What MPEG Compressor
Tuesday, January 15, 2008 by TCAlienWorks | Discussion: DreamScenes
I've been making dreams for a while and just upgraded to Production Premium CS3 and the mpeg compressor seems to be of a worse quality. I'm looking for a 3rd party compressor. I've tried Cinema Craft and Procoder but both don't do HD. Money isn't a huge issue but it can't be a $50,000 one. Anyone have a great high quality MPEG compressor?
TCAlienWorks
Reply #2 Tuesday, January 15, 2008 5:52 PM
Reply #2 Tuesday, January 15, 2008 5:52 PM
I got the demo but how do I do 1080 in it? All the presets are for 720 or normal SD resolutions. I tried a custom 1080p input but then when I hit start it says "The window size is not accepted by selected MPEG-2 level." How do you do 1080p conversions? The input is an uncompressed AVI
TheMasterBaron
Reply #3 Tuesday, January 15, 2008 8:43 PM
Reply #3 Tuesday, January 15, 2008 8:43 PM
Set the "Output Stream Type" to "ES (Video Only)" and the "Profile&Level" to "MP@HL" and it should allow higher resolution encoding. It will create a .m2v file instead of an .mpg file, but all you need to do is rename it to .mpg
Diamond Panther
Reply #4 Tuesday, January 15, 2008 9:09 PM
Reply #4 Tuesday, January 15, 2008 9:09 PM
Any H.264/AVC codec should support full frame 1080p at 50/60 (for NTSC) and 24/30 (for PAL) but you could also input at 1080i then use 3:2 pulldown deinterlacing to convert back to 1080p.
As for TEMPEnc Xpress4 there is no current support for full 1080p (at least thats what the site and use tells me
), i TEMPEnc believe MPEG Editor 2.0 has support for it tho 
What are you encoding that requires 1080p that 1080i just isn't good enough for? if its just for dreams then you really don't need to bother unless u making them for older CRT users, any WUXGA LCD natives at 1080p and any non-widescreen that can push the resolution will native 1080p and monitors that have lower resolution natives will scale it anyway...
If you are also encoding for HD-DVD/BRD then you will need to use a full MPEG suite not just xpress.
Hope this helps
As for TEMPEnc Xpress4 there is no current support for full 1080p (at least thats what the site and use tells me
), i TEMPEnc believe MPEG Editor 2.0 has support for it tho 
What are you encoding that requires 1080p that 1080i just isn't good enough for? if its just for dreams then you really don't need to bother unless u making them for older CRT users, any WUXGA LCD natives at 1080p and any non-widescreen that can push the resolution will native 1080p and monitors that have lower resolution natives will scale it anyway...
If you are also encoding for HD-DVD/BRD then you will need to use a full MPEG suite not just xpress.
Hope this helps
TCAlienWorks
Reply #5 Tuesday, January 15, 2008 11:00 PM
Reply #5 Tuesday, January 15, 2008 11:00 PM
ya I use it for dreams. I got TMPGEnc xPress 4 to work at 1080p with some customizations to settings. The quality is great thanks!
CarGuy1
Reply #6 Wednesday, January 16, 2008 11:07 PM
Reply #6 Wednesday, January 16, 2008 11:07 PM
Does anyone know how to encode a video in reverse with TMPGEnc xPress. I would like to make a mpg out of a short clip by running it forward first then reversing the clip to see if it would loop better.
stephenvw
Reply #7 Friday, January 18, 2008 11:39 AM
Reply #7 Friday, January 18, 2008 11:39 AM
My colors arent good the black is more grey (
Any idea what i am doing wrong? I tried different settings
Any idea what i am doing wrong? I tried different settings
TheMasterBaron
Reply #8 Friday, January 18, 2008 2:07 PM
Reply #8 Friday, January 18, 2008 2:07 PM
Is your source video uncompressed or is it another compressed format? I found that WMV looses it's black and converting from uncompressed source works best.
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Reply #1 Tuesday, January 15, 2008 9:15 AM