Tmpgenc Joining Question

[Haku]

I have some mpg files that i wanna join together, now i go to file > mpeg tools > cut and merge.I load the mpg files but after joining, when playing the video file back ,at the point where its joined tmpgenc seems to add a kinda squeak noise.The noise happens at every point where the video has been joined.

Any ideas to help me out, need to join them clean, no squeak.


Thanks

[Dennis1968]

I get the same problem with any MPG. this is not a bad reflection of TMPGEnc. when you select a point to cut and or join video, the split point is not dead center on the "zero" line of the audio, the way i counter act this is to demux the final cut, import it into Goldwave. At every chip/ sqeak i interpolate to level it out. the chirps are only a fraction of a second, you will see a big difference. i then convert the WAV to MP2 and then multiplex the origiganl video with the cleaned up audio.

same rule applies as a sctratched record.

[pbhalerao]

I also faced the same problem and would wait eagerly for the solution.

[Dennis1968]

Look at a analog wave line in a Audio Editor to see what a "Zero line" indicate. Audio goes from a postive peak to a negative peak and crosses a Zero line threshold. going fro Zero back to Zero is called a cycle, a chip/ sqeak is when the it does not cross that zero line to complete the cycle.

[housepig]

are you joining mpg's that were created with TMPGenc? Some people have had problems joining with TMPG if it didn't encode the files.

I haven't had this problem yet, because all my joins are files I've encoded with TMPG, and I also make sure that I encode them in such a way that they will join seamlessly. (most of what I'm joining are VHS captures)

I make sure that I have a slight overlap [same scene at the end of file 1 and beginning of file 2], and that the overlap has a good edit point - a cut or fast fade to a different scene. For example, someone knocking on a door, which cuts to the person behind the door saying "Who is it?". I will advance frame by frame in the Source Range, and Set End Frame at the last frame of the person outside the door. Then on file #2, I will do the same, setting the Start Frame on the first frame of the person behind the door.

When I go to join, everything plays back without a hitch.

[Haku]

Dennis1968 .. thats sounds a bit of a long process.

No the files was'nt created with tmp,is there a good freeware program that can join the mpgs files with out the squeak ?

[Dennis1968]

a freeware? never seen one yet. it is not that long of a process ot a big deal.