Hi,

Can anyone help me with the settings on TMPGEnc 4.0 XPress?

I have files in .Mov .Avi and .MP4 which I want to encode them to MPEG 2.

I'm not sure if I 've got it set up right. At the moment my settings are -

profile and level - MP@ML
Rate control mode - VBR (Average Bitrate)
VBV buffer size - 224 kb
DC Component precision - 9 bit
display mode - interlace
field order - top field first
motion search precision - standard

The part that gets me is the bitrate / quality.

what should it be?

At the moment I have minimum bitrate 1000kbs and maximum bitrate 8000kbs.

let's say I have a file that is 50mb in size, with the bitrate should I look to double the file size?