TMPGEnc: What are the best setting for NTSC DVD's to SVCD

[ShadowKat]

Guides, Guides everywhere but most are for PAL DVD to VCD, and the ones for ripping NTSC DVD's to SVCD are VERY vage.

Can someone please point me to a guide that is for TMPGEnc for ripping NTSC DVD's to SVCD. That shows more then loading the defalt SVCD template. Something that actually goes into what settings are best and what settings to change for this or that...

Thanks in advance...

[poopyhead]

ShadowKat, if you don't wanna bother with manually changing the settings, you can get a template (not the default SVCD template).

also, did you check out Sefy's Guides on this site?

[Sefy]

ShadowKat, it does not matter if the guide was written for NTSC or for PAL, what is the diffrence ? just set the encoding to the system you need! you are not supposed to WORSHIP the guide to the "T", you are supposed to follow an example on how to do things.

Besides, my Guide is written with an NTSC DVD as the example, and i'm located in Israel which is a PAL country, so you see, it really doesn't matter.

[vhelp]

Shadowkat,

My advise for you is to:
1 - select a TEMPlate and encode your clip with it
2 - then, using the same template, after you load the "unlock.mfc" template,
make any what-if settings on your own and re-encode your clip again and
compare it to the standard TEMPlate!!

The above is sometimes how some, if not, most of us here have learned to get the
best encode possible (per our eye)

Also, since I don't know how long you have dabled with VCD/SVCD, etc., I'll assume
you are failrly new all this stuff. So, with that in mind, an additional suggestion is
to get you hands on several variations of VCD/xVCD and/or SVCD/xSVCD
sample clips and then use those to compare to, in addition to your first template
encode, and then your modified template encode, and see what kind of quality
yours compare!

Also, my suggestion would be to get you hands on Morpeus and use that as your
VCD/SVCD/MPG/AVI/DIVx, etc media to D/L, and then you can also D/L samples
from us here on this forum - just ask. I'm always willing to share my samples.
But I can't seem to get specific people to D/L my clips via Morpheus unless it's a
randome struck of luck that someone here managed to get a hold of any of my
sample clips. You can always be sure its my clip cause I always start my clips
with "vhelp-" in the start of the filename. I try to make my clips small enough
so weather your on 56k or DSL or Cable, you might not shy away form D/L'ing
my clips.

I've thought of writing a gude (my own version, based on my experience) but I
feel that there are so many of them flooting around. But, what would probably
make me come up with one (for VCD and SVCD) is is people were able to D/L
any of my samples, and posted here that they found them and liked them, etc.
and asked me if I had a guide or something. Then, maybe I would! But, for
now, I've decided to hold off on such an endever - though I have a website with
a guide page (empty) - -

I hope I've ben of some help to you

-vhelp

[ShadowKat]

Thats just it...The guides on here show loading the default template nothing more. I have messed with the settings in TMPGEnc myself, yet still everytime the SVCD turns out blocky in the background.. Yet the ones I download that are made with TMPEnc are not..

That is why I requested a guide that goes into the settings on TMPGEnc. Somewhere there has got to be a guide that shows more indepth setting to TMPGEnc.

[poopyhead]

ShadowKat, wut you can do is ask some of the peeps here on the forums if they have a good template that they feel comfortable with and can send you.

it's always a lot easier to start off with a template that someone has tinkered with than starting from scratch..i believe there are no guides that explains every single setting in tempgenc...

however, most people would agree that you should set motion search accuracy to high quality (slower) and if you do use cq_vbr, you should set the cq no higher than 70.

[Sefy]

ShadowKat, it does not matter if the guide is shown as using a default Template, just imagine if the guide had to cover every single Template, well, the guide would have been huge.

You need to use the guide as a guide, not a religion, you must make the changes you feel you want for your own movie.

[TheeeGod 3]

hey. this might be a stupid question: how do you load the unlock.mcf file. i read in the guide and it said in the EXTRA folder. can someone explain a lil more clearly please?

[Sefy]

When you unzip TMPGEnc, under it there is another folder called TEmplates, which is where you have all your Templates, and there you have the Extra folder, with more Templates, and one of them is the unlock.mcf

[ShadowKat]

Sefy...When did I ever say that I never varied from the guide?? I got that over a month ago when I first started tring to rip. In my post yesterday I also said that I have been messing with the settings.

"imagine if the guide had to cover every single Template"
Sefy who are you tring to kid? Quit tring to make excuses that you have gotten lazy. When I first came to this site over a year ago you had a VERY DETAILED guide. You had the 3 different images of the sources for DVDtoAVI. You had several different images for settings in TMPGNec. Now you expect people who don't know what they are doing to just know what to change if they have any problems.

But it all don't matter now..Someone e-mailed me and told me to set DVDtoAVI to Forced Film for NTSC DVD source. That when you do that it really clears up the blockyness in the mpg. Guess what...He was right...The test mpg that I made this morning came out crystal clear. Plus he gave me 2 links to guides that tell you to do that..

Whats the matter Sefy was that little bit of info just too much for you to add to your DVDtoAVI guide?

TheeeGod 3...After loading the template you just hit load again and go into the extra folder right there...Then load the unload.

<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: ShadowKat on 2002-01-05 16:49:18 ]</font>