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HC Encoder |
HC is a free MPEG2 Encoder. Input can be a d2v project or input using Avisynth. 2 pass VBR encoding. Variable GOP structure dependent of the video content or fixed GOP structure. Scene change detection. Pre-programmed matrices or use your own matrices. Restart possibility to run the second pass again. Bitrate control: average and max bitrate can be set.
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Latest version: 0.24 Beta (October 23, 2009) Download sites: Download from author site Windows More information and other downloads: Download HCbatchgui here, it will allow the user to save ini files for use in batch encoding and will automatically generate a batch file and start the encoding process for you. Sections/Browse similar tools: Video Encoders (MPG/DVD) Alert me! when this software has been updated. |
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A new beta of HCenc 024 is out. View entire changelog Deadzone quantization is now adaptive, see HCgui tab settings 1. Similar tools/Alternative to HC: bbMPEG, Mainconcept MPEG Encoder, Mainconcept Reference, ProCoder, TMPGEnc, TMPGEnc Plus, TMPGEnc Xpress Sponsored tools: Guides and How to's:
Encoding an AVI using HCenc - Read View all guides with guide description here HC Guide - Read HCbatchGUI user guide = Batch process video and audio - Read How to Batch Process with HCEnc - Read How to capture video and create a PAL DVD from it - Read How to encode an Avi to dvd ready video and audio Using HCenc and Aften - Read How to Encode Womble Mpeg Video Wizard projects with HCenc - Read Acronyms / Also Known As: hcbatch,hcenc,hcgui, hc encoder, hcencoder
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Still my favorite mpeg encoder. Gives high quality results. Beta 024 is a great step for new functions like one pass vbr encoding. Can't wait for the final release of 024. Keep up the great work hank315! Your efforts are greatly appreciated!
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As it supports the "retro" OS Win98/SE I love it, even though it is slower. HC's quality in Win98/SE is excellent. CCE Basic on WinXP box and HC on Win98 box, no complaints.
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Somewhat slow but great results in quality.
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On 8000 CBR with the slowest/highest quality settings in TMPGEnc, it took about 12 hours for a ~2 hour video. With 8000max bit rate,8000average bit rate, and best quality mode, HCEnc took about 6 hours. That's pretty cool, but I would say that I liked being able to do CBR with TMPGEnc and you can't really do that with HCEnc.
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Used encoder with DVD-RB Pro in highest quality mode and took only about 8% longer to encode a dvd vs. CCE basic. Can't see any difference in quality. Using DVD-RB Pro it used both my cores and was simultaneously processing 2 instances of video. Excellent.
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If you do lots of batch encodes you might look at HCbatchGUI. It is a batch gui for HCenc, DGpulldown, and Aften. It will batch encode your video, batch process dgpulldown, and encode your audio to AC3 with Aften. Check out the development thread. http://forum.videohelp.com/topic336128.html Check the link below for a user guide for HCbatchGUI.
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Very good free encoder. Will do very comparable quality to the commercial encoders. Check my guide for help batch processing.
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Great encoder. Easy to use. Have just changed d2mp to support-it: great results.
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Very nice program. Gives high quality output, and it's very easy to use. Definitely worth the money (actually, it's free, which makes it even more valuable)! @FrontierDK: IMHO avi import is redundant. Set up your files with AviSynth and then import the avs. This way you can also import filters for effects if needed.
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This really is a great MPEG2 encoder, probably the best quality amongst freeware encoders in the world. The only thing missing is the obvious lack of .AVI import. Hank, when is that going to be added? Or even better, multiple (sequential) .AVI import?
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WOW! Very impressive encoder, I hadn't done MPEG-2 encoding in quite some time and did not have TMPGEnc 2.5 installed anymore, I also had misplaced my custom profiles (for TMPGEnc)so I thought I'd give HC a try. I frameserved a project from VirtualDub, created a simple AviSynth Script and dumped it into HC and it created a great looking file that rivals anything I've used before. If you aren't sure of the settings to use the "Make DVD Compliant" button will fix you up quite nicely. Incredibly Great Freeware App !!
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HCenc is a great freeware MPEG-2 DVD spec video encoder. Version 0.20 fixed some errors with the auto-GOP setting and also fixed the NTSC 3:2 Pulldown option.
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Once you learn how to create a few simple avisyth scripts it is easy to use and it does a great job.
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Excellent results from a program that is unobtrusive on the system, has a very small file-size, and delivers the results; only less than maybe half an hour to learn the options and be using it. GREAT!
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Great encoder,to the previous poster,just change gop to 12 and you won't get that error with tmpg dvd author.
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I've been a longtime TMPGEnc user and wanted to try my hand at Avisynth for a while. Using the scripts generated by The FilmMachine as a starter template, I created a script to take my DV copy of an old Italian horror flick (recorded from the Independent Film Channel with a Canopus ADVC-100), convert to YV12, do an IVTC, crop the black letterbox bars off the top and bottom, and resize to 720x480. I then loaded this script into HC and entered the max and average bitrates given by this site's bitrate calculator, picked Best profile, chose 16x9 aspect ratio, enabled pulldown, scene change, autogop, closed gops, and preview. Just under 5 hours later, I had an m2v file that I couldn't tell apart from the original broadcast (that was still sitting on my DirecTivo). For a comparison, I loaded the same script into TMPGEnc Plus and tweaked the settings to be identical to HC's. Results were also very hard to tell apart from the original broadcast. But TMPGEnc took over 12 hours for the same job. Have to knock one point off HC's functionality though. When I loaded the final m2v file into TMPGEnc DVD Author, TDA gave me an error message stating the GOPs are too long. The m2v from TMPGEnc Plus did not give this error message.
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Great encoder for me using DVD-Rebuilder. Only downside is it is slow, but very good quality.
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I used this to encode a Digicam clip. The output m2v file is good. Only problem is it reports time wrongly. Exactly half of what it should be.
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You can't get any sound from HC. You'll need to use another program (BeSweet, QuEnc with an AviSynth script, etc...).
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I could on first try encode a 30 minute DV NTSC clip in about one and half hours. The output quality is good. But I lost all sound. Hope there is a way to get sound.
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Great program. The final 016 was released Dec. 15 2005. It includes some bug fixes and a new GUI. Get it here: http://hank315.dyndns.org/HC_016.zip
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Ease of use: 2 Latest version gets rid of gui and has you use ini files for inputting everything. This would not be so bad if there was ANY documentation. Instead all I could find was a guide for older version with gui. Functionality: 7 Quick, but lacks many useful options. Value for money: 10 Cant beat free. Overall score: 5 Lack of documentation/gui really hurts this tool.
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Simply the best free MPEG2 encoder out there. Better quality AND faster encoding than any other free one or even the low-priced pay ones. GUI is simple and easy to use. Runs about 3X faster than TMPGEnc Plus on a P4. Small drawbacks: Lacks some minor features like setting pulldown flags and CBR encoding and requires learning/using Avisynth to work from any source but DVD (which requires DGMPGDec). The rare hang/crash is to be expected in a beta, but development is ongoing.
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Yes, as the previous comment said, is a very good encoder. I not tested to much, but provide very good quality. Can be used with Avi2Dvd and this way you don't need to know how to write AviSynth scripts.
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I couldn't get the earlier versions of this app to work, but the latest as of this writing (beta 0.12a)works very well. You need to feed it an AVISynth script. Here's the one I used: #Divx HD Source AviSource("d:\good.avi") converttoyv12() Lanczos4Resize(720,480) It does a two pass DVD compliant .M2V encode pretty quickly, but more importantly, the quality is VERY good - easily competes with the big boys. Nice and crisp images in the resulting MPEG2 files. Also has a batch encoding executable. Unfortunately, many folks will shy away from having to install AVISynth and creating an .AVS file to feed into HC. Too bad. It is worth the effort.
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