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.wmv file of a 1436px wide x 856px tall 7fps recording looks good if played on pc using windows media player. I used TMPGenc Authoring Works 4 on this file and 16:9 max quality setting, having found the settings button now, and can see all of the recording in simulation. Play the resulting dvd on tv, it is soft and misses off base of recording, despite tring out all the screen ratios on my sony WEGA. Play it on PC and its also soft and smaller on screen when played with Windows media player than using that same prog to play the original wmv.
So why has TMPGenc made a poorer job of it ? Pic ratio 16:9 and pic qlty max was the settings. Bitrate 6000kbs (though I dont understand what that does, I left it at that). rate control mode VBR (smart rendering 1 pass VBR) MPEG-2 video 720x576 25fps.
You can increase the video bitrate to 9000kbs or so and that should improve things a bit. The bitrate is how much data is supplied to the video/audio stream. The higher the bitrate, the more detail can be encoded into the outputted file. The tradeoff is that higher bitrate videos take up more disc space, which may translate into less content on one DVD.
A reason it may not look as good is because DVD-Video has a lower resolution than your source video, so it's impossible for it to look just as good. The difference will be very apparent on a large screen. Your source video is more in the range of Blu-ray quality.
As for it being off base, what is the aspect ratio of the source video in the "Clip Properties" tab of the edit window?
I think as you say its the reducing down of the resolution. The monitor gives a quality picture with e.g. text occupying 1 pixel exact and when the resolution is reduced that text is smudged out across two. 16:9.537 is the ratio of my screen capture doing maths on the pixels. I made the program window fit the widescreen monitor then eyeing a ruler placed corner to corner on the diagonal I resized it to match its corner to the ruler, so I wasn't far off, assuming the monitor is 16:9 ratio ! I guess the .537 is the bit off screen at bottom !
Hi,
I have TMPGenc Authoring works 4
Starting a new project we just have pal dvd choice, no choice of 4:3 or widescreen. So if we want to put 4:3 footage into a widescreen format, or have widescreen recording and wish to make widescreen dvd, how is that done ? I have a custom video size and reckon widescreen may be better, as choosing PAL dvd sees it shrunk smaller than required and its unreadable.
I think folks I have sussed this, its the settings button on the actual clip in source. Not the obvious place, as one could have 4:3 for one source file and 16:9 for another, surely it should be top right of screen where the pal DVd choice is made ?
You've found the correct place to change the settings, but a DVD can easily have both 4:3 and 16:9 footage all on the same disc, which is why it isn't a top level setting. The program automatically sets a flag of 4:3 or 16:9 per track based on the characteristics of the clips in the track. If you mix and match 4:3 and 16:9 clips in the same track, the 4:3 clips will be re-encoded to 16:9 and black bars will be encoded into the video which is not optimal.
Thus, you should separate 4:3 and 16:9 footage into their own tracks to avoid the letter/pillar boxing being encoded into the video. Any decent DVD player will automatically add the pillarboxing to a 4:3 clip played on a 16:9 TV, so you should avoid encoding the pillarboxing into the video if possible. But since it sounds like you have an unusual aspect ratio, forcing 16:9 and encoding the black bars might be the way to go.
Hi,
Starting a new project we just have pal dvd choice, no choice of 4:3 or widescreen. So if we want to put 4:3 footage into a widescreen format, or have widescreen recording and wish to make widescreen dvd, how is that done ? I have a custom video size and reckon widescreen may be better, as choosing PAL dvd sees it shrunk smaller than required and its unreadable.
I have done a region capture using Techsmith Snagit screen video capture and the size is 1436 wide x 856 tall (pixels) and at 7fps. Looks good played back on screen. If I make this into a dvd, as it is too big a file to email, what settings do I use? Choosing PAL dvd, gives me no options of 4:3 or 16:9, just cant see any choices anywhere. Where are they ? Surely we must be able to choose what type. Preview sees only part of the video show. I was recording a demo of how to do something in a program. When making the program window a suitable size on screen to record using Snagit's region capture, there is no way of knowing what the pixel size will be, and on my 1920px wide resolution monitor, making a program window a width to suit pal 4:3 or 16:9 is not something thats easy, and it would be stupidly small and impractical. Mine of 1436 was small enough !
Would I choose HD Widescreen ? even thats 1080 so not wide enough. I can see a bluray option so have just tried Bluray PAL and the recording fits the height and width with margins of black at sides, however that needs a 25Mb bluray disk to burn and the recipient may not have a bluray player.
Absolutely stuck ! Is there not a setting to bring in an odd size and fit it to a standard dvd format, prpbably pal 16:9 may suffice if I could find how to choose it !
I made a custom DVD, all files (VOB, IFO) played separetely looks fine, but when I'm launching them as DVD, all I see is green screen on all pages. No thumbnails, no buttons, only videos and audios play fine. what could be the problem?
There is a checkbox for streaming video in the Advanced tab. You may need to switch to/use the "MPEG file output" format in the format selection screen because I don't think that option appears in the "MPEG-4 (AVC) file output" format.
I'm using TAW4 to quickly put some recorded shows to DVD, using just a top level menu - no chapter menus, and one of the templates that comes with it - "Samurai," I think it's calle. However, I would like to re-order the default order on the template to start with the first video item, not the default item that is first highlighted when the DVD starts up - "Play All" - which is at the bottom of the screen.
This is a problem that I did not have in ver. 4. Files compressed Quicktime DNxHD 220 (8 bit) show the colors very saturated. The same video compressed DNxHD 220x (10 bit) looks fine.
Quicktime DNxHD 220 videos (1080i 59.94) 29.97 fps upper field first are detected as 29 fps and most of the time as bottom first. In ver 4 frame rate detection was always right and field order rarely wrong.
I recently installed Video Mastering Works 5 on my Windows 7 (64bit) machine, and it worked fine -- took about the same time as TMPGEnc 4 to boot and initialize. Then I had a major system crash (power went out) while encoding a video. When I rebooted the computer, VMW5 now takes 5-10 minutes to start! I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling, and I've tried pointing VMW5's temp directory to a new, clean location. I even tried doing a Windows system restore to the morning before the power went out -- no luck.
Any ideas on why it is taking so long to load, and what to try next? Thanks.
I had a PAL dvd I wanted to convert to mpeg-2 NTSC. I used the same settings in TVMW5 that I have been using in v4 for years. When I brought the titles into Encore CS5 it said the files were untranscoded. Using the same settings, afaik, in V4 the titles did not have to be transcoded in Encore. All that was needed was to make the menu and create the dvd.
I tested this several times each time making sure that the settings were the same and each time got the same result.
In TXP4 there was a ** frame interval but at VM5 it became MPEG file
reader so it became I image frame interval.
That is why at Cut-edit player, in the thumbnails not all the frames are
displayed.
At Options > Preferences > Clip editing > User settings 1 > set 16 frame
interval.
Make right click over the screen and select Display settings > and
choose User setting 1 (... option, (see screen shoots).