Procoder Express or CCE Basic or TmpGenc Xpress 4.0 for VHS conversion

[darkin]

I have a bunch of VHS tapes some commercial, some recorded by my VCR that I'd like to convert to DVD. I bought a Canopus ADVC-100 to do the capturing. But once I capture them to DV with the ADVC-100, what's the best encoder to turn the DV files to MPEG-2? I've been doing a lot of reading and the 3 encoders mentioned in the title of this post seem to be the most popular choices. Any reason to choose one over the other? I'll been running the encoder on either a 2.6 ghz P4 or a Athlon 64 3400 machine both with 1 gig of memory under XP Home SP2.

[steveryan]

If I were you I would download the trial versions and decide with your own eyes.

[guns1inger]

Are you doing any filtering and cleanup, or encoding as is ?

[J. Baker]

Procoder Express is being discontinued. I never cared for TMPGEnc Xpress myself. Just try and see if you like it. I would go with Cinema Craft Encoder. It does a pretty good job.

[darkin]

Thanks for the answers, everyone. I'm new to video and DVD making so I have lot of questions. I'm aware of demo versions of TMPGenc XPress and Cinema Craft Basic but I havent seen a trial version of Procoder Express. Is one available? And does anyone know why Procoder Express is being discontinued? If is still a good program is it worth buying anyway? As for filtering and cleaning up the video I dont know how to go about that as I'm a noob.

[J. Baker]

They may have already dropped Procoder Express.

[SatStorm]

Procoder use to be a great alternative for interlace NTSC sources. CCE is the overall best solution. Mainconcept Encoder is a great alternative too: It softs a bit the picture, but on some older VHS tapes this ain't always a bad thing.
I use TMPGenc plus 2.5 for the last years and it's a great alternative for my needs. I don't like any later versions.

[Alex_ander]

I use TMPGenc plus 2.5 for the last years and it's a great alternative for my needs. I don't like any later versions.

Why don't you like TMPGEncXpress? It is twice faster, has better resizing engine (Lanczos3), and wider importing capabilities (DVD video, HDTV etc.). I've never wanted to turn back to TMPGenc plus 2.5.

[SatStorm]

I always use external programs to frameserve, so resizing and importing various formats, is not something I need from an encoder!
Regarding the speed, well: I have an athlon XP @ 2600, so I don't have any speed benefits by using TMPGenc Express!

[DirtBag]

See my post here:

https://forum.videohelp.com/viewtopic.php?p=1637064#1637064