Switching over to CCE from TMPGne Issues

[petec]

Been using TMPGne for a while now. Recently started to author my DVDs utilizing TMPGne to Encode from DV to MPEG2. Works great but takes a while. (using VBR 2 Pass). Been playing with CCE and while I really like that the time is shorter to encode haven't been able to get a decent DVD yet. Most of the time the DVD is very jerky. I am using TMPGne to get a size (playing with Average, Low and High bit rates on the VBR settings). Take these settings and use them on CCE. Still very jerky pictures. Any advice would sincerely be appreciated.

[adam]

DV is interlaced, well unless you have a REALLY nice camcorder. As such, you have to ensure two things. First off make sure that CCE is set to interlaced output rather than progressive. The names of the settings are different depending on what version you use. If there is no interlaced box in the video settings than make sure "progressive" is left unchecked. Also select alternate scanning order if its available, or make sure zigzag scanning order is unckecked; again it depends on your version of CCE. Anyaway these last setting are not part of the problem, they will just improve quality

Secondly you have to make sure that you set the field order correctly. If its incorrect than the playback will be very jerky. Look in the settings and check or uncheck upper field first, depending what you currently have it set to. Do a quick test encode and see how it plays. There are ways to test your source's field order before encoding ie: use bitrate viewer or preview it in TMPGenc with even field deinterlacer on....but your camcorder will always capture with the same field order so once you find it you can just always use that.

[dc91gt]

Been using TMPGne for a while now. Recently started to author my DVDs utilizing TMPGne to Encode from DV to MPEG2. Works great but takes a while. (using VBR 2 Pass). Been playing with CCE and while I really like that the time is shorter to encode haven't been able to get a decent DVD yet. Most of the time the DVD is very jerky. I am using TMPGne to get a size (playing with Average, Low and High bit rates on the VBR settings). Take these settings and use them on CCE. Still very jerky pictures. Any advice would sincerely be appreciated.

your jerkyness is coming from the field order not being correct.

DV is bottom field first.

CCE defaults to upper field first.

So in CCE, under the options for the video you are going to convert, right click and go to edit->video options and unselect upper field first.

Re-encode and your jerkyness will go away.

-d

[petec]

Thanks guys. For my DV source I am using captures (S-Video - Satellite) to a Canopus ADVC-100 plugged into a Canopus Raptor card. I am converting WAV file to AC3 and just converting DV to MPEG 2 Video (for DVD). The quality of the processed video from CCE (other than the jerky picture was very good.). I have heard that Canopus Procoder is pretty good also (but price is high).