Poor Video quality in "action" scenes- Can this be improved?

[pochrist]

I just created a home edited VCD & SVCD with similar results, I have scenes that are I guess "Action" (really just my son on a swing) I encoded twice, once with Media cleaner 5 to Mpeg1 and then agian to Mpeg2 under CCE (created both the VCD & the SVCD under the latest version of Nero with and w/out "compliance and I still get poor quality after play back of the final. do I need to run these mpegs through a filter before the burn or am I missing something.

[BerrantRyke]

Dont let Nero encode your videos... It sucks bad at that!

I use TMPEGnc to encode all my stuff. It may help to give that a try.

Usuall poor quality in fast scenes is attributed to a lack of birtate allocated to that part of the film. I would suggest using TMPEGnc's standard VCD (or SVCD if you want MPEG2) template with 2-pass-VBR. This will look at the entire clip and give the most bitrate (bandwith) to the faster section of the clip.

For more info look at HOW TO 'CONVERT' to the left.
(or my site below, but its geared to xVCD format)

[pochrist]

Well I did point I also burned with compliance turned off, the acutal encoding was done with Cleaner 5 in my first attempt & CCE in my 2nd attempt, I also need to be able to encode right out of Adobe primere 6.0, TMPEGnc doesn't work with Adobe primere 6.0 unless I encode to somthing elso first, (I tried Video server, the results were terrible).

[BerrantRyke]

the acutal encoding was done with Cleaner 5 in my first attempt & CCE in my 2nd attempt,

OK, sorry my mistake. Can you export from Adobe in an uncompressed .avi and then encode to MPEG (1 or 2) using TMPEGnc?

[pochrist]

The last time I went that route I had 30mins of video it took 6hrs to go from DV to AVI, then another 2hrs to go to Mpeg1, thats a long way around isn't, my goal is find what needs to be changed to improve quaility in, I can't see the point in taking 6hrs to take advantage of a free program rather finding out what needs to fixed in my current ones.

[pochrist]

The last time I went that route I had 30mins of video it took 6hrs to go from DV to AVI, then another 2hrs to go to Mpeg1, thats a long way around isn't, my goal is find what needs to be changed to improve quaility in, I can't see the point in taking 6hrs to take advantage of a free program rather finding out what needs to fixed in my current ones.

[Markkus]

tempeg takes far too long..........i did a 90min film a bit ago and it took 20hrs

[BerrantRyke]

tempeg takes far too long

Well, the spped of TMPEGnc is directly related to the speed of your processor.....

[dpman]

You might be encoding with the wrong field order, that can make "action"
scenes appear jumpy.