Pixelated Conversions in TMPGenc

[junkmalle]

The Lanczos filters are usually the best for reducing the frame size. Lanczos4Resize might be a little better than LanczosResize in AVISynth. I don't see much difference.

Some things you can do to increase rendering speed in TMPGEnc:

Use Single Pass, Constant Quality mode. It's twice as fast as 2-pass rendering. Pick the quality level you want (run a few samples to see what you can live with, probably somewhere between 70% and 90%) and encode in a single pass. TMPGEnc will use whatever bitrate is needed for each frame to attain the desired quality. The drawback to Constant Quality mode: you don't know exactly how big the final file will be.

Earlier you said you were using a Motion Precision setting of HQ. That's usually a huge waste of time. There's very little difference in quality between Normal and High Quality or Highest Quality -- but HQ takes much longer. I recently ran an experiment with a short clip. I compressed in Constant Quality mode, with the different Motion Search settings:

Lowest:  109 seconds, 27.16 MB
Low:     112 seconds, 24.25 MB
Search:  112 seconds, 23.95 MB
Normal:  125 seconds, 23.74 MB
Highest: 318 seconds, 23.71 MB

As you can see, going from Normal to Highest did hardly anything to decrease the file size (conversely, in 2-pass mode where the filesizes would be the same, the picture quality would only be increased by a tiny amount) but it took nearly 3 times as long to convert.

[Afterlife]

Ok so can anyone tell me why resizing this fixed the issue?

[Afterlife]

Odd problem when I burned this disc, it seems cut on the screen. The subs sit right on the very bottom, when checking the source and .m2v it looks fine, but on my tv it seems to have cut some of it off.

Anyone have any clue why?

[junkmalle]

You're fan subbed anime has the subtitles too low. They are being cut off by the TV's overscan. All TVs overscan. The only way to fix it is to shrink the picture and pad the edges to restore the full frame size:

AviSource("C:\FMA02.avi")
LanczosResize(336,456)
AddBorders(8, 12, 8, 12)

[Afterlife]

So dvd-lab pro shows the overscan by default? Cos the sbs are also cut in DVDlab pro

[Afterlife]

Your fix makes the borders on left and right show, and the subs are now even further pushed off the screen.