Best TMPGEnc Settings

[westwingsw]

Hey everyone -

I'm new and I'm trying to burn some West Wing epsidoes from avi to MPEG using TEMPGEnc.

I'm trying to get the absolute best quality VCD or SVCD (If I can fit a 42 minute epsidoe on 1 SVCD) and I was wondering what everyone here used to ensure top quality.

I was also wondering if it's possible to use other programs with TMPGEnc in terms of improving picture quality.

Thanks so much for all your help...I'd greatly appreciate it.

Thanks!

-Scott

[DVantrease]

As far as bitrate goes (the higher the better), use a bitrate calculator to determine how high you can go. I generally use around 1800 for one hour of VCD, so if you're only doing 40 minutes you can go much higher. Sorry I've only done VCD/XVCD, not SVCD.

[nidoran]

just try some settings over 2 min of video, quality is mostly subjective anyway

NdZ
(PS SVCD audio + video may not exess 2892 kbps if you wanna keep it in the specs)

[vcddude]

My setting vary depending on what I am encoding.
I try to always encode at 2400kbps (or use FitCD
to find the highest bitrate fit on the CD) and
use the default Noise Reduction setting. Takes
longer to encode but helps to eliminate the little artifacts that can show up around the edges of
objects in the MPEG video.

For cartoons, I always encode at 2400kbps and use
some custom Noise Reduction settings. Here I
use "50, 2, 50." (Open the Noise Reduction settings
and you'll see what I mean). This makes cartoons look
clean.

I don't like to encode video at bitrates below 2000kbps
for quality purposes. Yes, it's subjective...

In general, at 2400kbps I can fit 42 minutes of high
quality video on a single 80 minute CDR. I play my
VCDs on a Pioneer DV-525.

Hope this helps,
vcddude