In a previous post I asked how to reorder clips, but I see now that I simply misunderstood the nature of the software. I see now how to reorder clips, but my problem is otherwise. What I want to do is divide up a single clip into multiple clips then place slide show transitions between the clips. The problem is that apparently neither "splitting" or "cutting" in the "Clip Edit" menu actually splits the clips; the most I can do is divide the clip into chapters or eliminate part of the clip (by cutting when the endpoint of the cut is the end of the clip). So the only way I can think to do what I want is to take the same clip, import it twice, cut the first half out of one and the second half out of the other then put a transition between them (because in that case TMPGEnc author will treat the clips as truly separate). There has to be an easier way. (In Windows Movie Maker, for example, all I have to do is select "split" and it's done.) Any suggestions are welcome.

There is a split clip function in the cut-editor.

Just move the playhead to where you want to split the clip, then click the split clip button (it looks like: <-|-> ).

Then click OK.
A dialog box appears asking what you want to do. Click on "Split".

You now have two clips.

GEEZ, THANK YOU! ive been trying to figure this out for like twenty minutes; i almost switched to a different program.. though, the more i use TMPGENC Mastering 5, the more i start to wonder (surely, like every other time) when i'll hit a snag in the editing requirements and have to revert programs AGAIN, but for now, its nice to finally have a 'one-stop-shop' program, of sorts (back when i used to edit a lot, i was converting to lossless AVI and editing strictly in VirtualDub/MOD, with audio being finalized in Cool Edit Pro- now Adobe Audition. lately, ive only been converting full videos, which i did with Handbrake, but man... this Mastering Works is.. WORKING for me, surprisingly well!)

Simple question: I want to reorder clips within a track. Can't figure out how.

Drag 'n drop.

In the Source stage just drag your clips up or down.

How can I make the background sound for my title page actually be the same sound that is on the motion clip showing? (the first 30 seconds of the movie)

In the Menu Editor, double-click the background to open the Menu Item editor for the background.
Select the "BGM Audio Selection" tab.
Check the box next to "Use audio from the background source".

I use Avid Liquid to mix my HD video, and outout that to an MV2 file, plus
multiple .wav files for the surround sound, on my PC. When I import the
file into AW4 I get no sound imported, and it
looks like the only options I have are for audio1, and audio2 ?

How do I get my 5.1 sound into AW4 to burn to a Blu-Ray disk?

Thanks,

-Craig

You need to have all channels saved into one single audio file.

The two audio sources in TAW4 are your audio streams; for example a commercial DVD would have a choice between 2ch audio and 5.1ch audio.

I'm wondering how I output 2 discs, 1 bluray and 1 DVD, for my project so I only have to edit the files once? Looks like the only way to output DVD is to create a new project and apply all my cuts which is time consuming. Is there any way to create a project once, apply scene cuts and reorder my video clips, then output to both a DVD and BD? I'm not interested in the menus. The discs could have either no menu or differing menus on the different format discs.

Just save the outputted files by burning it to disc or saving it on your hard drive. When you start your new DVD or BD project, use the source wizard to import the contents of your DVD or BD folder/disc.

how could the simulation of all the authoring work not turn out? i am using win 7 to do the work. Thanks.

I converted a 720HD movie to DVD and the result is a DVD with a SLOW motion audio over normal speed video.

The audio played fine when using the file (without conversion). I don't have the file with me right now (I deleted it thinking everything was fine).

Now I can't watch the movie, and have to get it again.

What could have happened?

I would like to see this feature on the program.

Say I have an AVI that has a 16:9 movie on a 4:3 format. I would like to re-size it to fill the 16:9 space, eliminating the two black bars at the top and bottom, once it is imported in a track.

You can set various sizes in clip properties, but this would be a custom size.

This would be a very nice and welcome feature.

Wilfredo.

Hi, only a question: I need but i'm not able to put fade-IN effect IN SINGLE CLIPS, it's possible only between 2 clips...when I start transition menu, select fadein/out, it positioning itself a the end of the clip (impossible to rewind at the start of the clip) and make only fade-OUT. Anyone knows how make it? Thank's Maurich76

As you've noticed, you can only put transitions between 2 clips. If you want a fade-in effect at the beginning of a single or first clip, you first have to create a solid-colored clip to go before your clip.

In the Source stage, select the track with your single clip.
Click on the Source Wizard button and select "From a color matte or pattern".
You can then select a color; this will be the color you are fading in from. If you want to fade-in from black, choose black; if you want to fade-in from white, choose white, etc.
Also set your clip duration appropriate to your desired transition time.
Click OK to create your clip.
Back in the Source stage, you will probably have to move your color clip up above your video clip.
You can then apply a crossfade transition effect to create a fade-in effect for your actual video clip.

thanks a lot tkrave for the fast and very good reply, I'll try soon. Bye

How can I set the DVD so it is just not PAL or NTSC. I want to sell my finished DVD around the world so I don't want to worry about if the individual person I sell to has one or the other. Is there a multi setting?

Janet
New Zealand

It has to be one or the other, that's just how DVD's are. Most modern DVD players can switch between the two though.

How about a 2-sided DVD, make one side NTSC, the other side PAL? But blank Media is not cheap.

Double sided is an option. I suppose in the long run it would be cheaper to have a single sided DVD. Burn in one setting per DVD and then send the right option when I see which country they will be sent to.

I've posted on this before, but am still having a problem. I have isn't Basic x64 and TMPGEnc Authoring Works 4.0.6.28 It has worked flawless for me for the last few months, until now. All of a sudden after I set up my options in "Output" which included having the writer settings at maximum, when I click start, it runs for a few seconds then I get an error message that says "Access is denied (error code 0x80070005)"

Luckily I poked around and discovered that, by setting my writer settings from Maximum to 16, that it would work, but lately even doing that gets an error message, but I've found that by hitting start again everything works fine and my burn gets done. Still I get those initial error message every time.

I don't know why this is happening now after all of these months. I haven't changed anything in Windows that I think would affect DVD burning. I did Google this and may people say the error means that the files are in use by another program, but I don't see how that could be it.

I have had both Nero and Ashampoo burning software installed for awhile too along with TMPGEnc but they used to work fine together. By the way this also happened when I was using version 4.02.14.

I just upgraded to version 4.0.68 but when I start the application I get an error message that says "This application has failed to start because QTCF.dll was not found. Re-installing the application may fix this problem."

I'm assuming that this is referring to Quicktime, but that's odd because I do have Quicktime installed!

Duh!! I fixed the problem. I don't know why I don't try to solve before I post! Anyway ran across an article that said to download the download the dll and put it in the System32 folder, which I did and everything works fine now.