Resume with TMPG??

[insane_asylum13]

I was wondering if it is possible to resume an encoding process of a movie or video clip with TMPG enc.??
I was thinking that maybe I could stop the encoding process like at maybe 54% by pressing stop. Then I have 54% of that file completed. Then could I open up TMPG enc. later and go to source position, find out where it last left off and continue the process saved onto a different file?? Which then means that I have to later combine the 2 files together for 1 whole movie??

[vhelp]

ins,

If you insist on using this approach for other reason beyond using BATCH mode
(uneless its becaues you're using v2.50 [buggy batch'ard]) then try the following
below.
I can understand certain situations, ie, you have no need for BATCH and your
proceed to encode, but later on, during the encoding process, you find that you
must interupt the encoding. . . then, for this cause, below is justifiable!! else
you batch processing instead.

If you do that, then do it a fade to black (w/ enough silence would be even better)
and just remember the stopped frame number and re-encode from that point on.
But, a trick I like to use is this - at the end of the last frame you stopped at,
when you go back to re-encode, don't use the same last frame, but use one just
before it, ie,
* you stopped at 16789, now
* enter 16787

I find this helps less'en the break-effect or rumble of the next scene when your
dvd ends at that point and starts up the next clip.

-vhelp

[Vejita-sama]

You've got 2 choices:

1) Hit stop, when it asks are you sure don't hit anything. Just minimize, and when you're ready choose no, and encoding will continue (sort of a pause feature).

2) Use source range. Click on settings, then the advance tab, double click on 'source range' and choose the start/stop points you want to encode.

Question - why do you want to do this? You can leave TMPGenc running in the background while you run other programs, it doesn't affect the quaility of the encode, however it does slow down TMPGenc and thus take longer to encode.