tmpgenc authoring works 4 work great creating mpeg2 bluray disks without reencoding however why is their no option to create h.264 bluray disks ? i use the spurs engine to harware encode mpge2 and h264. but using mpeg2 the video bitrate must be used at max (32Mb/s) for it to look any good. please add support for creation h264 blurays **without reencoding to mpeg2** in a future release.

It's unknown why they didn't put it in from the get-go, but I'm sure they're working on it since there have been numerous requests for this...at least that's what I'm hoping. They'd be crazy not to include it.

lets hope so :) but i wont be surprised if it doesn't happen.

In the past with a Tape based Camcorder I would create a raw DVD, then import the VOB files and pretty much be able to edit the whole thing in one go. Quick and easy. I now have a HD camcorder that records to SDCard, and each "shot" is a separate file. So there can be over 200 or 300 files of 1 to 20 seconds each per standard DVD. Rather than copying onto a DVD first (using an ordinary DVD recorder) I thought I would import the files direct (from copies on the computer's hard drive) for better quality, as this is what one is supposed to do anyway. But you then have single tracks with 99 short clips, each of which has to be looked at using the edit button, played, edited if necessary and then saved again- taking over an hour per 99 clips on average, where the other method took about 20 minutes because one can just "skim through" a lot of the footage. (Thee is also the problem of having over 99 clips by the finish, and so exceeding the track limit)
I thought the "linking" the clips option would let me import all files as a single editable clip, but it doesn't seem to do this. So how can it be done ? or can't it.

i dont know if this will work, but if the recorded format is mpeg-2 etc, import each file into dgindex and then press ok after you have added all of them.

then what you do is select demux audio and video this will then give you a video file and audio, then just import the two into dvd authour.

hello...
i need to know does TMPGEnc Mpeg Editor or EMPGEnc XPress open video files with mkv extension ?
i couldn't open this files on TMPGEnc Mpeg Editor 2. does it works on EMPGEnc Mpeg Editor 3?

Thanks...

I am pretty sure MPEG Editor 3 will not be able to open mkv files. However, TMPGEnc 4.0 XPress can open them with the appropriate codecs installed.

Hey guys, just bought TMPGEnc.

I have an issue.

I'm encoding a lot of separate clips into a bunch of separate mpg files. At first, it's going great, but then all of a sudden it stops. It never stops at a percentage less than 100%, it just fills the blue bar all the way up, and then doesn't seem to want to load the next clip and start encoding.

There's no error message or anything, and my Elapsed time is constantly increasing.

I don't get the "finished" dialog box either. All of the menu bar buttons at the top are ghosted out except for "Options"

Thanks!

One of your clips my be corrupted. It may not be enough to affect playback, but it is affecting the encoding process. Try load them into the batch encode tool as individual clips.

Hi
I am trying to encode video that I have shot with a camcorder and edit.
it's PAL interlace and basic quality in term of noise as it is a home camcorder.
I am very disappointed with the result.
The divx coding is configured to HDTV 3000kbps with multipass of 2.
I am getting quite a big file, about 600Mbytes for half and hour.
If I compare it to DIVX movies that I have, which were ripped from DVD, the output that I got from TMPGEND Express is very poor qulity while the bit rate of it is higher than the Movie. in the movie more than 1.5 hour are in 700Mbyte.
what do I miss?
how can I make my conversion more quality?
thanks
Elihay

Is it accurate to compare a home video with a commercial DVD?

How does the quality compare with the original footage? This is the question you should be asking. If the source is of a "basic quality" you can't expect the output to be any better.

Sure
I am not expecting the quality to be like the DVD movie and better than the original camcorder video. I mean that I get encoding noise, like the mpeg squares which are seen clrearly at the video that I created, compared to the DVD DIVX with much lower bitrate and much less encoding noise seen.

ok this means that you are either setting it so that its trying to encode a large film inot a small size which quality will always go slightly, or you have not got it set right so that instead of like xvid for example, if you only do a single pass and not a multiple pass, th quality will deminish.

maybe the codec itself is currupt. so try updating it or re installing it as this could also cuase the instructions of the encoder to go quite a bit and mis place intrsuctions .

What resize filter use TMPGEnc Authoring Works 4?
(Linear, Lanczos, etc)

Hi all,

Help! I am using TAW4 and cannot figure out how to do what I need. I am putting together a DVD of about 60-75 clips of funny videos. The top menu has the categories (e.g. Animals, Autos, Idiots, Oops, etc.) When you click on a category such as Animals, it goes to a track that has 6-12 Animal videos. That part works OK. I want to click on one of the videos on that track and when it is through playing, it would take me back to the Track Menu. Instead it plays all of the videos in succession and then returns to the track menu.

Several years ago I did this with version 2.x of TMPGenc Express and it work beautifully.

How can I get TAW4 return to the track menu after each clip?

I saw in the forum where someone suggested each track having only 1 clip, but I can't figure how to get the categories. Seems like that would require a Top Menu (with the categories), then a sub-Menu for each category (with 6-12 videos) which would point to the correct track for each video shown in the sub-menu.

What am I missing here?

As I remember it, TMPCenc 2.x express had a option to select what to do at the end of each clip, but I can't seem to find that in TAW4.

Any ideas are most welcome.

Regards,
Mark (aka PepperHead)

Yes, my old software used to have this option to set the behaviour after a clip was played. I need it ASAP in TAW4!!

Is it possible to set a menu button to "resume" so that the DVD starts playing at the same point that it stopped when I pressed the menu button?

For example I might access the audio menu to change the soundtrack and then wish to resume. As it stands I can only see that it's possible to return to a track menu.

Thanks

I would like to request the ability to have more than 2 subtitle tracks.

I have projects that use more than 2 subtitle tracks, so I have to author them in DVD Architect, but I would prefer to use Authoring Works.

Thanks

When I tried to including a new track and after the inclusion of the subtitles I often run the Simulation Phase in order to see if everything is allright.

But now I got a message error when I tried to play a simulation of a specific track (in fact the last one.

The message was: No SampleFormat.

I tried to fix it using the video and audio settings for that particular track but It did not work.

Please someone help me.

Thanks in advance.

Sergio

i beieve sampleformat is towards the encoding process and nothign to do with thr menus etc

Is it possible to create a custom frames in Photoshop or any other 3rd party software?

Yes, you can use Photoshop (or a similar program) to create custom frames. Check out this tutorial (it's for DVD Author 3 but it also applies to Authoring Works 4):
http://tmpgenc.pegasys-inc.com/en/lab/lab06_customFrames.html

Thank you so much!!!

I've been trying to install the latest version of Authoring Works 4 (4.0.6.28) and it always freezes the system. My machine is running XP Pro 32 bit. Is there a known issue with this installation? Does the previous version need to be uninstalled first?

your operating system that needs redoing.
or your master hdd is corrupt, which is causing the installation to freeze as the hdd is not read and writing correctly and missing data via the transfer.

there shouldn't be an issue at all with the installation otherwise.

No, it's definitely a software issue with the installer. Other programs load/run just fine and the system is fairly new. I have another machine that runs Vista, I could try it on that.

It may also be a bad download. Try and re-download the installer to make sure.

Hi there,
I have the exact same problem.
I tried to install the newest version (4.0.6.28 I think) and it freezes at the installer. I tried to deinstall the old one, cleaned/defragmented the registry, downloaded it again and even let the computer running over night to see whether it just needs some more time but nothing worked. I'm running XP Pro 32Bit with 3.8 Gh P4 and 4 Gb RAM. Could it be that the file at the server is corrupt?
Help would much apprechiated!
Thanks
Alex

I just downloaded and installed the latest version and it works fine on my comp. Windows XP SP3 32-bit, Pentium 4 3.4GHz, 2.75 GB RAM.

AND im going to re iterate my statement.

its your os.

just because other software seem to be fine, it only takes a little thing to make everything go wrong.

Hi,
I just installed it on an other XP on the same HD and it worked. I didn't try to run the software yet but the installation was just fine.
I think you where right Mathew, it is the OS. Its just confusing because I can install other software just smooth. It might even be that it won't run together with a particular set of software. Well, time will tell.
Happy Authoring...
Cheers
Alex

Ok, I finally got a chance to try to install this version on my 64 bit Vista machine and it freezes at the exact same point, so that rules out the "OS". The freeze is symptomatic of a memory leak or endless loop, but since others are having success it may just be a conflict with other software. My XP and Vista computers have very little in common software wise, with the following exceptions: they both have Norton 2010 Internet Security, and both run the same NVidia software. I have a laptop running Windows 7 RC and could try to install on that for kicks, but it too is running Norton 2010 and uses NVidia drivers.

Bottom line, there is a problem with the installer.

Have you tried disabling Norton?

bottom line is that there isnt a issue at all with the installer. just sadly that some people arent as experienced as others to realize that there OS just isnt well enough to do the installation, and its also possible that the hdd needs to have the chkdks done .