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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. |
