TMPGEnc advanced settings for best quality results

[tdavid232]

Hi guys!

Newbie here, with a hope to find some final solutions to my encoding problems.

I work with several video sources (PAL or NTSC DV, Widescreen DV, 720p and 1080i HDV) and I needed to find the best solution for converting them into multiple formats. TMPGEnc is the best I found so far, but I strive to get the best out of its advanced settings.

Where can I find tutorials, templates, anything to help me with the settings for MPEG-4 AVC and MPEG 1 outputs from the above sources?

When I select a template for MPEG 4 for example, the values for things like 'motion search range', 'GOP length', etc are always the same. Now this makes me wonder. How can the same settings produce the best for any kind of source? They probably can't.

So can anybody point me to a place to get the best settings for different sources? I don't care about encoding times, just video quality results.

Also, as a side note and perhaps a request for additional help. I started encoding PAL DV sources (4:3, 720x576 interlaced, 1.0926 PAR) into WMV, when I bumped into the old problem of converting such a source into square pixels for computer display. After a long debate and research, I found this solution to work the best:
- in TMPGEnc I deinterlace with Double Framerate and Always Deinterlace.
- I deselect the 'Output interlace with high quality resize', although I am not sure what this does really.
- I crop to 718x576
- encode to 720x528

This would remove the black borders around the end result and not distort the people in the video.
However, if anybody has any better solutions to converting PAL DV to computer display, I'd love to hear it.

Thanks
David

[tdavid232]

I did a couple of MPEG 4 conversions (also with SUPER):

http://www.4shared.com/dir/7075088/9a463a15/sharing.html

A friend said they don't work on his Iphone....
Why is Apple making it so difficult?
I can take the same MP4 and play it on any website with Flash 9...

How do you convert to a single format, that Ipod, Iphone can both play?

Thanks
David