Hi. I have been creating Blu-Ray discs (BDs), with Authoring Works 5, for about 3 1/2 years now and the program is just irreplaceable, at least for me. My PC includes an AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 910 Processor, 2600 Mhz, Quad Core. Even at 2.6 GHz, the processor "pegs out" at 100% use during the entire rendering procedure and can take up to 9 hours to complete. I use AW5's stream format of MPEG-4 AVC. The source files are captured at 12 Mb/s, in TS mode. My minimum render speed is 13 Mb/s, but if higher speed renders will fit onto the rendered files, I'll bump that up to whatever I can fit (some sports as high as 24 Mb/s). My question is, would a higher speed CPU processor help? I see that Asus's processors can be upgraded to 5 GHz/s, although some say that, to get that speed, the whole motherboard needs to be replaced. My wish is that I could have a higher speed processor installed, which would result in the BD rendering using only part of the processor capacity; say, 75%, or even lower, if possible. Do you have any experience with these issues and can help me? Thanks a lot. Russell

PS: My PC's Total Physical Memory =7.95 GB

A faster, better CPU will always help. You can try to lower the task priority to make your PC run smoother while encoding. If you want to manually limit the CPU usage for Authoring Works only, I suggest you check you the excellent Process Lasso.

Can "Nero 2014 Burning Rom" software Be used to burn valid (playable Blu-Ray disk from the output of AW5? The burning tool that comes with AW5 leaves a bit to be desired...

As long as you create an ISO, then yes, Nero should be able to burn it.

Yes, TAW5 output can be burnt just fine using Nero. I prefer to do this, rather than burn directly from inside TAW5, because you can then get Nero to do things like verifying the burn against the original folders, or using multiple burnere to create several copies simultaneously.
I've had success creating a new (empty) BDMV project within Nero, then dragging the TAW5 output folders into it, and burning either to BD or an ISO file direct from Nero.
Nero also works just fine with BD ISOs created from DVDFab. Sometimes I'll use DVDFab to create an ISO from the TAW5 output folders, then use Nero to burn that to disc.

I'm new to Authoring Works (5) and would like to create a blu ray disc from my uncompressed progressive AVI files at 29.97. I would like to encode with progressive sequential frames, not 1080i. Everything I try ends up as 1080i at 29.97 fps.

I've tried:
1) Output from Mastering Works as 29.97i upper field first BDMV AVC, then choose the 2:2 pulldown option. Still end up with 1080i.

2) Import AVI directly into Authoring Works and allow it to do the encode. As my file is progressive, I had to choose that upon import. Still got 1080i.

I think I even tried importing the AVI as interlaced (even though it's not) and ended up with 1080i.

Anyone know how to make a PSF blu ray with these programs from a 29.97 fps file?

Thanks!

Are you changing the track settings, or are you changing the clip settings?

Changing the clip settings will not determine the output settings; clip settings are for setting what the input file should be BEFORE encoding (in case the header file info is wrong, for instance).

In order to change the actual output settings, you have to do that in the track settings. You can do this by going to the Source stage and clicking on the "Settings" button for a track on the left side of the screen. Each track can have its own output settings. This is where you can set the resolution, framerate, etc.

Thanks for the reply! I'll double check those settings and post back if I have any further problems.

Hi

In a menu with a single track and multiple chapters: all chapters have "back to menu" defined as end action, and General "play the next track (disc loop playback)" defined as track playback end action.
The result is that, when an individual chapter was selected in the menu, the menu is displayed at the end of the chapter, except for the last one, where the track playback end action takes precedence and playback resumes from the first chapter automatically instead of displaying the menu.

Is there a way to accomplish the following:
- Always display the track menu at the end of every chapter, when an individual chapter was selected in the menu, and
- Loop the disc (all chapters) ONLY IF the "play track" button was selected ?

Oh and BTW, is there a way to have some kind of "play track" button which would loop only SOME OF the chapters displayed in the track menu ?

Or how should I arrange tracks / chapters to achieve the same effect (i.e. ability to play [one single clip / loop a subset of all clips / loop all clips] using different buttons ?), knowing that the project consists of individual unrelated clips, so I have full freedom to arrange them in one or multiple tracks, and each clip has only one entry point (chapter), but I would prefer to have all clips (chapters) accessible from a single menu page.

Suggestions, anyone ?

I'm new to TWA5. How do you enable CUDA setting; it's greyed out. My computer is the last time I checked can be enabled. Thanks

Nvidia has disabled all CUDA functions in the latest drivers. They are trying to push NVENC now. We need to wait for the software to be updated to use this feature. For now your best bet is to roll back your drivers to an earlier version when CUDA was still enabled.

I'm using a GTX670 with GEForce drivers v344.75 (18-Nov-2014).
The option to enable CUDA is available in TAW5 and all my other CUDA-enabled applications. TAW5 shows it is being used (right now, CPU 3.0%, CUDFA 97.0%). I can also see the GPU and Video ENgline loadings in GPU-Z. So it looks like support has been reinstated in a recent driver.

Just updated to version 353.30 for my GeForce 650. CUDA comes with this version also. So i have no problems activating and using CUDA in both TAW5 and TVMW5.
TVMW5 even asked me if i wanted to use it, when i loaded the software.

Sometimes after burning video movies and watching them on my television, I find that the overall volume is too low. I have to turn the volume all the way up and am still not able to hear some of the most quiet dialog. However, the sound effects at certain suspenseful points, are way too loud.

Using the Volume Adjustment feature of TMPGEnc Authoring Works 5, I'd like to increase the volume overall and tone down the special effects a bit. Which feature of the Volume Adjustment would I use: the Volume Adjustment, the Volume Normalization, or the Volume Uniformization. How would I make the required settings is the preferred option.

Thank you for your help.

Currently, it is possible to import and combine video and audio from DVD/BD's. For subtitles, this is only possible to do with the currently loaded video file or DVD/BD disc (only embedded subtitles and external srt files).

It should be easy to add import from external DVD/BD's since the functionality seems to be there already.

Multiavchd allows you to use subtitles from mkv files and other sources. Use that instead to author your files.

I use TAW to build blue rays and DVDs from camera files. I want to just dump 300-400 clips into TAW (100 per track) without any editing. It takes two clicks per clip to add each files

This takes hours to add all the clips especially when building a blue-ray. Can I just dump all the clips at once? Seems like I used to be able to do this on an older version of TAW

Yes, just add multiple files at once; it will then ask if you want to put them into the same track and if you want to open the cut edit window.

Yes, but that takes two clicks per file...and when you have about 700 clips to load that takes forever. I don't see any other way to get this done so I am going to spend all afternoon adding these clips to tracks...

What do you mean, per file? When you are choosing your files, select all of the ones you want in the file selector using ctrl + click / shift + click. Then press OK.

For example, if you have all 700 files in a folder, navigate to the folder, select all files and add them to the track. You can even drag and drop, I believe.

TAW5 will then ask if you want to add them to the same track or if you want to open the cut edit window. Then it will add all 700 files to the track. Done.

hallo.is it possible also make highlight fade out?????

I don't think so. This is what i'm looking to do two questions down.
You can only delay the highlight from appearing. After that it stays visible until the end of the menu loop.

I've always known MP2 48000hz to be DVD standard/compliant.
So why is AW5 telling me to convert my audio to Dolby Digital AC3 or LPCM?
MP2 even appears in the AW5 list of codecs to encode to if necessary.
Very strange indeed. Anyone?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPEG-1_Audio_Layer_II#Applications_of_MP2

"All DVD-Video players in PAL countries contain stereo MP2 decoders, making MP2 a possible competitor to Dolby Digital in these markets. DVD-Video players in NTSC countries are not required to decode MP2 audio, although most do."

Thanks for that Max.
I live in PAL land so do you know how i can make AW5 accept my MP2 files without re-encoding them into AC3?
Thanks!

I know you can delay the highlight but is there a way to delay the actual buttons?
I have a menu which fades in from black. The highlight comes in at the right time but the buttons are visible throughout the fade in.
Thanks!

There's no delay function like the highlights, but you can add a fade-in effect to buttons.

Ah yes! Perfect. That's just what i wanted!
Thank you so much!

So there's no way of disappearing the highlight before the end of the motion menu then? Not that i can see anyway.
My menu fades out to.

When one clicks on "launch disc writing tool" right after having created a Blu-ray (folder), and chooses "Create disc image" right away, there is no way to add a custom disc label, the disc label will be set to the current date and there is no way to change that (the disc label field is greyed out). The workaround is to cancel the operation, relaunch the Disc writing tool from the start menu, and add the just created BD folder: the the disc label field is now editable.

Note 1: I haven't tested this workflow with a DVD, only with a Blu-ray (PAL) project.
Note 2: this has been observed on a system not equipped with a blu-ray disc burner (the goal of the above workflow is to create a valid Blu-ray ISO image to be burned on another system later on); I haven't tested this workflow on a system with a Blu-ray burner.