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I was up-converting some of my 720p .mkv files and ran into a little snaffu when Video Mastering 5 decided it didn't like a couple of them, and stumped the hell out of me when I was comparing upcoversions I had done vs. these pesky ones looking for anything that might have been different. Nada...
So, on a whim, I decided to try mkvmerge (didn't change a damn thing), and low and behold, problem solved.
If you run across some of your files that for whatever reason, Video Mastering 5 says it can't open, mux 'em.
I am having a problem with the clarity of the word “Play” in the mneu title. I carefully chose the size and colors along with the effects, and it looks great. But in both the simulator and the finished file, the word “Play” is fuzzy and washed out, even when the Play command is slected. I’ve went into the “Video Global Menu Settings” and tried every option there, yet I still wind up with the washed out, fuzzy “Play” word. Anyone have experience in correcting this? If so, what was the solution. Thanks for any assistance.
Using the latest version of Authoring Works 5 and I am importing blu-ray ready titles, copied from the Stream folder of blu-ray discs I have previously made myself (no copy protection or regions). The files show up as blue SR for smart render, but when I go to author it still re-encodes them anyway, and I have the setting to "use smart render" in the options of each track.
So what is the reason for this ? Very frustrating as I have 12 discs to author all in HD content and was hoping it would SR the lot, but now it will take 4 hours per disc rather than minutes.
Anything I can do to find out why this is happening ?
Just an update, seems the clock and % was wrong, it said it will take 4 hours but took 50 minutes. What seems to be happening is it is re-encoding selected videos, not all of them, but I am unsure why. Each disc has 4 shows, so on both discs I have done so far it has re-encoded 1 show per disc. Very odd.
Are there any differences between the clips that are being re-encoded vs. the smart rendered ones? Are all your shows in the same track or separate tracks? If they are all in the same track, put them in separate tracks.
>does anybody know how to shrink this box. when get to this stage the buttons >to ok the clip addition is below the task bar and can not be reached. have >tried pulling in the edges but the whole box moves. I hope somebody can help.
I am using the latest version of Mastering Works 5 and trying to encode in to DVD MPG2 format. For some reason it is not going above 30% for CPU usage, staying mainly around 25%. I reset my PC thinking it was at fault so I got a fresh start with nothing else loaded, but same happens. I can't encode 2 files at once in the batch encode list because it says I am using the AC3 Digital Encoder already.
Why is it going so slow ? I have a i7 PC so was hoping for lightning quick speeds on the encode, this is no faster than my old PC, it is wasting 70% of my CPU.
good morning did you use intel quicksync or Nvidia cuda ?
I have a i7 and he doesn't work more than 30% the rest of the work was made by my GPU You can this that in encoding , line status (CPU= xx%, CUDA= xx%)
Also very important are the HD... Is your HD is not faster, your CPU and graphic card wait to him. You can to use RAID 0 HD or SSD.
I use 2 SSD. Decoding from first SSD and Encoding to second SSD. By this way I can recode until 4 video files at time without problems.
For example, encode 4 video files (DVD quality and about 60 min. each video) to 4 video files MPEG4 AVC (720x480 Progresive and bitrate 4000) in 11 min 40 seg ;-)
I want to copy DVD files on Hard Disc without any re-encoding (loosing quality), but keeping all sount-tracks. When I read DVDs in the menu (DVD/Blue Ray input) with temporary storage on HDD, then it offers me MPEG-Transport stream or MPEG-Program stream (Format menu) and the video is re-encoded (change of orginal qality - red bar in Analyses). I also tried to read the temporary files from HDD *.dvddata - then no re-encoding apeears (no red bars in analyses) - then the file is shorter than in the first scenario.
I am confuced - what is correct way to copy HDD without re-encoding to HDD? In any format (*.MPG, *.TS, *.PS, ...).
-DVDShrink for full streams (uncheck vob 1GB), choice chapter in-out
-TSmuxer for render VOB to M2TS all streams
-Edit with TMSR4 (Audio DTS No compatible)
Is there any way to create a DVD in TAW5 which will display the subtitles by default?
I still want users to be able to disable the subtitles, but I'm worried that a lot of non-technical people will just put the DVD into the player and press Play, without going to the subtitles menu to activate the subtitles. (Most people watching this particular DVD will want to have subtitles enabled.)
You can set the default subtitle stream in the track settings.
From the Source stage, click on the "Settings" button for a track.
Click on the "Subtitle" tab.
Choose the subtitle stream you want to show by default or set to none.
You can still turn them off via the menu or subtitle button on your DVD remote.
I have now spent several hours trying to get the "subtitles page item" (the link to the page where you select subtitle) to display on the top menu, but with no luck.
I have created a project with 6 tracks, and various number of chapters on each track. I have only been able to display the "subtitles page item" on the track menus, but that means you can't select subtitles if you want to just pop the DVD in and watch the entire film from start to end.
Am I missing something obvious? (Or have Pegasys?)
This is a limitation of the software. In TAW5, there isn't a "global" subtitle page. Since each track can have their own set of subtitles, I think they felt that each track should have their own subtitles menu page instead of a single one that sets the subtitle language for all tracks (like on commercial dvds).
Not sure if anyone at Pegasys will ever read this, but if you do please consider this a feature request. It would have been quite nice to have this option.
For this particular project I could work around it by re-authoring the project into not using tracks at all, instead using only chapters.
i had buyed a few days before the spurs engine plug in for TAW5.
i have a cuda-based card in my pc.
but thats not the card, that is supported by your spurs engine, i had found out.
now i want to buy a spurs-engine supported card, but NOTHING to find !!
it seems, that this few cards are not any longer made.
it seems, that they exist around 2008-2010 and were then out of print.
so it seems, that i had payed a few bucks FOR NOTHING ???
why you offer a software, that is useful for nothing ?
Where i can BUY a spurs-engine supported card (in germany) ?
which actual cards support the spurs-engine ?
Does this (older) cards work under win 7 or 8 32/64 ?
do drivers exist ?
i hope, i get really good answers, that bring me forward...?!?
As you now know, CUDA and SpursEngine are not the same thing.
SpursEngine cards are not made anymore as far as I know, but I assume people still own spursengine devices, so I'm assuming that is why they still sell the plugin.
You might want to try ebay or something if you want to buy one.
I had a spursengine card a while ago and it worked fine on Windows 7.
CUDA+SPE= SPEED, OK ~1:1
CPU+SPE=ITS NOT BAD 1,5:1
CPU+X264= BEST, BORED 4~6:1
REQUEST DECODER FOR SPURSENGINE IN PREVIEW (TAW5+TVMW5+TMS+TMSR4)
SPEP_DEC+SPEP_ENC = BEST SUPER RESOLUTION, BEST ENCODER HARDWARE,
NO MORE MATRIX YUV DECODER FROM "passthru" PEGASYS,
ONLY DECODER+ENCODER DIRECT PROCESS COLOR PROFILE
AND PLAYER SOFTWARE BLURAY DVD SPURSENGINE "SPEP2"
(EXAMPLE: TOSHIBA QOSMIO SPURSENGINE SOFTWARE PLAYER)
SPURSENGINE CARD NO COMPATIBLE PCI-E QPI,
ONLY FSB SOUTHBRIDGE COMPATIBLE AMD INTEL
Is there a way to convert video shows that I recorded to my Tivo desktop software and burn as data dvd's which can be viewed on my pc's> I want to convert these data dvd's to a normal format I can watch on my home dvd player for viewing on my h-d tv?. My guess is I may need a plugin of some sort that will work with this software. If any of you out there in cyberspace know just what plugins I need please answer my question. All replies of a knowledgeable nature are welcome.
How do you view these data dvd's on your pc? Do you have to use Tivo software to view it? It will all depend on what format the video is in. You can try using MediaInfo to seee what format the video stream is.
Hope you guys can help. I have two projects saved, they seem to act differently. When playing a track, and the track ends, it goes back to the menu... but the track it just played is highlighted. Great, this is how I want it...
However, another project I am working on seemingly has the same settings, but when a track finishes playing, it goes back to the menu and the first track is highlighted.
I don't have TAW4 currently installed, but I think there is a setting in the Global Menu Settings for what is highlighted when you return to the menu, so check there.