tmpgenc and mixed film / video tips?

[mgrusin]

Hey Kids,

Lately I've had to do a few projects with mixed film and video source (collections of short films, some on celuloid and some straight out of the computer).

It all looks good at VT's output, but when running it through tmpgenc on its way to DVD, if encode it as film (inverse telecine), the film portions look great but the video portions look bad, and if I encode as video, the opposite happens. ("Bad" = interlace effects, stuttering, etc.)

It makes sense why this is, but does anyone have any tricks for dealing with it? The tmpgenc docs imply that there's a "mixed film and video" mode in the wizard, but I haven't been able to find it. So far my only workaround is to split the production into film and video segments, encode them all separately, and join them back together (ack), but it's sure a lot of work, something I'm not used to with the Toaster. ;)

Thanks for any advice! -MG

[Jim_C]

On page 2/5 of the project wizard at the bottom. Set content for Video/Film mixed.
If you run into any settings that are greyed out and non changeable while using the wizard, click on the setting name and choose unlock.Best of both walk thru/manual setting worlds.

[mgrusin]

Hi Jim, thanks for the reply. That sounds like exactly what I need but I still can't find it. What version of tmpgenc are you using? I don't see that option in mine ("tmpgenc plus 2.5 2.520.54.163" unregistered (yet)).

Sorry for the thickitude, -MG

[Jim_C]

Yea, thats where it would be.
I'm using 2.58.44.152 registered.
Not sure if it's the upgrade or the registration.
Maybe head to the site and grab the latest unregistered version.

[mgrusin]

Will do, and I'll register as well (been meaning to for a while, though lately I've had to rebuild my system enough so that I'm always in the 15-day window ;) ).

Thanks again! -MG