Noise Reduction? High Quality Mode?

[movie freak]

i was told by someone a while ago that to get the best results use noise reduction... at do it at high quality mode.... do i move all the sliders to the end? or to when i can see that it's better? or what? check the high quality mode?

[chjohnnie]

what program are you trying to use?
what are the specs on your computer?
In short, what the H%@# are you talking about?!

[movie freak]

i'm sorry i didn't make it clearer, im using tmpg encoder...

[j1d10t]

The higher the number for noise reduction, the softer/blurrier the image. Depending on how noisy your source video is, you will need to tweak it to your liking. But I usually set it at 20, 1, 20, and high quality. But as I said, it varies for each project.

So the best answer is, encode a few minutes of the video, with different settings, burn it to CDRW/DVD-+RW, and test it out.

Good luck

[bugster]

It also depends on what your source material is. With a noisy source such as many VHS captures, getting the noise reduction setting right in TmpGenc can help quite a lot. Use it on a Divx DVD rip and you are wasting loads of encoding time and unneccsarily softening the final result.

[lordsmurf]

Noise reduction is great.

But High quality mode is a waste. What miniscule change it makes is unseen on tv anyway. And it doubles encode time.