I have some MOV files which are recorded with NDI Tools 5
The codec is SHQ2 and can be played by VLC
Is there a way to add the codec to the list of codecs TVMW can decode ?
Despite NDI Tools 5 being installed on this machine, TVMW only see the audio track in the MOV file...

Try doing this attempt
1- Install K-Lite Codec Pack
2- Start Mastering Works
2- Deselection in the preferences "File Reader Setting" all codecs and leave Active DirectShow File Reader
3- Restart the program and try if it works
This is the only way that remains to digest unrecognized video files
At the end of the work, remember to activate the deselected codecs check

That worked !
Thanks
(hopefully K-Lite hasn't messed up too much other video-related software tools & codecs on my system...the installation config screens were pretty long & complex, I disabled as much as I felt necessary...crossing fingers.)

do not worry are additional codecs do not affect those already installed

One suggestion though also for others:
During setup of the LAV Splitter, make sure to do these settings:

Subtitle Selection Mode: No Subtitles

Blu-ray Subtitles (PGS):
Remove marker at Enable Automatic Forced Subtitle Stream

This will prevent that you get some pretty huge forced subtitles showing up in the image, also when working with MKV files that contains SRT or PGS subs.

In cases when wanting forced subs on video, such as for the foreign spoken parts, there its much better to use TVMW7's own subtitle tool to import the subs, which gives entirely free hands to work with the subs.

Does TMPGEnc Authoring Works support 4 or 5 audio tracks?

When I multiplex one video-stream together with 5 audio streams
and want to import it into Authoring Works 5, I can select only 4 audio and a message appears that AW 6 only supports "5" (?) audio stream.
Also in clip properties, I see only 4 tab cards for 4 audio streams.
So I guess the AW 6 actually ONLY supports 4 audio steams....
Please confirm!

Much appreciated!

From my use of TAW6, I can confirm it only supports four audio streams.

Hi,

I need to cut edit 1000 clips, all at the exactly same timeframe. How to do that? I am now doing it one by one dragging to the exactly same time frame for each file. If there is a batch command to repeat same cut setting to all >1000 files would be big help saving me many hours of time.

the >1000 clips have exactly same duration, exactly same place to cut. The clips have different contents.

Thanks.

Hello, I currently have VMW6 installed on my pc and most often encode with cuda on my 1080ti. For the most part it works ok though I do notice my system seems to lag and slow down after using MW6 and a system restart solves this. I'm assuming this issue is related to drivers. I was considering upgrading to MW7 (hoping this would fix my issue) until I saw a few of the posts here that some users are still having problems with nvidia gpus and drivers. I'm curious if VMW7 works better with the new RX6000 series of gpus from AMD? I'm most likely going to hold off until the next gen gpus release later this year but I'm hoping to get some feedback from users who encode with either red or green.

#1 - Radeon or Geforce? What works best for gpu encoding with VMW7?
#2 - Will I notice shorter encoding times if I upgrade from my 1080ti to a 3080ti or 4080ti? Or higher end RX6800 or 6900?
#3 - I know vram is important and my current gpu has 11gb, would it be noticeable if my new card only had 8gb?


Thanks!

Don't put your hopes too high on brand new series of GPU's being released later here in 2022, because they could be a whole lot more expensive than usual.
There is still a severe shortage on chips and the prices on current produced hardware is increasing.

But GeForce will still be the better choice due to being supported, Radeon is to my knowledge from earlier versions of of both VMW and TAW not supported, one reason why i got rid of the Radeon i once had and put my focus on GeForce instead.

The rest you ask about i don't really know much about, other than the more powerful CPU, RAM and GPU (GeForce) you have, the better it is in VMW and TAW when encoding.

I meant to say about Radeon support, that it has never have been supported in VMW and TAW.
(was not allowed to edit it in the other message)
So GeForce is the better choice due to the CUDA being supported.

Thanks for the reply Redz.

I have these apps on my system:

TVMW7
Apple Quicktime 7.7.9
Avdc Codec pack (for DNxHD support)

In the Input/output Format List, TVMW7 reports that Quicktime is "present but unusable". Excuse me ??? Why is that ??? I can't view DNxHD video streams in my MOV files !!!!

How do I fix this ?
Please help !

Try unchecking all codecs leaving only Quicktime active and see if it works.
If it does not work, install the LAV filter, start the PC and select only DirectShow file reader as above, unchecking all the others and leaving only the latter active

Uninstalled then reinstalled QuickTime 7.7.9
All ok now, thanks for the hints

we pay money buy you software,no buy the item lock alomst 90% funtion,if like that u just refund back 90% money,if you still lock like that....i want try create my own menu not just u your template only...for page audio and subtitle just can use text button....but sometime i like highlight the subject not the text,but u software just lock the funtion.i don't know lock what?if unlock will get virus?
and very mad is convert video can't choice filter,but mastering got,so this is trick need us buy 2 software?ok,now i buy 2 already but u lock the menu funtion.WTF

I just purchased (Master Works 7) to be used for converting interlaced AVI files to Mpeg-2 and need help using the settings. I tried using the internal help option, but it doesn't always give descriptions, enough details and some of it seems contradicting. I need to know the optimal settings that I should use in (Format mode) to get the best possible picture quality. I don't care how large the final file size will be or how long the encoding process takes.
I will be using the (Generic Mpeg File Output) and I'm limited to the (Standard Encoder).

Screen shots are a must when asking questions about software.
Are there any other Pegasy forums available that allow you to post screen shots?

Thank you,
Bruce

Usually AVI files are in mpeg 4 so you go to reduce the quality if you convert them to mpeg 2.
It is better for you to have a better quality to convert them to MP4 (h264) or (h265) and you choose the bitrate to use the higher the quality and the better it is important that the source files are of good quality.
On the other hand, if you decide you want to convert them to mpeg 2 the maximum bitrate and 8,000 Mbps a higher bitrate does not affect the output quality of the video much.

Converting AVI to Mpeg4 totally ruins the picture quality because Mpeg4 uses way too much compression.
8,000 Mbps is normally used when encoding to DVD because of the DVD size limitations. I'm formatting to Mpeg-2(file) and I want to use the least amount of compression, I don't care about how large the finished files will be, they are being stored on a 4TB HDD and played thru an Oppo UDP-203 player.
So far I've been experimenting with the VBR (Constant Quality) for the (Rate Control Mode)and setting the Bitrate to 15,000 and Quality to 100. When playing the finished file it shows the video bitrate being used as right around 13,000. If it's actually using 13,000 with very little scene movement then I would think formatting the files using 15,000 should be just just right.
Do you actually own Master Works 7?

TMPGEnc wasn't working correctly, so I inserted my CD to do a reinstall. All that seems to have happened is that I lost the original program and there's no new program installed. In need to get the program back on my computer.

Log in to your TMPGEnc account, then you can download it directly from there.
The serial is also located on your account.
https://ssl.pegasys-inc.com/webapp/?lang=en

Suggest updating to TAW6 though if you have an NVIDIA Geforce graphics card, because TAW5 has problems with CUDA in the later drivers.
Does not work with driver version 457.30 for mine, but i had no problems getting it to work in TAW6.

When I import a video file and the file has, let's say, three audio streams (1) Russian 5.1DD+. (2) Ukrainian 5.1DD+ and (3) English 5.1 Dolby Atmos but when I burn to disc I only want the English stream, how do I remove the other two? I can see you can set the file as how many streams you want, so if I select one stream it takes only the first stream in the file, in this case the Russian stream...if I select two streams, it takes the Russian and the Ukrainian, etc. So I have to have all three streams just to have the English stream (and then set Audio 3 as the default) - but it is a waste of space to have the other streams.....any ideas?

In such cases i always use MKVToolnix to create a secondary video file that i can use instead, which does not contain the other audio tracks that i don't need.

Its just more easy to do it that way. It does not recode, its a muxing tool where video and audio remains 100% untouched.
https://www.videohelp.com/software/MKVToolNix

Thanks - I´ll give that a shot.

Found out how to do this within Authoring Works 6 - open the clip (movie whatever) on your track and in the editor click "clip properties", inside here you can remove audio streams! Now I have another issue....my MKV has Dolby Digital Plus with Atmos. When I burn to Bluray how do I keep this audio track intact?. Do I just leave the audio encoder on "Smart encoding" or only encode unsupported audio or should I change it to encode specifically in LPCM 5.1 (or 7.1) or Dolby Digital 5.1? I would prefer just to keep the original audio as is....

As example, I just tried it with an MKV - MediaInfo advised English Dolby Digital Plus with Atmos 6 channels. I changed the audio option to only encode unsupported audio and the result was the final Blu-ray was burned in LPCM 5.1.

UPDATE 3: So after the last attempt I left the Preferences in the global app to only encode unsupported audio but in the actual Project settings changed the audio encode to "Smart Render" and the resulting disc was burned in the Dolby Digital codec. However what I noticed in MediaInfo was the audio going in (MKV) was "Dolby Digital Plus with Atmos - 6 channels" what was coming out of Authoring works 6 burn was "Dolby Digital - 6 channels" I am not sure it was retaining the "Plus" or the "Atmos" information. By the look of all the help files and searches online this is probably correct and that Authoring Works 6 does not retain any of the "Plus" or "Atmos" information. I cannot see a way around this.

After updating the nvdia driver for rtx 2080 super video card from version 472.84 to version 511.65, enconding with cuda activated and passed from 8 minutes to 13 minutes with a 40 minute video file at 1080p 25fps I had to restore the 472.84 driver to decrease this duration .
I have windows 11 running

p.s.
The problem arises with all versions after 472.84
thank you

With my recent purchased Asus GT1030-2G-BRK using 473.04 for Windows 7 64-bit, CUDA does not even work.
CUDA is stuck at 0.0% when encoding.
So that is one that also can be written to the bugs list of haing faulty CUDA.

Luckily i could dig up the 471.68 on Asus's site instead, so hopefully that one will work a lot better when i come around to installing that one instead.

Forgot to mention that i upgraded to that one from an older Asus NVIDIA card and there CUDA worked just fine with the driver for that one.

It is not a video card problem but of the new NVIDIA drivers that do not work correctly with Mastering Works I hope that with a software update they will solve it.In the meantime I use the old driver since with the new ones the rendering time has increased by about a third.

The 471.68 drivers did also not work.

I have returned back to my old GTX 650 with the 457.30 drivers for that one.
At first it did also not work, i had to do a pretty hard cleaning of left overs that seemed to still be left and also do a heavy claining of the registry.

Then i used the optimizer again in TVMW7, shut TVMW7 down and ran it again.
CUDA began working again as it used to before this whole mess, so i will stick to my old GTX 650 for now.

Now the CUDA is completely dead.

I got my self a new much faster Windows 10 Pro machine and put an Asus GeForce GTX 1650 Phoenix OC in it and no matter what driver i have tested for it before 472.84 works, nor the latest ones, where i tested both Studio and Game Ready drivers.

I honestly believe its Pegasys' own softwares TVMW7 and TAW6 which has a serious bug in their CUDA support that they have to get fixed and not NVIDIA that has to fix something to their drivers.
I have zero problems with CUDA support in something like DVDFab 12 and Topaz Video Enhancer AI, they run full speed ahead on using CUDA.

As long Pegasys don't wan't to realize that they have a problem and fix their CUDA support, then its R.I.P. with the CUDA in all their softwares.

>Now the CUDA is completely dead.
>
>I got my self a new much faster Windows 10 Pro machine and put an Asus GeForce GTX 1650 Phoenix OC in it and no matter what driver i have tested for it before 472.84 works, nor the latest ones, where i tested both Studio and Game Ready drivers.
>
>I honestly believe its Pegasys' own softwares TVMW7 and TAW6 which has a serious bug in their CUDA support that they have to get fixed and not NVIDIA that has to fix something to their drivers.
>I have zero problems with CUDA support in something like DVDFab 12 and Topaz Video Enhancer AI, they run full speed ahead on using CUDA.
>
>As long Pegasys don't wan't to realize that they have a problem and fix their CUDA support, then its R.I.P. with the CUDA in all their softwares.

The CUDA is only used when the benchmark results indicate that it outperforms the CPU in processing. You should be able to confirm that it works by applying heavy filters such as Precision Noise Filter at maximum.

I have been adding some background music wich plays when the disc is incerted. It stops when one of the video is played,and
plays again when start menu opens. The problem I have is that I can't find a way to change the level of the audio in the program.
Is that not possible? I have had to resort to change the original audio file. I have to guess how it wiil sound when played.
Should'nt it be possible to set the level when adding the the audio?

I'm just trying to find out how to use Video Mastering Works to zoom-in or zoom-out within a video clip. Currently, I have to use my Corel VideoStudio's "pan and zoom" filter to zoom-in or zoom-out on segments of the video that I am editing but I would rather use Video Mastering Works for all of my video editing.

I've checked the Help documentation, the FAQs, and tried Googling it but I can't find any instructions for zooming-in or out in Video Mastering Works.

Does Video Mastering Works have a zoom function for video editing and, if it does, can you give me instructions on how to do it?

Thanks!

Paul