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I was a fairly regular user of version 3 and thought the addition of 5.1 was reason enough to try version 4 but there seems to be a few bugs. The most glaring is that every time I set the target size for a single layer dvd it over compresses by a gig or more. Has anyone found a solution for this or seen it reported as a bug that will be fixed in the future?
Set the target size to 8,5, and burn it with other burning program that can shrink (e.g. xilisoft DVD Copy).You´ll have all the 4,5 full.If you want a full 8,5...you just set the size in TMP4 manually to a bit more than the 8,5 and burn the same way.
Was this bug solved in future releases? I use version 4.0.7.32 and have the same problem. Before I start writing the project to a DVD structure it shows the size about 4,1GB, but when I look on the created VIDEO_TS folder it has about 5,2GB. Which is useless for me. I dont use any DVD menu and the source data are in MPEG2 so that I dont need to re-encode.
Would it not decrease the quality if I will use some shrink DVD SW to fit it on DVD?
Thanks for an answer.
I always output to 8.5g and then custom shrink in DVDShrink to a .iso image file. Then I check the whole thing in vlc player before burning to disc. Generally I find that not that much quality is lost during compression. I think for around 5gb it would be approx 6% loss if you have no menus.
If your still concerned about quality loss though, you could always output to 8.5gb and burn to a dual layer dvd disc (8.5gb).
I dont think you need any special writer for a 8.5gb disc but I could be wrong..
Setting to 8.5GB to output 4.7GB solution worked well for single layer.
However, the double layer will not work this way because the output setting does not recognize anything over 9GB. Setting the file size to 9GB will compress down the final output to mere 6.3GB... hardly worthwhile bothering to go to double layer.
Perhaps this is only an issue when converting avi files to DVD disks.
Dear Support
When I record a show in Snapstream that is in DD 5.1 and play it back with Snapstream my receiver shows Dolby Digital and sounds correct. This is a HD mpeg 2 file. If I play the file with Windows Media Player or Vista Media Center it gets decoded with the Vista codec pack and arrives at my receiver as 5.1 Multi Channel PCM. When I load it into the TMPGE editor I only get two channels? How can I make a BLU-RAY and keep the multi channel? The sample file I’m working with says in the editor it is “Dolby Digital, 48000 Hz, 5.1 ch, 2 min 51s 74, 384 kb/s “ I have tried creating a proxy editing file and going without. I have tried re importing the audio. The reason I got the software was because it stated it could do DD and Multi CH PCM. I would appreciate any help you could give.
Thanks!
Bill
>Dear Support
>When I record a show in Snapstream that is in DD 5.1 and play it back with Snapstream my receiver shows Dolby Digital and sounds correct. This is a HD mpeg 2 file. If I play the file with Windows Media Player or Vista Media Center it gets decoded with the Vista codec pack and arrives at my receiver as 5.1 Multi Channel PCM. When I load it into the TMPGE editor I only get two channels? How can I make a BLU-RAY and keep the multi channel? The sample file I’m working with says in the editor it is “Dolby Digital, 48000 Hz, 5.1 ch, 2 min 51s 74, 384 kb/s “ I have tried creating a proxy editing file and going without. I have tried re importing the audio. The reason I got the software was because it stated it could do DD and Multi CH PCM. I would appreciate any help you could give.
>Thanks!
>Bill
I brought this up with a support ticket for Xpress 4.0. It may be the same case for Works 4.0.
They said "thank you for your mail. With XPress 4 you can output in DolbyDigital but in MPEG output format it will be only 2 ch as you well know.
-XPress 4 does not support to output in AC3 5.1 ch for MPEG yet, because its a matter of DolbyDigital license, we do not any information about it but by now we will send about this to user's wish list.
Old-hack, that shouldn't be the case for Authoring Works 4 since it has the license for 5.1 Dolby Digital.
Bill, can you explain what you're doing a bit more? Are you actually outputting the file and it has 2 channels? It's a little bit confusing because you said that when you load it into the editor you only get 2 channels but your sample file says it has 5.1 channels in the editor. If you can, please explain your whole process in Authoring Works 4.
I record a HD show with Snaptream. I load it into the editor and the editor shows the file to be DD 5.1 but when you play it from the editor it goes to the reciever as 2 ch. The same file played by Snapstream shows up at my reciever as DD 5.1.
When you're talking about the editor, do you mean the Clip Editing window in Authoring Works 4?
It's possible that when playing video through the editor, the audio output is 2ch. In other words, it could simply be a limitation of the clip editor.
Try outputting a small sample file to see if it plays with full 5.1 audio.
RESOLVED
Good point!
I had already done as you suggested. Unfortunately I think the answer for me will be $129.95 I paid to Cyberlink for Cyberlink DVD Suite 7 Ultra. It outputs DD 5.1 from the editor and the disks I burn. I had been using TMPGE for quite a few years. I like the interface and always before got good responses from tech support. Although now I have received some great responses from this board support has not responded. I recently paid $59.95 to upgrade the product; hopefully I can get some benefit from. I defiantly did not want to spend the 129.95 but now I can say the battle is behind me except for paying off the credit card.
What input file specs are required for BluRay output. I'm coming from Liquid 7.2 and want to prepare the file format that will give best results when authored in AW4
Can you guys please come up with a way to let the cut-edit operations also include subtitles?
The way it is now, makes handling subtitles really annoying, especially when cutting and splitting clips..
If I import a single clip and the corresponding (synced) subtitle file, cut-edit operations will NOT cut subtitles along with the frames of the video and audio that were deleted. Also when you split a file, each clip gets a FULL copy of the whole subtitle stream, this also makes it annoying as you have to go back and delete subtitles that shouldn't be there..
But more to the point, if I split my subtitles manually, I still have to re-calculate the first and last spoken dialogue start times so they remain in sync - this is EXTREMELY hard to do from my attempts at trying and I often end up making 3 or 4 time corrections to the subtitle stream, in trying to get it to start at the proper time.
As the angle of Authoring Works is an all in one solution, it would only make sense from an ease of use standpoint, to have the program take care of all the math involved with cutting out appropriate subtitles when a cut is made, and splitting the subtitles when splitting a clip, and making the corresponding time corrections (since each new clip restarts at 0:00:00)
Maybe I'm missing something.. I know you can delete chapters from clip sets and the clips still register, although the chapters don't.. Is there a way to apply to import a subtitle file, and correctly edit and time it using only the first clip, out of a group of files, that I haven't thought of? (i.e split a clip into 3 parts, and control the timing and subtitles from the first clip only?)
This has become increasingly frustrated when trying to make dual-audio DivX Ultra DVD's.
>Can you guys please come up with a way to let the cut-edit operations also include subtitles?
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>The way it is now, makes handling subtitles really annoying, especially when cutting and splitting clips..
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>If I import a single clip and the corresponding (synced) subtitle file, cut-edit operations will NOT cut subtitles along with the frames of the video and audio that were deleted. Also when you split a file, each clip gets a FULL copy of the whole subtitle stream, this also makes it annoying as you have to go back and delete subtitles that shouldn't be there..
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>But more to the point, if I split my subtitles manually, I still have to re-calculate the first and last spoken dialogue start times so they remain in sync - this is EXTREMELY hard to do from my attempts at trying and I often end up making 3 or 4 time corrections to the subtitle stream, in trying to get it to start at the proper time.
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>As the angle of Authoring Works is an all in one solution, it would only make sense from an ease of use standpoint, to have the program take care of all the math involved with cutting out appropriate subtitles when a cut is made, and splitting the subtitles when splitting a clip, and making the corresponding time corrections (since each new clip restarts at 0:00:00)
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>Maybe I'm missing something.. I know you can delete chapters from clip sets and the clips still register, although the chapters don't.. Is there a way to apply to import a subtitle file, and correctly edit and time it using only the first clip, out of a group of files, that I haven't thought of? (i.e split a clip into 3 parts, and control the timing and subtitles from the first clip only?)
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>This has become increasingly frustrated when trying to make dual-audio DivX Ultra DVD's.
Here is what I do. Before I do any splitting, I add the subtitles and let TDA write out the files. I then use those files as the final source for my project. The subtitles are now part of the video stream and you can edit and split without getting them out of sync.
Do you know if it will keep those streams when you re-import them though? Because I ultimately like to make projects with Menus and whatnot, and I know already it doesn't recognize the second audio stream of a dual-audio source, even if outputed by TA4 and reimporting, or importing a TMPGenc Xpress 4 file.
i need to author a dvd movie with 3 audio streams and 3 subtitle streams, is TMPGEnc Authoring Works 4 able to do that? if not , is there any TMPGEnc products able to cater my requirements?
Hi, I am facing a problem as in TMPGEnc Authoring Works 4 hangs at 95% while creating a DVD from a MKV file. There is no error displayed and the program doesnt respond.
Pretty sure you can use Avisynth to frame serve them to TA4.
It has a small learning curve but it is a great tool, as you can pretty much use it to load any format into any program, even if the program doesn't natively support it. Avisynth works by loading a file and then sending the decompressed frames in a raw format that most programs have no trouble understanding. It will even send audio, although it only sends the first default audio tracks if your file has multiple audio streams.
It's really simple to use once you take 5 or 10 minutes to get the hang of it, and can also do processing on the files like cutting, fading, splicing together, and comes with some internal filters with tons of third party filters available as well. That makes it a great solution to doing all your work on the image without having to re-encode it in another format and lose quality multiple times. You will likely need to install something like the Combined Community Codec Pack as well, which gives you great DirectShow capabilities for loading files like FLV and other rarely supported types directly into programs like TA4, through Avisynth's DirectShow splitter.
So let's say you install CCCP and Avisynth.. Then open Notepad (or any text editor) and type the following - DirectShowSource("path\to\file.flv")
Save it as a "file.avs" file using quotes around the filename in Notepads save file window, then load the .AVS file into Authoring Works 4, or any other video program.
I'm using TMPGenc Authoring Works 4 to put as many of my Anime DVD's onto 1 Disc as possible. I don't know if it has something to do with the fact I am actually "Wrapping" Xvid codec files into DivX containers (divxmux.exe manual says it accepts Xvid as input) however I suspect this is a program limitation.
I have spent countless hours over many days trying to eliminate every possibility that it is TA4 causing the problem and am convinced that it is..
Working with 25 episodes per project, if I split each episode into 3 parts (to apply fade in/out scene transitions) I will get 75 clips. It goes through the initial assembly fine (smart rendering, no encoding going on) however once the Video and Audio tracks are complete and it begins to mux the menu and files together into a DivX File I get a CW-6 error code at around 75/76% without fail every time.
The interesting thing is I can kill the audio tracks and the video comes through OK and the process completes. However if I keep the audio tracks and simply reduce the number of clips (I arbitrarily chose 11 episodes @ 33 clips) the process also completes without any errors.
Obviously reducing the number of clips per track fixes this. As does giving each episode its own track with 3 clips (the only time a 75 clip project will work) - HOWEVER I do not like the menu behavior with more than one Track. As if you hit NEXT or the Track ends, it takes you back to the menu each and every time, and not only that, it takes you to the FIRST menu page, even if you are on menu page 2,3,4,5 - etc..
I don't know if the clip limit is something that can be looked into and fixed, but I have been wondering why for a while now, you guys still haven't done something about the Menu behavior with multiple tracks in a project. I feel they should play the next track automatically just like a DVD, as the whole point of DivX Ultra is to emulate DVD menus.
Also.. TA4 (and to a lesser extent Xpress 4) still suffers from Random lockups when editing tracks. Usually during cutting operations. I have noticed in particular in TA4 if you select your cut range too fast and then hit CUT, it will almost always produce a lockup. I'm not sure if this is solely related to Avisynth served files but I think it has happened with files loaded the standard way as well.
Also if you load an MKV, be it through Avisynth, or straight from the load file prompt, it always triggers multiple instances of FFDshow's Video/Audio decoders, as well as multiple instances of VOBsub/VSfilter, etc.. This did not used to be a problem however I can't solely place the blame on TMPGenc, as it could possibly be an issue with FFDshow, or newer codec packs.
At any rate, please look into solving more of the random lockups, possibly upgrading DivX Ultra menu functionality, and fix the bug (I feel its a bug) with too many clips on one track producing the CW-6 error code.
Just to comment on the DivX Ultra menu behavior, that's probably a limitation of the DivX Ultra format and not something TMPG can do anything about. Remember that TMPG has no control over the limitations of the DivX Ultra format. I'm sure they would have included it if they could since the post-track playback options are included for DVD and BD projects.
Yeah, you're probably right on that. It's still a nice product aside from that, and I can live with editing less clips/transitions into each episode for the time being, although since its practically the only product that can make DivX Ultra files without re-encoding, I do hope they fix the apparent clip limit bug, and work more on solving the random lockups.
Hi, anyone know how 2 change which link on a menu is highlighted 1st? Ive got about 7 links on a menu and a return link and i want to change it highlighting the return link first.
Go to the MENU Tab -> Link editor Tab, click on the menu items and right click on them and go to move to front until you get the items how you want to look on page(Look at the left column on bottom for the list). Now the top item will be highlighted first, next go to the Simulation tab to check that the order is the way you want it (Test It out).
I have just started using TAW4 (4.1.0.47) and I need to change which item is highlighted first in a menu, just as you can with DVDLab.
I tried the above suggestion with a Blu-ray track menu and set of Pop-Up menus.
Changing list order does not change the behaviour in the simulation. The same item is always highlighted first what ever order items are in the list.
(BTW, somewhat surprisingly clicking 'Move to front' moves the item to the BOTTOM of the list and 'Move to back' moves the item to the TOP of the list.)
Why can I not make a dual layer divx dvd? Why does this not support that? I initially got Authoring Works 4 because it now supports dual layer...but why not dual layer in divx? If this product cannot do this for me, what product can?
I don't know of any product that can make a DivX Ultra file bigger than 4GB. I believe this is a hard limit on the DivX codec side, as I have seen this complaint discussed on their forums before.
I know it isn't a real solution, but what I plan to do is to simply split the load into two projects. Then burn both DivX Ultra files to a dual layer DVD. Once you're done watching the first set, just hit the stop button once or twice (depending on your player) and then load up the second file. You still get menu functionality in the end.
hi can someone tell me.how i can get the audio level ,on each file the same.before i record on to dvd.as one song is louder than the other.when i play back my dvd.thank you jimmy may
On the Source page, you will nee to click on your projects Edit tab. Click on the Audio tab at top, and you will see a tab button Audio Filter Settings under Audio Filters. Click on the Volume Adjustment tab and see if the box is checked next to Enable Volume Adjustment.
There are three choices: Volume Change, Volume Normalization, and Volume Uniformation. Once you have made your changes, you can click the Preview tab to hear the difference.
I'm doing a slideshow, and this is how I found it. It may be the same for video projects as well.