Hi Guy's

I have a four hour movie recorded on a DVD RAM disk by a Panasonic DVD Recorder, which I am trying to convert to DVD-R.

TMPG Author reads the file OK but says it is only 1 Hr 50 minutes long.

Any advice please ?

Many thanks



Pat

I don't know!

Hello Everyone,

I was just wondering if there was any way I can make my own frames for the thumbnail images. So far I have found no program that makes *.tme files. Any help would be appreciated.

Came across this little "How To"
http://graphicssoft.about.com/b/a/2004_07_28.htm
(This should not be a HTML tag, you will have to
paste it into your browser to get to the article)

I use Gimp2 (which is free) instead of Photoshop.

Luck;
Ken

I am trying to put together a family video that has 6 clips. The overall file size limit isn't exceded, (its about 4gb) but when I have the program make a folder with the VOB's in it it always cuts the last video clip down to about 1/4 it's correct size. All the other clips are fine, the menu works fine, what is happening?

BTW: I like TMPGenc because it's easy to learn, makes menus that work and above all has a play all feature.

Thanks

According to the product introduction:

.....Since DVD Author also supports DVD-Video files (VIDEO-TS.ifo) as input files, you can also cut out scenes from your favourite DVD and make a new DVD-Video......

Anybody know how to do that ?

Simply click "Add DVD Video" under "Source Setup" and tell it
where the VIDEO_TS directory is containing the DVD files. It'll
show you the streams that are available, and will scan them for
chapter stops. You can then edit as desired just as you would
with any other clip.

Note that this won't work with encrypted commercial DVDs unless
you use a tool like DVD Decrypter first.....

i am using nero 6 i can not burn 2 part of movie to 1 dvd disc please can you help me

Try to ask your question in one of the Nero-Boards....!

Thank you Pegasys for adding shadow option to chapter text, and for allowing a highlight selection so we can use yellow as a text color! The shadow increases the "professional" look of the menu.

If its not too much trouble, i would like to see, in a future version of TMPGEnc DVD Author, the chance to have multiple audio tracks and the option to have switchable subtitles because this is the only thing which TMPGEnc DVD Author is lacking (for me anyway). anybody else who would like to see these features added?

I agree DVD Author would be complete if it could handle multiple audio tracks and subtitles. The way the program has been improving I'm sure this will happen in the not so distant future.

Here is my wish list:

- Motion menu.
- Audio in the menu.
- More menu presets. The current ones are not eye-catching.

Trialling DVD Author at the moment with CD-RW and Nero's miniDVD option. All works well on my PC with PowerDVD -- the menu is the first thing shown (as I requested), but on my standalone DVD player (LG) there is no menu at all and the first track is played... and it won't let me press the Menu button to go to the menu. PowerDVD does all this just fine, so I doubt it's the miniDVD's fault... probably just my standalone LG player? Thoughts?

In the Menu configuration screen in TDA, at the top right, make sure the drop down menu is at "Display Main Menu." Also, this happened to me whenever I use TDA author. My DVD remote has 2 buttons: Title and Menu. For TDA DVDs, I can return to the menu using Title. Menu doesn't work for me for some reason. It might be because I'm only using a main menu and no chapter selection menus. Why don't you try that on your remote as well to see if it would work?

Yes, it is set to "Display Main menu" in all options for it.
Also, pressing Title does nothing -- it doesn't go to the menu.
Further, pressing Next Chapter from the playing clip doesn't go
to the menu either. Either my player is bad (doubt it) or TDA
has a few issues at this time.

Seems to be an LG thing.
My LG won't display menus made with TMPGeng DVD Author but my Toshiba will.

My DVD player is the LG DVR 4810 player/recorder, and I have exactly the same problems..Any disc I create using TMPGEnc DVD Author, the menu's will simply not play on the LG, but are fine on three other brands I've tried them on.

Just downloaded v1.6 trial and created a DVD, and what do you know, the menu's work on the LG player....

Hi,
I have been trying to convert a dv movie to a DVD. This is my first experience with this sort of thing. Firstly i captured the movie to a .avi file. That worked fine. Then i converted it to MPG2 with TMPGEnc. That also worked fine. However now when i try to author it to a dvd, using TMPGEnc DVD Author, the video comes out perfectly, but there is no sound (in the AUDIO_TS folder.) I have tried it using individual sound and video files (m2v and mp2 files), and i have also tried using the same mpg file for the sound and video but to no avail. any help would be greatly appreciated. thankyou.

The AUDIO_TS folder is for dvd audio recordings, normally this folder is empty or not even there on a Video Dvd.

I think I pretty much have the menus figured out in Author 1.5, with a few exceptions.

First I can't figure out anyway to delete text once it has been entered. I have even when to the advanced edit where you can move things around and resize things but still can't figure a way to delete the text.

Second I create a Main Menu page with the appropriate chapter and play buttons and then go to the track menu to setup menus for the tracks. When I come back to the Main Menu find it has changed to match the track menu. As I saved the main menu before going to the track menu I reload it from the drop down box and it is back as it was, only to find now the track menu has changed back, so once again edit it, and start all over.

I can't seem to make changes to the Main Menu without affecting the track menus and vice versa. I am sure I am missing something simple here but sure don't know what it is.

Thanks for any help.

1. Simply delete the text with the Delete key and move the frame off the safe area screen.

2. On the left hand pane whilst in full Edit Menu Mode right click on the menu you want to change and then select 'Create New Theme for The Track Menu' at the bottom.

>1. Simply delete the text with the Delete key and move the frame off the safe area screen.
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>2. On the left hand pane whilst in full Edit Menu Mode right click on the menu you want to change and then select 'Create New Theme for The Track Menu' at the bottom.

Thanks for the response. Since posting this I have experimented a little more and have tried your suggestions. The problem I have is that I would like a very uncluttered main menu with no thumbnails. I have not been able to find a way to create a main menu that does not have thumbnails when in the create a new theme mode. Even if you drag the thumbnails outside the window you have no way to access the track menu without the thumbnails, at least that I can find. If you don't go into the create a new theme I can get a main menu the way I want. On the left panel there are several choices and the bottom one is blue. When you select this all it has is title on the top, and then two buttons or links on the bottom, play all tracks or track menu. That is exactly what I want however if you choose create new theme to design the track and chapter menus, the above main menu is no longer one of the choices and can't find a way to get the link for the track menu. The only button you get is play all.

If you have any other suggestinos or if I am missing something I would really appreciate knowing. I thought several times I had figured it out but everytime I end up losing the nice plain main menu.

Thanks again for the reply and suggestions.

Is it possible to change the 'Play All' button to text so it doesn't look so out of sorts with the other text selections?

Thanks

No, but you can draw your own Button and use it instead of the standard button.

I'm having a weird problem. I have set up 4 tracks and a menu. The bar the bottom says it's only 4086MB out of 4438MB. There is still a chunk of white space left in the bar. I have burned it onto a DVD+RW (4.7GB) and all of them plays fine. However, when I burn it onto a DVD-R, the last track cannot load. The other three tracks and menu plays excellent but when I select the last track, it doesn't load. Why is this? I have double-checked in TDA and everything is fine. The M2V plays fine on the computer as well. The brand of DVD-R I'm using is unknown because it's generic, there is no brand name or disc capacity anywhere. Please help! At first I thought it was a corrupt DVD-R but now I have wasted 2 DVD-Rs. :(

I forgot to add that I used DVD Shrink to open my authored VOBs and I played the last track and it plays fine.

Maybe you are using cheap DVD-R brands. They often have some Errors on the outher Tracks... they often ARE the Problem.