KVCD with TMPGEnc - Movie Came Out Too Dark?

[jkjersey]

Alright I am 23 years old and am getting grey hairs over this. I am very very computer savvy and this umm VCD thing is frustrating me now. Alright so I encoded through sefy's guide. Didn't touch a thing with Tmpgenc and shot it over to Nero. The movie came up to dark. Alright I could live with that so then I tried Tmpgenc messing with the brightness and gamma settings and added tracks with Vcdeasy so i can fast forward easier and not be limited to sum odd lower search speed on the dvd player. Result video was a tad too bright and it was choppy in a samsung player which the earlier version I made with Nero (without tracks and without all this cue bin file made with VCDEasy) played fine. I pop the movie in a Shinco (my dad got from hong kong plays mp3 cds also) plays fine except once in awhile the video like slowed n fast forwarded for 1.5 second say every 7 minutes or so. Now I am thinking that maybe my harddrive was fragmented and made an error in the stream when I was processing it all these different programs such as that bin file made with VCDEasy. BUT CHECK THIS OUT. SO I GET THE MATRIX LOBBY SCENE SHOOTOUT and EVEN THO ITS TEN SECONDS AUDIO SEEMS FINE AND OH MY GOD THE PIC IS AWESOME.KWAG PLEASE DONT POINT ME TO THAT GUIDE TO AVISYNTH WHAT EXACTLY DID U DO BRO TO GET THAT SAMPLE. Smartripper of course I used. Then DVD2AVI? Then what straight to TMPGENC? Or Do you use avisynth? If you do use AVISYNTH what exact settings do you use. I want the same layout on that sample clip. The 352x480 clip of the matrix had choppy sound (out of sync) like delayed) SO i want to use the 2 cd template. PLEASE REPLY ASAP.

[kwag]

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Originally Posted by jkjersey

Alright I am 23 years old and am getting grey hairs over this. I am very very computer savvy and this umm VCD thing is frustrating me now. Alright so I encoded through sefy's guide. Didn't touch a thing with Tmpgenc and shot it over to Nero. The movie came up to dark. Alright I could live with that so then I tried Tmpgenc messing with the brightness and gamma settings and added tracks with Vcdeasy so i can fast forward easier and not be limited to sum odd lower search speed on the dvd player. Result video was a tad too bright and it was choppy in a samsung player which the earlier version I made with Nero (without tracks and without all this cue bin file made with VCDEasy) played fine. I pop the movie in a Shinco (my dad got from hong kong plays mp3 cds also) plays fine except once in awhile the video like slowed n fast forwarded for 1.5 second say every 7 minutes or so. Now I am thinking that maybe my harddrive was fragmented and made an error in the stream when I was processing it all these different programs such as that bin file made with VCDEasy. BUT CHECK THIS OUT. SO I GET THE MATRIX LOBBY SCENE SHOOTOUT and EVEN THO ITS TEN SECONDS AUDIO SEEMS FINE AND OH MY GOD THE PIC IS AWESOME.KWAG PLEASE DONT POINT ME TO THAT GUIDE TO AVISYNTH WHAT EXACTLY DID U DO BRO TO GET THAT SAMPLE. Smartripper of course I used. Then DVD2AVI? Then what straight to TMPGENC? Or Do you use avisynth? If you do use AVISYNTH what exact settings do you use. I want the same layout on that sample clip. The 352x480 clip of the matrix had choppy sound (out of sync) like delayed) SO i want to use the 2 cd template. PLEASE REPLY ASAP.

Here's the AviSynth script I use for the 352x480 templates.

LoadPlugin("C:\encoding\MPEG2DEC.dll")
mpeg2source("F:\THE_MATRIX_16X9LB_N_AMERICA\VIDEO_ TS\matrix.d2v")
BilinearResize(352,352,0,0,720,480)
#TemporalSmoother(2,2)
AddBorders(0,64,0,64)

Rip with CladDVD XP and processed with DVD2AVI with "Force FILM" checked.

kwag

[jkjersey]

Where does AVISYNTH come into play after DVD2AVI I presume?
Please in a sentence or two describe where it comes into play. So I will cut n paste your script. Except I have success moreso in the 720x480 format than 352x480. So I encoded a film last night. I am in the USA and when I did the specs "F5" in DVD2AVI it said 16:9, 29.970, 99% FILM, Progressive. When I did the D2V file from the movie I used forced film on this movie even tho it said 29.970. Same settings as you said you do your DVD2AVI in another posting here is the link I believe
http://www.kvcd.net/forum/viewtopic....t=matrix+lobby
Anyways so I proceeded onto TMPGEnc (I didn't know how to do the AVISYNTH cause the guide was kind of shabby sumthing more straightforward like half a paragraph without all that nonsense in between would be much better for me to comprehend). I used the KVCDx2 format the 720x480 one (NOTE WHY DOES IT SAY 720 in Template when in the new compatibility chart it is 704x480) DO I have to change it to 704 manually? So it video menu for aspect ratio it was set at 4:3 525 line NTSC . Frame rate I thought I had set to 29.970 (for DVD compatibility) but when I opened up my project it said 23.976. Under CQ it was set at 76 with minimum bitrate at 600 (for compatibility I read). All other settings are default to the template unless I note. Motion search precision highest quality. Under Quanticize Matrix I clicked OFF No Motion Search for half pixel since it was at 720 or 704 which one I do not know it is supposed to be until you get back to me. So I burnt with Nero to a CD-RW. Geez looks great sumtimes color changes its subtle like the background around the peoples face (dunno if an AVISYNTH filter would fix that and if so which one (what does Temporal Smoother actually do)).
Alright well right now the subtle color change which occurs once every once in awhile is not my problem. I put it in the Shinco DVD (which plays allot more than the Samsung at my parents house) Man picture looks great once every once in awhile not in the beginning but later on say after 5 minutes into the movie. The action would be fine but then it got jumpy like it was reading a skip or sumthing. Then the movie would go back in sync. The fast motion/slowmotion part would last 1.5-2seconds. And then it occured more often. When I played in the computer it was fine. What kind of problem is this I tried to be extremely detailed if you need any more info please ask I want to settle this ASAP. Should I reencode at 29.970 in TMPGEnc even tho force film was on in DVD2AVI. Should I eve n use the CD-RW? I am baffled. Please help.

[kwag]

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Originally Posted by jkjersey

Where does AVISYNTH come into play after DVD2AVI I presume?
Please in a sentence or two describe where it comes into play.

You run FitCD and open your .d2v project file. The one you did with DVD2AVI. Set your output resize to what you want ( 352x240, 352x480, 704x480, etc ) and save your script. The default name is film.avs. This is the file you open with TMPEG instead of the .d2v. So your video source is the .avs and the audio source is your WAV file.

If you used "Force FILM, and for what I read that your movie is 99% FILM, you have to encode at 23.976. Otherwise you'll loose quality and video will not be so smooth.

And never give up ( until you rip all your hair off )

kwag

[jkjersey]

You told me this for the 352x480 template? LoadPlugin("C:\encoding\MPEG2DEC.dll")
mpeg2source("F:\THE_MATRIX_16X9LB_N_AMERICA\VIDEO_ TS\matrix.d2v")
BilinearResize(352,352,0,0,720,480)
#TemporalSmoother(2,2)
AddBorders(0,64,0,64)

what do I do for 704x480? What settings BiLinearResize (704, 352, 0, 0, 720, 480)? I dunno let me know just leave all else settings the same? Im using 1.0.4 I am importing from DVD2AVI the d2v file into FitCd. Thank you.

[kwag]

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Originally Posted by jkjersey

You told me this for the 352x480 template? LoadPlugin("C:\encoding\MPEG2DEC.dll")
mpeg2source("F:\THE_MATRIX_16X9LB_N_AMERICA\VIDEO_ TS\matrix.d2v")
BilinearResize(352,352,0,0,720,480)
#TemporalSmoother(2,2)
AddBorders(0,64,0,64)

what do I do for 704x480? What settings BiLinearResize (704, 352, 0, 0, 720, 480)? I dunno let me know just leave all else settings the same? Im using 1.0.4 I am importing from DVD2AVI the d2v file into FitCd. Thank you.

Those settings will be calculated by FitCD. It gives you the correct Bilinear or Bicubic ( If you're up-scaling resolution ) resize automatically.
Look at the left bottom window of FitCD and you'll see the resize line. If you make a change in source or destination size in FitCD, this resize value will change.

kwag