Hi --

Loving this software, but 2 questions have come to mind.

1) How do you do easter eggs. I know how to make a link invisible, but I don't want the easter egg to play when I play all in a track. I want the easter egg as a seperate item on the track. Any way to do this?

2) Is there a way to make dvd's that are anamorphically wide screen?

Thanks!

1) You'll have to make a separate track for your easter egg. Tracks are the only thing that can return to the main menu after it's done playing. Thus, your easter egg will have to appear on your top menu.

2) I believe that they are anamorphic widescreen by default provided your source material is widescreen.

TAW4 doesn't see any DVD drives. When trying to build and burn the movie it says there are no usable drives. There're the same drives (DVD burners) it used before. weird

Same thing happened to me. I have to use a separate burning software - couldn't figure it out!!

TMPGEnc Authoring Works 4 doesn't show the video in cut/edit mode but can hear the audio. But when in TMPGEnc 4.0 XPres cut/edit mode the video and audio is there. Wonder what's up? I don't have quicktime which is reported by both programs. Quicktime was removed when I uninstalled itunes 9 the other day. Could the uninstall of itunes caused a problem?

First, what is the source video format? That will help.

I've tried WMV; AVI; MPEG 2. They all used to work, now all I get is the audio.

Try this: In the cut-edit screen, right-click on the video preview area and turn on or off the video overlay.

That done it! Thanks for the help.

Is there a way to do a very simple menu? I have a movie with 1 track consisting of 24 chapters. I want a single top menu or Title page, that has the title of the movie and a Press Play button. I don't want any chapters menu(s) at all. I can't seem to find a way to do this. I tried the Custom option in the Menu Wizard but it does not have a "No Track Menu" option. If I select No Menu then there is no menu at all, not even a Title Page.
Does anyone know of a trick I can use to create the simple menu I want if there is way?
Thanks

You must have missed it because the option is definitely in there. It's the page right after you choose your layouts, about the 3rd page into the custom menu wizard.

http://i47.tinypic.com/28lz38n.png

I tried that Top Menu Only, but I still end up with two menus, a Title page and a Page 1. I don't see any way to eliminate one of them so I end up with just one menu with a Play button. The ideal situation would be just the Title Page only, but I don't see a Delete anywhere to get rid of that second page.

You can't delete the top/track menu, so you'll have to choose not to have the title page.

If you want the top menu to look like the title page, you can hide the track thumbnails, or whatever you don't want to appear in the Global Menu Settings.

After restoring my pc from an image with Acronis tmpgenc authoring works has stopped working, it was working fine before the restoration. during initialisation i receive the error EAccessViolation occured - module TMPGEncAuthoringWorks.exe/ 62CEBE79 AT Address 62CEBE79, READ ERROR occured against addresss 62CEBE79
I have reinstalled several times, run as administrator and tried cleaning the registry before reinstalling.
anyone have any ideas ????
please help

Is this the only software that has stopped working or do you have other problems as well? You might have some bad memory. What happened that caused you to need to restore your computer from an image?
Personally I don't use images, it never work right. I have an extra removable hard drive bay and I use TrueImage to do a Disk Clone once a week using two extra identical alternating hard drives. That way when disaster strikes all I do is swap drives and I'm back in business like it never happened.
Also, before re-installing be sure to completely uninstall first, delete the program directory as well, and then clean the registry of all traces.

Hi,

I'm new to this product and fairly new to video stuff.

I just trialing this at the moment but it does look great so far, a lot better than windows movie maker.

My problem is this . I have a number of video files in mp4 format which I want to put on a dvd.The files added together only come to 2962mb , the format of the is 480x272 @29 fps, however when I have imported these 12 clips in TMPGenc and gone through the process the total size has increased to 8.7 gb!What am I doing wrong - ow can I get them on one 4.7gb dvd?

thanks for any help

You're not doing anything wrong, but the increase in file size is unavoidable.

DVDs have to be encoded in the MPEG-2 (or MPEG-1) video format, so your files will be converted from mp4 to MPEG-2.
MP4 has a much better compression rate than MPEG-2. It's estimated that mp4 video can be roughly half the size of an MPEG-2 and have the same video quality. This is why there is such a huge file size difference.

You can lower the video bitrate in the track settings so decrease the size of the output file, but your video quality will decrease along with it.

Can you output to blu ray using a track with a HD source file and a track using a SD source file?

thanks

Yes, the Blu-ray format supports both SD and HD resolutions.
Specifically, DVD resolution video (720×480, 720×576) is compliant with the Blu-ray Disc format.

ok guys
i recorded a six episodes one after the other all from the same scorce 1/2 hr each roughly thru win 7 and imported the w.tv files into author 4 as one file to edit i then noticed they were listed different
1 smart rendering logo 4 full rendering logo
2 full rendering logo 5 smart rendering logo
3 smart rendering logo 6 smart rendering logo

not being fully conversant with this never seen this before can anyone advise the best way to go from here

thanks for any advice
Arfer

Interesting. Are these all in the same track? If so, try put them all in separate tracks and see if they are all smart rendered.

Also, check their clip properties (Source stage-->Clip editor-->Clip properties tab) and see if the full rendered clips have different properties compared to the smart rendered ones.

ok sorry for delay was at hospital today
i have deleted all files and reimported the all say they are the blu smart render logo against them
but two are 4.3 all the rest are 16.9 all these files were a back to back series 1 - thru 6 recorded thru windows 7 one after the other 1/2 hr each part
i have messed a bit and done a folder burn only and file 2 ~&4 display in 4.3 when played back all the rest play back in 16.9

thanks for any input they all play back perfect but would like to have the lot in 16.9 if poss
thanks for your input

Atfer

If videos have different aspect ratios in the same track, then the ones that don't match the others will be full rendered. Move the 4:3 clips to a different track and they will be smart rendered (assuming they're compliant).

As for changing the 4:3 to 16:9, are the 4:3 videos supposed to be 16:9? I mean, is the image stretched vertically or is there letterboxing?
If the image is stretched vertically, you can just change the aspect ratio setting in the clip properties tab of the clip editor window.
If there's black bars encoded at the top and bottom, then you'll have to chop those off with some other video editing program.

I've just purchased & begun using a new Samsung HMX-H205 1920x1080 60 fps camcorder.

Played around w/the camcorder over the weekend & tried to import some of the footage into Tmpgenc Authoring Works 4 to create a DVD & get familiar with how to do this. My camcorder operates via SDHC cards & I therefore will have to get into the habit of frequently getting the footage off of the memory card(s) and onto my computer for any desired edits, creation of a navigational DVD menu, & outputting of the footage to DVDs for storage.

I'm a little confused. I import a clip into Tmpgenc Authoring Works 4, and at the very top of the window once the clip has been imported & it's ready to let me edit it or move forward w/DVD navigational menu creation, it states that one clip is present at 720x480 and around 29-30 fps. However, when I click on the actual imported clip and go into its properties or play the clip within Authoring Works, it states under the clip that it's 1920x1080 & 60 fps.

So, which resolution / fps ratings is my footage, as there's conflicting info. on the screen as to whether it's been downgraded from how it originates in my camcorder as 1920x1080 (60 fps) to 720x480 (29-30 fps).

My desire of course is to maintain the same high level of quality of the footage as it was captured in the camcorder & not to "water it down" once imported into Authoring Works. I can't tell what Authoring Works is really doing to the footage once imported due to the conflicting info. on the screen as to what level of quality / resolution / etc. the footage is truly at.

Also, for example, one file that I imported into Authoring Works was approx. 60 megabytes in size. I notice that once imported into Authoring Works, it tells me that the size of the project in Authoring Works is approx. 30 megabytes in size. To me, that sounds like the footage is being downgraded to a lesser quality.

Any info. anyone can offer here is greatly appreciated. I'm new to the video editing stuff & want to make sure my footage is kept at the highest quality possible since I've spent money on a nice consumer-level HD camcorder.

Thanks!

Are you making a DVD or Blu-ray?

If it's a DVD, then it's probably just stating what the output resolution will be (which would be 720x480 for an NTSC DVD).

The clip properties show the actual resolution of the imported footage which is why that's correct. However, once you output the file, it will be converted to a proper DVD resolution.

If you want to keep the 1080p resolution, then you'll have to output as a Blu-ray. Keep in mind 60 fps isn't compliant with blu-ray unless you go to 720p.

My camcorder is actually 1080 60i, not 60p. My fault on the incorrect specs in my original post.

Trying to create a regular 4.7GB DVD...

I know TMPGenc Authoring Works 4 can *import* AVCHD footage, but can it also *create* an AVCHD DVD (onto a regular 4.7GB DVD) that will maintain the original 1920x1080 60i quality of the camcorder footage? I know a program named multiAVCHD will do this, but I'm not sure about this capability in Authoring Works 4.

Any additional feedback on this is appreciated!

Actually, you never said it was 1080p, so that's my fault; I should have known you meant 60 fields per second.

Sadly, no, it cannot create an AVCHD DVD, nor can you create a Blu-ray project and then burn it to a DVD (at least, not with this program alone).

I would think that the latter would be simple to implement, but currently it's not possible with their disc writing tool.

Downloaded the trial version. However the app gets stuck after clicking "Obtain a license", i.e., nothing happens. All I can do is "control-alt-del" to end the program.

I really miss support for .mkv files. Any plans to add it to next version?

.mkv files can be used in a project. I should know, I've got a 1080p mkv movie with menus converting at this very moment!

Although it did take a bit of fiddling to get the mkv to work correctly, you need the correct codecs and you need to enable the right parts of the codec.

I use the K-Lite Codec pack full version with avisynth and haali media splitter.

If you google it you should find the answers you need.

We have built a menu using a Top menu and half a dozen track menus. All seems well except at the track menu level there does not seem to be a way to force a return to the track menu at the end of a chapter; instead the next chapter plays. Is there any way to do this?
Thanks

You can use PGCedit to tweak the menu settings after the Output is complete.

I found instructions at

http://forum.videohelp.com/threads/266753-DVD-Lab-Studio-menu-question

Scroll down on that page to the discussion between echo44 and GeorgeW where George W provides step by step instructions. It takes a bit of time to understand the usage and terminology, but I was able to output a test project from TAW4, modify with PGCedit, and create a DVD with 12 tracks and 31-28-31 etc. chapters in each that return to menu after playing. The project mimics a Calendar - 12 titles one for each month. Within each title is a chapter corresponding to a day of the month. So, the DVD has 366 video clips one for each day of year.