What MPEG Compressor

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I've been making dreams for a while and just upgraded to Production Premium CS3 and the mpeg compressor seems to be of a worse quality. I'm looking for a 3rd party compressor. I've tried Cinema Craft and Procoder but both don't do HD. Money isn't a huge issue but it can't be a $50,000 one. Anyone have a great high quality MPEG compressor?
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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I'm using TMPEnc XPress. They have a trial version so you can try it before buying it.
Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I got the demo but how do I do 1080 in it? All the presets are for 720 or normal SD resolutions. I tried a custom 1080p input but then when I hit start it says "The window size is not accepted by selected MPEG-2 level." How do you do 1080p conversions? The input is an uncompressed AVI
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Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Set the "Output Stream Type" to "ES (Video Only)" and the "Profile&Level" to "MP@HL" and it should allow higher resolution encoding. It will create a .m2v file instead of an .mpg file, but all you need to do is rename it to .mpg
Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Any H.264/AVC codec should support full frame 1080p at 50/60 (for NTSC) and 24/30 (for PAL) but you could also input at 1080i then use 3:2 pulldown deinterlacing to convert back to 1080p.

As for TEMPEnc Xpress4 there is no current support for full 1080p (at least thats what the site and use tells me :s), i TEMPEnc believe MPEG Editor 2.0 has support for it tho :)

What are you encoding that requires 1080p that 1080i just isn't good enough for? if its just for dreams then you really don't need to bother unless u making them for older CRT users, any WUXGA LCD natives at 1080p and any non-widescreen that can push the resolution will native 1080p and monitors that have lower resolution natives will scale it anyway...

If you are also encoding for HD-DVD/BRD then you will need to use a full MPEG suite not just xpress.

Hope this helps
Reply #5 from WinCustomize Forums Top
ya I use it for dreams. I got TMPGEnc xPress 4 to work at 1080p with some customizations to settings. The quality is great thanks! :)
Reply #6 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Does anyone know how to encode a video in reverse with TMPGEnc xPress. I would like to make a mpg out of a short clip by running it forward first then reversing the clip to see if it would loop better.
Reply #7 from WinCustomize Forums Top
My colors arent good the black is more grey (:(
Any idea what i am doing wrong? I tried different settings
Reply #8 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Is your source video uncompressed or is it another compressed format? I found that WMV looses it's black and converting from uncompressed source works best.