Best setting for tmpgenc plus?

[jammiev]

hi, whats the best settings for audio and visual on tpmgenc plus? i don't mind if the process takes longer, i want the best quality!

[ed klein]

When I use TMPGEnc Plus as the encoder, these are the settings I have used in the last five years. Gives balance audio and great picture quality with the least amount of encoding time.

AUDIO TAB
audio edit
change volume to 200%

VIDEO TAB
motion picture search-----high quality slow
rate control mode---------constant bitrate (cbr)
VIDEO SOURCE TYPE-------------interlace or non-interlace
(this setting depends on the dvd movie)
FIELD ORDER--------top field first or bottom field first
(which ever field does not have jerky motion)

Be sure to enable filter when you finish making the selections.

Normally, if you live in region 1 you have NTSC at 29.97fps. If you have an old dvd that shows jerky car motion you can change the frames per second to NTSC 23.97fps to remove the jerky car motion. The setting is Inverse 3:2 pulldown.

This is approximately 4 hours encoding time on a 2 hour movie. And the automatic bit rate setting to fill the disk to 4.7gb. Your find the automatic bitrate setting to be between 4000 to 6000.

[blutach]

Hi Ed,

I'm not a big TMPGEnc + user. Just wondering why you wouldn't use Variable Bitrate? As well, I think TFF is more usual.

Regards

[LT. Columbo]

i've found that when direct show is raised, the settings chosen by tmpgenc automatically are perfect. i always leave motion search precision to normal or fast, you'll never SEE the difference between slow and fast. naturally other settings depend on the file being encoded. this guide explains

http://forum.digital-digest.com/showthread.php?t=56454

[doit2it]

@jammiev

What type of videos are you using the program to make? MPEG1, VCD, MPEG2, SVCD, or DVD compliant MPEG2?

[jammiev]

source is avi's!

[LT. Columbo]

that much we figured

[doit2it]

@jammiev

source is avi's!

But what are you trying to convert the AVIs into - MPEG1, VCD, MPEG2, SVCD, or DVD compliant MPEG2?

[ed klein]

Blutach,
The only reason I used CBR over VBR, I could not see any visual improvement.

[LT. Columbo]

neither could i...

[moonrocks]

I use VBR when encoding and my thinking was always that if I used CBR then I'd have to set the bitrate high enough to give me decent quality in all the dense, high motion scenes.

But then I'd be wasting the higher bitrate on all the less active scenes so my .mpeg would end up being much larger than it needed to be without gaining anything in video quality. If I use VBR then the bitrate goes up when only when it needs to and the entire video still has an even quality to it.

At least that's the level of my understanding on the tradeoffs between CBR/VBR. But to be honest I haven't encoded a lot of video with CBR to compare. For those of you who have, am I sacrificing quality somewhere, even just a bit, by sticking with my VBR approach?

[jammiev]

@jammiev

But what are you trying to convert the AVIs into - MPEG1, VCD, MPEG2, SVCD, or DVD compliant MPEG2?

dvd!

[doit2it]

Then I'd pretty much go along with an earlier suggestion - I'd use the TMPGE template for DVD. I'd set the Motion Search Precision to "normal" because setting it to "slow" is a HUGE waste of time with no improved results