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A brief note, and installation notes
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Hi there -

I'm Jake, webmaster of http://www.DVDHelp.us, and I want to thank you for downloading my custom TMPGEnc templates. These templates are the result of many (many!!!!!) hours of detailed research and testing, and with them, you should be able to get the VCD, SVCD, or DVD productions that you see from commercial products.

We've all seen, or at least heard about, the VCDs that look absolutely beautiful, but we can't seem to figure out the magic numbers to make our own encodes look like that. Well, fear not, for now you can do it too.

The VCD templates will produce a VCD with quality surpassing VHS, sometimes even SVHS. The SVCD templates will easily rival any DVD. As for the DVD templates, well... they're DVDs. Of course, they're going to look great! :)

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Installation notes:
Simply copy the template files into your TMPGEnc/Templates folder.
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READ THIS! (It's important)
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I recommend that you also set the following in order to get the best quality. (These can't be saved in the templates, so you'll have to set them yourselves...)

On the "Advanced" tab:

"Noise reduction"
For VCD/SVCD (Not necessary for DVD)

Still picture: 100
Range: 4
Time Axis: 100
Check "High quality mode" and "Enable filter"


"Sharpen Edge"
For VCD/SVCD (Not necessary for DVD)

Horizontal: 127 (all the way to the right)
Vertical: -127 (all the way to the left)
DO check "Enable filter"
DO NOT check "Field base"

Now keep in mind that the additional settings above will DRASTICALLY increase encoding time, but your finished product will be awesome.

Other settings that you'll have to manually check since they don't get saved in a template file. These will have no effect on the time it takes to encode your video.

Also on the "Advanced" tab
Video source type: Non-interlace (progressive) [Change this if you get obvious horizontal lines]
Field order: Top field first (field A) [Change this if you notice "jerky" problems]
Source aspect ratio: 16:9 Display if it's a widescreen movie, or 4:3 525 line NTSC (or 4:3 625 line PAL) if it is a fullscreen movie.
Video arrange method: Full screen (keep aspect ratio)

On the "GOP structure" tab:
Check "Detect Scene change" unless you notice that it's causing blotches in your video.

On the "Quantize matrix" tab:
For VCD/SVCD, check all four boxes for VCD and SVCD and set "Intra block" to 10, and "Non-intra block" to 20.
For DVD, check only the first two boxes.