dizzyhazy
2nd July 2005, 16:14
Hello, everyone. Just thought I’d share my experience with TMPGEnc. I have always been disappointed with the picture quality of my DVD of the movie Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story. I have used DVDRB with CCE to make it anamorphic widescreen. It helped, but it still had the problem of the original: you can see scan lines within the video. Plus, diagonal lines had a very bad stair step effect. This movie deserves much better than this.
I have been playing with TMPGEnc and found the right settings to enhance the picture quality to the point that it actually looks like a brand new transfer! I think the results are incredible. Solid picture, no scan lines, and actually MORE detail than the original (can this be? no, not really, but it sure does look that way). I don’t quit know how TMPGEnc does it, but that little program is the BOMB!!!
Under filters, I set the following:
Deinterlace at 24fps (motion prior)
Crop 40 from top and 40 from bottom
Noise reduction at 50
Color correction: Luminance at 12, contrast at 33
Resize to Center (custom size) to 720x480 with adaptive resize model
Then I went to Set Output. I selected NTSC with aspect ratio 16:9 with VBR and AC3
The encoder/bitrate setting I left as is.
The DC component mode set to 10 bit
The Video mode I changed to progressive
The Motion serch precision I changed to highest with error compensation
The output stream type I set to separate elementary streams because I use DVD LAB to author the DVD. I don’t know how others will author theirs, so this may be different for them.
I also checked the Soften block noise and left it at 35 each.
Some of my findings were calculated (like how many bars to crop and resizing) but others were just trial and error. The biggest help was the second step: deinterlace at 24fps. That was the last one I tried. I kept playing with it until I got good results. Then when I set that deinterlace, BAM!!! Looks like a modern transfer of this DVD. Opens up new possiblilities… I have also been playing with making fullscreen DVDs into quai-anamorphic ws. But that will be another post.
Hope this may help others....
:sly:
I have been playing with TMPGEnc and found the right settings to enhance the picture quality to the point that it actually looks like a brand new transfer! I think the results are incredible. Solid picture, no scan lines, and actually MORE detail than the original (can this be? no, not really, but it sure does look that way). I don’t quit know how TMPGEnc does it, but that little program is the BOMB!!!
Under filters, I set the following:
Deinterlace at 24fps (motion prior)
Crop 40 from top and 40 from bottom
Noise reduction at 50
Color correction: Luminance at 12, contrast at 33
Resize to Center (custom size) to 720x480 with adaptive resize model
Then I went to Set Output. I selected NTSC with aspect ratio 16:9 with VBR and AC3
The encoder/bitrate setting I left as is.
The DC component mode set to 10 bit
The Video mode I changed to progressive
The Motion serch precision I changed to highest with error compensation
The output stream type I set to separate elementary streams because I use DVD LAB to author the DVD. I don’t know how others will author theirs, so this may be different for them.
I also checked the Soften block noise and left it at 35 each.
Some of my findings were calculated (like how many bars to crop and resizing) but others were just trial and error. The biggest help was the second step: deinterlace at 24fps. That was the last one I tried. I kept playing with it until I got good results. Then when I set that deinterlace, BAM!!! Looks like a modern transfer of this DVD. Opens up new possiblilities… I have also been playing with making fullscreen DVDs into quai-anamorphic ws. But that will be another post.
Hope this may help others....
:sly: