Encoding Video

Step 1

Launch TMPGEnc

Load the d2v DVD2AVI project you created and press the "Settings" button.

Step 2

You'll have to change a few things here.  First you have to change the size to 480 x 480 for NTSC SVCD and 480 x 576 for PAL SVCD.  Then change the aspect ratio to 4:3 and the frame rate to 23.976 for NTSC and 25 fps for PAL.  If DVD2AVI showed your movie with a video type with less than 95% or it showed your movie as NTSC, then you'll have to encoded your movie at 29.97 fps.

For rate control, I always use Automatic VBR (CQ_VBR).  If you press the "Setting" button you can set the bitrates and the quality.  So press it and set the maximum bitrate to 2500, the minimum bitrate to 500, and set the quality somewhere between 50 and 55.  But the final size of the video file might be too big to fit on a CD.  So you can use the following formula to figure out the max bitrate to fit on X amount of CD's:  

number of CD's x CD size x 1024 x 8 / movie length in seconds = bitrate in kbps  

Now that you know the bitrate you will also need to subtract the desired audio bitrate (128, 160, 192...) from this value to get your final bitrate value.  

Video format should be self explanatory.

Encode mode should be set to "3:2 pulldown when playback" for movies NTSC movies encoded at 23.976 fps.  If you turned on Forcefilm in DVD2AVI, then your movie is encoded in 23.976 fps.  For anime movies, it should always be set to "Inverse 3:2 pulldown".  If you're movie is PAL, it will either be "Interlace" or "Non-interlace".  DVD2AVI should have told you this during the preview of the movie.  If it was Interlace, you select "Interlace" and "Non-interlace" if it was progressive.  If DVD2AVI showed your movie with a video type with less than 95% or it showed your movie as NTSC, then you'll have to encoded your movie at 29.97 fps. So don't pick 3:2 pulldown or inverse 3:2 pulldown.  You can only pick from "Interlace" or "Non-interlace".  

Motion search precision can be set to whatever you want.  The higher you set it, the better the picture quality but encoding time also increases. 

Step 3

Go to the "Advanced" tab.

Video source type should be "Non-interlace (progressive)" or "Interlace" depending on what DVD2AVI told you.  Field order is very important, if you don't set this up right, you're movie will not play properly.  To find the correct field order, choose field A first and go down to where it says "Deinterlace (None)" and double click on it.  This will bring up a new window and from the drop down menu, select "Even-Odd field (field)".  Then use the navigation buttons below the movie window to play the movie.  You'll have to keep holding down the button so that the movie keeps playing.  It won't play in real time but if you notice that the movie plays and jumps back a few frames, then goes on again and jumps back a few frames, it means you have the wrong field order.  So go back and change it and repeat the same procedure again.  This time it should play back smooth.  Make sure to disable Deinterlace when you're done. 

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