Hello there,
Whoa now!! You seem to be flying in the face of what most people consider to
be the "best" free converting software by telling me to delete TMPgenc and
use NERO for all my convert and burn needs? But OK, I am willing to try
anything, at least once if it saves on CD-R's. Is there any other settings in
NERO VISION that I should be particularly careful about when doing the burn?
Well first off, SOME people consider it to be OK but your remark say it
all....."best" free software being compared to a Commercial product from a
highly visible company/product. I have tried the free stuff and have no regard
for it at all, and I use the Cinegy MPeg Codecs (You don't get much better
anywhere).
I think you will find that most people praise it until the time they have to
pay the licence fee!!! and on top of that, have you ever thought..."I wonder
what they have compared it too?" and was it a comparison of the exact same
file?? under unbiased conditions by a person qualified to make such a
comparison. But who cares anyway...if you have Nero 6 you are not going to get
any better software at our end of the market. One other comment on this
theme...if you read enough of the messages in here you will find some extremely
stupid remarks from the "experts". Once you become aware of that you should
then consider their remarks on the "best free software"
The Nero 6 High quality encoder for all four formats is pretty dam good...good
enough for me when doing Dual Layer DVD's of weddings. I have to say that I am
surprised you bought NEro and then decided to try a freeby without having given
Nero at least a look!!!
With regards what extra you need...Click the MORE >>> button, you will see that
you can change where files are stored and that you can change the target
format/ratio and exactly what compression should be employed....you get a nice
little bar that shows by how much the target disk will be filled...its very
good when you use more complex menus on DVD's
Please do not take this personally, I have just realised that you may have done
what I am going to refer to as a "papajohn"...to give you an idea, he passed a
critique on a piece of software (PerfectDisk) saying that after giving it HOURS
to run and complete a defragment He then created a file on the defragmented
disk and he discovered it still had THOUSANDS of fragments...ergo the software
does not work...He is wrong of course...he did not read anything on the screen
and as a result did not run the program properly...a "papajohn"
So,
the papajohn you may have committed....Under the MORE >>> Option in
Nero you set the bit rate...now, if you took a file from TMPgenc, created at
whatever bit rate and fed that through Nero without ensuring that the bit rate
matched up (In Nero) you will have caused Nero to recode the file....its not a
good idea to recode MPeg's roughly you double the loss of quality, So......
RTFM
I am not 100% certain as Nero is not on this machine...I am fairly sure
that there is also an option you MUST check if you want to regulate the type of
recode...Other software calls it Intelligent Rendering...I can't remember what
Nero call it.
With regard to Nero...it has one issue by my definition...the ability to import
a previously made DVD is brilliant...you can edit the video do what you like
and there is NO quality lost (except for where you use a transition or an
effect) You can then put the modified DVD back onto a disk and know that by and
large its no worse than the original...the issue/problem is in the user
interface (If you want to chop out a TV advert its a tricky business because
you can not easily open up the time line...instead you have to slide backwards
and forwards by a minute/second or frame at a time (Movie Maker is 8 frames at
a time)...it gets tedious when the time line is 2 hours long but the length on
screen does not change....
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Best Wishes.....John Kelly
www.the-kellys.org
www.the-kellys.co.uk
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