tmpgenc quality help

[bangwell]

I have made some vcd's and I was wondering if I could up the quality by fiddling with the settings. I tried converting to svcd but I could not fit them on 2 cds. If anyone has some ideas It would be very helpful, thanks.

[DivXExpert]

Try using the highest quality motion search. That can help

[banjazzer]

I tried converting to svcd but I could not fit them on 2 cds.

You can fit 50-60 minutes per 80 minute CD for SVCD, which means most movies will fit on 2 CDs. Perhaps you were using constant bitrate, which is quite wastful?

[hwoodwar]

I'm not sure if you are using TMPGenc, CCE or what but TMPGenc has a 2-Pass VBR (variable bitrate) and CCE has some sort of multipass VBR. I use TMPGenc and have found 2-Pass VBR along with high quality or higest quality Motion Search Precision greatly increases the quality of a video. If you use 2-Pass VBR along with a template at some point further on you can select the size of your CD and adjust the bitrate to fit on the one CD. For CVD's and SVCD's I usually try to stay above an average bitrate of 2000 and start testing at a maximum of 3600. Under certain circumstances (usually mostly light colored scenes and not lot of fast motion) I have gotten good results with as low as a 1700 average bitrate. In your case it would be best to split a movie into two AVI's and then adjust the bitrate for each to fit on one CD like I just mentioned.

I also know many people here swear by CQ (constant quality.) Each time i have tried CQ, either I did not get the quality I wanted, or was not able to fit enough (timewise) on a CD at the quality I wanted.