Newbie DV AVI to MPEG1 Encoding Advice
 

Hi, Finally found this great resource, knew it had to be around somewhere!

I encode DV AVI files to DivX using DrDivx, which works very well.
Encode DV AVI to wmv with Procoder, which seems to be ok for 256ks or whatever default is.

My question is about converting from DV AVI to MPEG1 files.

Went through lots of experimentation before settling on MainConcept Mpeg Encoder 1.4.1 ? but still not getting great results. Compared to other MPEG1 conversions I have seen on other sites, mine are at least 1.5 times the size and not as great
quality. Close, just not as good. Best results so far are with 2 pass VBR 1600 max, 1000average, 300min, mono 32000Hz, 320x240. Have tried lots of other settings too.

I have also tried TMPG, Procoder, Vegas, Pinnacle, Neo, etc. etc. a whole slew of them. I think I need to edit the matrix to get better results, but the only advice I have found is
experiment with it.

Any suggestions on how to get better and more compressed results when converting from DV AVI to MPEG1?

Thanks Much!

Hi rickmercer |waves| welcome to the board :)

I'm looking for some video editing proggies as well and will be watching this thread.

Hi rickmercer, welcome to the board. :)

You may want to give this a try
http://www.discreet.com/products/cleaner/

Thanks much! Will try out the demo version and see what happens. Pretty pricey but if its worth it, its worth it!

Cleaner XL does a great job, easy to use, excellent quality.

Now does anyone know how to get it to do 2 pass VBR for MPEG1? It does one pass marvelously, so one would think
that 2 passes would be even better. Can't find anything in
documentation or their support forums about it.

I'm not sure if this does what you are looking for but it is free, http://www.biermann.org/philipp/mpegcut/

I'm using MPEG4 Direct Maker for this, does an awesome job.
http://www.artech365.com/