)

I cannot get my video recording to work properly on a 4:3 TV, can anyone please tell me what to do ?

I've recorded a clip on my Sony DV camera in 16:9. When I get the clip onto my computer using Pinnacle Stutio 7 the resolution is 720x576. I then try to make a SVCD using TMPGEnc 2.57 and want it to work both on a 16:9 widescreen and on a 4:3 screen but in the right aspect ratio. When I whatch the clip on a 16:9 TV full screen it works perfectly, but on a 4:3 TV the aspect ratio remains 4:3 with no bars. I've tried to resizeing the video to 480x272 and 480x576 and tried different Video stream aspect ratio settings, but nothing works. I've also tried different Video source settings and that did not work. Could anyone please give me the solution ?-Thank's.

JIR

You can't have it both ways. You can either have a 16:9 output or 4:3.
Your 16:9 T.V. may be able to cope with a 4:3 output and adjust it accordingly, but most likely your 4:3 T.V. will not cope with 16:9 unless you can force it to 16:9.

For correct output for a 4:3 TV you need to set the input as 16:9 and the output to 4:3 and full screen aspect ratio. This will give you a 16:9 image with black bars to create a 4:3 picture.

ASHY

If the material is "anamorphic" (squished horizontally with no black bars in the encoded video) you can get both ways to work from standalone DVD players. I do this all the time capturing the S-Video output of my HDTV receiver.

Make sure you set the output format to 16:9 when encoding. This sets a flag which tells the DVD player how to handle the video. Bad DVD authoring software does not accept this flag (e.g. DVDit LE) but Ulead DVD Workshop does. I don't know about Pinnacle.

Make sure the DVD player connected to your 4:3 TV has the proper display setting. Some players have a selection in the setup menu for 4:3 or 16:9 display, but most have a letterbox/pan&scan/widescreen selection. Choose letterbox.

Provided your authoring software can deal with it, this method preserves the full 720x576 resolution when viewing on a 16:9 TV. WinDVD 4.0 properly handles the 16:9 flag so use that (or similar) to test before burning.

If you read the question this person is referring to SVCD not DVD. Most DVD players WON'T recognize the 16:9 flag with SVCD.

ASHY