TPMGEnc question?

[fatboy95]

I have been looking through the forums for this answer and wasn't able to find really anything about it.

I was wondering if selecting the "MOTION SEARCH POSITION" made that much of a differance in video?

It takes like 8hours just to convert half a movie (700M worth of video). I am a little picky as to quality and if it is going to make that big a difference I will wait the time.

Thanks for the input!

[Conquest10]

yes it does make a difference.

[Jack_G]

I have to agree... it makes a lot of difference. For a dvd to (s)vcd conversion I allways set it to highest quality and for divx to (s)vcd i choose high quality.

[puertorican138]

Motion search precision adjusts how much the encoder searches for motion between different frames. This means it looks at a block in a frame and then looks at the next frame for the same (or similar, depending on other settings) block somewhere else in the picture. If a similarity is found, information on the direction and how much the mpeg block moved between the 2 frames is put into the mpeg stream, so that the block is used
in a different place in frame 2. By doing this the same thing isn't encoded twice. This means that less bits are used when things are repeated. then bits can go to other things like encoding the block better in the 1st frame.

Setting the motion search precision to the highest quality (slowest) setting will make the encoder search really hard for repetition between frames. This makes the picture a lot better when things are moving.

If you encode a video with only small amounts of movement, you can sometimes get away with lower settings to save time, but even in low motion pictures, different parts of the image might be the
same, so I always use the highest setting to give the best picture.

Professional DVD authoring hardware uses extremely sophisticated methods to search for motion, and that's what makes them so expensive, but so high quality.

Hope That Helps!!! :P

[Doggiedaddy]

Hey guys,
I use motion estimate search on, 9 bit 2 pass vbr set bitrate for the largest possible file with just enough room to author, and have had GREAT results on DVD. I messed around with the settings a lot and found this to be best FOR ME Just my 2 cents.
Is it just me or is this site slow today

Not free but cheap

SmartRipper
DVD2AVI
TMPGEnc

Dazzle DVD Complete

[puertorican138]

Hey guys,
I use motion estimate search on, 9 bit 2 pass vbr set bitrate for the largest possible file with just enough room to author, and have had GREAT results on DVD. I messed around with the settings a lot and found this to be best FOR ME Just my 2 cents.
Is it just me or is this site slow today

Not free but cheap

SmartRipper
DVD2AVI
TMPGEnc

Dazzle DVD Complete

Ive' noticed this site has slowed down some too.

[Conquest10]

yeah. it took me a while to get on here, too. i thought it was my connection, but other sites load fine.