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I want to ask is there a way to copy dvd9 into 2 dvd-5 but preserving the menu and
add a text "PLEASE INSERT DISC 2" or "please insert 1".I have tested few different programs but no one them have the text at end.
Thank you very much.
Trying 100 different ways and cant seem to get what I want. Maybe there is no way?
I have 6 TRACKS but trying to not have all those have their own menu page.
Looking to see if it is possible to have -
----- TITLE (Play and Track menu)
-------- TITLE 2(from clicking Track Menu) - (List all tracks and choose and play from there)
Do I need to set up clips differently during source ?
Should I have only created ONE TRACK and just keep 'ADD FILE' from that point?
Choose to make a custom menu from the menu wizard.
Checkmark the option to create a title page for your top menu. This page will have a Play All and Track button.
Choose "Top menu only" when the option comes up.
Thanks for the reply and help but that doesn't do it.
What I want is 2 menu pages ONLY
One that has the DVD NAME, PLAY ALL and TRACK LIST
The other with ALL TRACKS (from clicking TRACK LIST on previous menu) by name and when one of the links is clicked, it just plays. I don't want i going to another menu page.
The menu I describe does exactly what you want and it is only two pages. Have you even tried it?
Your first page is the title page for the top menu (Play all, Track buttons). You will have to add the DVD name yourself, which is easy--just add a text item to the page.
Your second page is the top menu. This lists all of your tracks. If you select the "TOP MENU ONLY" option, clicking on a track thumbnail will simply play that track and not go to another menu.
I did try it but I think I know what may be the problem. I mentioned this in my first post. I have 6 TRACKS all separate.
Under ADD TRACK I have 6 tracks. I think I should have just done ONE and then from there, click ADD FILE 6 times (adding each clip) and then I would get what I want in the menu. I think I have to do it that way.
It all depends on how you want your clips to be played.
If you want all 6 clips to act like one long movie, then put all the clips into one track. You can then think of each clip as a chapter. After a clip is done playing, it will automatically play the next clip instead of going back to the menu.
If this is what you want, then choose "Track menu only" instead of "Top menu only".
If you want each clip to be its own separate movie so that it goes back to the menu after the clip is done playing, then make a separate track for each clip and choose "Top menu only".
Notice I am at the menu with a PLAY ALL and TRACK MENU
If I click TRACK MENU, I get a menu for CLIP 1 and many link options; to play, go to next clip and so on. http://img31.imageshack.us/img31/2826/20432692.jpg
I do not want that. I want to click TRACK MENU and have a menu page that has all my clips and I can click any one of them from there and just have them play and NOT go to another menu for that clip. Just play.
Does adding the images make more sense now on what I have and what I want?
I see. Yes we're talking about two different things here lol.
Your tracks are set up correctly, it's the layout of your top menu that you need to change.
You're currently using a layout that only has one track per page so it's creating a page for each track. All you need to do is change it to a layout that has 6 tracks per page and you'll have them all on one page.
See the pic below for where to change this in the menu wizard. Any of the "#06" layouts should work for your needs.
The above is simmilar to what I want to do, as I don't like thumbnails on my menu. If you could give a step by step look at how I would:
(a) from a menu picture eof my choice, place a button that would link to the first movie, and then on completion come back to the menu.
I don not want to have, mutible pages or thumbnails. If I can do this Authoring works, will now be regarded as the best in the world.
regards
Pete
Melbourne Australia
I am trying to create a PAL 4:3 DVD from scratch, and having trouble figuring out which resolution my clip should have, so when I author it with TMPGEnc A.W. it comes out right when played on the TV. To simplify my tests, I have created a little avisynth script which creates a small video out of thin air (see below).
What happens right now is that it does not fit on the TV screen. I.e., the red border from the .avs is missing, and the text is having some letters cut off on both sides. I have tried many different settings for the track / clip / video in TMPGenc, to no avail so far.
Anyway, here's that avisynth script. It simply renders some text with a red border. **I am fully aware that the everything will have the wrong aspect ratio** (the text will be skewed) the way I have set it up, the only thing I care about right now is to get the red border smack on the border of the TV screen.
My last (non-working) clip settings are "Aspect ratio: Pixel 12:11 (PAL 4:3)" for the clip and "Aspect Ratio: 4:3" for the track. Obviously, if I decrease the "palW" and "palH" by trial and error, I could likely get it to work correctly, but I would rather understand where the problem is, and which is the correct resolution of my source video, and the correct clip&track settings.
Hello Everyone,
Could i ask you about the premium templates because i can not understand the difference between them and the build ones.I saw a dinamic tamplate.What does it mean?What can it change?
Thanks
I guess they're supposed to be better than the free ones, but I think that's subjective.
Dynamic templates typically have one track/chapter thumbnail with multiple text track/chapter buttons. When you select/mouseover a text button, the thumbnail image changes to show the selected track/chapter. Some of the free templates have dynamic thumbnails; just download those and you'll see what I'm talking about.
How I can uninstall the trial version from my PC cause the software of authoring work 4 doesn't appear in control panel install/uninstall applications.
yes you can.
create a picture "1-7" and replace with "go to first page", create "8-10" and replace with next page, create "11-17" and replace with go to end button...
>yes you can.
>create a picture "1-7" and replace with "go to first page", create "8-10" and replace with next page, create "11-17" and replace with go to end button...
That's assuming you only have a certain amount of chapter pages. If you have more than 4 chapter pages, you wouldn't be able to list them all.
But you are right, it is possible within those restrictions.
Would like AVCHD DVD as an output format for TMPBEnc Authoring Works 4.0. With so many video camera's doing AVCHD now, it would be great to be able to burn AVCHD DVD to use on Blu Ray players, without burning a Blu Ray disk. This works great with Nero's tools. It also allows to play on many computers, even without Blu Ray capability, but gives the top quality.
I only ask about ffdshow because I've run into problems with H.264 avi files where the video wouldn't load in Authoring Works 4. Turns out they were using ffdshow codecs.
You can tell if the video is using ffdshow because a ffdshow icon will appear in the notification area of your taskbar when you play the file in Windows Media Player. I've found that changing some settings in ffdshow have solved my problems.
Open the ffdshow video decoder configuration (Start menu-->All Programs-->ffdshow-->video decoder configuration). You should see a list of video formats. Under the column for "Decoder" right-click anywhere and select one or both of the options ("Set all stable formats to libavcodec" or "Set all supported formats to Xvid"). Click OK to close the window and see if the file can be opened in Authoring Works.
I have DVD with dolby digital ac3 5.1ch (listenable in BSPlayer)
and tried to import a track (DVD import)
into Authoring Works 4 and also DVD Author 3.
But, there, it stated that is Dolby Digital 1ch!
I can't hear any sound.
After exporting (with added subtitle) it'still (GSpot said)1ch
and I can't hear anything in BSPlayer.
Is it some 5.1 issue, cos i did everything like hunderds time before.
in subtitle editor page, on the top of popup window (where you found import
subs) you can see subtitle layout where you can change your subs apereance:
size, font, color, position, outline, align...
Press some sub, so that you can see it on preview screen, then enter layout
and you can see what you are doing in real time.
(tmpgenc dvd author makes me best looking subs, but with few srt a had problems
with importing, some of that srt CAN be solved by saving them in Subtitle Workshop)
I've been using AVCHD with other software and they allow you to output AVCHD to standard DVD-R as well as Blu ray.
Can Authoring Works 4 do this or at least let you output o a hard disk or usb pen drive. The spec only mentions Blu Ray which seems a bit strange as I would think most people with HD camcorders like wouldn't author to BD which is still quite expensive for blank media.
You can import AVCHD and output to DVD-Video, Blu-ray (MPEG-2), and DivX Ultra. You do not need to burn to disc if don't want to; you can just keep the outputted files on your hard drive or create a disc image from them.