I guarantee the quality will be better than your MPEG2 encoding. If you don't have another h.264 encoder upload your source and I'll convert it for you. Your h264 video has only 1/8 the bitrate of the mpeg2 video - it's no surprise the h264 video looks bad. If they were both at 15 Mb/s they would have been about the same size. The H264 with a finished file size of just under 1GB looked like any crappy web video that you would find on a amateur porn site. The Mpeg2 wasn't too far off from the original AVI quality with a finished file size of 8.6GB. To ask a new product to deal with legacy formats is really 'throwing dice' - they may work but typically do not. Then you have the interlaced field-order that for avi is, typically, bottom-field-first whereas mpeg-2 is ,typically, top-field-first. There are multiple issues what you must address. Not that it gives you any more real quality than that is on the DV.avi. Whilst mpeg-2, AFAIK, can go to 25 m/bs (actually higher than that DV source you have) you require bespoke Mpeg-2 encoders. Like I inferred to, avidemux should provide adequate mpeg-2 bitrate. To actually acquire a program in 2022 to convert legacy programs is thowing good money after bad. The 'default' is still dvd - maybe not what was experienced but still 'dvd' 9250 kbps video (audio is extra)

The issue is what bitrates such a conversion supports. I'm limited to using the Standard Encoder and as Profile & Level.Īny help would be appreciated.thanks.Įven a simple avidemux will convert DV.avi to mpeg-2. Once again, I don't care at all about the final file sizes as these will all be stored on a external 4TB HDD and played thru an Oppo UDP-203. I don't want to use any Filters, prefer raw video without any additional processing. I'm not converting these to reduce the file size, only converting because AVI is not a supported format for my video player. I want to make sure I'm using the best settings for the best possible picture quality before I start converting all of them. Unfortunately, there in no user manual for MW7 to explain any of the settings. I just bought TMPGEnc Master Works 7 and I'm hopping to get better results by encoding to file this time, bypassing the DVD limitations.

I was never happy with the results of having to compress them to fit onto DVD. I have already done this before, way back in 2006 using Nero 7 to encode and author to DVD.

I have over forty DV-AVI captures taking from my Sony video camera that I need to convert to Mpeg2.

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