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Earlier today, I finished encoding a 17 minute 29 sec AVI in TMPGEnc Plus. It is video of a corporate pep rally type event with lots of dancing and skits and stuff. I tried encoding it with MainConcept MPEG encoder but could not get happy with the result. Then I remembered I had never done a 2-pass encode in TMPGEnc for anything other than testing purposes.
I fired up TMPGEnc Plus Saturday afternoon about 2:30 and loaded the AVI and maxed out every possible quality setting and noise reduction and all that for the 2-pass encode. The encode finished Sunday afternoon about 2:35PM. It took just over 24 hours to encode 17½ minutes of video on my P4 1.8Ghz. For the most part, the computer was relieved of everything else during the enocde. Only a few times did I go into other programs while the enode was running.
The good part is that the MPEG-2 looks GREAT. Much better than the single pass at 8000Kbps in MainConcept. To those of you who have TMPGEnc in you toolkit, don't forget about it. It just proved to me that its 2-pass encode is worth waiting for.
By the way, if that clip had been much longer, I probably would not have made maximum quality setting tweaks in TMPGEnc. I would not want to watch my system encode for a solid week.
I fired up TMPGEnc Plus Saturday afternoon about 2:30 and loaded the AVI and maxed out every possible quality setting and noise reduction and all that for the 2-pass encode. The encode finished Sunday afternoon about 2:35PM. It took just over 24 hours to encode 17½ minutes of video on my P4 1.8Ghz. For the most part, the computer was relieved of everything else during the enocde. Only a few times did I go into other programs while the enode was running.
The good part is that the MPEG-2 looks GREAT. Much better than the single pass at 8000Kbps in MainConcept. To those of you who have TMPGEnc in you toolkit, don't forget about it. It just proved to me that its 2-pass encode is worth waiting for.
By the way, if that clip had been much longer, I probably would not have made maximum quality setting tweaks in TMPGEnc. I would not want to watch my system encode for a solid week.
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