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i want to author bluray disc 50gb.it should be dual movie 2d and 3d both.during playthe 2d movie there should be one option,when i click on remote 2d button change the movie video into 2d.same like this when i click on 3d option,change movie playback into 3d movi.how is this can be possible .i have original bluray 3d movie "three musketeers"in this movie 2d and 3d both movie.help me?
I'm creating a DVD menu, and I need to move and rearrange a few objects on the menu page. However, the objects are locked, and I cannot find a way to unlock them so that I can move them.
I usually work with Avid but when I export an Mpeg2 within Premiere Pro and then dropping this to Authoring Works it hangs for some time and it opens after some minutes.
This is not the case when I go from QT (Avid) to Mastering Works 5 to produce an mpeg2 and then to Authoring.
I've exported MPEG-2 from Premiere Elements (not Pro) and they work just fine in TAW4, showing the files will be smart rendered. Premiere Elements 8.0 uses the MainConcept MPEG encoder -- I don't know what the Pro version uses.
Perhaps you've changed a setting in the MPEG-2 that TAW4 doesn't like? Are you using the NTSC or PAL DVD Standard export preset, or whatever the Pro version calls it?
I just recently bought some TDK DVD+R 8X DL discs to use in my first venture into dual layer burning.
My first DL project's burn (8X) was successful and plays back fine...that project contained 2 tracks, with each track containing 7-8 chapters.
The 2nd project however is another story. It contains just one track with 11 chapters and the total length is about 92 minutes. When playing back a DVD burned from this project, it stops at around the 42 minute mark (during track 6) and then the player can't read the disc. If I turn the player off and then back on, I can go direct to the start of track 7 from the DVD's menu and the rest of the disc then plays through to the end just fine. The same thing happens on several different players I tried, including a fairly new Samsung BluRay player. One Sony DVD player would not even open the disc.
I used TAW4's disc burning tool to burn both of these discs at 8X speed.
I also tried using a different burning program to burn the 2nd project at 8X and got the same results on playback, stopping around the 42 minute mark.
My next attempt would be to try burning at 4X instead of 8X.
Any other suggestions?
I wonder why the first project with two tracks works just fine? Could the fact that it is two tracks have anything to do with it working?
How does TAW4 determine where the dual layer split point should be? Is that layer split point built into the DVD files or does the burning program determine where it should be?
If playback stops around the 42 minute mark then it sounds like it's a layer break problem. Your first project may have had each track on a separate layer, thus no problems.
Did you preview your problematic project on your computer? In other words, output to a folder on your hard drive and then load that into WinDVD, PowerDVD, TotalMedia Theatre (or whatever) and see how it plays. If it plays fine then it's most likely a layer break issue.
For dual-layer projects I strongly suggest you use ImgBurn.
Output your project in TAW4 to a folder on your hard drive as a dual-layer DVD. Run ImgBurn and select either 'Create image file from files/folders" or "Write files/folders to disc". Select your TAW4 folder and then 'Create Layer Break Position".
If you're not familiar with ImgBurn then you'll have to fumble around a bit. You'll be burning your disc in no time.
When you make a dual-layer ISO, the program will create an *.MDS file which contains the layer-break info.
I don't know what other people do but I always burn at 4X and use Verbatim dual-layer discs.
I equate ImgBurn as the Tylenol of dual-layer burning headaches.
The project does play back fine direct from the computer.
I read elsewhere that IMGBurn would be a good choice, so I downloaded and installed it however it does not recognize my DVD burner. This is on a Win7 64 bit machine. Not sure what to do to fix that, otherwise I would have tried IMGBurn.
What model of burner do you have? Of course you can't go by the nameplate since the internal mechanism is most likely made by someone else, and that's the important part.
You could do one of two things: buy another burner or post a message in ImgBurn's forum.
I've never had one that ImgBurn didn't recognize -- lucky I guess. Because of this I would expect the program to support more drives than it doesn't.
If you're going to burn dual-layer discs on a regular basis it really might be worth it to buy an external and hope for the best. Unpack it carefully and try it with the program. If it doesn't work, take it back to the store and try another one. Or Google around and find one that's known to work. It'll be worth the time and little cost for the lack of future headaches.
I just bought a USB external LG Blu-ray burner and ImgBurn works perfect with it. A safe bet, therefore, might be an LG DVD burner.
Mine is an internal LG burner...not sure of the exact model because it came with this new system I bought a few years ago...seemed like Win7 saw it as STHxxxx something or another but will have to check when I get home. I also have a well-reviewed internal ASUS that came out of my prior system, so I will install it and see if ImgBurn sees it. I never had the need to use ImgBurn on my old system...either Nero Express of TAW3 always worked fine, but that was always for single layer discs.
I uninstalled ImgBurn and re-installed it...during installation I noticed an option called "Enable STPI for All Users" and selected it. That apparently was the ticket as now my DVD brner is recognized. Using ImgBurn, I created an ISO and set the layer break and I'm now in the process of burning it to disc at 4X...will update results when complete and have tested it.
This one worked fine, or at least it's not failing at the layer break poin I set in ImgBurn. Now, was it the 4X burn or ImgBurn that made it work, or both? :-)
I routinely capture videos in .ts form that have outstanding quality. When I use DVD Author 4 to make a DVD to produce a DVD I find that the quality of the video has degraded somewhat becoming slightly fuzzy – not terribly fuzzy, but quite noticeable when compared to the original .ts file.
How can I preserve the high quality from my original file and still make the needed DVD files?
I’m using .ts files that are recorded at 8000 bps, and having DVD Author use that same rate for its Authoring process. I’m not recording off a DVD; these are quality captures from a 1080 TV signal using a Hauppauge Colossus video card with the captured files having always had exceptional clarity and definition. With the problem being that DVD Author degrades those properties during its conversion to VOB files. Incidentally, I have DVD Author use the .ts file directly as 4XP also softens (degrades) the video quality.
I definitely don’t want the video to look softer – that’s the problem now. I want to retain the crispness and clarity of the original .ts files.
Files range from 3.8 gigs to as much as 6.7 gigs to be authored for a Double Layer disk (8.5 gigs). But the lessening quality can be seen immediately when viewing the generated .VOB files. It doesn’t matter which viewing software I use, there is always noticeable degradation of the video quality between the .ts files and the .VOB files regardless of which video player is used.
Are you saying that neither 4XP nor DVD Author can convert the files without quality loss? I was hoping the .ts frames could be split into .VOB units directly with the .IFO and .BUP files generated as need without losing quality.
Will TMPGEnc Video Mastering Works 5 retain the quality of my original .ts files?
You say you're capturing from a 1080 signal but it's still not clear what your .ts file's resolution is. Can you open it with MediaInfo and post the info here?
Like dp said, if you're going from a 1080 HD video to DVD, you're going to get quality loss no matter what; you can't expect to retain all of the details of a 1080 video in a 720x480 DVD.
If you want to retain the full 1080 quality and sharpness, you need to move to BluRay. AW4 should fo a nice job for you there. (HD-DVD lost that battle a few years ago.)
DVD is not 1080, it is SD (480 in the case of NTSC), and there is nothing you can really do about that. (Well some BD players can play HD files from DVD media, but that is different.)
Quality DVDs file can look darn good on a HD set if played on a quality upscaling player, but that is not the same as native 1080.
Using VMW5 can produce a somewhat better MPG2 file for a DVD than yuouget in the native AW4 conversion, but the difference is not huge, and you can apply a bit of sharpening filter in the process if that helps.
The bit rates are 8776 bps, the resolution is 720x480 for the captured .ts file. All of these .ts files have excellent clarity and resolution – no softening of the edges of objects, etc with the current settings.
I don’t expect to have a 1080 clarity; although these 740x480 .ts files are very close, all I want is to retain the clarity and crispness of the 720x480 .ts files I am getting. The Hauppauge card is doing the resolution change from the 1080 signal down to 720x480 for the .ts file output so I wouldn’t think it’s rocket scientist work.
Again: Will TMPGEnc Video Mastering Works 5 do a better job of retaining the quality of my original .ts files?
>I’m using .ts files that are recorded at 8000 bps, and having DVD Author use that same rate for its Authoring process. I’m not recording off a DVD; these are quality captures from a 1080 TV signal using a Hauppauge Colossus video card with the captured files having always had exceptional clarity and definition. With the problem being that DVD Author degrades those properties during its conversion to VOB files. Incidentally, I have DVD Author use the .ts file directly as 4XP also softens (degrades) the video quality.
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>I definitely don’t want the video to look softer – that’s the problem now. I want to retain the crispness and clarity of the original .ts files.
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>Files range from 3.8 gigs to as much as 6.7 gigs to be authored for a Double Layer disk (8.5 gigs). But the lessening quality can be seen immediately when viewing the generated .VOB files. It doesn’t matter which viewing software I use, there is always noticeable degradation of the video quality between the .ts files and the .VOB files regardless of which video player is used.
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>Are you saying that neither 4XP nor DVD Author can convert the files without quality loss? I was hoping the .ts frames could be split into .VOB units directly with the .IFO and .BUP files generated as need without losing quality.
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>Will TMPGEnc Video Mastering Works 5 retain the quality of my original .ts files?
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My experience tells me never let DVD Authoring Works 4 transcode or convert video to the DVD standard. It's always best to convert your source videos to MPEG-2 before importing them for authoring.
TMPGEnc Video Mastering Works would be a good choice for doing your conversions beforehand. There are of course other alternatives but TVMW has a very good MPEG-2 encoder which will produce DVD-compliant output.
I have Hauppauge's USB WinTV HD encoder that captures in AVC format, and believe the Colossus uses the same. Just load your .ts file into TVMW5 and convert to a DVD-Video standard MPEG file. You'll get much better video quality and Authoring Works will 'smart render' the file because it's already DVD-compliant. Many of the conversions I've done are from a 1080i source and the quality is excellent.
Another alternative is to take your 1080i encodings and create an AVCHD disc. If you don't have a Blu-ray player then of course don't bother. If you do have a Blu-ray player, then make sure it supports AVCHD. The AVCHD format is a way to put HD content on standard DVDs. You can take your Colossus encodings and put them to AVCHD without any conversion whatsoever. And you won't need TVMW5 to do this: multiAVCHD 4.1 (shareware) would be a good choice, or use tsMuxeR (free). Output to a folder on your hard drive with any of these programs and then burn it with ImgBurn.
Yes, TMPGEnc Video Mastering Works 5 will do a better job of retaining the quality of your original .ts files.
As an adjunct to my previous post, AVCHD also supports 480i, so if you do things right an AVCHD disc would be absolutely 'lossless'. Mind you this might be a moot point if you don't have an AVCHD Blu-ray player.
I should also add that TMPGEnc Video Mastering Works 5 occasionally chokes on some of my Hauppauge encodings. By that I mean the program crashes and hangs when attempting to load a file. I've never determined what causes this. My solution is to use VideoReDo (the H.264 [AVC] version of course) to generate a new lossless version of the encoding, in which case TMPGEnc Video Mastering Works 5 will load it just fine.
Unfortunately, the Hauppauge Colossus video card is considerably more sophisticated than their USB WinTV HD plug in. “Colossus” is a much more complex video card.
I initially tried using 4XP to start with and found the degradation in quality, so I then tired using DVD Author to author the .ts file directly. However, the output is the same as when using 4XP first.
I have an acquaintance that has TMPGEnc Video Mastering Works so I’ll send him an iso of the raw .ts files and see what he can do. If it works I’ll buy it, otherwise I’m moving on to something that is more state of the art, quality wise.
I’ve used Pegasys products for a long time and was always satisfied; but it appears they just haven’t kept up with the state of the art in video rendering.
Your criticism of TMPGEnc Authoring Works is duly noted, and somewhat warranted, but the basis for most DVD authoring apps is that the source files be imported already DVD-compliant. You'll save rendering time and there'll be no surprises with quality.
If your files do load into TMPGEnc Video Mastering Works -- and I think they will -- you'll get excellent MPEG-2 rendering quality for importation into Authoring Works.
>My experience tells me never let DVD Authoring Works 4 transcode or convert >video to the DVD standard. It's always best to convert your source videos to >MPEG-2 before importing them for authoring.
>TMPGEnc Video Mastering Works would be a good choice for doing your >conversions beforehand. There are of course other alternatives but TVMW has a >very good MPEG-2 encoder which will produce DVD-compliant output.
So you're saying that the MPEG-2 encoder shipped with Authoring Works 4 is different from the one used by Video Mastering Works 5? That's news to me! In addition this is odd because...
>If you want to retain the full 1080 quality and sharpness, you need to move to >BluRay. AW4 should fo a nice job for you there.
...this is definitely not true as long as the source files are already Bluray compliant MPEG-4/AVC, because Authoring Works 4 will always convert them to MPEG-2. Given, that - as you suggest - the MPEG-2 encoder of AW4 produces comparatively low quality together with the fact that AW4 only produces MPEG-2 Blurays, actually makes Authoring Works 4 useless for Bluray authoring!
.ts files are DVD compliant. They're a version of the mpeg-2 files format and meant mostly for HiDef recordings. The frames are more complex - BUT - all the information is there to condense them to a 720x480 frame. You can't take a 720x480 frame and "blow it up" to a high quality HiDef frame and gain quality; but reducing the .ts file to a high quality 720x480 doesn't mean that you should lose the contrast and crispness to any real degree. Example, I've seen screen shots of output from a "Cyberlink" software that seems to accomplish this convertion very well. I guess the draw back to that software is that using it is quite frustrating, or so the comment was made.
Indy... me bad... I was basing my experience with transcoding in Authoring Works on its default settings which is 'Automatic (Smart rendering prioritized)'. That of course means only 1-pass encoding which is why the quality was so degraded. I should have set the encoder mode to 'Re-encode all videos as below' and set the rate control mode to 2-pass, and set the tracks not to be transcoded by ticking the 'Do not adjust this track size'.
I do admit that my normal routine is to import pre-made (smart-rendered) MPEG-2s to match the project size (single- or dual-layer), so the transcoding tests I did do in Authoring Works were obviously not optimized for quality. I missed a very important setting!
Alpha1... I'm still confused by the format of your files. Like tkrave says, if your .ts files are truly DVD-compliant they'll be smart-rendered with no loss of quality. When you import them you'll see a blue 'SR' icon (smart rendering) in the 'Source' stage; if they're not DVD-compliant you'll see a red 'FR' icon (full rendering). Load your .ts file and then go into 'clip properties' and select 'video properties' -- report the results here. It sounds like they're 1080i and you want to "condense" (your term), i.e. resize them to 720x480 for DVD. Right?
My impression is that AW4 uses the same transcode used in the previous TMPGenc4 and not the new MW5 engine.
In any case, is the .TS file wrapped around a H.264 encode rather than a DVD-compliant encode? The Haupauge on-line data implies external encoding is needed to get a DVD compliant file "(Note: the video input format determines the recorded format. For example, 1080i input records at 1080i, 720P records at 720P, etc. Any other format conversions needs to be done with the MediaConvert program... )".
I strongly suspect there are issue beyond the AW4 conversion to DVD in play here.
[Quote].ts files are DVD compliant. They're a version of the mpeg-2 files format and meant mostly for HiDef recordings.[/Quote]
Not always or everywhere. And in any case DVD is not HiDef.
Alpha1, just get the video info for your .ts file using MediaInfo so we can truly see if this is DVD-compliant or not. The details you've given us are still very murky.
I have a project with two separate tracks: #1 is the main film and #2 is the film's trailer. When the film ends the trailer plays, yet I have the 'Track playback end action' set to "Display the top menu'. I know why it's doing this -- I've renamed the play button as 'Film', but the play button is actually 'play all'.
So how would I have a top menu with three buttons like this: Film (plays just track #1), Trailer (plays just track #2), and Chapters (enters the chapter menu). But when the film (track #1) ends I want it to go to the top menu instead of playing track #2 afterwards.
In a nutshell, I want the Play button in the top menu to play only the film, not both tracks.
When I finish all works, I found this helpless error. " Invalid subtitles language code."
The "Track 1" Track's audio language code is invalid.
Save your project file and contact our user support service. The "Track 1" Track's subtitles language code is invalid.
Save your project file and contact our user support service.
Tell me how can I solve this. When I see preview in the software both audio and subtitle are ok. But when I click simulation or make an output file, it comes up.
Version 4.1.2.19 & Windows 7 64bit. At completion of Authoring Works the DVD doesn't eject like it should from the DVD/Blu-Ray drive. Can manually eject, though. The created DVD will play ok in a computer with Windows Media, but won't play in any of my DVD or Blu-Ray players.
A DVD that does eject ok at Authoring Works completion, will play ok in all devices.
Uninstalled and reinstalled, checked all options, can't change this behaviour of created DVDs. All used to work fine, for many years...
Thanks. Wayne.
FWIW: I've had better success if I write to the DVD as a separate step rather than allowing the progrm to move directly to write the DVD after transcoding. My work flow is to write a DVD image file, and then as a separate step to write the DVD.
Is there a way to have more than 15 chapter thumbnails or text links on a menu page? 15 seems to be the highest number in the default template collection. Projects I work on sometimes have more than 15 chapters and it would be nice to have them all on one menu, albeit the font would have to be pretty small for them all to fit.
Use the custom menu option and you can select more than 15 thumbnails/text links per page. The max is 32 for DVD but it warns you that that might exceed the allowed number of links for the project type. I'm not sure if that means it's not compliant or what.
At 32 thumbnails, everything is pretty small though.
Hmmm...not seeing a 32 thumbnail(s) option in either the "Top Menu Layout List" or "Track menu layout List". How do I get it so that I can choose 32 thumbnails/text links?
I have a project consisting of sixe pairs of clips. Each pair is in a separate track. Regardless of whether I opt to link or unlink the clips when the first is played, playback continues to the second. Is it possible to force the program to return to the Track menu at the end of each clip in the track?
To my thinking AW4 menu creation works on a subtractive model, a somewhat different apprach than many other programs. You select a menu structure with all features you may need in any of the menus, then delete the parts you don't need. (Many other progam work by adding the thigs yo do need.) It works, but takes a but of adjustment tot eh thinkignprocess.
I am having pretty much the same problem that Bob had. I am simply trying to build a basic menu that you'd find on most retail DVDs. That would mean the disc loads and you are given the options of play, set-up (audio and/or subtitles), special features, and scene selections.
If I try to do it all on the track page (with no top menu), all of the chapters appear on the first page, which defeats the purpose of having a chapters page in the first place. I have tried workarounds including creating a bunch of phony chapters and then trying to make the thumbnails tiny and delete the chapter names, thereby making the second page the actual starting point. That way I can just change the button that says "next page" to "scene selections." Of course, that creates a problem if I'm using a 16x9 menu, as you are limited to 18 items on a page. But even if I were using a 4x3 menu, I'd still have a whole bunch of pointless, tiny blank buttons that I'd have to navigate around to get to the actual buttons I want to use.
Of course a lot of this could be solved if I could create my own links within a menu page. In other words, I'd like to have custom buttons that I can link to pages within the menu, instead of relying on the choices TDA4 has already made for me. That way I could just create a top menu and link to each page, with no workarounds needed. Is this possible? All I'd need is one button that I can name and add to the title page within my single track.
Or is there a way to simply delete the thumbnails on a page? I know I can delete the text, and have no thumbnails visible, but I'd still like to see the visuals of the chapters, not compromise because of finicky software.
I'm fine with keeping the special features in the same track as the feature film so I can have all the audio and subtitle options in the same track. Of course the only foolproof way to do that is to treat the special features like extra chapters, making sure that they get their own page by choosing the correct template that corresponds number-wise to your total chapters. But is there a way to access a second audio track from a non-audio page (other than while playing the actual movie and doing it on the fly), much as a you would if there was an audio commentary listed in the special features section?
I have taken some screenshots, which you can see below, of some rather basic attempts to almost remedy the situation, though as you can see, I am always one button short.
I am using DVD author 4 on a win XP (SP3) system with an assortment of AVI video clips. All the Author settings are as they come straight out of the box.
When I make a DVD I add the clips as individual tracks. On playback I find the skip forward button is inactivated (little red circle with the line through it), the skip back button brings me back to the beginning of the current track.
The previous generation of Author had no such issues with the chapter skip working as expected whenever I made up a DVD.