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TMPGEnc 4.0 XPress gives you the freedom to take almost any video file and encode it to your desired file format including DivX® HD, AVI, QuickTime, MPEG 4-ISO, H.264, DVD-Video, DVD-VR, HDV camcorder, Blu-ray Disc and much more. This powerful software provides you with functions and features ranging from a simple cut-editor tool to multiple powerful video filtering and effects. Now with Windows Media Center .wtv import support!

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SpursEngine™ Movie Plug-In Available Now! NEW!

Unleash the power of Toshiba®'s SpursEngine for blazing fast hardware H.264 and MPEG-2 encoding! The SpursEngine Movie Plug-In for TMPGEnc 4.0 XPress will allow you to harness the power of your SpursEngine device.

Click here to learn more about SpursEngine and the plug-in!

Benefits:

Input and Output formats
Convert Almost Any Video File!
TMPGEnc 4.0 XPress excels at converting video from one format to another. Got a Media Center recording that you'd like to convert to DivX? Or maybe you have a DivX file you'd like to convert to DVD-compliant MPEG? TMPGEnc 4.0 XPress can do it all, and you'll have complete control over the output settings. You can even make your own custom output settings!
Edit Your Video
TMPGEnc 4.0 XPress includes plenty of tools to enhance your video. Use the cut-editor to cut out unwanted scenes. Add filters to correct color, crop the picture, resize, sharpen, deinterlace, reduce noise, and more!
Windows Media Center wtv formatConvert Your Windows Media Center WTV Files! NEW!
The .wtv format is a new file format for Windows Media Center for Windows 7 and certain versions of Windows Vista. Now you can import these files, edit out the commercials, apply filters, and convert it to the format of your choice! Great for archiving your favorite TV shows!
Click HERE to learn more about using Windows Media Center and TMPGEnc 4.0 XPress!
DivX® HD;DivX® HD 1080p Support!
With support for the latest DivX® encoder/decoder, you can output in full 1080p! Awesome DivX compression technology and full HD video! What more could you ask for?
NVIDIA CUDA™NVIDIA CUDA Support!
If you have a NVIDIA CUDA™ compatible graphics card, you can unleash the power of the GPU's multiple cores to crush the processing time for decoding and applying video filters! (Speed increases are dependent on your hardware environment and are not guaranteed.) Learn more...
AVCHD input support!Convert Your AVCHD Footage!
The popular AVCHD video format is now officially supported as an input source! Easily take your AVCHD footage and convert it to other video formats such as DVD-Video!
Blu-ray Disc Encoding!
We've added a new output template for the Blu-ray Disc format! Convert your video into BDMV or BDAV compliant MPEG-2 video and maintain the quality of your high definition footage!
SpursEngine™ Support via Plug-In!
Unleash the power of Toshiba®'s SpursEngine for blazing fast hardware H.264 and MPEG-2 encoding! The recently announced SpursEngine Plug-In for TMPGEnc 4.0 XPress will allow you to harness the power of your SpursEngine device. Currently supported devices include Leadtek's WinFast PxVC1100 transcoding card, Canopus' FIRECODER Blu card, and select Toshiba Qosmio series laptop computers. Click here to learn more about the plug-in!
 
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Features At-A-Glance:
  • H.264/MPEG-4 ISO output (Standard and High Definition)
  • High Definition Video support and encoding template
  • 19 Audio and Video Filters
  • High Speed Thumbnail Navigation
  • Smart Scene Search™
  • MP3 input/output
  • QuickTime output
  • Officially licensed DivX® video software product
  • Creates high-quality DivX® video
  • Flash Video input support
  • Multi-core CPU support
  • Slideshow creation
  • DVD Video Subtitle support
  • Support for Intel® Core™2 Extreme quad-core processors
Cut Editor Full HD Output AVC/H.264 Support Batch Encoding Smart Scene Search AVCHD Input Support

Features

1. Four Step Encoding

TMPGEnc 4.0 XPress gives you an easier way of encoding with 4 steps: Start, Input, Output, Encode, along with settings template so you don’t waste your time figuring out the spec settings. Now it doesn’t take a video guru to be able to encode video; with the simple user interface, workflow is a lot more enjoyable.

  The Start Stage The Input Stage  
  The Output Stage The Encode Stage  

2. Convenience

You can now open Windows XP Media Center files (DVR-MS) with TMPGEnc 4.0 XPress. It also accepts DVD video files, DVD-VR, along with support for High Definition Camcorders such as JVC.


3. Automatic Scene change detection

Automatically detect scene changes and flag them for reference to make life a little easier while editing.

4. Subtitle support

The new video generator blends the text into your video, and the new subtitle editor also provides numerous options and settings at your disposal.

5. Control your Color

4.0 XPress now includes a histogram with narrow and full range display options and also a simple vectorscope for easier color control. You can also correct color shift of YUV components using the Color Correction filter.

Histogram image. Vectorscope image

6. High Speed Thumbnail Viewing and Scrolling

Blaze through your footage as you seek for certain scenes. Why waste your time looking for a scene when you can spend the time editing the scene?

Fast Scrolling image

7. Create Slideshows using video frames

You can now create a slideshow with your pictures or by utilizing separate individual frames from your video, captured to file with the Frame Capture feature. You can also include an audio track for your slideshow along with a wide variety of transitions.

8. Need Filters?

TMPGEnc 4.0 XPress includes 19 unique filters and allows you to apply 30 filters to your video and encode it once.

Filters Include:

  Picture Crop NEW! Sharpness
NEW! Picture resize NEW! Smart sharpness
NEW! Picture rotation NEW! Video fade in/fade out
NEW! Deinterlace NEW! Subtitles
NEW! Anti-flickering   Audio noise reduction
  Video noise reduction NEW! Audio volume adjustment
  Ghost reduction   Audio fade in/fade out
  Color correction   Bilingual audio
NEW! Color phase correction NEW! Contour
NEW! Gaussian blur    

9. Multiple filters, single encode

Apply multiple filters to your video and encode it once and encode it right, rather than encoding for each individual filter.

10. Extend the capacity of your DVD

TMPGEnc’s exclusive XDVD (eXtended DVD) format allows you to fit up to 24 hours worth of video on a single double layer DVD with the same reliability and compatibility that TMPG has to offer.

11. Take your videos on the GO!

After obtaining the specific settings for your mobile device you can then output your videos from your PC to your PSP, iPod, and/or PDA utilizing the MPEG-4 ISO and H.264 file format.

Portable devices image

12. Got HD?

Got High Definition Video? TMPGEnc 4.0 XPress now supports the import/output of High Definition video MPEG-2 (MP@HL 1920×1080) files.

13. DivX support

Import/Output to DivX’s popular high quality file types with TMPGEnc 4.0 XPress. Thanks to the native support of DivX you can import and output to and from DivX formats.

DivX Officially licensed DivX® video software product
Creates high-quality DivX® video
DivX and associated logos are trademarks of DivX, Inc. and are used under license.

14. The Power of the Encoder

TMPGEnc 4.0 XPress is pleased to add to the list of formats that are supported, such as Windows Media Center PC, QuickTime Pro, DVD-Video, DVD Recordables (DVD-VR),or High Definition video from your camcorder such as JVC.

15. New and improved Editing engine

TMPGEnc 4.0 XPress has been revised with a cutting-edge video editing engine for better performance and more capabilities.

16. Multiple cuts, single encode

Make multiple cuts to your footage and encode it once rather than multiple times. This allows you to save a lot of time and energy.

17. Custom filter menu

Use the same filters all the time? 4.0 XPress allows you to customize your filter menu for faster and easier editing. List the filters you want or simply take out the filters you will never use.

18. MP3 input and output

Encode and decode MP3 audio. You can even extract MP3 audio from a DivX video file! Got a DivX music video? Make an MP3 audio file to play on your digital music player!

19. Flash Video Input Support

Thanks to a partnership with On2 Technologies, Inc., TMPGEnc 4.0 XPress now has input support of not only the common FLV1 format, but also the FLV4 format using the On2 VP6 CODEC. That means practically all FLV files are processable by TMPGEnc 4.0 XPress.

Input files encoded in Adobe Flash™ format or FLV! Increase the picture size, change the resolution, reduce the video noise or even insert subtitles, and then output them into DVD-Video or iPod compliant MPEG or convert into DivX and upload to Stage 6! These are some of the many applications that show the full potential of TMPGEnc 4.0 XPress.

Flash and all Adobe Systems product names are trademarks and registered trademarks of Adobe Systems ,Inc.
VP6 is a trademark and registered trademark of On2 Technologies ,Inc.

20. Now Even Faster!

As of Version 4.3.0.220, TMPGEnc 4.0 XPress has improved MPEG video decoding and improved 2D/3D Noise Reduction processing! Check out these recent benchmark results:

Source 1: HDV (1440 x 1080), 5 minutes (8992 Frames)

TMPGEnc 4.0 XPress Benchmark Results Source 1
Noise Filter Off Noise Filter On
Time Gain 3 min. 22. sec. 1 hr. 43 min. 7 sec.
Speed Increase ×1.49 ×3.23

*The HDV source is a MPEG-2 TS captured from an HDV camcorder.

Source 2: SD (720 x 480), 5 minutes

TMPGEnc 4.0 XPress Benchmark Results Source 2
Noise Filter Off Noise Filter On
Time Gain 11 sec. 10 min. 55 sec.
Speed Increase x1.13 x2.74

Benchmark computer specs: PC running on Windows Vista Home Premium, an Intel Core 2 Quad QX6600, 2GB of RAM, and a 500GB SATA RAID0 Hard Drive.
TMPGEnc 4.0 XPress Encoder Settings Used: DVD compliant MPEG (720×480), picture quality prioritized, constant bitrate at 9200 Kb/s, MPEG-1 Audio Layer II at 224 Kb/s.
TMPGEnc 4.0 XPress Filter Settings Used: Video noise reduction filter, still picture strength: 100, longest (slowest), time strength: 100, largest (slow).
Result Data: Average encoding time calculated from the times of 5 encoding sessions.
*Results above are not guaranteed with all encodes.
*The encoding speed gain depends on the type of source, filter settings and computer specs.

Intel Core 2 Extreme

21. Support for Intel®'s Latest Processors!

As of Version 4.4.0.234, TMPGEnc 4.0 XPress is optimized for SSE4 and Intel®'s latest processors--The Intel® Core™2 Extreme QX9650 processor and the Intel® Xeon 5400 family of processors! Check out these recent benchmark results:


Processor Benchmark Time (Sec.) Speed Increase
Name SSE4 Status Prior Version Version 4.4.0.234 Improvement Over Prior Version Improvement with SSE4 Activation
Wolfdale (Penryn Core)
2.66 GHz (Dual Core)
With SSE4* -- 251 -- x1.16
Without SSE4** 353 332 x1.06
Conroe 2.4 GHz (Dual Core) -- 424 380 x1.16 --
Kentsfield 2.66 GHz (Quad Core) -- 210 -- -- --

*Non-SSE4 optimizations disabled (SSE3, SSE2, SSE).

**Non-SSE4 optimizations enabled (SSE3, SSE2, SSE).
-Results above are not guaranteed with all encodes.
-The encoding speed gain depends on the type of source, filter settings and computer specs.

New Features

Windows Media Center WTV File Support! NEW!

wtv screenshot

The .wtv file format is a new container format for video recorded with Windows Media Center. If you have Windows 7, or Windows Vista with Media Center TV Pack 2008, your Media Center recorded video will be in this format.

TMPGEnc 4.0 XPress can now import your .wtv files, allowing you to edit out commercials or unwanted scenes, apply filters, add subtitles, and convert it to another video format.

It's a great solution if you record a lot of TV with Windows Media Center! Convert your shows to DVD-ready MPEG-2, or convert to popular formats such as WMV, MPEG-4/AVC H.264, DivX HD, and more!
Click HERE to learn more about using Windows Media Center and TMPGEnc 4.0 XPress!

Note: Copy-protected files are not importable.

wtv screenshot wtv screenshot Windows® Media Center & TMPGEnc® 4.0 XPress: See how they work together!

MPEG-2 TS AAC 5.1 Channel Input Support! NEW!

Now when you import your MPEG-2 TS files that have AAC audio, you can import up to 5.1 channels of surround sound! A new option in the Clip Audio properties allows you to manually specify the number of audio channels when importing AAC audio.

DivX® HD 1080p Support!

DivX® HD screenshotDivX® HD;

With support for the latest DivX® encoders/decoders, you can output in DivX video in HD resolutions! That's full 1920×1080p resolution with the great DivX compression technology that you know and love. Save hard drive space without sacrificing quality, all in HD!

You can now also select an AVI container type. Set the containter type in the "File" tab. (Please note that the 1080p profile is AVI-2 container type only).

Watch your DivX HD video on any DivX HD Certified device such as Blu-ray disc players, digital TVs or any computer! Just look for the DivX HD logo and you'll be good to go!

SpursEngine™ Support via Plug-In!

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Unleash the power of Toshiba®'s SpursEngine for blazing fast hardware H.264 and MPEG-2 encoding! The recently announced SpursEngine Plug-In (sold separately) for TMPGEnc 4.0 XPress will allow you to harness the power of your SpursEngine device. See below for a real-time example of how much faster SpursEngine encoding can be! (Speed increase dependent on your computer hardware and video sources.) Currently supported devices include Leadtek's WinFast PxVC1100 transcoding card, Canopus' FIRECODER Blu card, and select Toshiba Qosmio series laptop computers. Click here to learn more about the plug-in!

Real-time comparison between SpursEngine (top) and CPU-only (bottom) encoding:

Utilize NVIDIA CUDA™ For Filtering and Decoding

NVIDIA CUDA™

NVIDIA CUDA technology is now supported for processing the video filters and decoding. The multiple cores of the GPU can divide the workload and run the processes in parallel for a huge boost in processing speed over your computer's CPU*. This lets you apply multiple filters such as video noise removal (time), smart sharpen, color correction, and more without having to add hours to your output time!

*Speed improvements are dependent on your hardware specifications.
The GeForce8800 GTX/GTS video card using the G80 core is not currently supported. Thank you for your understanding.
Decoding benefits apply to MPEG-1/2 video only and may produce unexpected video output quality compared to regular CPU decoding.

You can activate NVIDIA CUDA processing by going to Options > Preferences > NVIDIA CUDA 2.0.

To learn more about NVIDIA CUDA technology, CUDA enabled graphics cards and graphics card drivers, visit NVIDIA's website.

Performance Optimization Feature

You can choose to optimize your CPU and CUDA performance based on your hardware when you start up the program. This allows the video filters to use the processing method that will obtain the best results, increasing the performance of your hardware and saving you time.

Real Time Processing Rate Display

During output, the processing performance of the CPU and CUDA processors are displayed so you can see how much your computer is utilizing them.

These results are not cumulative and only display the current processing rate.

Test results show impressive performance gains

In the beta version, application performance has been increased by up to 446% with CUDA technology, compared to the Intel Core2Quad Q9450, a top-of-the-line CPU. This demonstrates that CUDA technology will have a major impact on encoding speed, which requires a lot of filter processing.

Test System Specification
CPU C2Q Q9450 (2.66 GHz)
Memory 2 Gbyte
Graphic GeForce GTX260
OS Windows XP SP2
Test Contents
Encoding HDV file (1440×1080) to MPEG2 for DVD-video format (720×480) for 3 minutes
Test 1 De-interlacing + resizing
Test 2 Test 1 + 2D & 3D noise reduction
Test 3 Test 2 + sharpening edges
Test 4 Test 3 + smartsharp
Test 5 Test 4 + color correction
Result (Number of frames processed in 3 minutes)
Test Type CUDA Execution (Beta) CPU-only CUDA acceleration
Test 1 2803 5253 53.36 %
Test 2 1377 1667 82.60 %
Test 3 1217 576 211.28 %
Test 4 993 224 443.30 %
Test 5 928 208 446.15 %
Graph of CUDA performance vs. CPU-only performance CUDA benchmark image.

Other Test Results NEW!

Test System Specification
CPU Intel E8200 (2.6GHz)
Memory 2 GByte
Graphic GeForce 8800GT
OS Windows Vista SP1
Result (Number of frames processed in 3 minutes)
Test Type CUDA Execution CPU-only CUDA acceleration over CPU
Test 5 576 240 240.00 %
Test System Specification
CPU Intel PentiumD (2.8GHz)
Memory 2 GByte
Graphic GeForce GTX260
OS Windows XP SP2
Result (Number of frames processed in 3 minutes)
Test Type CUDA Execution CPU-only CUDA acceleration over CPU
Test 5 1121 144 778.47 %
Test System Specification
CPU Intel Q6700 (2.66GHz)
Memory 2 GByte
Graphic GeForce 9800GTX
OS Windows XP SP2
Result (Number of frames processed in 3 minutes)
Test Type CUDA Execution CPU-only CUDA acceleration over CPU
Test 5 688 240 286.67 %

AVCHD Input Support

Now you can take all of that footage from your AVCHD camcorder and convert it to other formats! Turn it into other video formats such as DivX®, WMV, DVD-Video, and more!

HD MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 Output Support

The MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 output template can now be used to output in high definition (up to 1920×1080, progressive, 60fps).

Blu-ray Disc Output Support

Create Blu-ray Disc compliant MPEG-2 video with the all-new Blu-ray Disc output template. Choose between BDMV and BDAV formats. BDMV is compatible with Blu-ray interactive menus and can go to Full HD (up to 1920×1080, progressive) resolutions. BDAV is suited for home videos or archiving without menus.

AAC Audio Support in MPEG-2 Transport Streams

The popular AAC audio format (2ch) can now be used as an audio source in MPEG-2 transport streams.

System Requirements
PC IBM PC compatible
OS Windows2000 (Recommending the use with administrator authority)
WindowsXP (Home, Pro, Media Center)
Windows Vista / Vista SP1 / Vista SP2 (Ultimate, Home Premium, Home Basic, Business)
Windows 7 (32-bit / 64-bit versions)
* 64-bit OS support for Windows 7 only.
CPU Pentium3 1GHz, Athlon XP 2000 or better
(Providing SSE extension support)
(SSE extended instruction is necessary)
RAM 256MB or more
HDD space 40MB for the program
+ enough space for the input / output files
(*NTFS format, 5 GB at least recommended)
Screen resolution 1024 × 768 or more
HDD format NTFS file system recommendation
Others DirectX 9 or more
Recommended hardware specifications
OS Windows Vista
Windows XP (Home, Pro, Media Center)
CPU Pentium4 2.4GHz HT technology correspondence or more Athlon 64 3000+ is more. Or CPU above equal efficiency
Memory 512MB or more
Picture resolution 1280 x 1024 or more / Full-color output
Others DirectX 9 or more
Recommended system specifications for HDV editing
CPU Pentium4 3GHz or Pentium D 820 or more / Athlon 64 X2 3800+ or more
*2 or more CPUs (logical / physical) is recommended.
Memory 1GB or more
Picture resolution 1600 x 1200 or more

This software uses a license verification system (L.E.A.P.System) which requires Internet Connection.
After the first installation of the software, the license validation (activation) will be processed when starting the program. And it will also be processed periodically from time to time.
Therefore, the PC using this software must be connected to the Internet.

In environments like universities or companies using LAN, we cannot guarantee that the license verification will be correctly processed due to restrictions that might be set.
*Before purchasing the software, please run some test with the trial version (which also includes the verification system).

Input Formats
Video AVI *1
DV type 2 (avi) *1
MPEG-1 (mpg, m1v)
MPEG-2 PS (mpg, m2p) / ES (m2v) / TS (mpg, m2t, m2ts) *2
Windows Media (WMV) *3
Microsoft Recorded TV file (dvr-ms, wtv) *4
QuickTime Movie (mov, qt, mp4, m4a, m4v, 3gp, 3g2, amc) *5
DivX
H.264/MPEG-4 AVC (mp4)
FLV (flv1, flv4)
AVCHD (m2t, m2ts) *7
Sequential still images (bmp, jpg, png, psd, wmf)
Everio video files (.mod) MPEG-2+Dolby Digital
DVD-Video *6
DVD-VR *6
Audio AAC
MPEG-1 Audio Layer II (mp2)
MPEG-1 Audio Layer III (mp3)
MPEG-1 Auido Layer
Linear PCM (wav)
Dolby Digital (ac3)
Windows Media (wma)
AIFF
Output Formats
Video DVD-Video NTSC / PAL (MP@ML)
XDVD NTSC / PAL (MP@ML)
MPEG-2 NTSC / PAL (MP@LL, MP@ML, MP@H-14, MP@HL) MPEG-1 NTSC(Film) / PAL
VCD (Video CD) NTSC(Film) / PAL
SVCD (Super Video CD) NTSC(Film) / PAL
HDV compatible MPEG file format (HDV-HD1, HDV-HD2)
Blu-ray compatible MPEG file (BDMV, BDAV)
AVI
Windows Media Video
QuickTime (mov)
H.264
MPEG-4 AVC / ISO MPEG-4
DivX
Sequential still images (bmp, jpg, png)
Audio MPEG-1 Audio Layer 2 (mp2)
MPEG-1 Audio Layer3 (mp3)
Dolby Digital (ac3)
Linear PCM (wav)
AIFF (aif)

Output templates
DVD-Video MPEG-1/2 file Setting wizard
XDVD MPEG-2 file Setting wizard
Video CD MPEG-1 file Setting wizard
Super Video CD MPEG-1/2 file Setting wizard
HDV compatible MPEG-2 Files (HD1, HD2) Setting wizard
Blu-ray BDMV, BDAV MPEG-2 files Setting wizard
MPEG-1 Manual setting
MPEG-2 Manual setting (MP@LL, MP@ML, MP@H-14, MP@HL can be set)
AVI Manual setting (Depends on Video CODEC)
Windows Media Video Manual setting (Windows Media Player 9 or above is required )
QuickTime (mov) Manual setting (QuickTime 7 or above required)
MPEG-4 (ISO, H.264 AVC) Manual setting
Sequential pictures (BMP, PNG, JPEG) Manual setting
WAVE (Depends on Windows) Manual setting (Depends on Audio CODEC)
MPEG Audio (mp2, mp3) Manual setting
Dolby Digital Manual setting
Windows Media Audio Manual setting
AIFF Manual setting

Output settings for - DVD / Video CD / SuperVideo CD / HDV / BD
Output format MPEG-1 Video (ISO / IEC 11172-2 compliant)
MPEG-2 Video (ISO / IEC 13818-2 compliant)
Output stream format MPEG-1 System Stream (ISO/IEC 11172-1 standard)
MPEG-2 Program Stream (ISO/IEC 13818-1 standard)
MPEG-2 Transport Stream (ISO/IEC 13818-1 standard) (HDV)
Aspect Ratio 4:3 / 16:9
Frame rate 23.976 / 25 / 29.97 / 50 / 59.94 fps
Encode Mode CBR / VBR (2Pass average bitrate)
Profile & Level MP@LL / MP@ML / MP@H-14 / MP@HL
Video System NTSC / PAL
VBV buffer size Fixed size
DC Component Precision 8 / 9 / 10 bit (optimum value selected automatically)
Interlace Method Progressive / Interlace / 3:2pulldown / reverse 3:2 pulldown / Progressive 2:2 pulldown (BD only)
Motion Search Precision 4 modes selectable ("with error correction" included)
HDV format HDV-HD1 / HDV-HD2
BD format BDMV / BDAV

MPEG-1/2 Video Encoder
Output format MPEG-1 Video (ISO/IEC 11172-2 compliant)
MPEG-2 Video (ISO/IEC 13818-2 compliant)
Aspect Ratio 1:1 / 4:3 / 16:9 / 2.21:1
Frame rate 23.976 / 24 / 25 / 29.97 / 30 / 50 / 59.94 / 60 fps
Encode Mode CBR / VBR(2PASS) / VBR(CQ)
Profile & Level MP@LL / MP@ML / MP@H-14 / MP@HL *for MPEG-2 only
Video Format Component / PAL / NTSC / SECAM / MAC / Unspecified
VBV buffer size Automatic / Manual setting
DC Component Precision 8 / 9 / 10 bit
YUV Colorspace setting Color Primaries:
ITU-R BT.709 / ITU-R BT.470-2 System M / ITU-R BT.470-2 System B, G / SMPTE 170M /SMPTE 240M (1987)
Transfer Characteristics:
ITU-R BT.709 / ITU-R BT.470-2 System M / ITU-R BT.470-2 System B, G / SMPTE 170M / SMPTE 240M (1987)
Matrix Coefficients:
ITU-R BT.709 / FCC / ITU-R BT.470-2 System B, G / SMPTE 170M / SMPTE 240M (1987) *Only for MPEG-2
Motion Search Precision Can be selected (4 modes selectable)

MPEG Option Setting
GOP (Group Of Picture) Structure Can be edited.
Bit stream output for editing Closed Prevent dependency with different GOP.
Scene change output I picture is inserted if scene change is found.
Quantize Matrix editing Quantize Matrix can be edited /Manual setting / Slide bar setting method.
Soften Block Noise Soften block noise parameter can be edited.
Insertion of Key frame Key frame can be inserted as I picture.

MPEG-1 / Dolby Digital / LPCM Audio Encoder
Output Linear PCM
MPEG-1 Audio Layer II (ISO / IEC 11172-3 compliant)
MPEG-1 Audio Layer III (ISO / IEC 11172-3 compliant)
Dolby* Digital (AC-3) audio
Bitrate Linear PCM: 1536 to 4608 kb/s (when 96 kHz, 24 bit)
MPEG-1 Audio Layer II: 32 to 384 kb/s
MPEG-1 Audio Layer III: 32 to 320 kb/s
Dolby Digital (AC-3): 64 to 448 kb/s
Sampling frequency Linear PCM: 16 / 22.05 / 24 / 32 / 44.1 / 48 / 96 kHz
MPEG-1 Audio Layer II: 32 / 44.1 / 48 kHz
MPEG-1 Audio Layer II: 32 / 44.1 / 48 kHz
Dolby Digital (AC-3): 32 / 44.1 / 48 kHz
Quantize bit value Linear PCM: 16 / 20 / 24 bit
MPEG-1 Audio Layer II: 16 bit
MPEG-1 Audio Layer II: 16 bit
Dolby Digital (AC-3): 16 bit
Mode Monaural / Stereo / Joint-stereo (mp2, mp3) / Dual-channel (mp2, mp3, Dolby Digital)

Output settings for - Windows Media Files (Video) -
Video CODEC Windows Media Video V7
Windows Media Video V8
Windows Media Video 9
Windows Media Video 9 Advanced profile
Encode mode CBR / VBR (1 pass, 2 pass)
Data Rate selection 0 to 50000 kb/s
Bitrate selection 0 to 50000 kb/s
Output Resolution 16×16 to 2048×2048
Frame rate 1 / 4 / 5 / 6 / 7.5 / 8 / 10 / 12 / 14.985 / 15 / 19.98 / 23.976 / 24 / 25 / 29.97 / 30 / 50 / 59.94 / 60 fps
Aspect Ratio 1:1 / 4:3 / 16:9 / 2.21:1
Others Marker output, Performance setting, Video Quality setting
Output settings for - Windows Media Files (Audio) -
Audio CODEC Windows Media Audio 9.1
Windows Media Audio 9.1 (Professional)
Windows Media Audio 9.1 (Lossless)
Encode mode CBR / VBR (1 pass, 2 pass)
Sampling frequency 8 to 96 kHz (Depends on the Codec)
Data rate 8 to 768 kb/s (Depends on the Codec)
Channel 1 to 7.1 ch (Depends on the Codec) * 3ch and more only for WindowsXP
Quantize bit value 16 / 24 bit

Output settings for - MPEG-4
Output format MPEG-4 Video (ISO / IEC 14496-2)
MPEG-4 AVC (H.264) Video (ISO / IEC 14496-10)
Aspect Ratio 1:1 / 4:3 / 16:9 / 2.21:1
Frame rate 1 / 4 / 5 / 6 / 7.5 / 8 / 10 / 12 / 14.985 / 15 / 19.98 / 23.976 / 24 / 25 / 29.97 / 30 / 50 / 59.94 / 60 fps
Rate control mode Constant bitrate / Variable bitrate / Constant quantization / Constant quality (*Only for ISO MPEG-4)
Encode profile & level ISO MPEG-4: Simple / Advanced simple @ 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5
MPEG-4 AVC: Baseline / Main / High @ 1 / 1.1 / 1.2 / 1.3 / 2 / 2.1 / 2.2 / 3 / 3.1 / 3.2 / 4 / 4.1 / 4.2 / 5 / 5.1
Entropy coding mode CABLC (Baseline, Main) / CABAC (Main, High) *Only for MPEG-4 AVC
Motion estimation subpel mode Pixel / Half Pixel / Quarter Pixel
Quantization H.263, MPEG (Advance Simple) *Only for MPEG-4 ISO
Video System Automatic / PAL / NTSC / SECAM / MAC / Undefined *Only for MPEG-4 AVC

Output settings for - AAC audio
Output format MPEG-4 (ISO / IEC 14496-3)
Sampling rate 8 to 96 kHz
Frame rate 1 / 4 / 5 / 6 / 7.5 / 8 / 10 / 12 / 14.985 / 15 / 19.98 / 23.976 / 24 / 25 / 29.97 / 30 / 50 / 59.94 / 60 fps
Data rate 6 to 512 kb/s
Channel mode Stereo / Monaural
Object type Main / Low complexity
Output format Raw / with ADTS Headers
Output settings for - AVI / Quicktime Movie
The settings depend on the Codec.

Video Editing
Source range Can encode only selected area.
Cut-editing It is possible to cut out parts of the video when authoring the DVD-Video.
Insert I picture / Keyframe I picture (MPEG output)/ Key Frame (AVI output) can be set to specified frame.
Invert telecine Converts movies such as 640×480, 720×480 with 30fps (60fields) to 24fps.
De-interlace De-interlaces line (horizontal line).
Picture crop Crops the borders of the picture (Border mask).
Ghost erase Erases ghosts made from TV reception.
Video Noise reduction Analyzes Noises elements, and reduce them
Sharpen edge Sharpens edges of the video.
Color correction Corrects color tones (by RGB, YUV, CMYK or HSV mode)
Picture resize Image size can be changed (4 modes and 5 patterns).
Video fade-in /
fade-out
Fade-in or fade-out from a specific color.
Color phase correction Corrects the color phase problem that can be caused during TV recording.
Anti-flickering Reduces the flickering effect that can be seen in interlaced video sources.
Gaussian blur Blurs the entire video.
Sharpness Sharpens the entire video.
Picture rotation Rotates and/or mirror the video.
Smart sharpness Detects the color variations, amplifies them, and by reducing color gradations, makes details appear clearer.
Audio edit Audio 32 bit floating process, noise reduction, noise gate, volume change, volume uniformization, volume normalization, fade in / fade out, time tone reduction, bilingual process (L & R).

Other Features
Input DVD-VR/VIDEO files *6 DVD-VR/VIDEO files created on a DVD recorder or self-authoring are supported as input files.
Subtitles : input manually / or
import from DVDs
Subtitles can be input manually or imported from DVDs
MPEG Tools TV programs recorded with Windows XP media Center Edition (.dvr-ms).
Sampling rate converter High quality sampling rate conversion . (8 kHz to 96 kHz and high precision 32 bit floating process) *for WMV output.
XDVD (eXtended DVD) mode High compression encode mode enhancing from DVD-Video standard. *Need to use a "TMPGEnc DVD Author" product to author and write to DVD-R.
Output sequential pictures Outputs the source as a sequence of sitll images (BMP / JPG / PNG).
Input of timecode corrected MPEG files Input of MPEG files with corrected timecode information is supported.
High-speed thumbnail viewing It allows a rapid and easy navigation through the clip when editing it.
Jog controllers Supports Jog controllers
Clip Slip This function allows you to split a clip into several parts and output them.
Bitrate Calculator Calculate the bitrate to use when encoding for CD or DVD size.
Preview output movie Video and Audio output can be previewed.
CPU priority CPU priority can be set (Five priority level).
Process after encoding Shut down, Stand by, Hibernate (Depends on machine/OS environment)
MPEG Tools Multiplexing 1 Video stream & 1 Audio stream
De-multiplexing 1 Video stream & 1 Audio stream
Batch Encode 2 or more files can be encoded one after another.
News Center It allows you to automatically receive useful information such as updates, services, events and special offers.

*1 Only uncompressed AVI and MS-DV Type2 format AVI are supported. Since the ability to encode AVI files using other types of codec depends on the codec environment, we cannot guarantee that it works
For DV Type 1 format, please convert it to Type 2 using a DV converter. (Some companies distributes very good free DV converters. ) Type 1→2 conversion is generally a quick process.)

*2 Input: standard MPEG files and the ones made by the TMPGEnc series are supported, but files made from other sources might not be compatible. Please use your 14 days free trial to test whether your files are compatible.

*3 You must have Windows Media Technology installed. Copy-protected WMV (ASF) files and files without seekable attributes cannot be loaded.

*4 For .dvr-ms files, Windows XP Media Center SP1 or later is required for playback.
For .wtv files, copy-protected files cannot be imported.

*5 QuickTime Player 7 (or iTunes 6) or above is required.

*6 In order to use "Input DVD-VR/VIDEO files" function, it is necessary to have a PC system that includes a drive, device driver, such as UDF2.0 reader, etc... that corresponds to the object media. If the file cannot be copied in Windows, you cannot use this function. Whether or not your system will be able to read such files is determined by many different factors, and we are therefore unfortunately not able to answer any questions how to solve this. Notice also that copy-protected DVDs cannot be loaded.
The VRO files written below are different from the DVD-Video standard and cannot be used:
- VRO files with changing video bitrate such as Advanced VRO.
- Files with other resolutions than 720×480, 704×480, 352×480, or 352×240.
- Files where the audio format has not been standardized to LinearPCM, MPEG-1 Audio Layer2, or Dolby Digital (AC-3).

*7 Importation of AVCHD contents recorded from a DVD/BD camcorder requires Windows Vista or a UDF2.5 format reader.

* Sometimes if a part of the image has been damaged, the file cannot be recognized correctly.
* If the audio is a special format (VBR , ogg etc.), it will not be outputted.
* When using a CODEC which cannot simultaneously open 2 or more audio clips, the audio will not be output from the 2nd clip.
* Product specifications are subject to change without prior notice.

Screenshot 01

The Start Stage

Screenshot 02

The Source Stage

Screenshot 03

Cut-Editing

Screenshot 04

Audio/Video Filters

Screenshot 05

The Format Stage

Screenshot 06

The Encode Stage

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--Wendy Collins

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"It's hard to imagine a more versatile and comprehensive video encoder and decoder than TMPGEnc 4.0 XPress, and its upgraded editing facilities and handy bag of tools and batching options make this a must at the price."

--IT Reviews

Consumer Electronics Net
"TMPGEnc 4.0 XPress is my new favorite video encoder. It is very easy to use, offers a lot of tweakability, and the video quality is very good to excellent. There is a lot to this encoder, and anyone working with digital video in virtually any format will appreciate the level of support it offers. If you need to convert video to other formats, from HDV to DivX, this encoder does it and does it very well. Highly Recommended."

--John Virata

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Digital Home Thoughts
"TMPGEnc XPress 4.0 is easily the most powerful video encoding tool I've ever used - I like using it so much that with many of my video editing projects, I'm exporting them as gigantic AVI files so I can use TMPGEnc XPress 4.0 to encode them. Why? The consumer-level video editing tools I'm using always seem to lack the type of output profiles I want to use. You'd think Corel, Pinnacle, Muvee, and Adobe had never heard of 720p h.264 files. Because I'm using this software as a secondary processing tool, it's frustrating to see the problems with AVI files - but tech support was able to help me through all but one of those problems."

--Jason Dunn

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Icrontic
"The Format step makes you feel like a wizard. You can convert to any format you desire, with an area for ‘custom formats’ in case you really ARE a wizard. And if you’re just in to make something like a DVD, you can select 'DVD standard MPEG' and be done with the mess."

--Dan Putnam

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