Is it possible to add a menu or chapter screen to a DVD when using the trial TMPGE 4xpress version?

You can't create DVDs with 4.0 XPress, only encode to DVD-compliant MPEG-2. You want TMPGEnc Authoring Works 4 if you need to create menus.

Hi
Is it possible to insert subtitles in a DVD files (VOB and son on) withoutloosing the original menu?
Thanks in advance
Slfreire

I think the answer to yout question is a bit below:
http://bbs.pegasys-inc.com/bbs/list/lang/en/board/TAW4#topic63856

Hi, I recently use Authoring Works 4 and would like to open a projec I created with TMPGEnc DVD Author 3. In the Open project menu I can select to view only DVD Author 3's projects, but when I try to open one an error says "this file is not a project file generated by tmpgenc authoring works 4".

Is it possible to open a DVD Author 3 project with Authoring Works 4?

When you choose to open a tda3 project in Authoring Works 4, there should be a window that appears with a message stating "This file is a project created by TMPGEnc DVD Authro 2.0 or 3. etc...."

You can then choose to convert it to a Authoring Works 4 project.

Try some other tda3 projects and see what happens.

You are right, thank you.
I've been trying to open old projects, the problem is that the message to convert form a previous version doesn't appear always, I don't know the specific problem, but I have projects sabed on a 32bit Windows XP, 32bit Vista and 64bit Windows 7.
Don't worry about it, I don't need to open any of these projects at the moment, just wanted to post it.

Hi, I have some tracks with an only file and a track with some videos, so I'd like to know if there's a way to make track menus for the tracks with more than 1 file, to be able to select the video I want to see.

You can select which track menus are visible in the Global Menu Settings. In the Menu Stage, click on the "global menu settings" button in upper left corner. You can then check which track menus are displayed.

I have combined 2 shows, each running about 50 minutes, on a single DVD. I would like each show to start with the time at 0:00 and run to 50:00. I ended up with the first show running from 0:00 to 50:00 and the second show from 50:00 to 1:40:00. Is there a way to reset the beginning of the second show to 0:00?

Is each show in the same track? If they are in the same track, they will be combined into one and will be treated as if it is one long video instead of two separate ones. Try putting them in separate tracks.

Some of my edited videos are coming out HUGE! I'm talking 30-40 GB!

I load the video I want. Then I cut out the scenes I don't want. Then I choose the format option, then I encode it, and my video comes out HUGE! Even bigger than the video before I edited it!

What could I be doing wrong?

What's your bitrate and quality settings? It's possible you're using a constant bitrate whereas the original used a variable bitrate.

Ok. Thanks. I'll look for that.

If I create a DVD and then want to go back and make changes to the menu, is there a way to make the changes and create a new DVD witout re-encoding all of the files again?

I would just import the video from the DVD you just outputted. Then delete the old tracks. Since the imported video is already DVD-compliant, it won't need to be re-encoded.

Thanks for the info tkrave.

TAW4 does allow import from actual DVD media but I did not see a way to import from the DVD files on the HDD. Is that possible?

Yes, it's possible.

Use the Source Wizard and select the "From a DVD, blah blah blah" option.

Then select the "From a folder" option and select your outputted VIDEO_TS folder. That's it! It should list the tracks as if it were an actual DVD disc.

I purchased this. I have a key for it. How do I enter the key in order to activate it? It keeps telling me my trial has expired.

The trial version and the retail version are two separate exe files.

Create a User Account here:
https://ssl.pegasys-inc.com/webapp/?lang=en

You should be able to register your serial key during the registration process.
Once your account is set up, you can login and download the retail exe file.

My bad, I forgot Plus 2.5 is different than the other TMPGEnc products. The trial and retail version share the same exe file.

There should be a place to enter the key.

Hi :)
i need to unwrap my MTS avchd files end save them as m4v.
is that possible with TMPGEnc 4?
(it means JUST unwrap the file without transcoding it)

thanks

Nope. Anything passed through 4.0 XPress will be re-encoded.

Use TsMuxR (freeware) to do a simple demux of transport streams:

http://www.smlabs.net/tsmuxer_en.html

/Joe

Hey all. was just wondering if there is any OGV file support(a form of OGG), as I could not import my ogv files into TMPGEnc 4 xpress.

Thanks for your help.

Download ffdshow and Haali media splitter and you should be able to open it.

That did it. Thanks tkrave. installed both those, and now import works fine. **daps**

I have downloaded some wmv video from our state broadcaster, but as I have
trouble playing it on my media box, I need to convert it to mpeg.

I start a new project, and add wmv file.If I go to cut-edit section, and
play back different parts of the file, the audio is in perfect sync.
I click ok and select DVD standard mpeg file as format, 16:9, CBR and
dolby digital.(have also tried pcm).resolution is then set to 720x576, 9200 average bit rate for video, and 224 kb rate for audio.I then go to encode section.here I can do preview as well, and the audio is still in perfect sync.I start encode, and it finishes after some conversion time.and then I have an mpeg file with audio severely out of sync.the audio is a few seconds ahead of the video.

mpeg file is tested with vlc and wmp.is this a bug in tmp, or did I do something
foolish setting up the project? thanks in advance for any help.

Setting up a new windows 7 Intel Quad computer and I downloaded the TAW4 trial software in advance of purchase.

No matter what I do, I just can't get TAW4 to open AVS H.264 files.

The obvious answer might be that that the set limits on the trial software prevent this, but I couldn't find this restriction in the provided list.

I would truly appreciate some help with this problem.

Jim.

Where did you get this AVS H.264 file? And you do mean AVS and not AVC?

The trial does not have limitations for importing files.