TMPenc vs Ulead Videostudio for capture to MPEG2

[Divxwannabe]

Excuse the newbness..Been reading about TMPenc, people seem to like it ..I use ULead Videostudio 6se for capture, encode to MPEG2 thence (no editing) to dvd. I must be doing something wrong, because although I capture in output format ie PAL DVD etc, Ulead insists on re rendering.

Can I capture with TMPenc straight to MPEG2?

Can I avoid this re rendering stuff?

Does capture in AVI then enc with TMPenc produce markedly better results (Assuming best possible DVD qual possible, given hardware, ie AMD xp1600 cpu, 512 meg ram,firewire capture card)? Can I capture in AVI, encode in TMP enc (no editing needed, backing up my DV ),?

how long would it take (ball park) to encode 1 hour AVI to Mpeg 2 PAL (optimal qual is the goal)?

[spectroelectro]

Ulead is not the best software to use for encoding to MPEG2. Like some other software with built-in DVD authoring, it insists on re-rendering what you send it.
The 3 best apps for encoding AVI captures ot MPEG-2 are: TMPGenc, Cincema Craft Encoder, and MainConcept standalone 1.41. Avoid anything else.
With a P4 2.4 it typically takes real time to convert AVI captures to MPEG-2 using the MainConcept encoder. For TMPGenc figure about 3.5 to 4 times longer. Depending on settings, CCE can run up to twice as fast as real time.
You cannot capture video with TMPGenc. Ulead is ideal for capturing AVI files. I used to use Ulead myself before moving to Premiere, and both work about equally well for capturing AVI files.

[Tommyknocker]

What format are you capturing in? If you are transferring DV with VS6, then re-encoding, keep doing it that way for the best quality. If you are capturing in MPEG-2, adjust your Project Settings to DVD format, so you can capture in that format as well.

When VS6 sees the captured video is the same as the DVD settings, it will not re-encode.

[pauris]

The 3 best apps for encoding AVI captures ot MPEG-2 are: TMPGenc, Cincema Craft Encoder, and MainConcept standalone 1.41. Avoid anything else.

I think, You forgott about Canopus Procoder, which is much better...

[Roderz]

AFAIK theres a framserve plugin you can get for VS
and framserve to whatever encoder you like. (I know VS7 mepg output is poor compared to tmpec/MC)

[Divxwannabe]

Guys, thanks for these tips. Very interested in now in TMPgenc, mainconcept-Roderz Yove touched on out put quality, which I guess is why so many people in these forums tend to shy away from all in one solutions like vs (my impression anyway, I could be way off the mark) but ouput quality is the end that I aiming for...

Anyone have any ideas on the frame server tool? (again, I have no idea of the concept or execution on this)

Many thanks

[Zetti]

TMPGEnc doesn't capture anything, it's an encoder;

Ulead Video Studio capturing MPEG-2 in real time DVD standard have been producing GREAT results for me, but note that I mainly capture from VHS tapes;

If you capture in MPEG2 real time like me and just wanna make basic cuts-merge files, Video Studio WILL NOT RE-RENDER IT *IF* you set the project properties to match precisely the source files properties; so, right click your source files and note on a paper its properties, then go to project settings and type it there;

When creating the final file, choose "same as project settings" and VS will NOT re-render it;

If you have a DV converter, you can indeed make DV-MPEG2 on the fly, I also get great results doing that;

I have TMPGEnc but I only use it to mux-demux streams, once VS gives me good results and in instatnt time;

It's worthy to drop money on VS7;

Zetti

[Divxwannabe]

Zetti Will give that a go with VS and see if I can get some joy!

Cheers

[Roderz]

Anyone have any ideas on the frame server tool?

Have a look at this guide.....
https://www.videohelp.com/forum/userguides/180900.php

[Manokat]

I use UV7 to edit MPEG2 file captured by Plextor ConvertX2 via Creator 2.
No rerender as long as you match the input MPEG2 with project properties as well in project properties put quality to 100%. That way you will have exact output quality as the input.

UV7 also works great editing divx files captured by ConvertX 2. With Divx codes installed of course.

[Divxwannabe]

Again, thanks for your replies here.

Starting to get my head around this, yesterday captured straight to mpeg 2, about 35 mins from my DV Camera. Didnt drop a single frame till late in the capture..Output to DVD, but noticed that when the camera was panned (in the original source), on the DVD, it tended to go a little bit blurry, just a tiny bit noticeable-capture settings was pal dvd, 4:3 , etc. Any clues on this ???