Having difficulty with converting .avi files to .mpg-1. The converted files playback wioth low audio level even though the audio filter settings (volume) was set higher, up to 200 percent. Any suggestions?

I'm using your program to try to convert AVCHD files to Quick Time Avid Codec DNxHD 145.

I found a posting that you could do that but can't seem to find that file on the "convert to" selection??????

I'm guessing you'd select QuickTime in the Format stage and then click on the "Settings..." button under the video codec section. From there, you can select your codec.

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Your encoding software is excellent but I'm very disappointed in a very glaring omission. No capability to add a logo/watermark to the video? This is absolutely essential for many content producers who might want to use your product... without this capability the software is useless to us.

So there is a whole group of people that are using another product such as Videocharge. It's a shame because your encoder is much better, but again lacking this crucial feature. If you want to increase the appeal of your software and gain more customers, you really need to make a logo/watermark filter available ASAP.

Thank you.

i believe you can actually use avisynth scripting for logo watermark , whilst encoding with xpress

Hey Vince,

as mentioned, you can use AviSynth for this. Just read this thread:
http://www.videohelp.com/forum/archive/watermarks-in-avisynth-t154665.html

I can easily clip a segment, but the cut button deletes the scene. How do I save the sequence?

I was successful using split, then I split it again until I had the segment isolated, but there must be an easier way to save a segment.

If you don't want to delete anything, then yes, use the split function instead of the cut button.

The trick to using the split function is to use the split button instead of the "set start/end frame" buttons. Make sure your whole video is selected (all thumbnails are blue, then use the split button to set your start and end frames of the section you want to isolate. This will highlight that section in yellow.

When you click the "OK" button to leave the clip editor, it will give you the option to register the yellow or blue (or both) as separate clips.

When you output your file, make sure you select to save each clip as a separate file.

Thanks, I didn't realize I could split it in more than one place at a time.

I have TV that can play AVI files from a thumb drive plugged into a USB port. I have some home movies I want to convert to AVI. I found that the format that works is Xvid AVI with MP3 video.

When I use TMPGenc to encode the video to Xvid and MP3 it didn't work. The TV displayed an error "Unsupported audio format".

I tried another AVI file and it worked fine (Xvid/MP3).

Using a program called Gspot I was able to determine that the only difference was the Mp3 audio in the working file was encoded with Lame encoder.

My question is how can I get TMPGEnc 4.0 Xpress to use Lame encoder instead of Advanced Acoustics Engine Mp3?

Hi again,

I have encountered another problem with TMPGEnc Xpress, and that is when you import an original DVD, the playlength of the movie is incorrect..

For example:
Monsters Inc shows playtime of 39h 19m
Matrix shows playtime of 58m 3s
Time Bandits shows playtime of 28m 13s..

Why is that?

Thanks in advance..

PS. All the movies are original DVDs from my own collection that I wanna backup to DivX..

Hi,

I have a problem with importing certain DVDs into TMPGEnc 4.0 Xpress.

I get an error-message which says "Unsupported file (error code 0x80048003)"

What does that mean?

Thanks.

Is this a store-bought DVD? I get this error on store-bought DVDs; it most likely refers to the fact that it's copy-protected. Remember, you can't import copy-protected DVDs.

now for some reason this error doesnt happen with all files, and i say this becuase i had this exact error every single time i tried to do project, no matter how tried to solve it , it just wouldnt like the files.

how ever try load another file and it was no issue.

so its one of those unknown bugs , becuase sadly xpress held the info as to why it didnt like the files and wasnt telling me.

oh and sometimes it would even do this when i had spent hours cutting the damned thing, and then started the encode.

Yeah, they are "store-bought" DVDs.. However, this should be irrelevant, as i always remove the protection with DVDdecrypter or similar..

At this point I have 8 original DVDs in my collection that TMPG can't read. I get this unsupported file-error, or it can't find the main movie :-/

And I should probably mention that other converters read those dvds just fine.. So, it's strictly an issue with TMPG.

I suddenly started getting this message on my laptop. -R dvd's we recorded work on. Couldn't get software to work. But when I took very same DVD and put it in an external DVD player, all worked well. I'm wondering if maybe the the internal laptop DVD player doesn't maybe just need a good cleaning.

Hi
I want to convert an uncompressed avi at 720p (1280x 720) into an mp4 file but I can't, the maximum size it'll let me is 720x576. is there a way to do this in tmpgEnc 4.0 express?
thanks
Fabrice

When selecting your output format, there's a drop-down menu to select between ISO MPEG-4 and MPEG-4 AVC. Select MPEG-4 AVC and you'll be able to choose HD resolutions in the settings screen.

I have an AVC1/H264 mp4, with AAC audio, I've tried converting to MPG2 (DVD) format. The output is purple... I can barely see video. Audio is fine.
I've tried checking & unchecking the mp4 file reader, as well as the avchd reader.
I keep getting the same purple output.
The source video plays in any player (wmp, mpc, zoom, gom, etc.), so the source is fine.
What am I missing? Is there a way to get TX4 to use CoreAVC to read the file?
Any ideas?
Thanks!!

By the way, I was able to convert the source to DVD with ConvertX, but would prefer using TX4.

I have a large HiDef file I want to edit with XPress (AVCHD format; m2ts extension). I can load it into XPress OK and edit out adverts OK.

But then I only want to resave the file IN THE SAME FORMAT without conversion or re-encoding - only minus the cuts I have made. Is this possible? If so, how?

I don't see any template to output the file in the same format as the input format?

Thx
NigelS

There's no AVCHD output so no, it's not possible. Even if there were an AVCHD output, it would still re-encode everything...at least, that's what happens if you take a DivX file and output as a DivX file for example.
Conversion is its main purpose after all, not editing.

Yes, it is mainly for conversion, but it does have a really nice setting of editing tools that make editing out TV ads really easy.

you can do it to the extension , by select either hd or bluray output, select the mpeg output on the right which will bring up a new settings (if you then look on the left colum you will have 2 selections, the top one is the main default so right click and delete)

then its a case of messing with the settings

it will still encode slightly becuase of the cuts to the file.

Why the enable nvidia cuda setting does not work on the program?

i also clicked on the correct the performance optimization at next launch and nothing happens....when i'm converting... the cuda percentage is at 0,0%....

it is better convert using the hardware video decoder setting?

Can someone give me the details for putting the cuda working on the conversion?

If you're just doing a straight conversion, I don't think CUDA will be utilized. It's used when you are applying filters mostly.

cuda only wrks when you are using the filters, specifically strong filters such as the video noise reduciton

It would be great if there was a pause button for the batch encode tool in tmpgenc express.

Thanks

I think hitting the abort button on the active project will pause it. Then click on "No" to resume. Elapsed time will continue to increase, but the actual processing will be paused.

I think what you are talking about is in Tmpgenc eXpress itself. Im talking about the batch encode tool, its almost a completely different program. If you have the cpu meter on your gadgets in win7 you can tell that all cores are running while encoding. Theres nothing i can do, like putting the cpus on idle, to make the cores release like in the physical tmpgenc express programs does when you click abort.

No, I'm talking about the batch tool that you can access from the Windows start menu (Start menu--> All Programs --> TMPGEnc --> TMPGEnc 4.0 XPress --> Batch Encode Tool).

When clicking on abort, all CPU activity goes to 0% until you resume.
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You are right, thank you! Im thinking maybe i didnt give it enough time to show me the cpus decreasing. Im sometimes impatient, lol who am I kidding, im impatient most of the time. Thanks for the help.

ps There should still be a pause button lol but im content with i got for now

Google the SysInternals utility Process Explorer. (www.sysinternals.com)
After it's opened up, right click on the process and select "Suspend".
Select "Restore" to continue.
This used to drive me nuts also until I found this freebee.
Works perfectly for me!