Autogk auto gordian knot windows 7

Second audio track can be selected as well and it might be the Director's Commentary, or a second language. In this example I've chosen to include main audio track and a secondary track that is a Director's Commentary. Note that if you are using manual audio settings with two audio tracks then they would both have the same settings. If you want burnt in subtitles, then choose your subtitle track. The default setting is for burned in or subtitles embedded into the video i.

If you would prefer to have external subs, then check that box in Advanced Settings. Let's go into a bit more details about Subtitles. As mentioned before, the default is for burnt-in, or hard coded or embedded subs. You can only have one language of subs at the default setting because you wouldn't be able to read two embedded subtitle streams due to overlap. If you prefer to have external or separate subs to be displayed through DirectVobSub, choose your subtitle language in the main screen, and then tick "Use External Subtitles" in Advanced Settings.

After selecting External Subs, it's then possible to have subtitles in 2 languages. With external subtitles you also have a choice of having all subtitles to be included in the output subtitle files although you have to reload input source in order to "All Subtitles" option to appear.

No adjustments of the subtitles are possible i. However if you're experienced enough and can rip subtitles manually via programs like SubRip that converts bitmap subtitles from DVDs into text format or just would like to mess around with VobSub's IDX files then you can enable external input subtitles option via CTRL-F8.

All other subtitle selections will be ignored when processing external subtitles. The only automatic subtitle adjustment that AutoGK can do is the one described in Hidden Options section option Step 3 : Here we see the Output Size Box. The default is for 2 CDs. If you make a 2 or 3 CD rip, then it will also be split into MB pieces for you.

There are other Output Size options besides the Predefined Size options. Maybe you have CDs of a different size than the standard MB ones. Maybe you're going to keep the movie on the hard drive or put it on a DVD-R. In such cases you might want to choose a Custom Size. A Custom Size won't be split. If you want a Custom Size for those sizes, then make them for a slightly different size, such as or MB.

A Quality encode will give you even quality throughout the movie at your designated percentage. That's up to you, though. But remember, if you use a Percentage output, you'll lose control over file size. A Quality Percentage rip won't be split. Note: "Target Quality" mode performs 1-pass encoding while "Target Size" performs 2-passes encoding. There have been quite a few questions and problems concerning Quality Mode, so let me try and cover some of them.

It's true that you'll lose complete control of file size. The final size can sometimes even become larger than the original vob files the original DVD. This can occur when the material is hard to compress. Concert DVDs are often like that, and can often result in huge file sizes. Cheaply made films using low-grade film stock are hard to compress. Advanced Settings. If this is one of your first tries at this, then you will get an excellent quality backup using the defaults.

Once you're feeling a bit more confident, you might want to venture into the Advanced Settings. Minimum width means that the movie will not be encoded at a horizontal width lower than what you set.

It will try the higher resolutions, but if the compression test results are too low, it will try lower resolutions until it gets to your minimum width, stop there, and encode it at that width and corresponding height , no matter what the compress test results might suggest. Although AutoGK can make certain adjustments if the quality won't be good for your chosen horizontal resolution and file size, it's very possible that the quality will suffer if you choose a high resolution fixed width and go for 1 CD.

The chances of this happening are less if you choose a Minimum width, but it can still happen. If you choose maximum width then AutoGK will try lower resolutions and stop when you desired maximum is reached even if compressibility would allow it to go higher. This might result in undersized final files, so you have to be careful. With time you'll learn the relative compressibility of different movies, but if you change from the default Auto width, you might pay attention to the Compression Test results when they show up in the Log Window.

In that case you may wish to abort the process and start over with a different Horizontal width, use original audio or use an extra CD.

Here's the Advanced Options screen. Auto Width is usually the best choice. All of the default choices can be overridden, but make sure you know what you're doing if you do override them. It is, for example, almost impossible to get good video quality for a one CD rip, if you've chosen AC3 Audio, because the AC3 takes up so much room. And if your movie is long, and difficult to compress, even when doing a 2 CD rip, you may want to choose MP3 Audio, rather than the default AC3.

Next is the Codec choice. You have 2 choices, with XviD being the default. There's a link to Doom9's Codec Shootout comparison at the bottom of the page, which may or may not help you to decide which to use.

XviD 1. You'll have to get DivX 5. If you're still not sure which to use, if it's any help to you, both writers of this guide prefer XviD. Both codecs will give good quality results. If you are wondering what is "Output format" setting and why it is disabled - do not worry at the moment. It was designed for future usage of DivX Media Format that is not available yet. You may be unpleasantly surprised , if you next wanted to make a high resolution. This will take a few minutes to set up maybe, for a full movie, and a few minutes longer if you want subtitles.

It will then play the movie. This isn't really a necessary step, unless you just want to see what it does, or check to see if the Subtitles are displaying correctly. If you are testing out different Sub choices, the indexing of a movie via DGIndex happens only once, and after that it's quicker and easier to switch Subs although VobSub will still be run for every new subtitle choice. When checking out the subtitles, don't be alarmed to see them being displayed twice as "double subs".

One is the subs as they'll be burned into the movie, and the other is the subs being displayed externally by Direct VobSub. After the encoding is complete, they'll be fine. The Preview will play the cropped and resized movie in WMP 6. It should look fairly similar to the way your completed. If you keep the default Auto Width, the Horizontal Resolution may or may not be different from what the Preview displays.

You can scroll around and have a look, and even play it Full Screen. If you have elected to include subtitles, it will also display them, but it won't play any audio. It is recommended that if you are going to have subtitles in your movie, that you test them with the Preview before encoding.

If you choose to display different Subtitle Streams with the Preview, the movie won't be re-indexed again, which will save some time.

If you get the wrong Subs, or particularly if you're hunting for Forced Subs, go back and try another one, and so on, until you find what you're looking for.

When choosing the default burned in subs, and then testing them in the Preview, you'll see "double subs". You can ignore that, and be sure that the subs will be embedded in the movie correctly. After you've added your movie s to the Job queue, just hit the Start button and wait. With slower computers it's a long process, and you may want to set it up to work overnight or while you're at work or in class. Again, if you want the computer to shut down automatically when done, check the box. Hitting the Abort Button will cause the program to ask if you really want to halt the process, and then aborts the rest of the job.

But if you do so, you'll have to start all over again later except for the decrypting step. While the encoding is going on you might want to do some other work on the computer, and you'll probably find that your computer has slowed to a crawl. There you can change processing thread priority. Note if you have a look at VDubMod process in the task manager you will always see it set on "Idle" priority. This might slow encoding down on some configurations unless you set processing thread priority to something really high in VDubMod.

Keep in mind that VDubMod thread priority setting can be set in its preferences and will affect all consequent runs. Some of the options only work with XviD 1. Most of the options are per-input settings, i. However there are a few that are global, so that they affect all encodings done by AutoGK. Note that you have to put you input files into separate directories if they require different hidden options as AutoGK can only set hidden options for a particular directory, not file.

The original audio for old films was mono, but often DVDs of old films will come with a dual mono AC3, and when converted to MP3, it'll retain the two channels. By converting the audio to one channel mono you can free up lots of space sometimes 50 MB or more to help improve the quality of the video. Even if the AC3 is single channel, if you convert it to MP3, the default will be two channels of audio, and, again, you'll want to choose the Mono MP3 option. If you do go for Mono audio NOT recommended when the movie was originally 2 or more channels , then AutoGK takes the bitrate from Advanced Settings and divides it by 2 to produce output mono bitrate.

The result is a more stable, a little less detailed image. Exactly what you need for cartoons like Futurama or the Simpsons. I don't think that I'd recommend it for the more detailed Japanese anime. Beginners can ignore it.

Sometimes rarely AutoGK's Analysis step flubs on diagnosing the video content and resulting AVI may be jerky or shutters a lot , and you might get better results overriding the decision that it's a hybrid, and go for a normal IVTC instead. Same goes for " Force Deinterlace " option which can be a second choice when dealing with hybrid material.

If you can cut the size of the end credits, you can use those freed-up bits to improve the quality of the movie itself.

So, you check the box and fill in the time the credits start inside the Frame Calc. This is most useful when you have fixed or scrolling white on black end credits in which case you also check the Greyscale mode box. One way to find the frame number at which they start is to run the Preview.

Then after AutoGK has created a. If the credits are the kind with video like the bloopers at the end of Jackie Chan's movies , or even the kind with some pictures as the credits roll, then you may not wish to use End Credits Compression at all.

But with movies with long credits, it's not uncommon to save 40 or 50 MB by using the compression feature. That will allow considerable improvement including a higher resolution to the movie.

One way to get that time is to play the DVD in your computer, and skip to the chapter where the end credits start. In this case " Tune auto crop parameters " is very handy. Threshold defines how sensitive auto crop will be: the higher the value the more cropping will be done.

To completely disable audio crop you can set threshold to 0. By selecting a different starting frames you force auto crop not to examine irrelevant starting movie sequence. If you disable autocrop with threshold 0 then "force cropping" option becomes fully manual crop. Remember always to check how movie looks like after you set new auto crop parameters using Preview function of AutoGK. If source is misdetected as or then you have a choice of manually setting correct AR.

By default AutoGK tries to restore 24fps FILM material from 60fps sources and if that is impossible then it leaves fps at 60 50 fps sources are always left at that fps at the moment. So user can explicitly try and set lower fps. Note: if you have a pure progressive material you may end up with shuttering video in the end when reducing fps. Use it only if you know what you're doing. Its threshold parameter allows you to control sensitivity of the filter in detection of motion areas as static areas are ignored by the filter.

This is very advanced settings and it should be used only when you get a lot of artifacts when encoding interlaced material. Please refer to the documentation of the filter for further information. Different sources even DVDs can be mastered with or without ITU standard which means that there is no universal setting that will work in all cases.

Check out the forum and its discussions on the subject. Simple user guide for this option is: if you feel like your encodes come out a little bit stretched vertically then turn this option on, otherwise leave it off. It places subs at original position found on DVD instead of squashed them vertically and moving a bit up I'm sure everyone is familiar with these problems.

The only drawback is that if original subs were in the upper part of the frame during for instance opening credits then they will probably be lost and that is the reason this option is not enabled by default. Another problematic sources can be 2.

In all other cases subs from lower part of the video frame should be displayed properly when using this option. In those cases usage of this option will help making it a little bit lighter. Not every MPEG2 input source require this correction and this option doesn't force it but rather switches ON the check if color correction is needed and applied.

If you've never burned videos to CD-R, then pay attention. If you've only burned music CDs before, then there are some different things you'll have to learn. Avi's are Data and not Audio. So you'll have to set your program for that. If you go by the size that Windows Explorer shows, then you might think you've been handed an oversized.

To convert KB to MB, divide by There are many burning programs, and although many people's computers come with Easy CD Creator, most people much prefer to use Nero to burn movies link at bottom.

So we'll teach you to use Nero. With any luck, after a while maybe too long, if you're anxious to see how your rip looks you'll be able to see the results of your efforts. This way you can keep your prized DVDs in mint condition, or keep the kids' grubby little paws off of them.

You may find the whole process addictive and want to do more and more backups. You may find yourself springing for the most powerful computer available, just so you can get it done faster. You should be aware that not every DVD can be backed up with good quality with this program.

Sometimes the source DVDs aren't very good. Other movies, particularly older ones, are grainy and very difficult to compress to 1, or even 2 CDs. With AutoGK you don't have access to the full range of filters that may help compress them better. Even more modern movies, such as Saving Private Ryan or The Abyss, are notoriously difficult to compress. In addition, there are many badly mastered DVDs out there which may give the program problems. Our hosted tools are virus and malware scanned with several antivirus programs using www.

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