Any TMPGEnc experts?

[makeevka]

Hi All,

My post in DVD Authoring did not bring any answer, perhaps it was a wrong forum? Please let me know any leads on TMPGEnc insight.

I have finished editing my DV movie (Pinnacle Studio 9 if it matters) and made a master copy back to a tape. So far so good.

This movie is my hiking video (lots of good hiking in British Columbia and as a result there is a fair number of clips inlude panning on landscape. Trees, rocks, water waves e.g. objects with lots of small details. These objects have some (little and yet) artifacts on the original track (taken with Canon Optura 20). But making a DVD makes these areas so blocky, so poor that it is a real spoiler!

Searching the Net I figured that probably TMPGEnc is probably the most advanced encoder available to "general public". So I downloaded trial version of Enc 2.5.

Using default values bring a bit better result, but not a whole lot. Does anyone know what are the effects and values for these options:

- Quantize/soften block noise
- Adavanced/noise reduction

Any help would be very much appreciated.

[setarip]

The following link may provide some answers:

http://www.vcdhelp.com/tmpgencexplained.htm

[makeevka]

Thank you, it's good link. As for the problem I am facing it looks like MPEG conversion is has a "soft spot" for those areas. So I'll have to live with that. After applying "noise reduction" filter it looks reasonable.

[setarip]

"Thank you, it's good link."

My pleasure ;>}