Quality not good when converting with TMPGEnc

[gillman99]

I've captured a movie from my digital video camcorder and tried to convert it to mpeg1 and mpeg2 using TMPGENC. The problem is the quality is bad and I did set the motion to high.

What's suprising is that MPEG1 is much better than MPEG2, but not nearly as good as the original AVI that was captured.

Any ideas what I'm doing wrong in TMPGENC.

Mark Gillman

[mpack]

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On 2001-12-10 12:45:26, gillman99 wrote:
I've captured a movie from my digital video camcorder and tried to convert it to mpeg1 and mpeg2 using TMPGENC. The problem is the quality is bad and I did set the motion to high.

What's suprising is that MPEG1 is much better than MPEG2, but not nearly as good as the original AVI that was captured.

Any ideas what I'm doing wrong in TMPGENC.

Mark Gillman
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[mpack]

Sorry about the pointless post - slight accident with the submit button, and for some reason the forum won't let me withdraw it.

Anyway gillman99, you'll have to provide a little more information than that. For example.

What codec was used to capture the AVI, and at what resolution and frame rate?

What you say "the quality is bad", could you be more precise? What do you mean by quality? What makes it bad?

What kind of video clip is it?? Is there a lot of motion?

What are the important settings you used in TMPGenc? You say you set "motion to high" - have you tried using "highest" or "motion prediction" instead?

Did you use a VCD or SVCD template? Which?

Was the source interlaced? Do you need to deinterlace? Did you?

[gillman99]

It was captured with Pinnacle Express DV. How do I find out what codec that uses?

I'll get answers to the other questions for you. Some basic questions though:

Thanks,
Mark Gillman

[ktnwin]

MPEG1 (for VCD) and MPEG2 (for SVCD) quality are not nearly equal the original AVI file: THIS IS SIMPLY THE FACT WE ALL HAVE TO BEAR WITH.
Only DVD quality can come close to AVI quality.

When capturing with Pinnacle DV product, the codec is DV codec.

[gillman99]

Ok, I guess I'm a little confused. I thought that I first had to convert to MEPG2 and then get SW to burn it to a DVD writer. What is it that I'm missing? Sorry for the confusion, but this is new to me.

My main goal is to capture DV from my digital camcorder, do a minor amount of editing (cutting and create menus) and burn a DVD that will play in my DVD player with the same quality as the original camcorder.

Help!

[Shabubu]

If your burning to DVD then use the DVD template, the bitrate will be high enough to come close to the original. (At least I think there's a DVD template, if not someone will make one for you).

[bigbeard]

There is alot more than only the motion search precision to change to get a high quality mpeg2 (or mpeg1) from a dv-avi.

Please add a litte more information about you settings in tempenc...

[catalano]

I'm in a similar situation as gillman99. I'm working on a Mac, though. I'm capturing my DV footage into Premiere and exporting my movies utilizing the built-in Quicktime DV compressor. The finished movie files will open up in TMPG, but like gillman99 I can't find the right setting to produce a decent looking file. I've started with the SVCD (NTSC) template and usually adjust the motion to high quality, I set the encoding to interlace (I presume this is correct for producing SVCDs). I also set the source as interlaced and the apsect to 4:3 525 line.

Someone else had said to use the SVCD(film) template and also select the inverse telecine option, but I started that and it was going to take about 4 hours to do a 15 second clip, so I canned it.

So if you have any specific settings for converting DV based footage into decent looking SVCD format files, I'd definately be interested in your input.

Thanks,
Chris
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On 2001-12-10 14:35:22, bigbeard wrote:
There is alot more than only the motion search precision to change to get a high quality mpeg2 (or mpeg1) from a dv-avi.

Please add a litte more information about you settings in tempenc...
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