Have a problem with testing this new software. Each procedure seems to work fine until I choose 'Write the media to disk"

I get an error:

[Command=55] [sense: ASC:A SCQ=05:26:00] (00000d6f)

Does anyone have a suggestion? Thanks.

No idea. Try contacting their user support. Since it's a trial, use their pre-sales contact form or the general inquiries form:
http://tmpgenc.pegasys-inc.com/en/contact.html

Howdy,

I'd like to be able to build a DVD menu where it would play a chapter, and then just return to the chapter menu rather than moving automatically from one chapter to the next. Is this possible?

Here's my situation: My wife is a school teacher and her students make videos for various projects. I would like to be able to create a DVD with different titles, or tracks, for each project. For example, one project might be "commercials", another might be "South American Counties". So my top menu would display each project as a different track.

Within each track I might have 6-12 or so different small clips, each clip being one group's video. These would so up as separate chapters. But I want to play just one chapter, then return to the menu. I don't want to play all the chapters at once.

Is there a way to do this? I love what I see so far, but I need this feature, or this software won't work for me.

First Page. Just a Play button and a special features button. Press play and the clip should play. When I press special features it should go to page 2 and there will be three buttons there to play three clips. After each play it should come back to page 2. How can this be done. It perplexing when you put each clip in a separate track, you get 4 different track menus. I want them all on one page. If I gang the three clips into one track then all of them play instead of playing separately and then coming back to the menu. I don't need a thousand track pages just trying to get one.

Any ideas.

While not a specific answere to your question, to my mind, AW4 behaves differently from other authoring products. Instead of adding things to a menu, you start with a maxed out menu and remove the things you do not want. Once I internalized that concept, it became easier to build projects quickly, but it takes practice.

>When I press special features it should go to page 2 and there will be three buttons there to play three clips. After each play it should come back to page 2.

This sounds similar to what I'm looking to do with chapters playing, then returning to menu. Most DVD programs that I've found just can't do this. For things like feature films this makes sense. Who would want to just watch one chapter of a movie? But for a lot of us who fiddle around with making DVDs for personal use or (in my case) for a school, having this ability is very important.

The funny thing is, I've got an old, old version of Power Producer from Cyberlink. It has the option of playing a clip, then returning to menu, or to play continuously (clip, after clip, after clip).

It's odd to find a feature in just an old product that doesn't seem to be available in any new software. If anyone knows of a current program that can do this, I'd love to hear about it.

Clip and chapter are differnt things. Every clip has at least one chapter - at the start of the clip. You can add more chapter points in the clip. Chapter points allow one to navigate/jump within a clip. To automatically navigate back to the menu from the end of a chapter you probably need to make the chapter correspond to a clip, not just a piece of a clip.

I want to do a similar thing.

I film a lot of dance concerts and want to have a main menu that has 3 options that says

ACT A ACT B HIGHLIGHTS

Track 1 is ACT A
Track 2 is ACT B

Trouble is the project I am working on has the highlights as the last chapter point of ACT B.

Q. How do I make the highlights play via its own dedicated button via the main menu.

I have only just got the program and haven't dived into the manual yet.

Please tell me this is possible.

I got the latest version but have a strange issue with screen size of clips. Some files always get widescreen and some standard 4:3 even if I set all as standard or all as wide in the settings. The source files are 4:3. Any help?

Can you describe what the clips look like when they are widescreen? Is the image stretched horizontally? Are there black bars encoded into the 4:3 video?

If they look stretched, you may need to correct the pixel aspect ratio in the clip properties.

Yes, they get stretched horizontally. Ive tried 4:3 on all and even 16:9 but I always get same result.
Ive tried different pixel displays under "aspect ratio" but with no luck.

Thank you for your help.

They display stretched within TAW4? or is it when you play it on a DVD player?

Can you download MediaInfo and get the video properties and post them here?

In TAW4 everything looks like I want. The issue appears when I try the outputed iso in VLC.

VLC has its own aspect ratio settings which are probably overriding the actual aspect ratio. In VLC, go to the video menu-->aspect ratio, and select "default". I have a feeling yours is set to "16:9".

Its set as standard not 16:9 but If I play along with the settings it get right. Thank you for your help :)
Another question. How do I get better quality on my projects? Ive choosen insane quality etc but still get only ok quality.

Thank you in advance.

Increase the bitrate in the track settings.

Do I need to activate the video chache function to be able to change bitrate?

No, just go to the track settings and change the bitrate. You may need to change the Encoder mode to "Re-encode all videos as below" instead of Smart rendering prioritized.

On several occasions when I have select "Write to media..." as part of the initial output of a project, AW4 writes to the DVD after creating the directories on the hard drive, but the DVD does not play (anywhere) and it appears not to be "finalized" when viewed in NERO. However, this only happens if the "Write to media..." is include as part of the initial project output. If I come back later and write to media using the Disc Writing Tool after the project is initially output the DVD is OK.

Am I missing something here?

Hi there, I'm a TMPGEnc user for some time, but this is the first time I feel really frustrated due to an error for which I haven't found any solution yet on the internet. I'm working with a intel core i7 ACER laptop, win 7, and ever since I installed authoring works 4 I have experienced this error, (on this laptop I guess, don't remember) but I learned to go around it, installing and uninstalling the k-lite codec pack every time I faced that error, but since 2 months ago, I can't work anymore. It doesn't matter what I do.. I get that error.. this has me very frustrated, there's nothing on the net about this..
I work usually with HD mp4 videos, but I can't do a thing anymore.. sometimes I get the error after it renders the menu, sometimes after the first added video or sometimes at 50%, and sometimes I don't get the error, but the software keeps rendering a black video, as if nothing was there.. and the remaining time gets endless...
can anyone help me out? thank you

Try contacting support. A discussion thread on Afterdawn.com suggests that it might be the audio stream that is causing the error. Try outputting with no audio and see if that solves the problem. If that is the problem, you may have to demux your audio stream, convert it to another format, and then bring it back into TAW4 as the audio source.

In any case, contact user support as they may be able to tell you what the real problem is.
http://tmpgenc.pegasys-inc.com/en/support/support.html

hi user !!!
i'm newbie in here
i'm just download 1 DVD (V2D)from web torrent
in there have 5 movie , i'm was asking uploader about how to do
them tell me TMPGEnc DVD Author 3 with DivX Authoring can to do that
but i'm do its can only 4 movie i'm convert vdo to 350mb also can put only 4 movie
so i'm need com her to ask about how to do 5 movie in 1 dvd ?
thanks you

You want to put 5 movies on one DVD? You can try using the fit-to-disc transcode option in the output stage, or you can manually lower the bitrate on each of your tracks until it can fit on one DVD. 5 full-length movies on one DVD will probably not look good though due to the low bitrate.

Hello, I'm trying to find the chaptering tool to create chapters in TMPGEnc Authoring Works 4.0.12.42. Please advise. TIA!

To add achapter point to a clip:
Select adn open the clip in the Edit screen of the Source tab.
Move the timeline cursor to the point where you want to add the chapter
Click the add chapter icon (a flag).

The chaptering tool is in the edit menu in the clip editor. Access the edit menu by clicking on the button on the right-hand side that has an icon that looks like a contextual menu.

See this page if you have no idea what I'm talking about. It's for TDA3 but it's similar to where the chaptering tool is in TAW4.
http://tmpgenc.pegasys-inc.com/en/lab/lab03_TDA3_chapteringTool.html

Is it possible to use custom menu-templates made with DVD Author 3 (file ending: tda3mt) with TAW4 ? If so, where have the templates to be placed in Win 7 Pro?

Yes, you can use TDA3 menu templates in TAW4. In the menu wizard, choose to create a menu using a template, then click on the "Other templates..." button. This will open a folder selector; just select the folder that contains your custom TDA3 templates and it will be added to your template list.

Moving the files to TAW4's custom template folder is probably a good idea, otherwise you will have to load them from the TDA3 location every time you want to use them. I think the default location for custom TAW4 templates is in the Documents/TMPGEnc Authoring Works 4/Template directory.

Looking to replace DVD Workshop and landed here. Could a more experienced user tell me if it is possible to do the following:
A simple text driven menu with 2 text options, “Play”, which will play Track 1 from the beginning, and “Continuous Play” which will play track 1 repeatedly.

In DWS, this was extremely easy, just type the 2 text fields, click on the “Continuous Play” field, select the playlist option and add start/end loop points. From what I can see, there does not appear to be a way to assign tracks chapters or actions (such as loop/continuous play) to user added images or text fields, or did I miss something?

The reason this is so important is because I produce videos for weddings/grads/memorials where they just want to start the DVD playing and have the video run continuously through the event without being monitored so a "Continuous Play" option is required. I am moving away from DWS as it is no longer supported and does not run on Win7. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thansk,
Mason

Unfortunately, TAW4 is not that robust in terms of customizing functions. You can't have both options present on a DVD made by TAW4; it can play one track at a time, play through all the tracks automatically, or play through all the tracks and then loop forever. You can only choose one of those options and it will apply to the entire DVD.

In order to set that, you can go to the DVD global menu settings if you've already made your menu, or there is an option for it in the Menu Wizard. Just look for the option "Track playback end action" and select what you want to happen.

Thanks for the quick response. Unfortunately, that's what I thought. It's a shame that such a nice feature-rich and well designed program is missing basic functionality. The search continues I guess.

I've not tried this, but perhaps:

You could have one button play the track once and then return to the main menu.

A second button could link to a subordinate custom menu with the video running as a full-screen background, or full screen button with annimation, looping until terminated by the user? Pressing the button here might display a brief "Thank you for watching" adn return to the main menu.

Hello all, new to this forum. Usind Authoring works 4.0. I create a slide show of 197 slides (imported from desktop, all jpegs). the program creates the slideshow, previews no problem in color, burns to disc no problem. When I put the disc in to view, all the pictures are in black and white. Not sure where in the process this is happening. I've never changed any settings for the dvd burner (TSST DVD+-RW burner, using windows Vista). Previous slide show went without a hitch. Any thoughts? Thanks

What are you playing the DVD on? A DVD player? Your computer?
Also, are you in a PAL region? Did you make a PAL or NTSC DVD?
Some PAL players aren't able to correctly display NTSC video, and black and white video can be one of the signs of that.

Downloaded and installed trial of TAW4, ripped my BD with AnyDVD, got lots of files. There are 2 large files, both 1 hr. 57 min. long, one is movie, other is movie with commentary. The commentary version of the movie is in english, however the main movie file is in French! I assume there is an English audio soundtrack, but I cannot figure out for the life of me how to get at it. Can anyone help me?

I've done some tests and here's what I found.
There doesn't seem to be any way to select which audio track to import when importing BD video clips. It's possible with DVD-Video, but not with Blu-rays.

These are my finding using a BD .m2ts file with 2 audio tracks:
When importing the Blu-ray .m2ts file, it typically imports the first audio track.
I've also found that if I use the Advanced Tools' MPEG Tool Demultiplexer (Start stage-->Advanced Tools-->MPEG Tool-->Demultiplexer) and I select the .m2ts file, it will demultiplex the second audio stream! I can then import the resulting .m2v and .ac3 files as a clip.

I'm not sure what will happen if there are more than 2 audio tracks.

Unfortunately, the MPEG tools are disabled in the trial version, so I don't think you'll be able to test that out.

TMPGEnc Video Mastering Works 5 (their video encoding software) can properly select audio/subtitle tracks from BD video just like DVD-Video, so hopefully that will eventually make it into TAW4.

So is there any reason why I would not want to buy Video Mastering Works 5 instead of TAW4? I mean, for what I'm trying to do, which is to edit commercial blu-ray discs? They're the same price.

Since Video Mastering Works 5 is not authoring software, you will not be able to create DVD/Blu-ray menus nor will you be able to burn to DVD/BD.

If you're not planning on burning to disc, then it might be a good fit for your needs.

Yes, I think it would be a better fit. I don't think I'll be burning anything. The recordable disks are too expensive, and I've got enough space on my server to hold the edited copies. I don't plan to be handing these out to anyone, just using at home what I paid for. Thanks!

In that case, I recommend trying the demo for Video Mastering Works 5 just to make sure it can do what you want and that it works with your files.

TVMW5 also has a much more sophisticated editing system if you choose the timeline project option. The only thing you might miss that is in TAW4 (besides menus and burning) is Smart Rendering; TVMW5 will re-encode everything you put into it, so if you have a DVD compliant video clip, it will re-encode the entire clip even if you are outputting in the same format with the same settings.