I'm not sure if this function is available, but I can find no reference of it.

It would save me a significant amount of time if when creating a DVD Menu, I could import the source video's file name (without the extension), or possibly info from the file's metadata, to track and chapter titles. Currently, I have to type these by hand, which is incredibly time consuming when I have 30+ source videos.

It would even be an advantage to be able to just see the source video title when a certain chapter or track is selected during menu editing. That would save me having to exit the DVD Menu section and click over to the Source section just to see which source video is under each track.

Thank-You.

Go to the Preferences-->Project default settings, and for Track title, select "Auto fill first clip name." That way, it should use the name of the first clip you add to a track.
You can also choose to use the clip name for chapters.

Thanks for your reply! This works wonderfully, thank you.

It currently displays spaces as underscores within the menu. I can live with this, but it there a way to fix this?

I don't think there's a way to change how it handles spaces. At least, I can't find a way.

Now that TAW5 allows the duration of the highlight to be delayed, I am hoping that an update will enable highlights to be faded in, as well. This feature would add a more professional look to the finished menu.

BATCH authoring is very good but After finish can not shutdown.
Please add t next update

The option is there. In the Batch Authoring window, click on Options-->Finishing Task-->Shutdown.

THANK

I save in last file to batch finish to shutdown but not.

OK thank again for suggest.

If I want to switch my license from one computer to another that I own, what are my limitations here? I don't want to use the software on more than one computer at a time, but from time to time I would probably need to switch between two machines. How is this handled?

Also, one of the computers has internet access very infrequently... I am a little worried about constant validation... What is the time period between verifications? If its like once every six months, it might be ok... but if not, that isn't really acceptable to me.

I was going to place my order today, but this validation stuff has me a little worried. I really like your product, but if I can't use it the way I want, it would be foolish for me to buy it.

They would tell you that you have to uninstall the software on the old computer before installing it on a new computer. As long as you don't use it on two computers at once or install it on multiple computers within a short timeframe, you should be okay.

Validation happens maybe once every two weeks. Haven't really kept track though, so it might be more or less.

Thanks for the reply.

I really have to say the 1-2 weeks reactivation bothers me. This would mean I'd have to drudge one of my desktops up 2 flights of stairs (no wifi reception in the basement) to reactivate. It seems a little draconian considering I'm willing to spend $100 to legitimately buy the software.

Its a shame because this is the easiest to use software I've found. Its very well made...

1) If you're creating VERY large slideshows, create each topic as a seperate sub-project. Complete each with music and subtitles (eg Holidays 2001, 2002, 2003 etc) and output as a DVD to your hard disk.

Once you have created all the sub-projects, create a new master project and import each sub-project, selecting the subtitles you want to import. Repeat for each slideshow sub-project. Once all are imported, build the menus then output the entire master project and burn to DVD.

Doing this TAW5 is a lot more responsive and stable than one very large project. If make a mistake, just edit and re-render the sub-project. You should delete the old sub-project from the master project, then re-import to problems - particularly if the new version of teh sub-project is of different length. This way it only takes minutes to correct a mistake and re-render to DVD - instead of hours if it was one large project.

2) Slideshows only need a low bitrate. Slideshows with animation work fine at 2500 kbps, or lower if no animation. This way you can get 6 or 7 hours of slideshow on one dual-layer DVD.

3) It's not everyone's taste, but I think transistions and animations are good. Don't overdo transitions - it can get irritating - usually best to stick to the same simple transistion for each photo - eg dissolve. If zooming in, select local setting for each picture, and select the subject by clicking on it (eg click on the face of a person) - that way TAW5 zooms into the subject (where the eye naturally focuses), rather than zooming off to some random point in the distance.

4) Subtitles are terrific for slideshows. I use three - picture description, the music currently playing and the picture filename. Decide on the duration of each picture before adding subtitles - otherwise you'll have to spend ages changing the subtitle timings (The default of 5s for each seems to work well). I set the picture description as the default (ie it always displays unless turned off or changed to a different subtitle). Each subtitle type (or individual subtitle) can be a different colour - I use a different colour for each of the three.

1) Currently only 200 pictures per slideshow are allowed - although multiple slideshows can be added to one track. I am unaware of any technical reason (ie DVD standards) why this is restricted to 200. This causes difficulties for soundtracks and subtitles. Can this be increased to at least 1000?

2) Currently only one audio file can be selected. This causes problems especially for background music for slideshows, where you have to edit multiple files into a single file before use. It would be great if more than one file could be selected that would then play sequentially.

3) The ability to change the duration of multiple subtitles. For example - in a slideshow if you want to change the display duration of all pictures from say 5s to 6s, all subtitles timings need to be manually adjusted.

4) The ability to import a subtitle file to the end of an existing subtitle file. For example if you combine all the pictures from two slideshows into one, there is no easy way to append the subtitles of the second slideshow at the end of the first.

5) I've noticed a new issue in TAW5 I didn't notice in TAW4. When you are in the pictures tab reviewing pictures, it is very easy to accidentally move the position of a picture (try clicking on each picture on the left in turn - you will find it impossible to do without changing the order of the pictures.

6) Zoom in to a rectangle doesn't zoom in to the selected area. This also didn't work on TAW4.

Other than that and that TAW5 is not quite as stable as TAW4, this is the best slideshow software on the market.

Regards Brian

hallo. i have a question to you.In this version you've fixed the problem with highlight fade in,of course it is very good but, is it possible also make highlight fade out?????

Actually, the new feature is a highlight delay, not a fade in. A true highlight fade in (and fade out) option would be a great feature for an update, though.

I found the cause for an MKV video to lock-up when importing it, it's the Nvidia graphics driver at fault.

My setup is Window's 7 x64, ffdshow x86, Haali Matroska splitter and TAW5. Consistently I would import an MKV and it would lock-up. After re-installing Window's a few times, I discovered it worked when I hadn't installed any graphics driver from Nvidia (for my GeForce 520 card).

I installed "GeForce 301.42 - WHQL", the latest driver as of this post, then TAW5 would freeze. When I rolled back to driver "GeForce 296.10 Driver - WHQL", it worked fine and no longer locked-up.

I don't know what the root cause is, whether it's something Nvidia is doing, or if TAW5 is to blame, but rolling back to an earlier graphics driver "fixes" it.

Hope this helps someone else.

It can be Nvidia's fault, just as it is Ati's fault that people experience problems with their graphics card drivers.

The guys behind Matroska released a drivers package named CoreAVC (pay ware) a couple of years ago, who makes decoding and encoding of HD video run much more stable and smoothly if you have an Nvidia graphics card.
Obviously because there are problems with Nvidia's own CUDA driver.

The guys behind FFDSHOW created their own version of Ati's DXVA and added it for free to FFDSHOW, who runs much more smoothly and stable than Ati's original unstable release.
They did this because Ati leaves their graphics card users hanging dry and refuse to solve the problem with their own horrible DXVA.

Thanks Persen. I wondered what CoreAVC was and thought it was a CODEC package. For DXVA, I wasn't aware it's ATI only. In fact I saw "ffdshow (DXVA)" on the Win7DSTweaker tool. It sounds like the problem lies with Nvidia.

I'll say this though, ATI drivers are worse, much worse. Many times I've used a slightly older ATI card with latest drivers, they would blue-screen on installation, consistently - the problem lie with the card detection program.

I'll report this problem to Nvidia, see if I get any reply.

I am not even using the latest Ati drivers for my graphics card. The drivers are almost 6 months old, but at least they in general are running smoothly, except for the DXVA that came with it, but i let FFDSHOW take care of that instead.

CoreAVC is not entirely drivers package, it does contain codecs (forgot to mention that). Those are the ones who takes over the work of what Nvidia's CUDA is normally suppose to do.
But that said, Ati card users should not waste their time on CoreAVC. I have given it a shot about 8 months ago by trying to use it in DVDFab. Halfway threw the encoding process, it failed with unknown errors, obviously because i was trying to use it with a graphics card who uses DXVA as its engine.

So yup, they are right on the CoreAVC homepage when they say its mainly designed for Nvidia cards, because obviously it will only run smoothly there.

first time for TAW5 start to output is hang.I try to close and open program again.
what happen and how to solve problem.

I would check your pop up menu. I've found that if your selection of still is too far in from the chapter default position it causes the hang.

Try to keep it with a few seconds if possible.

hi.I'm trying to do the intro movie, which gradually becomes a menu.if possible to make a smooth transition between the first play track and menu ?

It's possible, but not easy.
If you have other video editing software, that might help.
Basically you need to make a video clip or screenshot of just your menu.
Then, in your video editor, transition your first play video into the clip of your menu. Encode that as a single video to use as your first play video in TAW5.

About to try to burn about 8 Gigs of footage taken with a high def AVCHD / BluRay-compliant camcorder.

Would like to burn as an AVCHD disc as to not have to burn to BluRay discs & to keep the high definition properties of what's burned to disc.

Can you only create an AVCHD disc on a regular 4.7 GB disc or can TMPGENC Authoring Works 5 also create an AVCHD disc to a dual-layer 8.5 GB disc?

Thanks for any input.

How do I keep the audio source untouched when operating / suiting with flac / looseless?

same with other audio sources & standards.

is the best approach just to choose linear PCM (1536) audio format?

Convert the flac file to wav linear pcm and process that