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Old 25-06-2007   #15 (permalink)
Evuxtex
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Re: CD Freaks Presents: The TMPGEnc DVD Author 3 Review

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Originally Posted by CDan
It's 10 min vs an hour here. I have figured out that it is based on the changes you make or don't make in the video properties, and/or audio re-encoding. About the only thing I'm able to change and still avoid a re-encode is the aspect ratio, I can change 4:3 to 16:9 with no re-encode. I'm using MPEG-2 files with AC3-2 ch. Also noted that changing from interlaced to progressive also forces a re-encode.
Also editing short scenes, even just one or two, out of the movie will cause the WHOLE movie to be re-encoded. The resulting re-encode takes an hour or more.

With TMPGEnc touting their "Smart Rendering" in this software, I had thought that just the video immediately adjacent to the edit points were re-encoded and the rest of the movie preserved in its original quality, but this is sadly not what happens. It is clear that the entire video is being re-encoded. This is a completely needless degragation of the original files.

Sorry, that is just unacceptable. TMPGEnc can do and should do much better to protect and preserve the original files.
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