Does TMPGEnc still offer a 30-day trial?



I d/l'd it and it's telling me the 30-day trial is expired.

Got this computer off ebay so don't know what the previous owner had.
Would rather not pop the $48 until I see with my own eyeballs if it
does a noticebly better job on mpeg2 files.

Also, would you say it's a valid comparison to take a .bmp capture on a
particular frame on mpegs made from the same source file by different
programs?

So far I've done captures from mpegs created by Pinnacle & Ulead DVD
studio 7 at what they're calling "DVD compatible" as well as the
highest bit rate mpeg2 each will do - 12000 kbps on Pinnacle and 14000
on Ulead. Comparing each to the same frame from the original DV source
file, they both show a very obvious degradation of the image. Wonderig
if I'm going to see anything better out of TMPGEnc.

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