The software excels at "Smart Rendering," which allows for ultra-fast output by only re-encoding the parts of the video that were edited (like transitions or cuts), preserving the original quality of the rest of the footage.
: Unlike version 4, this edition supports the x264 encoding engine for creating high-quality H.264/AVC Blu-ray discs, which are more efficient than traditional MPEG-2. TMPGEnc Authoring Works 5 Version 5.0.8.26 RETAIL