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I'm trying to make an instructional video with 40 tracks and 3 short individual video clips per track. My top menu has two pages with 20 track icons each. My track menus have 3 chapter icons (1 icon per clip)each. Each clip within the tracks are intended to be played independently of the others. Is there a way to return to the track menu at the end of each clip(chapter)? At the moment, when I click on the first icon, the whole track (3 clips) is played sequentially after which I return to the track menu. Thanks in advance for the advice.
Currently not possible as far as I know. Only tracks can return to the top menu after a track is played. Clips in a track are treated as chapters and will play as if the track is one whole movie.
I too would like to see the option to go back to the track menu after a chapter ends.
hi
seem to going thru a bad patch
last couple of dvd i have burned with auth 4 the playback has been slightly jerky played on a standalone dvd player onto tv
the original files were wtv which i converted to dvr-ms for quickness
this jerkyness does not alway happen but seems to be geting more frequent should i leave them as wtv or an i missing something stupid i dont mind being called a fool its all a learning curve have a good day all :)
I want to use a video on my BD menu (not as background, in its own small window) but it shows picture with no sound. How can i add video and play it properly after encode?
I don't think you "turn-on" the sound of a user-added menu item. However, you can enable the background audio and select your video as the audio source. Granted, if you have multiple videos on your menu, you'd only be able to choose the audio from one of them.
I am having problems using the disc writing tool.
It writes to the disc,and I can play it on a stand alone DVD player connected to my TV,but when I try playing it on my PC,it shows that it is blank?!!(I can watch DVDs on my PC with no problem)
This is really ticking me off since I have now wasted at least 5 discs.
hi guys
recorded tv is recorded in meadia center as wtv you can then convert to DVR-MS
so my question is what is the best format to inport into author for editing
WTV or DVR-MS
i really cant make my mind up thought i would throw it out to the wealth of knoledge here
thanks for any input forth coming
I don't think it matters, so you should just import whatever format your version of Media Center saves recorded tv as. Either way, they're going to be turned into regular MPEG-2 videos when you import them.
My wtv files are encoded as MPEG-2, but I believe the format also supports H.264 encoding. I think that would be the only reason to convert a wtv file to dvr-ms since TAW4 only imports wtv/dvr-ms files that are MPEG-2 encoded at this time. Not sure if Windows 7 can do that though; it may only be able to convert an MPEG-2 WTV file to dvr-ms.
This may or may not answer your question, but I've had problems importing some AVI files (TMPGEnc pauses for 20 seconds and then closes/disappears, without any error messages) that worked fine after being converted to MP4 format and imported. But I presume you're question relates more to the image quality of various formats, which is something that I've been wondering about as well.
He's specifically talking about dvr-ms vs. wtv and which is the better format to import, not about all formats known to man.
But anyhoo, this advice can be applied to all formats: basically if you can import the file without converting it, that's the best option. You don't want to add additional encoding generations needlessly.
I was just wondering if there are different types of AVI formats or encoding. I already converted 2 videos that were in AVI format and burned them to a DVD. They both work great, but now for some odd reason TMPGEnc version 4.9.0.37 will not import any other AVI video file. The error message states " Could not open the video part of the file (gives directory) Only the audio part can be opened."
Does any one have any idea why it not working?
If it's an avi file, then it's most likely a codec problem. Either you don't have the right codec or there's a codec conflict or some other codec error. There are lots of different codecs for avi video and if you don't have the right one installed, you won't be able to play the video.
Thank you tkrave, you are right i didnt have the codec installed. So if any one else has the same problem as me then here is a link: http://www.codecguide.com/download_mega.htm
just download the mega package and it gives you a lot of codec, this way i will not get this problem ever again.
I bought the new version of TMPGenc Authoring Works 4 v.4.09.37 and installed it just fine. When I try to save a project that I created, nothing happens when I press "Save". The only thing that works is the "Cancel" and the "Exit" buttons. I had no problem saving projects in the previous version v.4.0.6.24. The new version still reads and opens my previous project, but I can't save new projects. What am I'm doing wrong?
Thats a new one on me. Doesn't really suggest that it's a codec issue. Presumably the source itself isn't flipped? Sorry realise thats a slightly daft question.
Question: The source AVI file displays upside-down.
Answer:The codec used for each AVI file may be different. Check what kind of codec was used to create the AVI file then try the following.
1. Launch TMPGEnc 4.0 XPress.
2. Click the Options menu button.
3. In the menu, select the “Preferences…” option then click on the “AVI settings” item in the tree list.
4. In the list of available codecs, double-click on the codec used by your AVI file then, in the “AVI codec settings” window uncheck the “Decode in YUV” if this option is checked.
Have been using TAW4 for a while creating basic dvd movies with menus. On this occasion, I'm trying to create a dvd with special features on it (ie, a trailer)
I was wondering if anyone can help with the correct menu structure to use?
I'm looking to have the following,
Main Menu - > Button links to Play, Chapters, Setup, Special Features
Chapters - > Chapter screens
Setup - > Subtitle options
Special Features - > Button links to play Trailer 1, and seperate button for Trailer 2.
My main question is for the special features, how to structure correctly!
I've been trying to make a menu as you describe it, but as you may know the special features page is a problem.
If you didn't have the special features page, it would be pretty simple:
Create a custom menu, select to have a title page for the track menu. Select Track menu only (assuming you have one track only). Your Main Menu would be the track title page, the Chapter page is your track menus, and the setup option should appear in the track title page.
Adding the Special Features page however, presents a problem. The trailers would need to be in a separate track; that means you'll have more than one track which means you're going to need a Top and Track menu structure (instead of Track only). This means your main menu won't have the setup button since the setup button only appears in track menus (probably because each track can have it's own set of subtitles/audio).
There's also another problem in that if your two trailers are in the same track, they will play as one whole movie. In other words, if you start playing the first trailer, it will continue and play the 2nd trailer automatically without going back to the menu.
In short, I don't think you can make your menu exactly as you want to...at least, I haven't figured out a way yet.
Agreed its very difficult to find a solution, other dvd author programs have the media as seperate entities that you link to, making it easy. Problem is, I like TmpgEnc!
The only possible work around I have is this,
(for single movie track only)
No Top Menu, create menu in track menu only.
Leaves us with Title > Track Menu (chapters) > Setup (if you have subs or audio options).
Next, add a Note Page.
This will add a link to the title page, which you could rename from 'Note' to 'Special Features'.
Next, in the note page set your background to be a motion menu and add your trailer, making sure to set the motion length to the length of the trailer. You can also link back to the title menu from here.
In theory, you could add two note pages, one being the Special Features page, which then links to Note Page 2 which contains your trailer. Its not ideal, but could work.
That's an interesting solution! Didn't think of that, but now that I think about it, I've seen other people use the motion menu feature to create content instead of using it for menus.
The only problem with it is that it really ramps up the space for output, I usually output to 8.5gb to retain quality.
And also if you have the motion menu as a trailer you need to have a button displayed that returns you to the previous page, which isnt really ideal as when it finishes it should auto return. But no idea how to get around that or hide the button.
The only problem with it is that it really ramps up the space for output, I usually output to 8.5gb to retain quality.
And also if you have the motion menu as a trailer you need to have a button displayed that returns you to the previous page, which isnt really ideal as when it finishes it should auto return. But no idea how to get around that or hide the button.
I have been doing this to my dvd for a long time now..since tmpeg3
HERE is what you do.
FIRST: make a BLANK video in an editor. 1sec is fine
Second: add your files each as a NEW track
ex:
this is how my menus look
PLAY MOVIE SCENE SELECTION SPECIAL FEATURES
OK.
add track: MAIN MOVIE
add track: blank video
add track: blank video
THIS will put ON FIRST page 3 videos OR three selections
add track: what ever trailers or special feautes video you want
REMEMBER: each page has 3 OR as many as you want
SO:
mine usually has the main movie
3 or 4 blank video files
NOW, create menus
Choose: TITLE PAGE I use the TEXT (4) - TRACKS (8 pics)
OK..so the structures will look like crap I know, BUT then go into DVD MENU STRUCTURE and unchecked each track leaving just the main movie.
NOW on the TITLE MENU you will have track 1 (movie)and at least 3 or four BLANK TRACKS (double click) on the tracks and delete the names and MOVE them OFF the screen
Click the NEXT BUTTON and you will see your trailers and special features. The key to this is a BLANK VIDEO file and deleting the names of the blank tracks and moving them OFF SCREEN
Cheers for posting this, I've heard of this method before but never found a set of instructions. Going to give this a go tonight, if it works how I hope it will work, I owe you beers!!
Just a little confused on a couple of areas..
I'm not sure where you mean to add the blank video and my special features.
Let's say I have 1 movie file, trailer1 movie file, trailer2 movie file.
How should that look on my track listing on the top left hand side?
Or am I getting confused, and every track should have...
Can anyone else help out with the theory on this one? I've read whats been put and tried to apply in authoring works, but I'm really not getting how it works out. Help please!!
tkrave - any thoughts on the above at all? I'm not seeing how Chris Robbins theory works so looking for alternatives.
My main goal is to sort the special features page. I'm after having my main menu link to a sub menu (the special features index page), which then has three links on it,
1)Back to main menu (which would be standard obviously)
2)Link to Trailer 1
3)Link to Trailer 2
The catch being that I want the link to the trailers to play the trailer and return to this special features index page.
The only other way is the way I suggested, using background menu's and note pages, but then in order to get to trailer 2, you would have to go special features index page > trailer 1 > trailer 2. Which is weird.
What if both trailers were under the same track on the source tab? Couldn't I then use what is effectively the 'chapters' page, and replace the track thumbnails with a custom button or somethiong and add text in? The only problem then is I will have a track menu that I dont want...sorry if I'm confusing you!!
Ok, been messing around with the structure, and I believe I've solved it. Because it's hard to explain in writing I've put together some screenshots with detailed explanations should anyone want to try it out. I'm happy to be proved wrong or shown holes in the logic, but so far I think I've got a working DVD like structure. Have uploaded the MSWord doc to rapidshare, I dont think you can add tags on here so will need to add the tag to the end.
I'm creating a PAL DVD from a 1440 x 1080 25fps interlaced source. When playing back, any sideways scene panning is very jittery compared to the original HD source.
I'm using highest quality settings, VBR 2 pass.
I was expecting the resolution to appear lower as it's only 720 x 576, but since both videos are 25i I thought the sideways camera panning would look about the same.
No, that's not normal. It sounds like the field order setting of your interlaced video might be incorrect.
Try changing the field order setting in the Clip Properties/Clip addition window. If that doesn't work, you may have to change the field order setting in your Track settings (Source Stage--> Track XX --> Settings button).
Thanks for your reply. I had already wondered about that and checked the original source video properties using a free program called MediaInfo, and it tells me the video is Top Field First, so I made sure all settings were set to this.
I've been reading about other conversions of this nature on other forums where the concensus is to always deinterlace the video to progressive using Bob/Weave techniques, and then resize before converting to interlaced again. Several tests were done with AVISynth and this provided the best results by far.
I wonder if TMPEGEnc is doing any interlaced to progressive conversion and what techniques they are using. I suspect it's not. I may need to investigate AVISynth and use this before creating the DVD.
TAW4 shouldn't be converting it to progressive because that would not conform to the DVD-Video specifications.
Converting to progressive with some other program should solve the problem, but then again, that's another generation of encoding. However, as long as you're staying at your source resolution (1440 x 1080) when you're converting to progressive, I think you'll be fine.
I've been reading a lot more on the subject, and an intermediate step of deinterlacing to progressive with double the frame rate, before down sizing and reinterlacing the video is the best solution to maintain fluid motion.
In my case the 25i should be converted to 50p, then downsized to DVD resolution and reinterlaced to 25i.
I'm not really sure how much better the result would be as I cannot find any software that can convert my 25i files to 50p at this stage. AVISynth won't read my files.
1. When i use a .m2ts file for background, after encode there is no audio on background. did i have to seperate sound and use it that way?
there is no way to use these kind of files without demuxing?
2. is there any way to create continuous play for menu? i want nobackground song or video to start over and over when changing menu pages.
1. Did you set your BGM to use the audio from your background video? In the background's menu item editor, there is a separate tab for selecting the audio; by default it is not set to use the audio from your background video.
2. Not possible. Even commercial DVDs do this, but they usually hide it with transitions. Each menu page is a separate piece of data, so it has to "reload" when you change to a different page.