Capture a christmas movie in AVCHD. When editing a comercial I find the audio is missing but the audio was there before i took out the commercial. I tried doing some gap setting changes to know avaial. Any idea on what i can do.

sir i am using your product tmpgenc authoring works,but i am facing one problem,there is no transition effect between first play and track menu,and also between first play and top menu.plz sir give me the solution,it is very important thing which should be in your authoring software like adobe encore and dvd lab pro.

i want to use transition effect between firstplay and track menu and also in top menu so how it can be possible?plz give me reply soon
thankz

It's not really possible to add transitions between menu pages. You can sort of fake it by incorporating them into a motion background, though.

Using TMPGEnc Authoring Works 4 Trial version, attempting to write to a Dual Layer 8.5 GB DVD, I get the below error message. (I realize that the second sentence is messed up, but that's what it says.):

"The estimated output size is 7920 MB, but the output location offers only 4927 MB of available space. Change of or free enough space in the current output folder."

I know that the DVD I am using is a Dual Layer 8.5 GB disc. I have checked out multiple software products and was really liking TMPGEnc Authoring Works, but I really want to be able to write to 8.5 GB discs. Is this a known problem or a bug of some sort? Anyone know what causes this or how to get past it? Thanks

How much space do you have on your hard drive? TAW4 needs to save the output files to your hard drive before it can burn it to disc. That is what the message is referring to.

Thanks! I hadn't realized it, but I was getting low on hard disk space. I've purchased the full version, now, and I think I'm going to be happy with it.

How I can output many files at the same time, I have a 6 core CPU, and It will be much faster if I can conver many videos at the same time

You can have multiple instances of TAW4 open if you want to output multiple projects simultaneously.

But I Get this message:

"Another TMPGEnc Authoring Works 4 or the batch authoring tool is currently outputting.

Output can only be one at a time per computer."

Ah, sorry. I didn't actually try outputting. I guess it can't be done then. The batch encoder is probably the best solution then.

I have a some files that are in mono.I want to use the stereo audio that I took from a CD to replace the mono.
How do i do this?
The video files are already on my hard drive,as is audio from the CD.

From the Edit stage, double-click the clip or click on the "Edit" button to open the clip editor.
Go to the clip properties tab. For the audio source, click on the "Browse.." button and select your stereo audio file to replace the original audio.

I have the audio and video so that they both start at the same time(as Jon Anderson introduces Igor Khoroshev).
However,when I click on play,the video starts at the beginning,but of hearing Jon speak,I hear the playing I've Seen All Good People
????

I am trying the trial version and i have added my videos but when i view the videos through the player i am getting lots of digital break up and it looks horrible.

I have burnt a dvd to check it is the same on a DVd player and it is.

But when i watch the original videos there is no break up?

I want to buy this software but bot if it is going to look like this

any ideas?

What will really help is if you tell us what your source video format is. Use a program like MediaInfo and post the video's info here.

I want to create a blu ray disk based on other multi-audio/multi-subtitled disk.
This is the first time i am doing it in a Blu Ray (done allot of DVDs before).

When i import the files to the project (using the Source Wizard, From...) I have to select the files i want individually but it doesn't give me any option about subtitles or audio language I want after.

What I am doing wrong?

I don't think you're doing anything wrong, I just think that TAW4's blu-ray importation tool is not very advanced and not up to the level that the DVD importer is.
That said, I'm not sure how you'd extract the other audio and subtitle streams. You may have to use some other software besides TAW4.

If choosing, upon disc insertion, to 'play header track only' (and then proceed to top menu)... is it possible to NOT have that header track then show up in the top menu?

I am creating a DVD with a top menu showing 3 tracks per page (no track menus). However going though the 'source' and 'menu' options I cannot see any way of not having the header track show up as a clickable track in the top menu - I just want it to play once upon disc insertion and then not be accessible.

I can make it 'invisible' on the menu screen with opacity, but it is still 'there' and accessible by the DVD remote.

Thanks for any advice.

Found 'firstplay' track function.

Glad you found the First Play. AW4 has lots of nooks and crannies with stuff in them.

I have not tried it, and it may not make much sense to do so, but one might be able to do manual button routing to skip certain buttons on a menu.

Using TMPGenc Authoring Works 4 I have created a DVD with several imported MPEG2 files as 'tracks'.

The DVD is structured with no 'title page'. The menu screen - or 'top page' - features three tracks or 'play all', with several other similar pages containing the rest of the tracks. There are no chapters created within any of the tracks.

Global Menu Settings are instructed to display the top page upon disc insertion. This happens accordingly when testing on my old DVD player.

However when I try the same disc in my LG BD550 Blu-ray player, the first track begins to play automatically instead of the viewer being presented with the 'top page' menu screen. 'Disc Menu' must be selected on the player remote to access the menu screen.

This is against how I have instructed TAW4 to encode my disc. I will try other DVD and Blu-ray players when I have access to them. In the meantime... any thoughts, or anything else to check?

Thanks in advance.

I have tried all the settings, and despite instructing TAW4 to 'display top page menu' upon disc insertion, my LG BD550 Blu-ray player ignores this completely and launches straight into playing track 1 instead.

This even happens when I create a 'firstplay' header track, and the TAW4 playback simulator correctly plays this first followed by the top menu. When I come to insert the created DVD into the LG player however, it completely ignores the firstplay header track, and the top menu, and instead launches straight into track 1.

I can only assume that since TAW4 was released, certain newer DVD/Blu-ray players like my LG have the technology to override these instructions on the discs and decide themselves how they will react upon disc insertion. The DVD plays just as it should with firstplay track then top menu on my older DVD player.

The only way at the moment I can seem to successfully have the LG player actually display the top menu on insertion is by creating a title page (which I do not really want) - the LG player seems to take notice of this as first thing to display, unlike the top menu without s title page.

The other way is to have a short, blank first track (thumbnail hidden and unlinked on first top menu page) and instruct TAW4 to play this first upon insertion, and then go to the top menu.

Neither of these solutions is ideal. Any ideas...?

I'm guessing it has to do with your LG player and not anything in TAW4. As you said, it works properly in your old DVD player. Try looking at the settings for your LG player.

Also worth checking for possible firmware update to the LG Blu-ray player.

I have not been able to figure out what bit rate AW4 uses to write an MPEG-2 to a Blu-Ray disk, or how to control this rate. Is it fixed?

Bitrate settings can be changed per track. Go to the Edit stage and click on the "Settings" button for the track(s). You can then adjust or see the bitrate settings.

I input video in MPEG-2. The audio are two WAV files. One is the right channel and one is the left channel.No matter how I input the audio, I do not get stereo sound in my Blu-ray. In fact, it does not appear that the clip editor or simulator play more than one track. How can I fix this? Each WAV file is Linear PCM, 48,000 Hz, 16 bits, monaural.

Can you combine the two mono audio files into a stereo file? Any decent audio editing program can do this.

Thanks. Turns out you need to put a stereo audio file into audio1. I did as you suggested.....make one audio stereo file, and it worked. Thanks.