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Wed 04 Apr 07 @ 3:30 am

I'm only going to cover mpeg1 with this tutorial since it's what I have found to give the best comaprrison between file size, audio/video quality and processing speed by the GPU of graphics cards.

Firstly, you need a copy of TMPGenc 4 Express. It can be obtained here :-


http://tmpgenc.pegasys-inc.com/en/product/te4xp.html

This is a conversion program that allows you to convert practically any video format into another, along with various settings to shrink, enhance, resize, edit, resync audio video, in fact it's a superb tool that does absolutely allsorts. It also allows the creation and sharing of custom templates for conversions, meaning that instead of having to give an endless list of settings i can simply upload my custom template to here. You can download and install it and the settings will be made for you. My custom template is here :-

(This is copied & pasted from another forum I am a member of which allowed file uploads, since VDJ blogs only allow picture uploads then this causes a slight problem. I will however email the profile to anyone who IM's me an email address. Unless of course I can get the forum support people to allow me to upload it here)



OK, install TMPGenc 4 Express and then go to "My Documents\TMPGEnc\TMPGEnc 4.0 XPress\Template\Export" and place the file in there.

That should install my custom template. Next launch the software and have one of your ripped vobs ready (you can do many files at once but since this is a tutorial we're practicing with a single file)

Start TMPGenc 4 Express and click "Start A New Project". The interface will change a little, next click the button marked "Source Wizard". In the window that opens, make sure "File" is checked then click "Next" and browse to wherever your vob file is stored, select it and click "Open".

At this point an editor will open. Ignore this for now (more later) and just click "OK" at the bottom of the editor window.

You will now be back to the original interface but you will see your vob file listed (you will also see two buttons saying "Edit" and "Remove"). At the top click the "Format" button, you will see a list on the left of all the codecs and compressions available. In the list you should see "Tophousetemplate" listed. highlight it and click "Select".

You will now be at a tabbed screen showing all the compression settings, "DO NOT CHANGE ANYTHING" Well, just one thing Almost at the very top, where it says "File Output Mode", make sure that "Output Each Clip In A Seperate File (or seperate files)" is selected. Otherwise, when you come to be inputting several vobs at once it will join them all up into one big mpeg!

Now at the top select "Encode". Use the "Browse" button to select a destination folder then click the button on the bottom left that has an arrow pointing to a segment of film.

Now all you do is wait!


THE EDITOR

You can use the editor as you add your clips or you can click the "Edit" button on the file list. This is useful if you have a music video that has an intro that you want to cut off. All you do is select "Cut-Edit" to enter the cutting room, and use the simple tools to enter a new start point and/or end point (the buttons give tooltips if you hover your mouse pointer over them) You can preview your video to make sure you have selected the right start end points or cut at the right places. When done, just select "OK" and you're done.

SYNCH ISSUES

Whilst using my described methods of ripping as in my other tutorial, and converting as in this tutorial, I have ripped/converted in excess of 1800 files and not had a synch problem. However it can happen, and if that is the case, at the bottom left of the editor "Cut-Edit" window you will see "Audio Gap Correction" Simply adjust this either forward or backward and test using the editor preview window until you get the synch back in (this takes practice getting the figure right but from experience it's nearly always 200 or -200)


MULTIPLE CONVERSIONS

Now that we've succesfully converted one clip. In the future you can select a whole DVD's worth of vobs in one go and load them into TMPGenc without any problems. Just follow the same procedures for the rest as above.


If I've missed anything obvious or you hit a problem, just ask and I'll add it to this tutorial.