I just tried Authoring Works 6 for a month and trial expired but i'd like to stick with the version 4 for now. How can i convert the project to version 4 so i can use it in authoring works 4 ? Thank you !

I want to have the top menu with 3 buttons, play movie, special features (which then goes to a track menu) and setup (for audio/subtitles) but whenever I make the menu the play movie button goes to another page first. How do I move the subtitles button to the top menu, and have another button to play the movie directly from the top menu?

I have a project with 155 chapters (99 in track 1, 56 in track 2) and the font text under each chapter needs to be reduced slightly so they don't touch each other. Is there a way to change the font for all the chapters in one step or do I have to change them individually?

hello

i had try to make transparent bouton with, .psd fils or .tiff files that have alpha chanel fot the transparency, but it always have a with rectangle, and i am not able to have this with full transparency. do i miss something in the process.

in dynamics menus, there are words hwo are transparent, without the rectangle around the lettres, i would like to make boutons the same way

thank you for the help

Does TMPGEnc Authoring Works support 4 or 5 audio tracks?

When I multiplex one video-stream together with 5 audio streams
and want to import it into Authoring Works 5, I can select only 4 audio and a message appears that AW 6 only supports "5" (?) audio stream.
Also in clip properties, I see only 4 tab cards for 4 audio streams.
So I guess the AW 6 actually ONLY supports 4 audio steams....
Please confirm!

Much appreciated!

From my use of TAW6, I can confirm it only supports four audio streams.

we pay money buy you software,no buy the item lock alomst 90% funtion,if like that u just refund back 90% money,if you still lock like that....i want try create my own menu not just u your template only...for page audio and subtitle just can use text button....but sometime i like highlight the subject not the text,but u software just lock the funtion.i don't know lock what?if unlock will get virus?
and very mad is convert video can't choice filter,but mastering got,so this is trick need us buy 2 software?ok,now i buy 2 already but u lock the menu funtion.WTF

When I import a video file and the file has, let's say, three audio streams (1) Russian 5.1DD+. (2) Ukrainian 5.1DD+ and (3) English 5.1 Dolby Atmos but when I burn to disc I only want the English stream, how do I remove the other two? I can see you can set the file as how many streams you want, so if I select one stream it takes only the first stream in the file, in this case the Russian stream...if I select two streams, it takes the Russian and the Ukrainian, etc. So I have to have all three streams just to have the English stream (and then set Audio 3 as the default) - but it is a waste of space to have the other streams.....any ideas?

In such cases i always use MKVToolnix to create a secondary video file that i can use instead, which does not contain the other audio tracks that i don't need.

Its just more easy to do it that way. It does not recode, its a muxing tool where video and audio remains 100% untouched.
https://www.videohelp.com/software/MKVToolNix

Thanks - I´ll give that a shot.

Found out how to do this within Authoring Works 6 - open the clip (movie whatever) on your track and in the editor click "clip properties", inside here you can remove audio streams! Now I have another issue....my MKV has Dolby Digital Plus with Atmos. When I burn to Bluray how do I keep this audio track intact?. Do I just leave the audio encoder on "Smart encoding" or only encode unsupported audio or should I change it to encode specifically in LPCM 5.1 (or 7.1) or Dolby Digital 5.1? I would prefer just to keep the original audio as is....

As example, I just tried it with an MKV - MediaInfo advised English Dolby Digital Plus with Atmos 6 channels. I changed the audio option to only encode unsupported audio and the result was the final Blu-ray was burned in LPCM 5.1.

UPDATE 3: So after the last attempt I left the Preferences in the global app to only encode unsupported audio but in the actual Project settings changed the audio encode to "Smart Render" and the resulting disc was burned in the Dolby Digital codec. However what I noticed in MediaInfo was the audio going in (MKV) was "Dolby Digital Plus with Atmos - 6 channels" what was coming out of Authoring works 6 burn was "Dolby Digital - 6 channels" I am not sure it was retaining the "Plus" or the "Atmos" information. By the look of all the help files and searches online this is probably correct and that Authoring Works 6 does not retain any of the "Plus" or "Atmos" information. I cannot see a way around this.

Can Authoring Works 6 create a looping DVD?

I discovered that you can create looping DVD or Blu-ray Discs.

Hi,

I'm very new to using Authoring Works 6 - I do like it, but it's taking me a while to get my head round it.

Please can someone help me with a simple request:

I'm trying to make a project that has 2 Tracks with just 1 Main Menu that you can simply Play Track 1 or Track 2. I don't need chapter selection (even though there will be chapters on the tracks).

How do I do this?

Secondly, and it's linked to the above - I can easily add text to a menu, but how do I turn that text into a button? and how do I link that new button to a Track?

Thank you so much!

Creating menues are confusing in Authoring Works, but once done one can save it as a template and be done and re-use it. There is no way to make buttons from written text, but there is a way to remove all fancy buttons and "replace" them with text that acts like a button. The name of that text is initially taken from the name of the Track but can be changed after the fact. But you need to create a new menu to replace them...

Here is a how-to list that should work. Mind you that the current menu will be lost.

- Start with clicking on Launch Menu Wizard.
- Then click on Create Custom Menu by Choosing Layout and Items.
- Duplicate this: http://privat.bahnhof.se/wb792290/menu-wizard.jpg
- Click on Next
- For Menu Structure in the next dialog, choose Top Menu Only
- Click on Next
- Set Disc Insertion Action and Track Playhead End Action to Display Top Menu
- Click on Finish

When done, click on the Blu-ray Global Menu Settings button top left and go to the Track/Chapter Display tab and uncheck everything and click OK. If you have audio/text buttons in the menu and want them gone, go back to the Blu-ray Global Menu Settings button and go to the Item Display tab and uncheck the items you want to go away.

This creates one (1) menu and if you have two tracks you will only see two text-buttons and nothing else. To change background, right click in the menu and choose Background and Audio Settings and click on Browse to choose a file.

If you are satisfied, click the Edit Menu button down in the middle and Save Current Menu as New Template and give it a name.


Menu creation and the lack of mixing both PAL and NTSC on the same Blu-ray disc are the biggest shortcomings in Authoring Works. Mixing both PAL and NTSC on the same Blu-ray disc is allowed by the Blu-ray specifications.

Andy, in the first step in Menu Wizard dialog, iow Menu Structure Settings, uncheck Create Title Page in Top Menu.

Roger, thank you so very much for taking the time to reply and to solve my issue.
I've been able to do this with your generous help, without it, I would never have known how to do this.

Many thanks again!

Andrew

I was wondering what the best settings would be for Encoding.

I have a Laptop with both Nvidia GPU and Intel-GPU (together with the CPU).

Is there a way to get GPU rendering activated? In the settings there is an option to activate Nvidia CUDA, which I did. Furthermore I see decoding option for GPU and activated it. However under the tab Encoding it gives me the option "Intel Media SDK Hardware priority", which I did not use but left at "standard".

Now when I encode a blu-ray I see my GPU is not working, only my CPU at 100%. Are my settings good as they are or is it better to activate the Intel encoding? Any suggestions for improvement?

The software works as is, but in comparison to another software that I tried (where the GPU does most of the work) it is alot slower. Therefore I was wondering if I am overlooking some option here?

Some Help would be very much appreciated. Thanks in advance ;)

First open up the NVIDIA Control Pannel
There go to Adjust desktop color settings and choose to use NVIDIA settings and click on Apply.

Then when wanting to use CUDA in Authoring Works, you also have to remember clicking the "Correct the performance optimization at next launch"
After then having clicked the OK button, it will perform the optimization.

When its then done, close Authoring Works completely and then start it up again.
Now CUDA should be working, well at least it does at my place, but mine also a desktop computer with only one GPU.

I just began getting a "disk writing tool cannot be started" error. Why? Should I just uninstall and reinstall the software?

Can Authoring Works 6 burn BDXL discs?