TMPGEnc XPress

TMPGEnc XPress is a cross-platform video encoding tool that allows users to prepare clips for different file formats and apply various editing tools.

Although the application comes packed with a multitude of dedicated parameters, the GUI is clean and straightforward. You can start a new project by dragging and dropping items directly into the primary panel or using the built-in browse function.

The program works with a wide range of file formats, namely DivX, AVI, MOD, MPEG, ASF, WMV, MTS, MP4, 3GP, FLV, BMP, JPEG, PSD, and others.

What’s more, you can import contents from a DVD-Video or a DVD-VR captured with a standalone DVD recorder, and insert files from DVD-RAM, DVD-R and DVD+R media types. The importing process is carried out by picking the tracks, titles and audio streams, as well as chapter entry points.

Including a slideshow into the project can be done by uploading pictures and audio files to be used as background music. You can set the interval for the number of pictures between two keyframe markers, rotate and resize the photos, adjust the slideshow’s total duration to the total audio duration, and preview the slideshows.

Other important features worth mentioning enable users to cut frames, use the audio gap correction feature, view a color histogram, save the current frame to BMP format or copy it to the Clipboard, enable the audio waveform option, jump to the specified time or frame position, and insert keyframes at different time intervals.

You can use a magnifier and vectorscope, apply video effects (e.g. deinterlacing, anti-flickering, video noise reduction, color correction), create and edit subtitles, and use a bitrate calculator.

TMPGEnc XPress supports batch processing when it comes to encoding several project files and process them one after another or at the same time. You can create a list with projects to be encoded and assign a priority level for each of them, as well as make the program shutdown the computer, standby or hibernate at the end of the task.

Plus, it features a muxing tool built specifically for helping you combine the specified audio and video streams into one file (M1V, MP2, M2V), as well as demuxing options for splitting streams.

When it comes to exporting options, you can prepare the processed items for DVD, Video-CD, Super Video-CD, HDV camcorders and Blu-ray disc, or save them to MPEG, AVI, MOV or other formats.

TMPGEnc XPress offers a complete suite of options for helping you encode clips to different file formats, as well as edit them by applying various video filtering parameters and effects.