I'm using TMPGenc Authoring Works 4 to put as many of my Anime DVD's onto 1 Disc as possible. I don't know if it has something to do with the fact I am actually "Wrapping" Xvid codec files into DivX containers (divxmux.exe manual says it accepts Xvid as input) however I suspect this is a program limitation.

I have spent countless hours over many days trying to eliminate every possibility that it is TA4 causing the problem and am convinced that it is..

Working with 25 episodes per project, if I split each episode into 3 parts (to apply fade in/out scene transitions) I will get 75 clips. It goes through the initial assembly fine (smart rendering, no encoding going on) however once the Video and Audio tracks are complete and it begins to mux the menu and files together into a DivX File I get a CW-6 error code at around 75/76% without fail every time.

The interesting thing is I can kill the audio tracks and the video comes through OK and the process completes. However if I keep the audio tracks and simply reduce the number of clips (I arbitrarily chose 11 episodes @ 33 clips) the process also completes without any errors.

Obviously reducing the number of clips per track fixes this. As does giving each episode its own track with 3 clips (the only time a 75 clip project will work) - HOWEVER I do not like the menu behavior with more than one Track. As if you hit NEXT or the Track ends, it takes you back to the menu each and every time, and not only that, it takes you to the FIRST menu page, even if you are on menu page 2,3,4,5 - etc..

I don't know if the clip limit is something that can be looked into and fixed, but I have been wondering why for a while now, you guys still haven't done something about the Menu behavior with multiple tracks in a project. I feel they should play the next track automatically just like a DVD, as the whole point of DivX Ultra is to emulate DVD menus.

Also.. TA4 (and to a lesser extent Xpress 4) still suffers from Random lockups when editing tracks. Usually during cutting operations. I have noticed in particular in TA4 if you select your cut range too fast and then hit CUT, it will almost always produce a lockup. I'm not sure if this is solely related to Avisynth served files but I think it has happened with files loaded the standard way as well.

Also if you load an MKV, be it through Avisynth, or straight from the load file prompt, it always triggers multiple instances of FFDshow's Video/Audio decoders, as well as multiple instances of VOBsub/VSfilter, etc.. This did not used to be a problem however I can't solely place the blame on TMPGenc, as it could possibly be an issue with FFDshow, or newer codec packs.

At any rate, please look into solving more of the random lockups, possibly upgrading DivX Ultra menu functionality, and fix the bug (I feel its a bug) with too many clips on one track producing the CW-6 error code.

Thanks for your time.

Sorry I forgot to leave system specs (in case they help).

Intel C2D @ 2.1Ghz
8GB DDR2
Windows Vista x64 Ultimate

Just to comment on the DivX Ultra menu behavior, that's probably a limitation of the DivX Ultra format and not something TMPG can do anything about. Remember that TMPG has no control over the limitations of the DivX Ultra format. I'm sure they would have included it if they could since the post-track playback options are included for DVD and BD projects.

Yeah, you're probably right on that. It's still a nice product aside from that, and I can live with editing less clips/transitions into each episode for the time being, although since its practically the only product that can make DivX Ultra files without re-encoding, I do hope they fix the apparent clip limit bug, and work more on solving the random lockups.

I have various HD source material (HDV,...) that I would like to playback using my Panasonic DMP BD35 BluRay player. This unit can playback BluRay discs, but also native AVCHD files on discs (DVD+/-R(W)) or SDHC flash cards.
At this time I don't have a BD burner or BD authoring program. I just want to find a cheap way to view my HDV videos on this player.

>> Can I convert my HD sources to AVCHD (.m2ts) using TXP 4 ? If yes, what are the settings for the best results (lowest bitrate for high quality)

It can only import avchd footage; it can't output to avchd. Although, you can output as a .m2t file or as a Blu-ray compliant MPEG-2, so that might work for you.

Hi, anyone know how 2 change which link on a menu is highlighted 1st? Ive got about 7 links on a menu and a return link and i want to change it highlighting the return link first.

Thanks in advance

I don't think this is possible with Authoring Works 4; at least, I haven't found a way.

Go to the MENU Tab -> Link editor Tab, click on the menu items and right click on them and go to move to front until you get the items how you want to look on page(Look at the left column on bottom for the list). Now the top item will be highlighted first, next go to the Simulation tab to check that the order is the way you want it (Test It out).

I have just started using TAW4 (4.1.0.47) and I need to change which item is highlighted first in a menu, just as you can with DVDLab.

I tried the above suggestion with a Blu-ray track menu and set of Pop-Up menus.

Changing list order does not change the behaviour in the simulation. The same item is always highlighted first what ever order items are in the list.

(BTW, somewhat surprisingly clicking 'Move to front' moves the item to the BOTTOM of the list and 'Move to back' moves the item to the TOP of the list.)

Hi there,

I have a trial version of MovieStyle and I fed some AVCHD into it.
I want to prepare files as WMV for playback on Xbox 360 which is running as Mediacenter Extender.

TMPGEnc 4 Express can handle WMV 9 Advanced Profile with interlaced settings - works great! But MovieStyle cannot, sadly.

The deinterlacing is quite okay, almost acceptable, but not as good as real interlaced playback.


Thanks
Alexander

Why can I not make a dual layer divx dvd? Why does this not support that? I initially got Authoring Works 4 because it now supports dual layer...but why not dual layer in divx? If this product cannot do this for me, what product can?

I don't know of any product that can make a DivX Ultra file bigger than 4GB. I believe this is a hard limit on the DivX codec side, as I have seen this complaint discussed on their forums before.

I know it isn't a real solution, but what I plan to do is to simply split the load into two projects. Then burn both DivX Ultra files to a dual layer DVD. Once you're done watching the first set, just hit the stop button once or twice (depending on your player) and then load up the second file. You still get menu functionality in the end.

I think I will do that too, thanks.

Hello,

While I have found several mentions of 3:2 pulldown, and have read a number of posts about it, I am not sure how to proceed. I have some footage a friend shot using a DV AVI camera using 24f mode - but when captured using firewire, has a frame rate of 29.97. If I want to make an MPEG file with a 23.976 frame rate, I am pretty sure I should use inverse telecine on the footage - but am not sure of the proper settings in TMPG to do this. But if I want to make the footage into a regular 29.97 interlaced MPEG, do I use the reverse 3:2 pulldown? Again, not sure about the proper settings for this?

I have also read about flags marking where the pulldown is located - will TMPG pick these up, or do I have to set them manually? And if so, is there a way to know you are using the right settings by looking at the footage? I have found almost nothing explaining what to do with 24p footage. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Will upgrading to a cuda enabled card improve h.264 to wmv conversion speeds? I read the press release claiming 446% encoding speed increases with cuda, but from what I understand that is only within specific formats. Thanks.

Edit: If it makes a difference I'm running a q9300 quad core @ 3.5 GHZ. Thanks again.

Bump, I would like to know the answer to this.

well i turned my cuda off last night and the difference was over 30 mins in encoding time, so i woudl say yes and even more so in your case as mines only a verclocked q6600

hi can someone tell me.how i can get the audio level ,on each file the same.before i record on to dvd.as one song is louder than the other.when i play back my dvd.thank you jimmy may

On the Source page, you will nee to click on your projects Edit tab. Click on the Audio tab at top, and you will see a tab button Audio Filter Settings under Audio Filters. Click on the Volume Adjustment tab and see if the box is checked next to Enable Volume Adjustment.

There are three choices: Volume Change, Volume Normalization, and Volume Uniformation. Once you have made your changes, you can click the Preview tab to hear the difference.

I'm doing a slideshow, and this is how I found it. It may be the same for video projects as well.

Hi there,

I'm having trouble with the output of my project. I use basically the default settings in the application, but when I go to OUTPUT and Start Output, I deselct Write To The Media Disc After Output Completion. After output is completed, the window pops up showing completion and if I want to write disc using the Browse Output Folder or Disc Writing Tool. I select to browse the output folder and both AUDIO_TS and VIDEO_TS folders are there with the IFO and VOB files. I tried to load the files into DVD Shrink to burn the movie and I get an Invalid DVD Navigation Structure error. Although I only created a 2 min. test with audio, transition, subtitles, and even menu with audio background, it will not open. I tried it with Ashampoo Burning Studio 2009 and the files loaded, but I don't want to waste a dvd if it's working right.

I used the Disc Writing Tool to create an .iso dvd image and it did it fine, but when I load the .iso image with Daemon, it will not play in any of my players...Roxio DVDMax Player, PowerDVD or InterVideo WinDVD Gold 5. I'm just wondering if my encoding settings are wrong or if this is not possible. I would hate to waste a disc to see it not work. When I open the folder to play in the players, they only play in the order of the folders and not as if it were a dvd title.

Encode settings: (These should be all default settings)
DVD Video NTSC
Video stream format: Automatic (Smart rendering prioritized)
Video stream format: MPEG-2 Video
Resolution: Automatic (720x480 pixels)
Framerate: 29.7 fps progressive
Video bitrate: 7000 kb/s
Stream type: Dolby Digital
Sampling frequency: 48000 Hz
Channel mode: Stereo
Quantization: 16 bits
Audio bitrate: 256 kb/s

Any help would be appreciated...thanks.

Not sure if this is any consolation, but it IS possible to open outputted files in DVD Shrink and create iso's that can be loaded into Daemon...because I've been doing this for a while and I like to use Daemon with PowerDVD to view the outputted files before burning them. I've never had any problems.

If you have done this in the same manner and have had no problem at all, it seems that there must be something wrong with my installation then. I've tried to run a few different small slideshow tests with the same results....nil. The VIDEO_TS files will not load into DVD Shrink and the .iso created with the TMPGEnc Writing Tool creates sucessfully and load into Daemon fine. When I try to run the virtual drive into all my players (Roxio DVDMax Player, PowerDVD, InterVideo WinDVD Gold 5....and I just uninstalled my Dell MEdia Experience to install Roxio's CinePlayer Surround HD 3.4) they all load with errors, and only show the drive as having a DVD in location. There's no filename or filesize.

I will try to reinstall the app and see if it fixes the problem. Until then, I've moved onto Photodex's ProShow Producer 4.0.2479 which works fine. I even tried the Wondershare Movie Story 4.5.0.1 trial and it works fine too but it doesn't have all the addins I'm looking for.

I'm not giving up on it, but I thought that this would be the One.

Yeah, maybe it's a bad install. Your settings seem fine to me, since I do pretty much the same thing; I usually don't burn to disc, and I usually use the default settings.

Have you tried loading the Video_ts folder into PowerDVD? That works for me as well.

Manual as pdf-file

I would like to take one audio file and make it the track for a video file. Is there a way in TMPG to overwrite the audio track of the video with a new audio file?

I know you can split out the audio file from a video easily but not sure how to do it backwards - put audio into a video.

Thanks!
Ryan

When you first add the video clip in the source stage, the clip properties window appears. You can change the audio source here by selecting a different audio/video source.

what performance is everyone getting with encoding? Using other programs to encode a dvdrip to H264 format file is roughly the same speed as using tmpeg 4x xpress with CUDA, which I find disappointing. As an example, taking a 90min movie @ 720X480 fullscreen 29.97 frames/sec and encoding to H264 720X480 29.97 frames/sec single pass 2500 kbit/s Variable bitrate takes on my machine roughly 100 minutes or averaging 21 frames/second. Then using the same movie with tmpeg 4 xpress with CUDA gpu exceleration and all the same settings takes the ame amount of time if not longer and the status showing CPU usage hovers around 30% and CUDA around 67%. When I compare this as close as possible with another CUDA enabled program badaboom, badaboom only takes 25 minutes.

Are you using any video filters? If you aren't, then you should turn CUDA off as it will only be effective when you are using video filters and/or MPEG decoding.

Look at this page:
http://tmpgenc.pegasys-inc.com/en/product/te4xp.html#tabSelector6
(scroll down towards the bottom where the graph is)

Their data shows that the more video filters you are using, the more effective CUDA encoding will be. Conversely, if you aren't using any video filters, then it will actually be slower than CPU-only encoding.

Okay Now I understand. Thank you.