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I have figured out how to add BGM to my screens when authoring a DVD, but it looks like to have to add an audio track for each screen if you want music on them. My problem is that whenever you click to go to a track screen from the main menu, the music restarts. Is there anyway to set BGM for the entire DVD so that if I click to go to a track menu, then back to the main menu, it will keep playing the music without restarting?
Unfortunately, that's not possible. This is a limitation of the DVD standard in general. Basically motion menus are video files, so when you switch to a different page, it has to start playing a different video file. The audio is part of that video file, so it can't span across pages.
I'm a TMPGEnc DVD Author user and would like to upgrade to the latest product if it can do what I need: I want to be able to author DVDs using an HD transport stream as the source file.
Is this possible?
i.e. Will Authoring Works 4 be able to convert a 1080 video into DVD resolution?
There are free products out there that I can use to demultiplex the transport stream if necessary, but I love the ease of editing & authoring with DVD Author and would like to be able to keep that experience by using Authoring Works if possible.
Yes without a doubt it will and does a very good job. just set your output to DVD video for PAL / NTSC. You source video will be re-encoded, but the quality is very, very good. I do this all the time with HD source video. Depending on your computer power will determine the duration of the re-encode.
I have a short clip with background music that i imported into authoring works 4. I have enabled "motion menu with audio" in global menu settings. Why is the menu clip silent during simulation playback?? Both clip audio and background music is silent. The tracks play fine. Also, i output to blu ray and no audio either when the menu played.
Did you activate background audio for the thumbnail/background image?
If not, in the menu editor, double-click on the background to open the background editor window, click on the "BGM audio selection" tab, and select an audio file or choose to use the audio from the background source (if you are using a video as a background).
You must do the same thing for each motion menu item that you want to hear the audio for.
Why does authoring works 4 flag my MPEG-2 HD file as non compliant and goes into full rendering mode when it meets the blu ray specs standard of 720p at 59.94fps?? The audio is 5.1 Dolby.
Please help me. With motion menu background activated, full rendering time is over 24 hours!!!
Just after a bit of advice for using the DivX dvd element of authoring works, is there any particular difficulty to it? How many approx .avi files can fit onto a 4gb dvd disc? Also, is a menu still created? And lastly, are there any particular settings, be it file or tmpgenc, required for it to play in a conventional dvd player? (that supports divx playback)
Creation is pretty much the same as a regular DVD; you can import the same types of files and Smart Rendering is supported if your files are already in the DivX format. The amount of content varies on what bitrate you choose, but since DivX has a higher compression rate than MPEG-2, you should be able to fit much more than a regular DVD would.
Menus can be created just like DVD menus, but your player must be DivX Ultra certified in order to see them--emphasis on the ULTRA. If it is just DivX certified, you can still play the videos, but you will not be able to see or use the menus.
Cheers for that, so lets say i create a dvd with a top menu, and subsequent links to the tracks (or movies) ive added into the project, if I were to play in a dvd player that has DivX and not DivX Ultra, would the result be that playback fails? Or would it just play each track one after the other with no control other than forward/rewind?
I can't remember exactly, but I think it will show a generic file menu where you can select which track to play...that probably varies from player to player, but I think it will treat each track as a separate DivX file. I can't remember if jumping to the next or previous chapter works either. My DivX Ultra player hasn't been working, so I can't make sure, but that's what I remember.
Last question on this one, was wondering about frame rates for a divx dvd, in that I have a number of files, some are 23 fps (NTSC) and some are 25 fps (PAL), should these always be kept seperate in a project or does it not matter for a divx dvd?
It shouldn't matter as they will be converted to whatever your output format is, so they can be in the same project. I would put them in separate tracks though.
So I tries this, and then played on two different mediums to test it, first I tried laptop with DIVX Player, worked fine, even the menu's I'd put on showed up which is good. Then I tried my blu ray player (DIVX compatible but not DIVX Ultra) and it didn't work properly. No menu comes up, it just plays the first track off the disc and then stops as if it had finished playing the disc..
Have you tried pressing the "menu" or "setup" buttons on your DVD remote? Even pushing the stop button might get you to the player-generated menu.
Or, maybe I was wrong; like I said, I was going on memory so it's possible I'm completely wrong about all of this.
Didnt try pressing setup, but did try pressing menu. The problem might be playing it on blu ray player, it seems to treat it as if it is a file from a usb stick, it goes to the file but only has the option to play. Will try another divx player if i can find one..
I am importing AVCHD video which was encoded/captured with H.264 at 11 mb/s 1080i through a Hauppauge HD PVR. This is live TV and what I want to do is edit the commercials out and create menus etc. and output (in AVCHD format if possible) to a 25 GB blue ray disk without re-encoding. (so I'll have about 4 hours of video on the disk). 1) Can I have TMP not re-encode? Even if I set the option to not encode in video properties, it still will. The file size is much larger and I have to manually change the mb/s to reduce the file size (the default shows at about 25 mb/sec and the file size at about 47 GB). So I have to tell it to re-encode at 11 mb/s when I'd prefer no re-encoding at all.
2) If I just import the video and then cut out the commercials in this program I get audio sync issues (randomly- not at all cuts) so I have to do my editing in another program and save it as an AVCHD and then import into TMP. The original file can be captured in either .TS or .M2TS format by the Hauppauge HD PVR. Any suggestions? Thanks.
Authoring Works 4 can't output in H.264, so that's why it's re-encoding everything. Since it outputs as MPEG-2, the bitrate increases to maintain quality since MPEG-2 isn't as good at compression as H.264.
When will Authoring Works 4 (or next version) be powered for H.264, i.e. _CAN_ output AVCHD H.264 including H.264 smart rendering? Is there a roadmap to H.264?
Anyone have explanation of best settings to make DVD? Also , I make 1 DVD which works in DVD player and the next one I make comes out as movie and can only be played in a computer. What am I doing wrong? Can mpeg files be put into the authoring works or do they have to be m2v? I'm really confused. thanks
The default settings are pretty good as is, I think. If a DVD is working in your computer but not in your player, then it might be the DVD media itself. Or, if you changed the bitrate settings, the bitrate might be too high for the set-top player, but fine for the computer. Just my theories.
You can put in almost any kind of video file into Authoring Works; it doesn't have to be m2v. However, if you want Smart Rendering activated (no re-encoding on output), then they'll have to be some kind of MPEG-2 that is already compliant with your output format.
I have a concert that is 35 individual songs that i want to make one concert.
I added them all as tracks and now when i watch the concert back each time is goes from one track to another it pauses for a second or 2.
I want it to be seamless.
Should i have created just one track and added all 35 videos to this and if so can i still chose individual songs from the menu?
It has been my experience that when many clips are added to the same track the join points are seamless and then of cource you would use the edit function to add a chapter mark at the beginning of each song/clip
I wish I had discovered this fantastic program sooner.
Is there an option to add automatic chapters to a project every 5 or 10 minutes thruout the film?
thanks
Go to the clip edit screen and click on the "edit menu" button (the button isn't acutally labeled "edit menu", it just has an icon of a contextual menu -- see screenshot). Then select chaptering tool. Or just hit ctrl + k to open the chaptering tool window. You'll be able to set chapters automatically through various means, such as specified intervals (every x minutes) or by setting how many chapters you want.
Hi,
I am trying to make a DVD with a simple menu. I have a project with a single track and 11 chapters. I want the first menu to have to links: Play All and Chapter Selection.
If the user hits play all, it starts from chapter 1 and plays all the chapters in that track.
If the user hits Chapter Selection, it takes them to a chapter selection page.
First option:
Just make sure you choose the option to make a top and track menu. Your top menu is the menu you are describing, while the track menu is your chapter menu.
Your top menu should automatically have a "play all" button. You should also have a thumbnail or link for your track - this is your chapter selection button.
Second option:
Create a Track-only menu but also add a title page for the track menu (this option is only available for custom menus). Your title page will then have a link to play and a chapter link.
I am using the TMPGEnc Express 4 with SpursEngine and encoded 1 hour pal video with the format DVD-PAL 720x576 , 16:9, 25 fs.
It encode successfully and can play within mediaplayer with full screen.
Then, i put the encoded mpeg file inside Authoring Works 4 to build a DVD image with no DVD menu. after completed, I wiew the video by media player, The video will reside in 4:3 format and only show the video on top left corner.
The Disc writing tool is not working. I am receiving an error stating that the 'Disc Writing Drive is stopped'. However, my drive is not stopped. I uninstalled the Samsung DVD Drive and reinstalled, still not luck. The DVD drive is not recognised by the TMPGEnc Authoring works 4. Please help.