Request the ability to produce both a DVD and a BD from the same Project including custom menus.

Oh yes, that would be a very useful feature. Not all of my "customers" are using BD, so it would be great to create BD and DVD from the same project.

Thanks.

Mister Pickert

In TAW5 there is a new "Disc setting" button (on the Source Screen) that opens the option to set "character code".

I suggest there should be a "set default" option there.

When I use Swedish standard characters (like å ä ö) in the track title the simulation preview says "Invalid Track name". Same thing with non english characters in chapter names.

When I change the "character code" setting in the "Disc settings" window to the "Central Europe" option, the Swedish characters work fine.

So an option to change the character code default would obviously be an improvement for the community of international users.

Now we have to set it manually for each project.

I hope for a fix in the next update.

When importing Blu-ray to Authoring works 5, Subtitles are messed up.

hi there. i use taw4 quite a bit, and usually for me to author an mpg takes about 5-6 minutes. but yesterday and today, the authoring process has been very slow. 20 minutes some have taken, and some i have had to abort, but the estimated time was running into a couple of hours.

Was that for smart rendering or full rendering? Is your source file DVD/BD compliant?

When after saving a custom template, I found that the "play all" button from the top menu & "close" button on the pop up menu have disappeared.

If I go back through the procedure of setting the the template, both buttons are present, but again disappear if the template is saved.

Good catch! Happens for me too.

Like the improvements made, but one item that I have hit a problem with in the creation of proxy editing file.

In Version 4, you could import several files at once and select the option to create the proxy as part of the importation process.

However, I am at a loss to find this mean of importation in version 5 :(

Does anyone have any idea where to find this, or has it been lost in the update?

Hi,

I do have exactly the same problem. I really liked the option of V4 to select to create a proxy file direcly in the add file dialogue.

Now I always have to go to the "extended tools" and create the proxy file in a extra step. That is really a step backwards in usability.

Can this be brought back please?

Regards - Peter

Yes, I'm missing this too. Any way to add it back?
I try to have proxies created at night so that during the day when I'm working it's efficient. But now there's no way to "batch create" the proxy files.

So there is a way to batch create proxy files.
Start TAW
Click on Advanced Tools
Under Proxy File, click on Create
Select the files you want to have proxies for by using the Add button
Click on Create

Dear Sirs,

I cannot activate smart rendering function for any of my H.264 DVB recordings ( it is not possible even for a cleaned HDD copy of original H.264 blu-ray)
Maybe it is a restiction of a trial version ????????
If not, please give us a specification area required to get desired smart rendering.
Smart rendering works only for AVCHD camcorder files.

Regards

I am unable to change CBR bitrate when in smart rendering mode, it is always stuck on 25000
http://www.videoproductions.com.au/TAW5/TAW5-cbr-bitrate.png

I can change it only in 1 pass VBR or 2 pass VBR

We need more advanced settings in the encoding of motion menus, such as Closed GOP and GOP structure, similar to all the advanced settings of Mastering Works

this is important so that the motion menu has the same parameters as the main movie tracks that may be encoded in Mastering Works with all its advanced settings

I would like to request chapter playlists, these are very handy for playing any one or more chapters within one track and then upon completion to return to menu

I am sure it would have been requested 1000 times but I like to add one more to make it 1001 requests

I'm not sure if this is what you're talking about, but for DVD projects, you can select an action at the end of chapter playback.

Go to the Global DVD menu settings-->chapter tab, and you'll see a dropdown for the chapter end action. Choose to play the next chapter or go back to the track menu.

I only use it for Blu-ray production

let me expand what is needed:

lets assume one video clip has 10 chapter points

now, I want to create a menu button and link it to chapter5, upon pressing the menu button, chapter 5 should be played and then at the end of chapter5, the menu should appear

or, I may want to link a menu button or text to a chapter playlist, such as chapter 3, 5 and 7 and then the end action of the chapter playlist should be the menu

also, a movie playlist is needed, example there are 10 tracks with 10 movies and I want to create a menu button to play movie2, 4 and 6 and then return to menu

these are very simple things done in DVD Lab Pro, see attached examples

chapter playlist
http://www.videoproductions.com.au/dvd-lab/DLP-chapter-playlist.png

movie playlist
http://www.videoproductions.com.au/dvd-lab/DLP-movie-playlist.png

The successor to the award-winning TMPGEnc Authoring Works 4 is here.

http://tmpgenc.pegasys-inc.com/en/product/taw5.html

New output features include the use of the world-renowned x264 encoding engine for H.264/AVC Blu-ray and AVCHD output. In addition, users can utilize their NVIDIA CUDA or Intel Media SDK (Quick Sync Video) hardware for H.264 encoding and decoding. TMPGEnc Movie Plug-in SpursEngine is also supported, allowing SpursEngine MPEG-2 and H.264/AVC hardware encoding. Users with AVCHD camcorders can now input and output the AVCHD file format with little image degradation. AVCHD output is possible in these formats: for playback on AVCHD Progressive devices, DVD media, and hard drives/SD memory cards.

All-new and improved input and editing features help create DVD, Blu-ray and AVCHD projects with stunning professional results. Up to 8 subtitle streams (up to 2 for AVCHD output) and 4 audio streams can be added to expand the reach of any project. The improved MPEG-TS file analyzer displays all available video, audio and subtitle streams enabling selection of the desired streams from the BD folder or TS file. Dolby Digital Plus audio is now a supported input format. The updated Smart Rendering engine allows lossless editing of MPEG-2 and H.264/AVC files as long as they are compliant with the output format.

The updated Smart Rendering engine lets you take DVD/BD/AVCHD-compliant video and make all the cuts you want, while keeping the original video quality upon output. In other words, it won't re-encode the parts of the video that it doesn't have to. In addition to MPEG-2 (for DVD-Video & Blu-ray), the Smart Rendering engine now supports H.264/AVC video!

New Editing Features:

Add up to 8 subtitle streams (up to 2 for AVCHD)
Add up to 4 audio streams
Multi-channel audio level meter with each preview
Undo/Redo option in almost all editing windows
Integrates our advanced Intuitive Draw Technology for fast preview rendering
Bitrate indicator warns against bitrate overflow depending on target format
Scale and reposition the preview display in the cut-edit window
Many new functions are available which focus on cut-editing HD movies
NVIDIA CUDA and Intel Media SDK H.264/AVC decoding now available

New Output Features:

AVCHD output support
Smart Rendering engine now supports H.264/AVC for lossless output
Uses the x264 encoder for H.264/AVC Blu-ray Discs and AVCHD output
Supports the Intel® Media SDK H.264/AVC encoder
Supports the NVIDIA CUDA hardware H.264/AVC encoder
Supports SpursEngine hardware when used with the TMPGEnc Movie Plug-in SpursEngine (sold separately)

Other New Features:

Access the Tools from any stage of the main window from the Start-up Launcher
Batch authoring tool Task tray minimization

And more! Please enjoy it.

Hi there,

I really was somewhat enthusiastic about the availability of the english version of TAW5. So I immediately tried the new version with recordings (*.ts-files) of HD streams of german public broadcasting stations, which are 1280x720 50p. This streams should be fully bluray compatible. But my misgiving has become true, because TAW5 will full render all those files just in the same way TAW4 did with the exception of h.264 instead of Mpeg2. It would be good to know, why TAW thinks the streams are not compatible. Any suggestions to this (see video stream specifications below)? I will also ask Pegasys, but I don't expect them to be helpful.
Btw. DVR-Studio HD (www.haenlein-software.com) is able to produce blurays of my HD streams without reencoding, but this software has got a terrible UI and a useless menu editor).

So long,
Indy

ID : 69 (0x45)
Menu ID : 1 (0x1)
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : Main@L4.0
Format settings, CABAC : Yes
Format settings, ReFrames : 5 frames
Codec ID : 27
Duration : 2h 9mn
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : 5 971 Kbps
Maximum bit rate : 11.5 Mbps
Width : 1 280 pixels
Height : 720 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate : 50.000 fps
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.130
Stream size : 5.42 GiB (91%)
Color primaries : BT.709-5, BT.1361, IEC 61966-2-4, SMPTE RP177
Transfer characteristics : BT.709-5, BT.1361
Matrix coefficients : BT.709-5, BT.1361, IEC 61966-2-4 709, SMPTE RP177