Hello,

Someone know if is it possible and how i can release a simple "direct stream copy" of my media please ?

I would like to add a sound track or crop my file without a complete reencode of it.

I know it's possible with a software like Virtualdub (and probably a frame server in addition)... but is it possible with TMGEnc ?

If it's not, can you add this feature please ?

Best regards,

Take a look at TMPGEnc MPEG Smart Renderer 4. As long as your video is an MPEG (mp4, mpeg-1, mpeg-2) it might work for you.

http://tmpgenc.pegasys-inc.com/en/product/tmsr4.html

Hello,

Thanks for this information but i am using the MasterWork 5 Software, normaly that include this feature ?! no ?

I don't understand why i need another software editor... or i am missing something... i think the smart rendering should be include in the full sofware version... it's only a direct stream copy...

I think i will continue to use Handbrake for BlueRay Rip and VirtualDub for direct stream copy... it's harm...

Thanks

Mastering Works 5 is meant to be used as an encoder/converter; the editing functions are secondary to that. Since editing, filtering, etc. requires re-encoding anyway, there's no reason TVMW5 shouldn't have those functions.

MPEG Smart Renderer is primarily for editing MPEGs which is why smart rendering is central to that program.

I've problem to frameserve from Virtualdub. I wrote to their customer servive / technical support,unfortunately they just keep asking some irrelavant and isolated questions. I seems to me that they just trying to talking away the problem and not trying to understand my problem. When I tell them my feeling, they stopped response to me.

Here is the workaround I found: Frameserve from Virtualdub as usual to a file XXX.vdr, [ then open this file using TMPEGen Plus 2.521 , Output XXX.mpg (any format, it doesn't matter), then save Project as XXX.tpr,] now just open XXX.tpr from TVM5 and it works! Next time you can skip those step in [].

There is a free copy of TMPEGen Plus 2.525 available from download, it believe it works too.

>Hello,
>
>Thanks for this information but i am using the MasterWork 5 Software, normaly that include this feature ?! no ?
>
>I don't understand why i need another software editor... or i am missing something... i think the smart rendering should be include in the full sofware version... it's only a direct stream copy...
>
>I think i will continue to use Handbrake for BlueRay Rip and VirtualDub for direct stream copy... it's harm...
>
>Thanks

When I used to rip Blu-ray I used AppGeeker, Great piece of software that keeps me happy ever after.
http://www.ilikemall.com/bluray/rip-blu-ray-to-mkv-mac.html

I am trying to add fade-out and dissolve transitions, but these are also added to the audio? Is it not possible to keep them video-only?

I don't think it's possible in TAW5 unfortunately.

Thanks for the reply. This is strange. Since there are audio fade-in/outs available, I wonder why they are forced with a video fade-in/out as well.

Is it possible to use the color correction filter in the timeline, with key frames? For example, to gradually change colors (between start/end keyframes)?

I don't think you can with the timeline filters.
I would duplicate the clip and apply the color correction filter (in the cut editor) to that. Then you can do the transition like any other transition.

Thanks, it works (also tried with split) but I can't get the result to show as "one video", it seems a new video is started (there is no 100% continuity, not sure how to explain this), so the effect is not totally natural (tried the crossfade transition).

Is this in timeline mode? Are you talking about the actual output or just the preview? The preview may not be as smooth as the actual output.

No, it's standard mode. You are right, the final output is smoother but still the transition "merges" the 2 videos, and this merger process is visible, not seamless. (I split a 7-sec video in half [2 parts], made the 2nd video b&white and added a 2-sec crossfade.)

I was up-converting some of my 720p .mkv files and ran into a little snaffu when Video Mastering 5 decided it didn't like a couple of them, and stumped the hell out of me when I was comparing upcoversions I had done vs. these pesky ones looking for anything that might have been different. Nada...

So, on a whim, I decided to try mkvmerge (didn't change a damn thing), and low and behold, problem solved.

If you run across some of your files that for whatever reason, Video Mastering 5 says it can't open, mux 'em.

I am having a problem with the clarity of the word “Play” in the mneu title. I carefully chose the size and colors along with the effects, and it looks great. But in both the simulator and the finished file, the word “Play” is fuzzy and washed out, even when the Play command is slected. I’ve went into the “Video Global Menu Settings” and tried every option there, yet I still wind up with the washed out, fuzzy “Play” word. Anyone have experience in correcting this? If so, what was the solution. Thanks for any assistance.

Using the latest version of Authoring Works 5 and I am importing blu-ray ready titles, copied from the Stream folder of blu-ray discs I have previously made myself (no copy protection or regions). The files show up as blue SR for smart render, but when I go to author it still re-encodes them anyway, and I have the setting to "use smart render" in the options of each track.

So what is the reason for this ? Very frustrating as I have 12 discs to author all in HD content and was hoping it would SR the lot, but now it will take 4 hours per disc rather than minutes.

Anything I can do to find out why this is happening ?

Thanks.

Just an update, seems the clock and % was wrong, it said it will take 4 hours but took 50 minutes. What seems to be happening is it is re-encoding selected videos, not all of them, but I am unsure why. Each disc has 4 shows, so on both discs I have done so far it has re-encoded 1 show per disc. Very odd.

Are there any differences between the clips that are being re-encoded vs. the smart rendered ones? Are all your shows in the same track or separate tracks? If they are all in the same track, put them in separate tracks.

>does anybody know how to shrink this box. when get to this stage the buttons >to ok the clip addition is below the task bar and can not be reached. have >tried pulling in the edges but the whole box moves. I hope somebody can help.

Increase your screen resolution. Minimum screen resolution is 1024x768 as stated in the system requirements.

I am using the latest version of Mastering Works 5 and trying to encode in to DVD MPG2 format. For some reason it is not going above 30% for CPU usage, staying mainly around 25%. I reset my PC thinking it was at fault so I got a fresh start with nothing else loaded, but same happens. I can't encode 2 files at once in the batch encode list because it says I am using the AC3 Digital Encoder already.

Why is it going so slow ? I have a i7 PC so was hoping for lightning quick speeds on the encode, this is no faster than my old PC, it is wasting 70% of my CPU.

good morning did you use intel quicksync or Nvidia cuda ?

I have a i7 and he doesn't work more than 30% the rest of the work was made by my GPU You can this that in encoding , line status (CPU= xx%, CUDA= xx%)

Also very important are the HD... Is your HD is not faster, your CPU and graphic card wait to him. You can to use RAID 0 HD or SSD.

I use 2 SSD. Decoding from first SSD and Encoding to second SSD. By this way I can recode until 4 video files at time without problems.

For example, encode 4 video files (DVD quality and about 60 min. each video) to 4 video files MPEG4 AVC (720x480 Progresive and bitrate 4000) in 11 min 40 seg ;-)



Regards, Alkermes.

I'm trying to install TMPGEnc VMW 5, trial version. But twice it crashed. This is an ominous portent. OS= Windows 7. Is there a special trick to this?

I just did the install of the trial on a Win7x64 with out a hitch. Now it's see how it does the job.

I want to copy DVD files on Hard Disc without any re-encoding (loosing quality), but keeping all sount-tracks. When I read DVDs in the menu (DVD/Blue Ray input) with temporary storage on HDD, then it offers me MPEG-Transport stream or MPEG-Program stream (Format menu) and the video is re-encoded (change of orginal qality - red bar in Analyses). I also tried to read the temporary files from HDD *.dvddata - then no re-encoding apeears (no red bars in analyses) - then the file is shorter than in the first scenario.

I am confuced - what is correct way to copy HDD without re-encoding to HDD? In any format (*.MPG, *.TS, *.PS, ...).

Thnaks ...

-DVDShrink for full streams (uncheck vob 1GB), choice chapter in-out
-TSmuxer for render VOB to M2TS all streams
-Edit with TMSR4 (Audio DTS No compatible)

Is there any way to create a DVD in TAW5 which will display the subtitles by default?

I still want users to be able to disable the subtitles, but I'm worried that a lot of non-technical people will just put the DVD into the player and press Play, without going to the subtitles menu to activate the subtitles. (Most people watching this particular DVD will want to have subtitles enabled.)

You can set the default subtitle stream in the track settings.

From the Source stage, click on the "Settings" button for a track.
Click on the "Subtitle" tab.
Choose the subtitle stream you want to show by default or set to none.

You can still turn them off via the menu or subtitle button on your DVD remote.

Thanks again tkrave.

I have now spent several hours trying to get the "subtitles page item" (the link to the page where you select subtitle) to display on the top menu, but with no luck.

I have created a project with 6 tracks, and various number of chapters on each track. I have only been able to display the "subtitles page item" on the track menus, but that means you can't select subtitles if you want to just pop the DVD in and watch the entire film from start to end.

Am I missing something obvious? (Or have Pegasys?)

This is a limitation of the software. In TAW5, there isn't a "global" subtitle page. Since each track can have their own set of subtitles, I think they felt that each track should have their own subtitles menu page instead of a single one that sets the subtitle language for all tracks (like on commercial dvds).

Thanks tkrave.

Not sure if anyone at Pegasys will ever read this, but if you do please consider this a feature request. It would have been quite nice to have this option.

For this particular project I could work around it by re-authoring the project into not using tracks at all, instead using only chapters.