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Every year I re-encode Johnny’s Countdown 2008-2009 using HDTV footage to create a High Quality AVI. This entry will show you the process of this year’s massive re-encode. If you don’t have about 300 gigabytes disk space, don’t even attempt this.
This year someone posted “TS” format video on jpopsuki. TS is apparently the extension video gets if it is captured from a HD source. To process this video, you must use a conversion tool to get it from TS to MPEG-2. There is a freeware program called “HDTVtoMPEG2″ that will do this for you. Program explains itself, though I have two tips:
- Don’t change the max file size value. Leave it at 1024. Anything higher and your pc might have problems accessing the footage later.
- Don’t throw in all TS files at once. It will generate 1024mb files and it will work, but it’s safer to load them up once at a time. This is because you may need the original length of the files to gain a better insight into the audio track(s). The problem is that once you go to MPEG2 the audio track becomes unstable. Some of the clips will have audio, some of them won’t. On my machine I’m missing AAC/MP4 audio codecs, this may be the cause of this problem, but I’m fairly sure it would have crapped out on me anyways in tmpgenc.
In tmpgenc, leave the video on Display 16:9 mode and assign progressive. Also take off the audio track if there is one, because it’s likely it will cause problems. In Filters go to Resize and make sure Full Size (No Margin) is selected. Choose Uncompressed RGB for video output and set the correct size. This should always be slightly smaller than the original HDTV aspect ratio, which is 1440×1080. I choose to do 1240×880.
Audio:
I have streamsaved the audio from the original TS files to mp3 by using VideoLan. Another tutorial on this website will show you how.
So now you’re left with MPEG-2 files, AVI files and MP3 files from the TS files. Open up your favorite video editor and start pasting them after eachother, correcting sync mistakes and ensuring it all runs smoothly. Export it Uncompressed to ensure the quality has not degraded.
After that that, open VirtualDub and apply compression settings just like you would any file. Perhaps a deinterlace might still be necessary, so do a few test runs first.