this cant be right can it ?

[thingy_me_bob]

right i get it so if i keep the tmpgenc i can correct faulty files .. cool i will remember that then and use that next time i come across a faulty file and try to fix it .. thanks

[rsquirell]

There are other neat things under advanced tab also....you can brighten your video...deeepen primary colors....clip (crop) the video to eliminate logos or whatever, set start/end points, cut out commercials....

[thingy_me_bob]

ahhhhhh now that does sound good alot of my files have been dark and also alot have logos and such i could do with chopping out ... hmmmm i may be back in the not too distant future to annoy you all some more with irritating and annoying questions and problems lol ... thanks for that .. you have given a very confussed lady some hope lol

[thingy_me_bob]

rite ok i found this advanced tab and i got a list of stuff i can tick so wot does wot then ? wot will brighten the picture ? wot will crop off logo's etc etc and also there are a few things i dont know what they mean too wots interlaced and non-interlaced ? and wot can you do when it says that the film may be too long when encoded ? says that the authoring software may not recognise it if it is too long says to avoid this warning the file needs to be smaller than 4070MB and at the moment is saying it will be 4199.72MB

hmmm while writing this i was trying all this on my other computer and the file i tried earlier that tmpgenc accepted it is no longer trying .. is this because i started to encode it and stopped it ?

[rsquirell]

To brighten and deepen colors see "simple color correction". To crop the picture look in "clip frame". Don't touch interlacing. When you get warning about size click "OK" and make file anyway (then you take the file to TMPGenc DVD Author...or some other authoring program...to get the VIDEO_TS files which you import into DVDShrink to size it up. When TMPGenc wont accept file which you know it should accept click "OK" and hit start again...you may have to do this a couple of times...sometimes TMPGenc acts a bit quirky.

[thingy_me_bob]

lol thanks again ... quirky sounds a bit like me lol

[rsquirell]

Someone on this forum has a byline quote by that famous sage, Yoda: " Do, or don't do....there is no try."

[thingy_me_bob]

ok i will DO but i am not saying i wont make a complete mess of it lol

[shiny#3]

it seems that you have switched to tmpeg.....

when using Tmpeg....you can avoid alot of out of sync probs
ensuring that you use an avifile that

1. contains no bad frames
2. contains no mp3 variable bitrate

so I still recommend to bring the avi into a good shape
rather than risking a coding stop near the end or
having to fix a syncproblem.....

when the avi is in "good shape" you might also be able to use faster encoders!!

[thingy_me_bob]

yeah but to do that dont i need to use virtualdub ? which wont work on my comp for some reason

[shiny#3]

the normal virtual dub (and I noticed that you are
able to run that) is enough for converting VBR-->CBR mp3

still keep on trying to get virtual dub MOD running also
what if you encounter a movie wrapped in OGM instead of avi.....

[thingy_me_bob]

ermmm i dnt even know wot OGM is lol so i dont know what i wud do .. wot is it by the way ?

[shiny#3]

as I have stated before: AVI is not a movie format
it is only a container.....that can hold very different
movie and sound formats......

ogm is another more advanced container.

[thingy_me_bob]

ok