TMPG Procedures

Cropping in TMPEGEnc

This is for DivX encoding in TMPEGEnc only!

Load your .tpr project file as video source.. NOT open project! Then click on Configure, and on the advanced tab and then double click on Crop:

Notice that now the aspect ratio is okay. It should be pretty obvious how to crop... simply increase Top and Bottom until there's no black bars anymore. Then press OK, then in the video tab select the desired size according to the bitrate and resolution guide. Then press OK and then File - Save as - AVI File. Select your bitrate, 100% crispness and keyframe each second. Also chose an audio codec of your liking.

Then save the AVI. Unfortunately this is not the fastest encoder...

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Adding an audio offset

You can adjust the audio offset by selecting Source frame range, the first of the advanced options in the MPEG configuration, right above Inverse telecine. Double click on it to configure:

Audio skew is the value you have to change. You can of course also use negative values. Beware: You have to change the sign of the offset. DVD2AVI gives you a negative offset and you'll have to enter a positive offset in TMPEGEnc!

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Multiplexing

Start the MPEG Tool by pressing File - MPEG Tools. Then chose the right Type: MPEG-1 Video CD for VCDs and MPEG-2 Super Video CD (VBR) for SVCDs. 

Then load the input files and define an output file. If the files are called mpv and mpa simply rename them to m2v (or m1v in case of an MPEG 1 video) and mp2. Then press Start. 

It has come to my attention that in some cases the multiplexing will result in a disc that's unplayable in a standalone. In that case you should use bbMPEG to multiplex.

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bbMPEG

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Cutting

Start MPEG tools by pressing File - MPEG Tools. 

Set Format to MPEG-2 Super Video-CD for SVCD or MPEG-1 Video CD for VCD and load your file by pressing Add and then selecting it. After that set an output name, click on the file once and press Edit

Of course there are other tools capable of cutting an mpeg2 file: M2-Edit or Mpeg2Vcr. To cut MPEG1 files you can also take VCD Cutter, M1 Edit or MyFlix but especially VCD Cutter has the nasty habit to fail quite often or to create really choppy files. 

One thing: If TMPG seems to hang start the task manager and check the program's status.. usually it looks like it were hanging but it's still processing the files. 

It should be pretty obvious how to use the cutter but here we go anyway. Press the IN button to set the position from which you want to cut and the OUT button to mark the end position. You can also manually enter values, just respect the format: seconds. tenths of seconds. No hour:minutes:seconds I'm afraid. But the playing position will be show on the left so that should be okay. Of course you can start playing the movie and just press the IN and OUT buttons whenever you feel like. After you've set your range press OK and OK again in the actual MPEG Tools window. After it's done to close the MPEG Tools you have to press Cancel, quite unusual but that's how it works. 

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Demultiplexing

Load the splitted mpg files here, set the output file names and press OK. After a while you'll end up with a separate video and audio file.

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