Talk:Video Capture, Transcoding, and Authoring/Converting AVI to MPEG-2 with AviSynth and TMPGEnc Xpress

To Derbeth
While I appreciate your enthusiasm for editing other people's work, I don't appreciate you making changes to my work without prior discussion, as you did (again) in the case of this book. I do in fact intend to complete the basics of this book myself as time permits, but the holidays have severely limited the time that I can devote to it. In addition, I'm currently trying to get some issues resolved with some of the software used. Thank you. --John Navas 06:32, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

TMPGEnc Xpress 4.0 AC3
AC3 encoding is built into TMPGEnc Xpress 4.0. Works fine.

I added that and revised a few sentences of other notes. 71.202.20.47 22:29, 26 April 2007 (UTC) Joe n bloe 22:30, 26 April 2007 (UTC) (new account)

Also: This should be updated to reflect the large number of new features and filters available in TMPGEnc Express 4.0. The filters include pretty good noise reduction, sharpening, so on. If it does what you need it's a lot less painful than mplayer/mencoder, although mencoder is still probably the most versatile transcoder in existence. It's also nice not to have to deal with Avisynth.

This guide should probably include mencoder and avidemux, both of which have pretty solid Windows ports nowadays. Joe n bloe 22:40, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

I Recommend a Rename
I'd like to rename this book "Video Capture, Transcoding, and Authoring." (or something similar) It could and IMO should be a lot broader.

I have a fair bit of material from a few years back when I did a lot of capture and transcoding in Linux. Currently I'm doing the same but on Windows, using whatever tools are at hand, including DVD authoring with DVD-lab. I can put a lot of the text I wrote previously in here.

This can be a tremendously challenging endeavor and I'd like to share my experiences about what works. Good advice can save people days of misery and frustration.

I think your (John Navas) guide is very helpful and sensible, but it needs a lot of expansion and some reorganization. Not to brag, but I'm the author of a published book (Effective Perl Programming), and I have quite a bit of writing experience that I could bring to bear.

I'm going to start some chapters under Video_Capture,_Transcoding,_and_Authoring/xxxxxx. If a few weeks or months go by without a response from you, and I still have time to do some work myself, I'll probably rename this book.

I hope you see this as help and not just mucking about with your stuff. I will certainly respect your work; however, Wikibooks and Wikipedia are collaborative efforts and anyone who can make legitimate and constructive contributions, and has the time to do so, should be free to contribute. Joe n bloe 23:57, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

This Guide (Needs Help / Is Worthless)
For what it's worth, I'll enter the disclaimer that I am a professional technical writer. That being said, this guide is useless. Where is the step-by-step? Where are *ANY* screenshots? If I wrote a guide like this, I'd be fired! This assumes knowlege of both software titles required, giving the user zero guidance. If I knew both AVISynth and TMPGEnc Xpress so thoroughly, I wouldn't need a guide at all! I recommend this guide's deletion.