Hi,
I've been fumbling with DVD Author Since couple of days No Doubt it is
easy to use and simple But as i've read in so many posts about audio/music
in motion menu thats right on property page of menu display setting there
is check mark for audio/music as a background music. but tried lot of times
dosent work at all. its a bug in programme or some sort of file system error
any idea
Best regards & thanks in advance

HI.

I'm new to video editing/DVD authoring and I'm evaluating the trial version of TDA 1.5 and have a couple of questions.
Firstly I like the app as it allows me to directly use files created by my Panasonic E50 recorder, straight from DVD-RAM discs. I 'authored' a DVD of a concert recorded off-air and it worked out fine. The only thing is the menu options are a little limited.

I've now decided to try using this app then importing the results into DVDLab to allow for more flexible menus.

Confusion starts here. TDA has taken the one hour or so concert and output as three VOBS. One is menu and the others are of roughly equal size (little over 1Gb each. Why did the app split the concert into two main VOBS? Bearing in mind I want to retain the AC3 2.0 sound, how do I join these? I'm presuming I can ignore the VOB that TDA created for menu system. Is that right, or is there some link between all three VOBs?

Sorry of these are daft questions but I'd appreciate some guidance here please.

Thanks

>Confusion starts here. TDA has taken the one hour or so concert and output as >three VOBS. One is menu and the others are of roughly equal size (little over >1Gb each. Why did the app split the concert into two main VOBS?

As far as I know the DVD spec stipulates 1GB is the "standard" VOB file size.
As to joining them back up, why ? The .ifo files tell the player how to play the VOB's in sequence.

>The only thing is the menu options are a little limited.
I can do most things I want in the newer version... I often use other Apps to do a littl emore customising eg Adobe Premier to add a still photo to a 30 sec audio file then author to MPG, and use that for the background in the menu with motion meun's etc.

Only thing I would like to see added is abilty to drag a still image and a 48KHz WAV file (ah la DVD It PE) so I don't have to resort to Premier, other then that... I can get it to do what I want.

One suggestion might be go back to the DVD Author project and learn to use some of the menu features a little more ? Rather then trying to use two different authoring programs. I use it for -RAM files from my Panny E-100 and E-30, same as you for your E-50, drag and drop the files using WIndoze Explorer to the HDD first, makes the response time better when editing the clips in my opinion.

How do i put headlines on my movies with this program???

Headlines into the Movie?
What's the Idea to doing this?


Oh, and you can't do such things with TMPGEnc DVD Author.

How to create more menus in TMPGEnc DVDAuthor its a great progamm butt 4 menus i like it if i had more menus

You can't do that yet. Maybe in a later Version.

When I do the output, it gives me the message that the files is too big to fit in a DVD so I click ignore. At exactly 66% (and it happened on 3 tries), it give me an error message box saying : cannot create more files, because this will make the volume of the DVD too big.

Is there a solution to let it create the DVD output files even though it will not fit on a DVD and I will just use one of this DVD compression software like DVDShrink or DVD2one so that it will fit in one DVD?

I decompressed a .ogm and encoded that to mpeg2 using TMPenc with the DVD (NTSC).mcf template. Everything went smoothly and I authored it to DVD with TMP DVD author. When I play the DVD on my DVD player everything works perfectly but it freezes and at certain point. The specs on the encoded mpeg2 are:

File : 1.6 GB (0.0 B), duration: 0:59:01, type: MPG, 0 audio stream(s), quality: 88 %

Video : 3.30 GB, 8000 Kbps, 29.970 fps, 720*480 (16:9), MPG2 = MPEG 2 (SVCD/DVD),

Similary I tried using DVD lab to author it and it still froze at the same spot. What am I doing wrong?

If it happens with both Authoring Programs, one guess is the Bitrate-Setting in TMPGEnc. The Default Min-Setting is 0 - for some Players, that's not good. Make a new Video with a higher Min-Setting (1374 kbps). Maybe this works.

I tried to add a DVD-Video and selected the title to add as a clip
and after thinking for a while, a window popped up: "Could not initialize
decoder" I have no idea what the problem, whether it is audio or video or how to work around the problem. Others seem to have been able to use this go import
an existing DVD, but this seems like an obstacle. Any suggestions/answers?

Thanks

This happened to me on a file that had buffer underflows. I processed it with TMPGEnc Merge&Cut and it fixed the problem. It was a mpg file, not a dvd file so it may not work for you

I tried to add a DVD-Video and selected the title to add as a clip
and after thinking for a while, a window popped up: "Could not initialize
decoder" I have no idea what the problem, whether it is audio or video or how to work around the problem. Others seem to have been able to use this go import
an existing DVD, but this seems like an obstacle. Any suggestions/answers?

Thanks

I am using the latest version of the trial and having trouble with audio sync after converting from mpeg2 to vob about half way through playing the vob/dvd the audio is about 3 sec off of a 50min video. This is before i write to dvd, also i saw a question in this forum earlier related to mine except im using audio at 48hz. If i can pan this out this prog will be worth purchasing, its so damn simple. :) - :P

I also have this audio-sync problem. I am capturing an analogue video source (video camera) using a Hauppage card (hardware MPEG2 conversion). The captured MPEG appears to be perfectly in sync but I lose sync when I use TDA to write the DVD files. I really like TDA but the audio-sync problem is very frustrating. Does anyone know what causes this problem and/or how to eliminate it?

hi there

it`s possible to add our own music to TMPGEnc DVD Author but not video clip sound/music? if possible how to add music in main menu?

thank

No, you just can use a Video (Motion Menu).

TDA is the only product that would completely read and edit a DVD+RW video created with a Philips DVDR 985. It would be nice if TDA could "edit on disk" when all I need to do is update the menus.

Great product,

jae

If there a way to edit TMPGEnc DVD Author templates, I mean TME files? Can I modify them or place my own graphics like frames and buttons? If not this is really sad and this great tiny authoring tool is useless with its default templates.

That's not possible yet. Maybe later.

Just double click on the background then you'll be able to choose a file for a background image...