I have an authored disk. Has 5 tracks. I want to change one of them. I have long since deleted the project file. Is there any way I can retrieve the menu design from the disk?

Otherwise I have to recreate it from scratch.

Alternatively, could I author a new disk with just that track, and then rename the created files to the correct numbers (VTS_03_0.BUP, VTS_0_0.IFO, VTS_03_1.VOB) and replace them in the file set and reburn?

After double click on program (trial version) i see a windows whith this message:
"EACCESS VIOLATION OCCURRED - module TMPGEncAutoringWorks4Trial.exe / 0B1DAB89
AT ADDRESS 0B1DBB89, READ ERROR OCCURRED AGAINST ADDRESS 0B1DBB89" and the program stopped.
Can you help me?

Thanks.

.wmv file of a 1436px wide x 856px tall 7fps recording looks good if played on pc using windows media player. I used TMPGenc Authoring Works 4 on this file and 16:9 max quality setting, having found the settings button now, and can see all of the recording in simulation. Play the resulting dvd on tv, it is soft and misses off base of recording, despite tring out all the screen ratios on my sony WEGA. Play it on PC and its also soft and smaller on screen when played with Windows media player than using that same prog to play the original wmv.

So why has TMPGenc made a poorer job of it ? Pic ratio 16:9 and pic qlty max was the settings. Bitrate 6000kbs (though I dont understand what that does, I left it at that). rate control mode VBR (smart rendering 1 pass VBR) MPEG-2 video 720x576 25fps.

BOBC

You can increase the video bitrate to 9000kbs or so and that should improve things a bit. The bitrate is how much data is supplied to the video/audio stream. The higher the bitrate, the more detail can be encoded into the outputted file. The tradeoff is that higher bitrate videos take up more disc space, which may translate into less content on one DVD.

A reason it may not look as good is because DVD-Video has a lower resolution than your source video, so it's impossible for it to look just as good. The difference will be very apparent on a large screen. Your source video is more in the range of Blu-ray quality.

As for it being off base, what is the aspect ratio of the source video in the "Clip Properties" tab of the edit window?

aspect ratio says Pixel 1:1 (Square pixel).

I think as you say its the reducing down of the resolution. The monitor gives a quality picture with e.g. text occupying 1 pixel exact and when the resolution is reduced that text is smudged out across two. 16:9.537 is the ratio of my screen capture doing maths on the pixels. I made the program window fit the widescreen monitor then eyeing a ruler placed corner to corner on the diagonal I resized it to match its corner to the ruler, so I wasn't far off, assuming the monitor is 16:9 ratio ! I guess the .537 is the bit off screen at bottom !

BOBC

Hi,
I have TMPGenc Authoring works 4
Starting a new project we just have pal dvd choice, no choice of 4:3 or widescreen. So if we want to put 4:3 footage into a widescreen format, or have widescreen recording and wish to make widescreen dvd, how is that done ? I have a custom video size and reckon widescreen may be better, as choosing PAL dvd sees it shrunk smaller than required and its unreadable.

BOBC

I think folks I have sussed this, its the settings button on the actual clip in source. Not the obvious place, as one could have 4:3 for one source file and 16:9 for another, surely it should be top right of screen where the pal DVd choice is made ?

BOBC

You've found the correct place to change the settings, but a DVD can easily have both 4:3 and 16:9 footage all on the same disc, which is why it isn't a top level setting. The program automatically sets a flag of 4:3 or 16:9 per track based on the characteristics of the clips in the track. If you mix and match 4:3 and 16:9 clips in the same track, the 4:3 clips will be re-encoded to 16:9 and black bars will be encoded into the video which is not optimal.

Thus, you should separate 4:3 and 16:9 footage into their own tracks to avoid the letter/pillar boxing being encoded into the video. Any decent DVD player will automatically add the pillarboxing to a 4:3 clip played on a 16:9 TV, so you should avoid encoding the pillarboxing into the video if possible. But since it sounds like you have an unusual aspect ratio, forcing 16:9 and encoding the black bars might be the way to go.

I have done a region capture using Techsmith Snagit screen video capture and the size is 1436 wide x 856 tall (pixels) and at 7fps. Looks good played back on screen. If I make this into a dvd, as it is too big a file to email, what settings do I use? Choosing PAL dvd, gives me no options of 4:3 or 16:9, just cant see any choices anywhere. Where are they ? Surely we must be able to choose what type. Preview sees only part of the video show. I was recording a demo of how to do something in a program. When making the program window a suitable size on screen to record using Snagit's region capture, there is no way of knowing what the pixel size will be, and on my 1920px wide resolution monitor, making a program window a width to suit pal 4:3 or 16:9 is not something thats easy, and it would be stupidly small and impractical. Mine of 1436 was small enough !
Would I choose HD Widescreen ? even thats 1080 so not wide enough. I can see a bluray option so have just tried Bluray PAL and the recording fits the height and width with margins of black at sides, however that needs a 25Mb bluray disk to burn and the recipient may not have a bluray player.
Absolutely stuck ! Is there not a setting to bring in an odd size and fit it to a standard dvd format, prpbably pal 16:9 may suffice if I could find how to choose it !

When I choose 'play all' button, only videos from Track 1 play. How can I make that all videos from all tracks (I have 6) will play?

I made a custom DVD, all files (VOB, IFO) played separetely looks fine, but when I'm launching them as DVD, all I see is green screen on all pages. No thumbnails, no buttons, only videos and audios play fine. what could be the problem?

i forgot to mention that also I don't see anything during simulation, please help :(

I'm using TAW4 to quickly put some recorded shows to DVD, using just a top level menu - no chapter menus, and one of the templates that comes with it - "Samurai," I think it's calle. However, I would like to re-order the default order on the template to start with the first video item, not the default item that is first highlighted when the DVD starts up - "Play All" - which is at the bottom of the screen.

How do I do that? I see no control for that.

how do i made TMPGEnc Authoring Works 4 make a sound when burning is completed like it did in version 3.0 ?

Hi All,

I am currently in the process of creating a nice looking DVD Menu with AW4.

I have pictures as my menu items which has titles listed of the content with a small icon also on the picture.

I would like to know if there is a way of being able to animate the icon and have this used as the selecting icon for each title that is in the list. I hope this makes sense. I would like to use the picture as my menu and be able to animate an icon so that this can be used as the selector for the titles that are listed. I don't really wish to use the menu creation and the one with text option as the text is already in the picture.

Thanks to all :)

Hi! Cannot figured out, whats causing to appear the XviD icon in notification area, then import XviD movie into Authoring Works 4. I use K-Lite Mega Codec Pack. In ffdshow options XviD is disabled. Any suggestions

I often bring in (and out) menu selection text as a fade. It works dandy,
but, whatever menu selection was last selected, is highlighted/underlined/whatever the selection criteria is, from the instant the Menu page is displayed. This can be a little jarring and definitely does
not look professional. Is there a way to convince the initial selection
(whatever it's set to) to fade in and out with it's text?

Thanks,

-Craig

This question comes up quite often.
Sorry, but there's no way to fade-in the highlight.