I see how in TMPGEnc there is an option where you can use a transition effect. It seemed like there were a lot of them to pick from so I just picked something that I'm familiar with, a fade and set it for about 7 seconds, but I never saw the fade in action. What is it supposed to be fading, and/or what are any of the other transition effects supposed to do?

Also...dumb question but I have to ask...How do you pronounce TMPGEnc?

http://tmpgenc.pegasys-inc.com/en/product/te4xp.html#tabs

is all it says.

to which means there bugga all to tell, which for an effect of the software im amazed that it doesn't say what it is or does.

Wrong link? That's for 4.0 XPress.

Transitions for Authoring Works is mentioned here:
http://tmpgenc.pegasys-inc.com/en/product/taw4_new.html

Transitions appear between clips in your track. So if you choose a fade out, it will fade out of the selected clip and into the next. You can preview the transition in the Transition Editor window or in the Simulation stage.

http://i26.tinypic.com/9fmtc8.png

I pronounce TMPGEnc as Tee-Em-Pee-Gee-Enk, or I just spell out the entire thing. It comes from Tsunami MPeG Encoder.

By the way, transitions can only be applied to the end of clips, but there is a way to add a transition such as a fade-in to the beginning of the first clip.

First you'll need to create a clip composed of a solid color.
To do this, just go to the Source Wizard and select the last option, "From a color matte or pattern".
Set the color (or pattern or picture) and duration then click OK.

Drag the color clip to the beginning if necessary. You can then apply a transition to this clip to create a fade-in effect into your first real clip.

One more tip:

If you want to add a transition between scenes within a clip, you'll first have to split that clip into two clips.

You can do so with the Split clip function in the Clip Editor. Once in the clip editor, just navigate to the point you want to split the clip and click the split clip button (looks like this: ←|→ ).

Once you've made two clips from your clip, you can add a transition between them as usual.

Can someone point to instructions on doing mkv to dvd or mpeg 2 conversions? Thank you in advance.

Louie

just add the file into the dvd authoring software of tmpgenc and itll do it

this always happens when you go past 106 cuts


no matter how long the file is , if its 107 it will fail to finish the project. and this seems to happen with all versions .

When I click on the tracks button in the main menu, it opens up another window and there are the thumbnail's for whatever file(s) I have in there. How do I get rid of the thumbnails and just have text?

Are you using the pre-installed templates?

If so, create a custom menu instead and then you can select text-only menus.

I had been using the custom menu's but must have missed the step or option that allows me to select text-only menu's. Do you recall exactly at what point in the options that comes up?

It's the area in the Menu Wizard where you select the layout of the top and track menus, button sets, frames and background.

http://i27.tinypic.com/2nrnbbl.png

In this example, I selected a layout with two thumbnails for the top menu, and 4 text items for the track menu. For each thumbnail layout, there is a corresponding text-only layout.

That'll work! Thanks for going to all of that trouble to make a screenshot for me!

No problem at all! Glad I could help!

I am trying to import my HDV tapes but the "Capture from HDV/DV Camcorder" Source wizard keeps stopping at each gap in the tape and I have to keep pressing the "Start Capture" button. I have about 3 seconds of blank footage in between some shots on my tape.

Is there any way I can increase the giveup time limit to 10 seconds rather than the current 1 second? Or just force the program to import the whole tape even if it finds empty footage?

same problem did you find a solution?

Just wonder if there is support for conversions from TS-files to MKV High-res.

I don't think mkv is supported yet. However, they just added mkv support to their MovieStyle program, so it may not be too far off for 4.0 XPress.

Thanx for your input "tkrave". It will be nice if they add it to TMPG Enc 4,0 Express. My sattelite reciver is recording in TS files on the harddrive inside the reciver. I want to convert them into *.MKV, and store it in my TVIX multimedia player.

I have two hard disk 1,5 To and I receive always this error after 10% encoding:

Not enough storage is available to complete this operation. (error code 0x8007000E)

I just bought this soft???

David

if its not a space issue then its a hdd issue, ie there is soemthign wrong with the hardware.

i woudl use tunetup utilities to scan the file system on the hdd and also scan for bad sectors, and then during reboot it will go througha process to repair.

after this defrag the system and then re try.

NO HD problem! If I save on different partition (C: or D: or E: or F:), same error

i would say re do your os maybe their a screw up inb the os which is causing this.

Since this question is a month and a half old, you may well have found a solution and just didn't report it here. I had the same problem with over 750GB of free storage space, but I resolved it. Check your virtual memory settings on your computer and increase them manually if necessary, or increase your physical memory. If you don't have much physical memory and don't have enough virtual memory, it will throw this error regardless of how much physical storage space you have available. I posted about this already in another thread.

Good luck

Hi,
this is my first time posting so you will excuse me if i am not up to speed.
I am using a PC runnig XP service pack 3.
I have the latest version of tmpeg installed 4.7.3.292.

I am trying to create a template that will allow me to convert a video file to an mpeg2 file with an odd pixel size 1672 x 471.
I am finding it hard to get tmpeg to accept these settings.
I can change the pixel size and bitrate but cannot get the program to save this as a template,i know mpeg2 has a maximim and minimum pixel,

Some of the setting i am using in the format section are
Output stream type-ES (video Only)
Bitrate-12000
Dispaly Mode-Progressive
GOP -I frames only

These settings have been given to me and are required for the media to work in the device i am using.

Any advice would help,

Regards C

quite simple it wont let you do it.

try using megui for the res adjustments, it uses avisynth

but this will either be for before you encode or after for your last output format

Hi,
figured it out with some help.
Under the profile tab i needed to change the profile and level to "MP@HL"
to allow the pixel size to be at the settings required.

Thanks

I'm using tmpgenc4 with the spurs engine and it's great for fast encodes but does not live up to the max potential that the bluray spec has to offer.. the bluray spec allows for 40,000 kpbs video bitrate and 8,000 audio bitrate with the video codecs mpeg2,AVC(h.264) and VC-1. But tmpgenc4 only offers a bluray option in the mpeg2 format ( wich is the worst compression codec of the three ) why not offer a spurs engine option for bluray AVC(H.264) ??? i'm sure this could be implemented as the spurs engine cards support mpeg2 aswell as AVC(H.264). Another problem is the with the bluray Mpeg2 profile the video bitrate has a max bitrate of 32,000 kbps... why not the max possible video bitrate of 40,000 kbps ??? since the mpeg2 compression is qiute bad to begin with, i think thr extra 8,000 kbps would help. Just my thoughts.. what do you guys think ??

regards Marty.

You're quite right and I agree with you.


Does this new version work under Windows 7?

Like Zingbot I do not want to pay nearly $100 to find out that it doesn't work under Windows 7.

The trial works ok under Windows 7 but that doesn't mean the regitered version will.

corect me if im wrong here but for avc would you choose the quicktime codecs toe ncode to .

and yes its rather odd for them not to include this in the bluray template settings.

and for the windows 7, would you not think its rather odd for a company to let a trail version work and then not have the master version not work on windows 7?

If the trial works, the retail version should work. It's even listed as working on the their Windows 7/Vista compatibility page:
http://tmpgenc.pegasys-inc.com/en/support/winvista_support.html

I received the following email from tmpgenc4 staff when i emailed them about the above issue.

"Dear Mr. Wichtmann,

Maybe, you can still create you own BD ouput profile by using the
Generic MPEG-4 output as a base then adapt the encoder settings to the
requirements of the BD format.

In MPEG-2, the maximum bitrate is 32,000 kb/s.

Yours Sincerely,

Olivier Graves."

However the mpeg2 spec states :

MP@HL can do 1920x1080 at up to 30fps with a bitrate up to 80Mbps in either Progressive and Interlaced formats.
MP@HL can do 1280x720 at up to 60fps with a bitrate up to 80Mbps in Progressive formats.

However tmpgenc4 using the spurs engine output maxes out at a video bitrate of 32Mbps in MP@HL in either of the above mentioned settings.If you wont give us a AVC(h.264) bluray profile why not just max out the video bitrate of the bluray mpeg2 profile to that of the max bluray spec and have the Mpeg2 bluray profile MP@HL have the ability to raise the video bitrate up to 40Mbps.

I have created a dvd menu and of each sub-menu for the chapters there is a play button..I have tried to remove it under display item for the dvd meuns BUT it does NOT delete properly..I have taken the font and made it 0. and then moves the box to off the screen. any ideas??

How does it not delete properly?

Make sure you uncheck "Display 'Play track button' item" and not the play-all button (unless you want to delete that too).

Works for me.

When I output my project in BD format, it appears to create the necessary folders/structure.
However when I burn to disc and try to play the movie it won't play - for example PowerDVD says the disc is in Unsupported format.

Why is this?

Do you have right PowerDVD version? Their website says only the Ultra version can play BD format.

If it's not that, it may have to do with the BDAV format, but that's just a guess.

My copy of PowerDVD plays other BluRay, so it must be the format.

I am not sure what the settings for the format should be (for UK) - can anyone enlighten me?

Thanks

In case you haven't heard, 4.0 XPress is updated to version 4.7.3.292 and the biggest change is support for DivX HD.

http://tmpgenc.pegasys-inc.com/en/product/te4xp.html#tabs

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