Can someone please post detailed settings that they use for TMPGEnc? Is there much difference between using the noise Reduction filter? I am capturing a Digital 8 video and I want to make sure that for my VCD and SVCD that I want to get the best possible quality that I can find and time is not an issue.

Thanks, Cale

-- Cale Ferguson (toastofthetown@email.com), May 11, 2001

Answers

The only setting i use with tmpg is edge enhansment set at about 30-40 and motion search at high quality.

-- PAT MURPHY (pmurx@oceanfree.com), May 11, 2001.

If you captured D8 FireWire you can leave the noise reduction filter on at its default levels for night scenes. Otherwise leave it off. The more filters you use the slower the encoding. D8 and DV sources "captured" FireWire (as opposed to analogue, which is to be avoided at all costs for DV/D8, with FireWire cards less than US$99) usually have noise levels low enough they don't even require noise reduction. For VCD one area that gives very visible improvements is in the de-interlacing. You double-click deinterlacer in TMPGenc, choose even-odd field (field) and preview the source AVI to see if the encoder is reading the correct field order. If the video doesn't proceed smoothly frame by frame or there is judder, reverse the field order by choosing A or B or vice-versa; go figure. Either way see which field order gives the best motion. Then choose even field (adaptive). What was done here is 1) read the correct field order 2) choose the even field as the leading field 3) interpolate the odd and even fields intelligently to produce a unique field of 240 or 288 lines that will be your VCD frame. This produces a smoother, yet sharper video compared with that from other encoders that merely discard one field and use the remaining one. I took this from www.flexion.org, from the details on ripping off VCDs using DVD2AVI method; I figured it would work well on other interlaced sources like DV-AVI clips from DV and D8 sources. For SVCD which uses both fields the importance of correct field order reading is even more important.

-- Mehmet Tekdemir (turk690@yahoo.com), May 12, 2001.