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TMPGEnc 4.0 XPress encoder is now twice as powerful as before. Offering the most common file formats including HDV import/output along with DivX 6 AVI, MPEG-1/2/4, QuickTime (MOV), and Window Media (WMV/WMV-HD/WMA) input/output. TMPGEnc XPress natively supports source files in MPEG-1/2 format, unprotected DVD-Video VOB, Windows Media Video, DVR-MS, uncompressed AVI and MOV QuickTime files. Or output to AVI(DivX,XviD...), WMV.
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Trialware ($100)   Released:20100112 Size:29.5MB |
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Latest version: 4.7.4.299 (January 12, 2010) Download sites: Download from author site Windows
Sections/Browse similar tools: All In One Video Converters, DVD to AVI/DivX/XviD, Portable/Mobile/PSP/iPod, Video Encoders, Video Encoders (AVI/WMV), Video Encoders (H264/VC1), Video Encoders (MPG/DVD) Alert me! when this software has been updated. |
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TMPGEnc 4.0 XPress Version 4.7.4.299 - January 11, 2010 View entire changelog Added AAC 5.1 ch (6 channels) import support. (Importation of an MPEG-2 TS file containing an AAC stream up to 5.1 channels is now possible.) In addition, when importing an AAC stream you can manually set the number of channels in the "Clip properties" stage of the "Clip editor" window. Added Multistream selector function in the MPEG file reader. You now have the possibility to select a specific video and audio stream when the MPEG-1/2 source file contains several video and audio streams. Added Support of the Microsoft TV recorder file format "WTV". (WTV file importation is possible on the computer that recorded the file, or can create such files, and are not copy-protected.) Improved MP4/AVCHD File Reader updated. Should allow the importation of files that could not be previously imported, and solve the playback speed issue. Improved YUV color space information contained in the source file is now taken in account when imported through the MP4/AVCHD File Reader. If no color space information is available, the BT.709 or SMPTE 170M color space is automatically selected according to the pixel rate. Improved When outputting an MPEG-4 file, the YUV color space is selected according to the resolution and framerate, the color space is then converted to the selection before the encoding stage. Improved When the Batch encode tool fails to retreive the automatically saved batch list it now displays an error message, erases the batch list and resets. Improved Following a silence, the audio uniformization filter could highly increase the volume, resulting in an explosion-like effect. The improved filter reduces the occurence of such an issue. Fixed An audio gap would appear when continuing to import a file through the DirectShow reader without seeking it. Fixed The DirectShow Reader audio management has been adjusted, allowing the DivX Reader to correctly get the audio. Fixed AAC decoding now resumes instead...
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This releases supports CUDA under G92 based video card fine (8800 GT are supported). Unfortunately G80 based card are not (8800GTS/GTX/Ultra). I think the developer used compute capability 1.1 leaving G80 cards out. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Nvidia ... Features_3 My video card is a 9800GX2 running ForceWare 178.24 under Vista x64. My CPU is an Intel quad Q6700. The mobo uses Intel IP35 chipset. CUDA support could be useful for some filters but not for every situation out there. For example when I enable the hardware video decoder, decoding 720x480 MPEG2 videos is slower. Some filter combinations are faster when using CUDA, so you need to try what´s faster depending on what you are doing and the hardware you have. My 9800GX2 is great for games, but for CUDA it is only marginal better than a 8800 GT
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Well, as it turns out, you must use the latest CUDA-enabled video driver (178.08), which you can get from nVidia. Also, You must have either a 98xx or 2xx series nVidia card for the CUDA options to work with this build of TMPGEnc 4.0 Xpress. That rules out a lot of people with 88xx cards.
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Previous versions worked flawlessly. If you activate CUDA with the most recent nVidia drivers (180.42), it crashes non-stop on any type of encode.
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been using tmpeg products sense mpeg-1 was the de-facto. and the reason i STILL use thire products is it give excellent results, does auto aspect conversion and my videos to this day and version always had proper a/v sync
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it is the fantastic video converter with editing functions but it need codecs to be installed for opening many video files like mkv,rm,mov,avi etc so it will be better if it will have all codecs built in to open all kind of video files
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This is one of the best programs i tested. Only reason i give it a bit low numbers is the conversion for psp do not work so well. The file will not play on my psp. Only way it could play was with mpeg but i wanted to use AVC which has superior quality. I tested "mp4 converter" from http://www.mp4converter.net/ and it works like a charm for psp conversion. Funny thing is the file created with mp4 converter plays perfect on psp but not my mediaplayer classic :) (plays fine in windows media player but without sound) I'm getting a bit dizzy with all new programs and works halfway. My suggestion is to use TMPGEnc for normal encoding and mp4 converter for psp purpose.
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actually was using "super" before this and quality comparison is a total joke with "super". tmpgenc xpress4 encoded an hd uncompressed avi to wmv8 and the quality is sharp and very clean. I have yet to try other conversions but have been impressed with TMPGEnc all across the board. There are so many to choose from but always come back to this company's software.
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I use version 3.0 and I have to say that this is the best encoding software that I have ever used, I don't like version 4.0 because I had a lot of problems with Lame MP3 audio codec. But overall this is really the best I recommend it to everybody.
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I have used TMPG 2.5 for a very long time and decided to try out XPress 3.0 when it came out. I was very happy with it for speed and very decent quality. After a few updates it was even able to handle my raw HDTV transport streams! I even bought the AC3 pluggin that works very well because I was so happy with it. The only real flaw I found was that I would have to remux the audio because it would be out of sync after encode. I think its just a matter of an update to have the program compensate for the audio delay. So I would demux the audio before encode and use the cute little delay box they provide to set the delay Example: (-765). It works great! XPress 3.0 doesn't have as many options as TMPGenc 2.5 and isn't as clean an encode but for a good fast encode it is well within reasonable parameters. And when I say fast I mean 3X's faster than 2.5! But this "comment" is supposed to be about TMPG XPress 4.0. When I decided to upgrade to XPress 4.0 I thought I would see more/faster/better rather than less/slower/worse. 4.0 no longer accepts Raw HDTV transport streams. It crashes every time. A real disappointment. I have tried to contact their technical support on the problem several times and have not received any response. It's been a month and 6 technical support e-mails on the form they provide and to direct e-mails to previous technical support responses. I am sure it is fine with dvd encodes using non-HD sources but that's not the direction I was going... Either way, I am back to using XPress 3.0 for the "fast" encode and TMPGEnc 2.5 with Virtual Dub and Avisynth if I really want to do it right!
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The best feature for me is the video fade filter. Both sharpen filters are useless compared to TMPGEnc 3.0 XPress. I am still in the learning stage but 4 seems a lot slower than 3 with the same basic settings. Not sure why. Nice interface and layout with smooth manual file scanning. I hope the manufacturer replaces the sharpen filter with the previous version.
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Got the trial yesterday. Haven't had 1 file that would play after encoding .mp4 or Quicktime using Tmpgenc express 4.0. I have the latest Quicktime pro.
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Now does include AC3 2 channels out of the Box Still NO support for more than 2 audio channels To decode quick time you will need Quick time 7.x or later. I need to validate if I need to upgrade to this version of Quick time to be able to decode ACC audio. Embedded DivX codec seems promising. At least all features of the version 3.0 are still supported. I cannot comment on rendering quality yet, but so far so good. I have tested some of the filters and there are a few new good quality options, but virtualdub is still the king in this area. The new filters are very useful for simple corrections though. MPEG Tools are still the same as the old one found in version 3.0 The killer feature for me was MP4 and ACC support. I will test all these features over the weekend.
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I purchased this not too long ago after trying it out, but I only recently started getting into it a lot more. I'd been fighting with TMPEnc Plus for doing downconversions from ATSC to DVD. Somehow, despite using most of the tricks out there to tweak the output, it still didn't look as good as I'd hoped. Now, with Express, I finally have a way to preserve most if not all of the original HD goodness without tweaking things. My first project with Express was this week's episode of "24," and I have to say that if it looks as good on an actual TV as it does on my computer monitor, I'll be uninstalling 2.5 Plus very soon. For me the lack of 5.1 AC3 handling is not an issue, since I demux and render the unedited MPEG-2 stream first, then mux it with the corrected audio, then editing in DVD Author (unless I need titles and transitions; then I take it into MediaStudio Pro 7.5). It would be nice to have 5.1 support so that I could do cuts-only editing with audio for commercials, but I have a workaround for that too (edit the original TS in FusionHDTV's cut mode and fine-tune in DVD Editor or MSP 7.5).
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BIG disappointmet. After using TMPgenc 2.5,on trial, and reading that XPress was based on their "Famous" original encoder I bought the Xpress, not the Orignal. MISTAKE! It is NOT like their original, even they admitted to me it's a different "engine". Quality output is typically 12--15% lower than TMPGENC 2.5. I bought the TMPGenc original for 37 bucks,and extremely happy with it.(give that one a 10+ ) Express useful for making/compiling titles.
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Don't bother... NO AC3 support without BUYING the plugin NO support for more than 2 audio channels I'd like to be able to say what a great piece of software this is, because Pegasys usually make some of the best around. This time they just seem to have become greedy and careless. Why on earth would I want to PAY MORE to encode my video in AC3 when my equipment recorded it in AC3 in the first place and plenty of other programs seem more than able to handle it? Shame on you Pegasys, take this piece of chalk and write on the blackboard 200 times "I must not BITE the hand that FEEDS me"
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The reasonable way to handle the xvid problem, is either to frameserve via virtaul dub or make an avs-script for avisynth. If you have enough hard drive space (like I do), you can also encode the xvid source to uncompressed avi. TMPGXpress reads that fine and without jerkiness. What I love about TMPGXpress is its ability to transfer any framerate into another without much compication. I have tried that a lot of times and never had any sync problems. Of course this is not a hq transfer but does suffice.
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TMPGenc 3.0 XPress frame rate problem with XviD source This comment pertains to TMPGEnc 3.0 XPress, not TMPGEnc or TMPGEnc Plus When attempting to encode 23.976 fps XviD sources (as verified by GSpot 2.21) into DVD-compatible MPEG2, TMPGenc 3.0 XPress incorrectly detects the source frame rate as 30 fps, resulting in jerky MPEG2 output. These XviD sources play perfectly in a variety of players, and encode properly in NeroVision Express 3. There appears to be no way to override the incorrectly detected source frame rate in TMPGenc 3.0 XPress, and there doesn't appear to be any reasonable work-around. This problem exists in version 3.0.4.24 (original release) and version 3.1.5.82 (latest version as of this writing) of TMPGenc 3.0 XPress. Codecs: XviD-1.0.3-20122004 _Final Release_ XviD-1.1.0-Beta2-04042005 _Beta Release_ Platform: Windows XP SP2 on a 2 GHz Mobile Pentium 4
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Recent versions of TmpGENC 3 Xpress will convert from the dvr-ms format used by the video recording module of MS Windows XP Media Center. This is a plus I hadn't looked for when I originally bought TmpGENC, but it became important when I moved to a new computer with the Media Center pre-installed. I think it actually makes up for the annoying online activation/re-activation routine. (By the way, I had no problem re-installing TmpGENC Xpress on the new computer.)
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Version 3.1.5.82 labels VOBs extracted from DVDs differently now. Instead of filenames that end in .MPG, they now end in .DATA. So, if you're using another editing program to cut (like Womble MPEG Video Wizard), just be aware that, even though the filenames end in .DATA, they're still MPPEG-2 files. No harm, no foul. Although -- why would TMPGEnc do this? Duh.
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The tool is nice to work with and appears to have lots of options. However, the primary function of this software is encoding, and I do not like the final results for MPEG2. For example, a smooth-scrolling text became jerky after encoding. The overall quality of the output is at best average. The NTSC->PAL conversion produced very poor results.
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I am adding my comment NOT because I have fully looked in to this tool - and am rating based on that (I gave 8 across the board because I did not want ot scew too much, but to me the lack of AC3 although annoying is not a deal breaker) The reason I am commenting is because I found something in this version that give is a LOT of new value added for me but have not seen it in any comments or reviews. Tmpgenc Express - now allows conversion to WMV files using WMV9 (even though the pegasus web site says wmv8) It has much more flexibility than Windows Media Encoder. - So to me I see it as close the what I had in 2.5 and the WMV stuff - to me it looks like a nice product. Just my 2 cents.
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Having used the original version of TMPGenc for a long time, I initially I hated the new interface which came with version 3 of the software. However, having got used to it, which did not take long, the new version seems provide the same functionality, via what I now believe to be a much "nicer" interface. Not only is the new interface a little more "polished", but it seems to me that the new version of this software does in fact (as Pegasys claim) work better than the older 2.n versions. This definately appears to be the case with respect to speed, but my initial impressions are that the quality could be better as well. Having messed around for ages attempting to convert my old PAL DVDs to NTSC with various combinations of program (in a vain attempt to find a solution that would consistantly keep the audio and video in sync). I was absolutely delighted to discover that TMPGenc Xpress in combination with the TMPGenc AC3 codec, could be pointed directly at the source DVD (after ripping with DVD Decryptor) and would use the VOB files as the source for the conversion. By this I mean that it allows you to set the source for the conversion to be a specific VTS/Audio combinationd from a DVD. Effectively it will do everything for you, you point it at the DVD that you want to be the source, it allows you to select the VTS/Audio sets that you want to use as the source for the conversion and then (after giving you the option of caching the relevant VOB files to disk), it will convert straight from the DVD. Instead of using a whole bunch of utilities, I am now using TMPGenc3XP and the TMPG AC3 Codec to do my PAL DVD => NTSC conversions, and so far I have not encountered any problems. In my opinion, the price of the upgrade can be justified by the convenience of this new piece of functionality. People have complained that the TMPGGenc AC3 codec only supports 2 channels, but in my opinion I am quite happy to put up with this limitation, simply for the convenience of the one step conversion of both Audio and Video streams straight from the DVD.
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Not a bad tool. Periodical license activation is an annoyance. 2ch AC3 plug-in DOES leave a lot to be desired. The ignorant poster below me really knows nothing about home users. A lot of enthusiast home users DO need 5.1ch AC3 support. Paying serious $$$ for a studio class AC3 5.1 encoder is NOT an option for aspiring home users on a budget. 'Nuff said.
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This software is stable and works as designed. Very easy to use, compared to the 2.5 version. What more can one ask of it? I updated to this new version earlier today, and encoded several files with the Dolby AC-3 plugin. It works, just like the last version, flawless. Two channel AC-3 is enough for me. I'm using it to encode all my personal VHS home movies. No home user needs 5.1 AC-3. Go be honest, and buy the DVD version of the 5.1ch VHS movie, you are trying to copy. Stop illegal copying. For those people who don't like the product activation, TOUGH LUCK! Support developers instead of always asking for a free hand out, or illegally copying their software. If you are an amateur filmmaker, and really must have 5.1ch, then be ready to pay a couple hundred $$$ for an AC-3 enocder, because of Dolby License fees.
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Terrible ac3 support. The improvements for 3.1 are impressive, but with still no 5.1 audio support it's still not ready for Prime Time. Why Tmpgenc 2.5 can support it and not this is beyond me.
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