TMPGEnc Products - Confuse?

[niteghost]

Having trouble deciding , what to use to encode and Author my DVD, when it comes to TMPGEnc products....

I used TMPGEnc 4.0 XPress to encode, and set the configuration to DVD format as output, but what I got was a .mpg Video file that is about 4.32 G, NOT your usual VOB Files [ Video_TS oor Audio TS]??


Sinnce, I need an authorinng program to go with my encoded file, I tried TMPGEnc Authoring Works v.4.0.4.24, as well.
The confusion lies in that, TMPGEnc Authoring Works v.4.0.4.24, seems to be able to Encode files as well, with the "Add file" feature. But as I experimented to put in Files like I did with TMPGEnc 4.0 XPress , I noticed the First file added took up three quarters of the DVD, So I am really Confuse?

[Vidd]

I used TMPGEnc 4.0 XPress to encode, and set the configuration to DVD format as output, but what I got was a .mpg Video file that is about 4.32 G, NOT your usual VOB Files [ Video_TS oor Audio TS]??

Thats right. TMPGEnc 4.0 XPress encoded your video as a DVD compliant MPEG-2 stream and sized it to fit a SL disc. TMPGEnc 4.0 XPress is an encoder, not a DVD authoring program.

Sinnce, I need an authorinng program to go with my encoded file, I tried TMPGEnc Authoring Works[/url] v.4.0.4.24, as well. The confusion lies in that, TMPGEnc Authoring Works v.4.0.4.24, seems to be able to Encode files as well, with the "Add file" feature. But as I experimented to put in Files like I did with TMPGEnc 4.0 XPress , I noticed the First file added took up three quarters of the DVD, So I am really Confuse?[/b]

When you add a video, TDA will set a bitrate automatically.
You can lower the bitrate to fit more content on the disc or raise the bitrate to improve the quality.



I believe both programs use the same encoding engine, so its up to you if you want to use only TDA or also use XPress to encode. I still use TDA 1.6 so I don't know if TDA 4.0 offers the same encoding control and advanced settings that XPress does.

[niteghost]

I used TMPGEnc 4.0 XPress to encode, and set the configuration to DVD format as output, but what I got was a .mpg Video file that is about 4.32 G, NOT your usual VOB Files [ Video_TS oor Audio TS]??

Thats right. TMPGEnc 4.0 XPress encoded your video as a DVD compliant MPEG-2 stream and sized it to fit a SL disc. TMPGEnc 4.0 XPress is an encoder, not a DVD authoring program.

Sinnce, I need an authorinng program to go with my encoded file, I tried TMPGEnc Authoring Works[/url] v.4.0.4.24, as well. The confusion lies in that, TMPGEnc Authoring Works v.4.0.4.24, seems to be able to Encode files as well, with the "Add file" feature. But as I experimented to put in Files like I did with TMPGEnc 4.0 XPress , I noticed the First file added took up three quarters of the DVD, So I am really Confuse?[/b]

When you add a video, TDA will set a bitrate automatically.
You can lower the bitrate to fit more content on the disc or raise the bitrate to improve the quality.



I believe both programs use the same encoding engine, so its up to you if you want to use only TDA or also use XPress to encode. I still use TDA 1.6 so I don't know if TDA 4.0 offers the same encoding control and advanced settings that XPress does.

Well, I tried to "ADD" the encoded file, from TMPGEnc 4.0 XPress to TDA , but since it just 1 .mpg file, TDA looks at it as 1 Track, and I am having trouble trying to create subtitles, for this File, since I have 3 different Videos packed into the Encoded .mpg File

[Vidd]

If you have three videos, you should have encoded them as three MPEG-2 files rather than one large combination MPEG.