About the motion search precision in TMPGEnc..??

[Orthanc]

Hi.
About the "motion search precision" in TMPGEnc´s MPEG-settings/Video.

I have read different recommendations for it, due to a "strange" translation in the program??

Any news on this?

What is your experience for the different options, in the matter of quality compared to speed?
Is there really big changes here?

Lowes quality (very fast)
Low quality (fast)
Normal
High quality (slow)
Highest quality (very slow)
Motion estimate search (fast)

Thanks

Stefan

[teegee420]

I keep mine on "Normal" and see no difference from "High Quality", only a faster encode time, nothing dramatic though.

[rcb]

Take a short clip from one of your source avi's - run a series of encoding tests with all other settings held same - and compare your processing times for the various motion precision search settings...

[mats.hogberg]

I use "High quality" - just on recommendation here. From what I've read (and in part experienced) the time difference between High and Highest is dramatic, whereas the quailty difference is unnoticable.

/Mats

[Poppa_Meth]

depends on source. if the source is very good, like DVD video then I use Motion Search the fastest setting and get good results. with grainier source like downloaded DivX I use High.

[FulciLives]

I use "High quality" - just on recommendation here. From what I've read (and in part experienced) the time difference between High and Highest is dramatic, whereas the quailty difference is unnoticable.

/Mats

Bingo same here.

Although as of late I've switched mostly to using CINEMA CRAFT ENCODER since the results appear to me to be just as good as TMPGEnc but a HELL of a lot faster.

It also helps that CCE works in the YUV/YUY2 colorspace ... if you capture using an MJPEG codec you never have to convert to RGB (ala TMPGEnc) so there is less chance of "screwing" things up such as your luminance levels etc.

- John "FulciLives" Coleman

[tigerman8u]

I use normal. IMO I can't see any difference using higher quality settings.

[andie41]

Orthanc.

You don't give any info on what you are trying to achieve or your source video. I use a high bitrate of 8000 - 8500 kbs and "motion search." Occasionally I use "normal" - I have found on action scenes, that if I pause or step my DVD and zoom in, I can see a bit of differnce by using normal (beyond "normal", I see no difference) - I don't usually watch my DVD's in this manner, so I generally go with "motion search". Looking at your "profile", you are going to have rather slow encodes anyway so as rcb suggested:

Take a short clip from one of your source avi's - run a series of encoding tests with all other settings held same - and compare your processing times for the various motion precision search settings...

... and I would add, compare the quality of your tests.