TMPGEnc settings

[Mpegman1986]

What should my aspect ratio, Video Arrange Method, etc be?

[DRfrankenpimp]

i usually set all my vcd's to 16:9 (black bars at top and bottom) this gives you a smaller movie in resolution but a little better picture. since a vcd has low bit rate the bit rate is dedicated to the slightly smaller picture...try it

[Mirror_Image]

http://www.vcdhelp.com/tmpgencexplained.htm

[goranlucic]

Here is what I do

Movie source PAL DV tapes captured by either Adobe, Pinnacle or Video Factory (all of them produce avi file that works with TMPGEnc)
I create DVD compilant mpeg-2 file (PAL settings)

Video tab
- Size 720 x 576
- Constant Quality (quality set to 100 and min. bit rate 4000 kbits/sec, also enabled padding)
- Encode mode - Interlace
- DC - 10
- Motion search precision - Highest quality

Advanced tab
- Noise reduction - high quality mode (other values as default)
- Sharpen edge - Field base (leave other as-is)
- Deinterlace - Even-Odd field (field)

If you use analog tape (VHS) you also have to choose "Ghost reduction" and "Simple color correction"

GOP structure tab
- as-is NO CHANGES

Quantize matrix tab
- Use Floating pointDCT - true
- Soften Block noise - true with both values set to 25

Audio tab
- as-is NO CHANGES

System tab
- as-is NO CHANGES

MENU settings:
- Preview option - Do not display - according the manual this increase the performance
- Task priority - Both active and Inactive are set to High priority (I do not do anything with PC in the meantime)
- Environmental settings - "Do not use cache...." is set to false - I really do not know whether this helps but I do it like that.

With those settings I encode 1h movie in 35-40 h. So you should take the time. I also save all my MPEG-2 files on DVD as a back-up so I do not have to render it afteerwards.


New 2-VBR pass is at least as good as CQ, however it takes lot more time to be completed. If you still want to use VBR you have to enable cache over you HD. I got 30-50% improvements.

GL