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Can't stay away from this critter. OK, so it's 2004. That's old? I'll bet your spouse is older than that -- ready to trade THAT in? Gets really clean SD encodes at medium to high bitrates. Wouldn't recommend for those 2K bitrate encode (I wouldn't recommend 2K for anything, period). The best part is its image mod and histogram features, and one of the best edge ghost filters anywhere. Can take in/put out many SD formats, does pulldown, etc. Also lets you tweak an image and save it as AVI. Overall, far better than TMPGenc's newer MPEG encoders. And no argument with the price.
Review by sanlyn on
Jun 27, 2013 Version: 2.524.63.581
OS: WinXP Ease of use: 10/10
Functionality: 8/10
Value for money: 10/10
Overall: 9/10
Great tool! Bought it a year ago, but have not been informed of updates!! Am I entitled
Review by avz10 on
Jun 23, 2007 Version: 2.5
OS: WinXP Ease of use: 9/10
Functionality: 6/10
Value for money: 9/10
Overall: 9/10
This tool keeps working fine after upgrade to Vista.
Review by ofbarea on
Feb 25, 2007 Version: 2.524.63.181
OS: Vista Ease of use: 7/10
Functionality: 8/10
Value for money: 9/10
Overall: 8/10
It took a bit of experimentation to get TMPGEnc Plus to work for me the way I want it to. First off, the only way I can get it to encode without freezing is to frameserve from VirtualDub. Raw AVI and frameserve with Avisynth don't work for me.
I've been capping with VirtualVCR and VirtualDub using either HUffyUV or Lagarith compression. Since VirtualVCR has a good rep for keeping audio sync, I thought it would work best - but instead I found the encoded mpg to always have a 150-200ms offset. VirtualDub had no such issues when using Lagarith
(need to try it with HuffyUV).
Pretty much all of the other video software I use is freeware and troublefree so I'm surprised that TMPGEnc Plus, which I paid for, is easily the most fussy software I'm currently using.
I will say that the resulting encoded files look good so obviously I'm getting value out of the tool. Like others, I'm disappointed by the long encode time. I will probably be giving CCE Basic a try.
A small point to add: whenever I go into the Settings under the advanced tab, the program is often resetting the Source Aspect Ratio to "4:3 525 line (NTSC,704x480)", even when I try setting it to something else. I don't think this will actually affect my encode since I am in fact encoding to NTSC 4:3, but from a software programming standpoint it really irks me to have paid for a poorly coded/tested tool. Again, I'm a bit surprised at this bit of shoddiness in a tool I'm paying for.
I've been capping with VirtualVCR and VirtualDub using either HUffyUV or Lagarith compression. Since VirtualVCR has a good rep for keeping audio sync, I thought it would work best - but instead I found the encoded mpg to always have a 150-200ms offset. VirtualDub had no such issues when using Lagarith
(need to try it with HuffyUV).
Pretty much all of the other video software I use is freeware and troublefree so I'm surprised that TMPGEnc Plus, which I paid for, is easily the most fussy software I'm currently using.
I will say that the resulting encoded files look good so obviously I'm getting value out of the tool. Like others, I'm disappointed by the long encode time. I will probably be giving CCE Basic a try.
A small point to add: whenever I go into the Settings under the advanced tab, the program is often resetting the Source Aspect Ratio to "4:3 525 line (NTSC,704x480)", even when I try setting it to something else. I don't think this will actually affect my encode since I am in fact encoding to NTSC 4:3, but from a software programming standpoint it really irks me to have paid for a poorly coded/tested tool. Again, I'm a bit surprised at this bit of shoddiness in a tool I'm paying for.
Review by abcedem on
Apr 19, 2006 Version: 2.524.63.181
OS: WinXP Ease of use: 6/10
Functionality: 6/10
Value for money: 9/10
Overall: 6/10
I tried to use TMPG Tools for my ReplayTV Mpeg2 files
conversions to VOBs, - tool doesn't recognize format.
Other tools like Pinnacle do.
.avi and other formats simless..
conversions to VOBs, - tool doesn't recognize format.
Other tools like Pinnacle do.
.avi and other formats simless..
Review by dushman on
Mar 15, 2005 Version: 2.6
OS: Win2K Ease of use: 8/10
Functionality: 6/10
Value for money: 6/10
Overall: 7/10
Very sweet tool that does what it says. The price really is right for this one. People say it's on the slow side, but I don't think so really... faster almost always equals worse quality. Never yet had a bad encode with this app.
Review by Zisguy1 on
Feb 21, 2005 Version: 2.59.47.155
OS: Win2K Ease of use: 7/10
Functionality: 9/10
Value for money: 9/10
Overall: 9/10
I'm sorry but that last comment by the previous poster is absolute bollocks. Always converting NTSC to PAL is definitely the way to go if you want decent quality. PAL is superior to NTSC in every way imaginable and converting to PAL is always preferable. Sometimes it can be difficult to do depending on the source type, but if you are able to do it properly via frameserving or whatever then do so. TMPGEnc's own tools are not usually powerful enough to do a very good job on their own, so don't bother with that route, use AviSynth or VirtualDubMod to do the NTSC -> PAL conversion and then frameserve the result into TMPGEnc to do the actual encoding. You will not be disappointed.
Apart from anything else, the vertical resolution of NTSC being 480/240 is not large enough to get an unnoticeable difference in the correct aspect ratio when you need to round the vertical resolution of the output MPEG to 16. PAL's 576/288 allows you to get much closer to the ideal number when rounding to 16 such that the aspect ratio distortion is unnoticeable. Just one reason why PAL is superior.
Apart from anything else, the vertical resolution of NTSC being 480/240 is not large enough to get an unnoticeable difference in the correct aspect ratio when you need to round the vertical resolution of the output MPEG to 16. PAL's 576/288 allows you to get much closer to the ideal number when rounding to 16 such that the aspect ratio distortion is unnoticeable. Just one reason why PAL is superior.
Review by DRP on
Oct 9, 2004 Version: 2.521.58.169
OS: Win2K Ease of use: 5/10
Functionality: 10/10
Value for money: 10/10
Overall: 10/10
Great tool to encode video. For AVI files with AC3, encode only the video (demux the AC3 with virtualdubmod). For the best video quality, NEVER CHANGE NTSC to PAL !!!!!!!!!!!
Review by danravit on
Oct 9, 2004 Version: 2.521.58.169
OS: WinXP Ease of use: 6/10
Functionality: 8/10
Value for money: 8/10
Overall: 8/10
One of my "workhorses". Great encoder for the money. I owned TMPGEnc Plus for over two years now and I'm still amazed at its versitility and the number of features it has. I use it to encoded MPEG-2 for DVD (mostly) and have used CQ, CBR & VBR options. It's easy to learn its basics and start using, but to use all of its power takes a while. I'm still learning.
Review by rkr1958 on
Aug 27, 2004 Version: 2.521.58.169
OS: Win2K Ease of use: 8/10
Functionality: 10/10
Value for money: 10/10
Overall: 10/10
This ia a quality encoder. You can use this to make vcds, svcds and dvds plus makeing them better quality ( sharpening edges, cutting out noise, matching sound to video, changes screen size eg, 16: 4:3 2:11 pal or nstc ).The only downside to this program i have found is sometimes it does not reconize files correctly ( mainly avi ) no matter what codecs i have.This i correct with winmpg v 3.31 converting to mpg 1.Dont use any other version but 3.31 because all the other versions i have used crash, when i have converted them through winmpg, tmpge reconizes them fine.Top quality converter. 10 out of 10
Review by peacock on
Feb 29, 2004 Version: plus 2.5
OS: MacOS9 Ease of use: 10/10
Functionality: 10/10
Value for money: 10/10
Overall: 10/10
I gave this a 9/10 for ease of use as setting up all the options can be confusing. Once set though the wizard makes this a really easy and powerful tool.
My main reason for leaving a comment was the upgrade option which I finally bit the bullet and did. The process is simple and if you are registered before the upgrade you still will be after.
The version numbers however need a lot to be desired. I went from 2.57 to 2.521 (which looks like a downgrade) but should really be read as 2.5-7 and 2.5-21 (21 > 7 so all is sweet).
I use this tool mainly to convert NTSC to PAL and to compress the bitrate to squeeze more onto a CDR (in the old days) and now DVDRs. The batch mode allow you to set up multiple conversions and let them run over night. When finished your machine can optionally be shut down.
On a dual PIII 800 with 1Gb ram (and it can be configured to use multiple CPUs of P4 HT technology) I process 45min of video with 5.1 audio from NTSC to PAL in abount 90 min.
Definitely worth a look in.
My main reason for leaving a comment was the upgrade option which I finally bit the bullet and did. The process is simple and if you are registered before the upgrade you still will be after.
The version numbers however need a lot to be desired. I went from 2.57 to 2.521 (which looks like a downgrade) but should really be read as 2.5-7 and 2.5-21 (21 > 7 so all is sweet).
I use this tool mainly to convert NTSC to PAL and to compress the bitrate to squeeze more onto a CDR (in the old days) and now DVDRs. The batch mode allow you to set up multiple conversions and let them run over night. When finished your machine can optionally be shut down.
On a dual PIII 800 with 1Gb ram (and it can be configured to use multiple CPUs of P4 HT technology) I process 45min of video with 5.1 audio from NTSC to PAL in abount 90 min.
Definitely worth a look in.
Review by NotMeHim on
Feb 12, 2004 Version: 2.521
OS: Win2K Ease of use: 9/10
Functionality: 10/10
Value for money: 10/10
Overall: 10/10
Best Encoder I have used to date. Much better results than Click 2 DVD (Sony) or myDVD. I marked it down on ease of use bacause some of the help screens have very criptic messages that are very hard to understand. My second little beef is the way it disables menu selections to 'guide' you to correct choices. 99% of the time I have to load the unlock template so I can adjust the setting I need for my project.
Review by EdgarT on
Feb 12, 2004 Version: 2.521
OS: WinXP Ease of use: 9/10
Functionality: 10/10
Value for money: 10/10
Overall: 10/10
My first mpeg 1 & 2 video encoder since February 2002 and still one of my favorites. For the price, versatility, features, ease of use (use the guides ;-) and quality it is the best of its breed.
Review by dvwannab on
Jan 1, 2004 Version: 2.521.58.169
OS: Win2K Ease of use: 10/10
Functionality: 9/10
Value for money: 10/10
Overall: 9/10
TMPGEnc Plus is even better than TMPGEnc if that was possible, i don't think that it takes that long to encode movies considering what it has to do, although i havn't used it to encode audio, it gets top marks from me except for Ease of use which is a bit of a set back for a newbee.
Review by awilt2001shire on
Jan 1, 2004 Version: 2.521.58.169
OS: WinXP Ease of use: 7/10
Functionality: 10/10
Value for money: 10/10
Overall: 10/10
This THE encoder/decoder!!
- Fabulous AVI (DivX) to MPEG encoder!
- Brilloant MPEG1 MPEG2 conversion!
- Great wizards!
- And much more for only 50$!
I'm really impressed!
- Fabulous AVI (DivX) to MPEG encoder!
- Brilloant MPEG1 MPEG2 conversion!
- Great wizards!
- And much more for only 50$!
I'm really impressed!
Review by Co0L on
Sep 26, 2003 Version: 2.521
OS: WinXP Ease of use: 9/10
Functionality: 8/10
Value for money: 9/10
Overall: 9/10
I have been using this tool for about 3 months now. Its an excellent tool. It may be a little slow but I think that in the long run slow and safe are better than fast and ???? It can do many things that most encoders can't do. For example converting source media Pal to NTSC for VCD without any headache. Plus its audio encoder works real well not the best mind you but very good indeed. The one thing I do recommend is that you should have most of the new codecs installed. and ofcourse the direct show priorities should be 1st. This way it can handle most file types. Its well worth the money.... I have made about 50 VCDs and 25 DVD thus far all from avi and mpg files using the templates provided and the wizard. Once you get the hang of it you can fiddle with the settings to get high quality but be warned high quality takes time to encode. The balance you are looking for is High quality and fast. This program doesn't do "fast" so set it to decode at night and when you wake up in the morning you have quality. Besides night is for xxx and sleeping, no?
Review by jamesbond1960 on
Sep 1, 2003 Version: 2.54
OS: WinXP Ease of use: 10/10
Functionality: 10/10
Value for money: 10/10
Overall: 10/10
Very slow ... but excellent results ...
Review by dlawedor on
Aug 12, 2003 Version: 2.511
OS: Win2K Ease of use: 5/10
Functionality: 8/10
Value for money: 10/10
Overall: 9/10
One of the best mpeg1, mpeg2 encoders with tons of extra features.
Review by Baldrick on
Jul 17, 2003 Version: 2.513
OS: WinXP Ease of use: 7/10
Functionality: 10/10
Value for money: 10/10
Overall: 8/10
You go to any site that talks about making videos and you'll see the name TMPGEnc mentioned by quite a few people. I saw a guy on TV descibe it as every bit as good as a $1200. MPEG encoder he used where he worked. I'm pretty new to computers and making videos, but thanks to all the articles I found at this site, I had no problem using TMPGEnc. I even used the audio, which almost everyone recommends you DON'T use. I hate waiting for video to "Render" but the results are excellent. After only a couple of tries, I was sold and I downloaded and paid for my current version. IF YOU ARE SUPER NEW TO THIS(making mpeg encodings), I'D WAIT A COUPLE OF MONTHS BEFORE YOU TACKLE IT. Read up, right here at DVDRhelp.
Review by TheGr8Steve on
Jun 26, 2003 Version: 2.511.51
OS: MacOS8 Ease of use: 8/10
Functionality: 10/10
Value for money: 10/10
Overall: 10/10
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