ArcSoft ShowBiz and re-encodin....

[donpedro]

I was working on my review fir ShowBiz and on their web site they mentioned somthing called "Smart Rendering". What it means is if you import mpeg-2 that is same format as your otput file, they will not re-encode it. It works fine for files that were produced by ShowBiz but not by my capture card or for example Pinnacle Studo 8. Does anybody know why ?

The only difference that I see when looking on properties in VideoStudio6 is that from my capture card media type is

"MPEG-2 NTSC, Field B"

and from ShowBiz it is just

"MPEG-2 NTSC"

all the other properties are same.

[MOVIEGEEK]

It could be your video GOP is not within specs.Also is the audio samplerate 44.1 or 48khz(MPEG-2 is 44.1 and DVD is 48khz).

[donpedro]

48.

How do I check GOP ?

[MOVIEGEEK]

I just tested Showbiz and it will smart render a VCD file,but when I tried several MPEG-2 files it rendered them all.
I guess it isn't so smart after all.

[donpedro]

It is smart only when mpeg2 was produced by ShowBiz.... Maybe some kind of self-protection so you won't use encoder from other company

[jra111]

How can you tell if it is/is not re-rendering? So if I add a bunch of clips made in Showbiz that are mpeg2 and add some avi's it will only render the avi's in the movie but not the Mpeg2 parts?

[donpedro]

You can see it by speed how that part is processed. Also by message, but I don't remember what it is exactly.... I was testing only 1 mpeg file.

[jra111]

donpedro, I have 2 Showbiz questions. Can you auther a dvd through Showbiz with a menu and chapter buttons? I have been using showbiz for all my videos and when I save as mpeg1 it chops off the last couple of seconds but not on mpeg2 then it is fine ,have you noticed this?

[donpedro]

No. ShowBiz is only editing tool. In my case it is part of MyDVD package that came with Sony burner. Follow link below to see what it can do.