TMPGenc VS CCE

[Lerch]

What's the best for you? I heard that CCE is the faster, but the quality is best in TMPGenc.

[easy2Bcheesy]

I used to be madly in favour of TMPEG, but CCE is tons faster, easier to deal with, a lot more user-friendly if you're using PAL footage and also comes with a handy (but slower) Adobe Premiere plug-in.

CCE - so good I actually bought it!

[Commander XJL]

I've been into encoding for years and pretty much everyone including myself says TMPG puts out a little better quality, maybe thats why its a little slower

[bezerk]

TMPGEnc is far superior with MPEG-1 at low bitrate -> VCD !

Nothing, not even last version of TMPGENC comes close to CCE when encoding MPEG-2 for CVD, SVCD or DVD.

And if you want to encode interlaced material like DV, TMPGENC is
almost useless compared to CCE.

anyway, for VCD use TMPGENC, for anything else CCE is the only way
to go, quality or speed wise.

ahmm.., there is small problem with CCE, price is couple of thousand $.

[Commander XJL]

Hey bezerk
do you go through the huge amount of stuff in the CCE guide here or just do 1 pass and be done with it? Or right from the start can you do multipass? The guide says you do single pass first then go back and do multipass. Whats your method?

[bezerk]

I just simply:
- I keep noise filter ON at 2 on all encoding !!!(PAL DVD's really can use some filtering, I can hardly believe how some R2 disks are
garbage compared to same movies on R1 disks)
- for two movies change matrice in quality settings to very low bitrate !
- IBBPBBPBBPBB, DC precision 10, luminance 0-255, linear quant.s.
1. encode movie with VBR, MIN 0, MAX 9000 (not 9800, CCE tends to go over and scenarist complains), Q 30 ! vaf file must be created
2. encode multipass 3,4,5 or whatever time you can spare, but not less then 3 pass with MIN 0, MAX 9000, AVG at least 2300 (you can get about 3.5-4 hours on one DVD this way, in very descent quality,
if you use TV, for projection it sucks !!!! :)


Check your encoded video after step one, some movies require more bitrate then others, so you lower it for one and raise for other movie, just a bit.