TMPGENC setting for V8 source

[rotaflex]

I have transfer capture my video 8 files via MiniDV camcorder pass-thru to 720x480 AVI files. I want to convert them to MPEG2 using TMPGENC and have search the forum for best setup/configuration to minimize space waste while maintaining high quality.

Can you the lords of the DVDRHelp.com world help enlighten me with the setup? i.e. bit rate, CBR or VBR....etc.

Thank you and my sincere gratitude in advance.....

[FulciLives]

I have transfer capture my video 8 files via MiniDV camcorder pass-thru to 720x480 AVI files. I want to convert them to MPEG2 using TMPGENC and have search the forum for best setup/configuration to minimize space waste while maintaining high quality.

Can you the lords of the DVDRHelp.com world help enlighten me with the setup? i.e. bit rate, CBR or VBR....etc.

Thank you and my sincere gratitude in advance.....

You might find this link usefull:

http://dvd-hq.info/Compression.html?PHPSESSID=17bfa03a345878d04000ff44d63f2edd

Good Luck!

- John "FulciLives" Coleman

[rotaflex]

lord FulciLives,

Thank you. That is a very very useful link. Any suggestion on what values to use for bit rate? Anyone?

[FulciLives]

lord FulciLives,

Thank you. That is a very very useful link. Any suggestion on what values to use for bit rate? Anyone?

How long is the video you want to convert? Round it up a minute or so. Also what type of audio will you be using? PCM, AC-3 or MP2?

Give me that info and I will tell you what to use

- John "FulciLives" Coleman

[rotaflex]

I'm trying to digitize my old video 8mm home movies. I have about 40+ hours of movies captured into different AVI using my MiniDV camcorder pass-through. I used ScenalyzerLIVE to capture them into AVI segments of about 2-5 minutes intervals depending on the scenes.

I'm trying to come up with a template I can use for preserving all my 40 hours segments into MPEG2 to the highest quality possible. Since time is not the issue as I can just let my computer do the processing for as long as it takes. Looking at the rich combination became pretty overwhelming. The various guides and posting seem to suggest that I should concentrate on the bit-rate as it affects the quality the most.

I read from the various guides and posting that analog source (my Video 8mm) doesn't have that high of a quality to begin with so it would be a waste of space trying to use too high a bit-rate. On the other hand, some others who have done it share their experience of encoding it to very high bit rate (8000). As I'm not a video expert, I can't be sure if those who did encode it to the highest bit rate is actually accomplishing anything at all.

Hey, if there are some TMPGENc templates good for such purpose, it would be nice too although the the dvd-hq.info article try to stay away from recommending a template. It seem more like an art form than a science.

So, here I am trying to summon the lords of the dvdrhelp.com world to provide some tips...

[FulciLives]

So you mean to say that not one of your captures are more than 5 minutes give or take?

If that is true then you don't want to do a multi-pass VBR. Such a proceedure gets too confused by such short running time clips.

Also the higher the bitrate the better and despite what you heard the poor quality signals need MORE bitrate than the good quality signals.

If you want the best quality possible do CBR 8000kbps at Full D1 resolution (720x480).

If you want to save some space then do CBR 5000kbps at Half D1 resolution (352x480).

- John "FulciLives" Coleman