Hello I bought the product recently, on Windows XP when I imported files. PSD or other images were 1:1! Now that I switched to Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit when I import that files. Can be seen at low resolution, despite the menu I select Blu Ray 16/9 HD and the files are HD 1920x1080
why? ?_?
Thk Dave

I can try to reinstall TMPGEnc Authoring Works 4! surprise.... when import PSD file is perfect! ican't believe no lose resolution, it's a bug of 5?

Frequently, when I load an AVI file, the video comes up as horizontal bars. How do I fix this?

Hi Dez
I had the same problem. Just read the answer tkrave gave me 4 questions down from yours. The one that starts "cant read avi files". His answer fixed everything. Really quite simple :)

Hi Guys
I was just wondering if anyone can tell me why there is no verification function that the disk is an exact copy of the data. I encode with this program but choose to burn with another as it verifies the disk is correctly burned. Seems strange for a program of this caliber or am I missing something? Thanks
Gazza

Hello TMPGEng friends, I'd like to change the text on buttons. Currently they read 'play' & 'chapter'. How do I customize a button? Thank you in advance.
Lisa

You can't edit the pre-made buttons because they are images, not editable text. You can import your own images to use as buttons or create text buttons with the Custom Menu editor (choose to create a custom menu instead of from a template).

Hi,
Can anyone tell me why when I try to import any avi file to make a dvd, all I get is a whole lot of jagged lines where you should be able to preview the file. This does not happen with any other format such as mp4, mkv, etc. So effectively I can't make a dvd out of any of my avi files as the program wont read them properly. I would appreciate anyone's help with this thanks.
Gazza

You may not have the correct codec installed.
AVI is a container format, so the video and audio can be in any format and you may not have the right codec installed on your computer.
You can use a program like MediaInfo to find out what format your audio/video is in and what codec you need.

Can the video be played in Windows Media Player? If so, then you should have the codec installed already. TAW5 will use the same codecs that Windows Media Player uses.

HI tkrave,
Thanks for the reply. Yes they all play fine in windows media player, that's why Im really confused lol. I use windows 8.1 now, they used to play fine in windows 7. That's all I can think of. :( Below is one of the files if that's any help.

Format : AVI
Format/Info : Audio Video Interleave
File size : 930 MiB
Duration : 1h 1mn
Overall bit rate : 2 113 Kbps

Video
ID : 0
Format : MPEG-4 Visual
Format profile : Simple@L3
Format settings, BVOP : No
Format settings, QPel : No
Format settings, GMC : No warppoints
Format settings, Matrix : Default (H.263)
Codec ID : XVID
Codec ID/Hint : XviD
Duration : 1h 1mn
Bit rate : 1 967 Kbps
Width : 720 pixels
Height : 404 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate : 25.000 fps
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Compression mode : Lossy
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.271
Stream size : 866 MiB (93%)
Writing library : XviD 1.2.1 (UTC 2008-12-04)

Audio
ID : 1
Format : MPEG Audio
Format version : Version 1
Format profile : Layer 3
Mode : Joint stereo
Mode extension : MS Stereo
Codec ID : 55
Codec ID/Hint : MP3
Duration : 1h 1mn
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 128 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Compression mode : Lossy
Stream size : 56.3 MiB (6%)
Alignment : Aligned on interleaves
Interleave, duration : 24 ms (0.60 video frame)
Writing library : LAME3.98

You can try using a different file reader in TAW5.
When selecting your file from the Source Wizard, you can "force" a different file reader in the drop-down menu on the bottom right side of the window.
Try the DirectShow file reader, the Media Foundation file reader, or the AVI file reader. TAW5 was probably using one of those by default, so one of the other ones might work better.

Thanks heaps tkrave!! You are a legend!! I never knew that menu existed lol. I chose direct show as it was the only one of the 3 you mentioned that worked and its all good!!
Thanks again for helping me
Regards
Gazza

HELP. While trying to output I keep getting an error code oxcooD36BE. I keep trying to send a message to support but keeps kicking my email address out.

Its unbelievebla: there i have a Software that costs me 99 Dollar - which is powerful and wonderful, no way!
but today it's STANDARD to have DTS-Sound on Blu-Ray.
My creations look very good with TAW5, but sounds "crappy" with highest Dolby Digital Sound encoding available (DD2.0 = 448 kbs and DD5.1 640 kbs).

So my wish (and some particular others fans of TAW5): DTS-encoding, maybe as payable plug-in ? as in TAW3 (i mean) the AC3 encoding plugin.

greets sends
I Wanter

We came to TMPEGEnc Authoring from Avid DVD (Sonic DVD IT). The Tsunami product costs a fraction of the (no longer available) Sonic one and is better in every possible way. Firstly, it has never crashed. Secondly, it has never crashed. Thirdly, it has never crashed. Fourthly, even my wife thinks it's easy to use.

I'm particularly keen on the way you can export chapter points from a DVD project and import them into the Blu-ray project - great!

My only gripe - I wish it was easier to find out how to encode my sources to avoid it transcoding them - but I gather the secrecy around this is something to do with DVD specification licensing??

Thanks for a great product

There's no secrecy about DVD/BD specifications. You can easily find DVD-Video specs on the web.
What program are you using to encode your videos? Does it have a DVD output template?

>Its unbelievebla: there i have a Software that costs me 99 Dollar - which is powerful and wonderful, no way!
>but today it's STANDARD to have DTS-Sound on Blu-Ray.

No its not. Most commercial Blu-ray's have Dolby True HD.
If DTS output support was added, which Pegasys has to pay a LOT of money for, how do you think it would effect the price of TAW5? You would not be getting it for $99 for sure, it would look more like $400 you had to pay for it, due to how expensive the rights for DTS usage is.

Then i want to have the feature of Dolby True HD.
This was, what i meant.
And, dear Tmpgenc-Support? When is the next update with this feature ? ;O)

You could always try multiavchd. It has full DTS support, and full subtitle support. It will accept SSA and SRT subs in an mkv file. Something that TMPEG has refused to do. It is also FREE.

My previous post asked a question about modifying a video in TAW5 to create a 'divider' clip but I have now thought of a different solution. I have cut one of my MKV clips in TAW5 so that it contains a single all-black frame. Is there any way to duplicate this frame and thus extend the duration of this black image, so that it lasts for about 2 seconds?

You can create an all black clip directly in TAW5.
From the Souce Wizard, choose the last option: "From a color matte or pattern".
It should be set to black by default, so all you have to do is set the clip duration. Click OK and you'll have a new, all-black clip in your clip list.

I am trying to create a compilation of extracts taken from a lossless MKV rip of one of my Blu-ray disks and I want to have a visible marker between these extracts. My intention is to create a very short divider clip that has similar video and audio settings, which should make merging a sequence of EXTRACT + DIVIDER + EXTRACT + DIVIDER + EXTRACT much less likely to create problems in MKVMerge. Please note that I don't want to re-encode my video extracts.

My preferred approach is to create a divider by modifying a short clip taken from the same MKV file, which should guarantee compatibility with my primary extracts. I want to edit this clip to convert the video to a continuous plain black image and reduce the audio signal to zero. Can this be done with TAW5?

David

Greetings,

I have not been able to find a drive that is compatible
with TAWS5. The list provided on the website seems
to be made up of discontinued devices.

I have been using other software to do my writes but I
preferred to stay within TAWS in the past with version 4.

I had asked this of the support people and was referred
to their outdated list.

I have Windows 7 professional 64 bit - 32gb of RAM and
an Nvidia GTX 670 with 4gb

Thanks in advance!

Have you tried to write with TAW5? (I've had no problem with generally available current SATA drives.)

My impresion (I may be wrong) is that drive compatability lists date to earlier days when optical drive control/commands were not as standardized as they are today.

Suddenly today Authoring wors 5 seems to be causing Win 7 home premium geforce 440 version.32 to constantly reboot. other video editing programs not affecting
have uninstalled and reinstalled Problem occurs with/without cuda
?

please disregard the above
auto rebooking is not exclusive to authoring works
system reboots when computer working hard

Dust build up on the graphics card

I have an interactive Blu-Ray menu that was created with Nero Video 12 that I quite like, and I'd like to be able to import into an Authoring Works 5 Blu-Ray project. I wish it to act as the main interactive menu of the TAW5 project.

I've extracted/exported the menu to a separate file, which I successfully added to the TAW5 project. However, I don't know how to make it serve as the interactive main title menu. Can this be done? If so, how?

Thanks!