video editing and tmpgenc

[mmx]

I have seen a lot of posts praising TMPGENC as a MPEG2 encoder. I would like to know that the reason we use TMPGENC is because a lot of the video editing toolset like Ulead VS 7, myDVD 5 or Pinnacle do not do as good as a job as TMPGENC when generating the mpeg2 file for DVD burning?

If so, I will create the DVD with menu, submenu etc together with my video and then output as AVI? After that, I will use TMPGENC to encode?

I have used Ulead VS 4 to create an AVI and then use TMPGENC to encode as VCD. TMPGENC does a much better job than Ulead VS 4. However, I have no experience on how to do the same with DVD.

Thanks

[FOO]

You have the wrong order.
First you encode your video to MPEG2
and then you use an Authoring program to do the menus etc.

[mmx]

Wow, thanks for the quick response.

OK, is this the order?

I will create an AVI using my video editor like ulead VS with transition etc.

Then I encode the AVI to mpeg2 using TMPGENC

Then I author the DVD using TMPGENC DVD Author, for example

So the TMPGENC will help me create a better mpeg2 file....

Thanks

[FOO]

There is one more thing to think about.
How do you save the output of the Editor ?
If you save it uncompressed it is huge , If you save compressed ,
you lose something.

You may want to look into Frameserving the output of the editor
into TMPGenc. This eliminates the intermediate file completely.

[vettesea]

Foo,

Could I ask you to elaborate on this a little more, what do you mean by frameserving?

[FOO]

Its a piece of software that allows sending the output
of one program directly to another
Look in Tools -> Frameserving

[turk690]

to vettesea, if, for example I edit and compose on Premiere with, say, DV AVI clips as source video files, normally I have to export also to DV AVI the finished movie. I open TMPGEnc then input this AVI file to be encoded. Wouldn't it be more convenient if, while Premiere was exporting, instead of to that DV AVI file, immediately input to TMPGEnc so we can have the MPEG-2 clip in one go? Advantages include less time to finish the lot (no need to render to that intermediate AVI file) and not having the need for HDD space for THAT file (1hr of DV AVI is about 13GB). This is known as frameserving, and although Premiere 6.5 and above has a built-in MPEG encoder (Main Concept), some of us would still like to encode with TMPGEnc because it creates better-looking *.m2v streams at the same bitrates and resolutions with the same source than Main Concept. (It's also much slower ) There are a number of plug-ins for Premiere to frameserve to TMPGEnc, such as AviSynth and VideoServer plug-in (www.videotools.net). For now I have settled with www.debugmode.com/pluginpac/frameserver.php. I got this tip somewhere on this site so keep digging; you might find your MPEG-2 gold yet .