I have a short transition clip, about 2.5 seconds, which I try to export as elementary streams, but audio is not there. If I use PGCDemux, everything comes out fine.
Is there a problem in Xpress or some settings I need to use to get short audio?
I have the latest version of the software.

Does anyone know what is the correct setting to encode a 24P (23.976P) MPEG2 for DVD NTSC with pulldown thing.
So if the player detects a progressive display, it will plays 24P, if it detects an interlace display it plays 29.97 interlace.

I can only find how to do it in TMPGEnc Plus 2.5.

My master final edit movie is 23.976P.

Thanks in advance.

What about Flash video encoding?
Reading is ok, but the conversion into FLV would be a great improvement regarding the conversion of video snippets into a website providing an FLV player only.

I know that there were license issues, but other software producers are also able to implement FLV output (even free-of-charge software), so could you please implement this feature soon?

Thanks
M

I think they already noticed about it so its just about wait if they will implement it.

I have the latest version tmpenc xpress and i am trying to add subtitles to a movie I am encoding to wmv. My source is a mkv file I've extracted the srt file from the source mkv file but when I try to import the srt file nothing show up the columns so no subtitles are showing while the movie is being played. What am I doing wrong? is there a surtain format the the subtitle file has to be in, thanks in advance

.srt files should be okay for 4.0 XPress, but TMPGEnc products are quite particular about srt files and are not as lenient as other programs. Since there isn't really an official set standard for the srt format, that makes it problematic for people that create them and programs that use them. There might be something in the srt file that 4.0 XPress doesn't like.

If there is html present in the srt file, it may not load the subtitles after the html code appears.

It may not load the subtitles if an empty line exists (i.e. there is a timecode but no subtitle text).

It may also be the first 3 bytes of the file. See this thread for a possible fix:
http://forum.videohelp.com/topic335908.html

You have to save the subtitles as a text file with the extention of "subtitle". Strip out everything but the line number, the time, and text before saving it. Then you can "edit", "import" the subtitle file.

thanks for the help guys the link to the thread help me out

I'm trying to edit videos taken by my AVCHD camera which creates .MTS files. TMPGEnc Authoring Works 4 has the ability to create a proxy file to make editing easier. When I try to edit in TMPGEnc 4.0 XPress, video playback is very choppy. Guess my computer can't hack it. Does TMPGEnc 4.0 XPress have this proxy feature? If not, what's the best way to edit files without losing any quality. Will I need to convert every file I record to another format and then edit?

Converting to another format before editing is probably the best method right now and I think it'll save you a lot of frustration.

Does anyone know of any format (wmv or mpg or avi) being better for editing than others when using TMPGEnc 4.0 XPress? I'd like to keep the videos with the highest quality possible since i'm recording in 1080i.

Thanks

Using the latest version of Tmpgenc 4 how can you make files bigger then 720 bye 480. Once I have made a divx file with the program and play it thier is space on the left and right side of my computer screen and top and bottom are okay. I want the image on my full screen and I have divx play in full screen anyone have any idears thanks.

It sounds like it's displaying at 4:3 on a 16:9 screen. Is the source 4:3 or 16:9?

If your source is 4:3 and you want to force it to display at 16:9, then you can change the pixel aspect ratio in the clip properties window.
Note that changing a 4:3 image to 16:9 will stretch it horizontally. If the source is 4:3, you should keep it 4:3 if you don't want the image to be distorted.

In the clip properties window, simply change the aspect ratio to NTSC 16:9, PAL 16:9 or Display 16:9 depending on what the original aspect ratio is (for example, if it is NTSC 4:3, then you should use NTSC 16:9, unless you purposely want to convert it to PAL or whatnot).
Once you get to the Encode Stage, set the Aspect ratio to a 16:9 ratio as well.
You shouldn't have to change the actual resolution of 720x480.

If you really want to make the resolution bigger, for a DivX file you'd need to select the HDTV output profile. You'll then be able to go up to 1280x720.

You can also set the DivX profile to "none" and you can go past the 1280x720 limit of the HDTV profile.

Happy New Year to all.

Just purchased Xpress 4.0 and it is a thing of beauty.

My question: why is my CUDA option panel greyed out? I'm running Vista Ultimate 64 with 4 gigs of memory and my graphics card is the 768MB NVIDIA GeForce 9600GS.

Thanks in advance!

m22

Try by updating your graphic card´s driver, it may be is related with it,
good luck

Wouldn't worry too much about the cuda support anyway. It actually makes conversions slower on my system (QX9650 quad and 8800 GTS 512 2xSLI), and on many files the conversion stops with error "parameter is incorrect" at the very end even when not using any filters at all!

I enabled the CUDA renderer on the trial version and it works, just bought the full version, and I think it also works. What you were probably missing: go to Nvidia and get the CUDA DLL's - It's not a giant program, but it's essential: kind of like the operating system for doing logic on your GPU - has to be installed, or none of the apps can run. You should have no problem finding the download.

I'm using TMPGEnc 4.0 Xpress to convert Quicktime files (Codec: H.264, 23.976 fps) into .avi (Codec: Panasonic DV CODEC-DVSD, 23.976 fps) so that I can edit them in Premiere Pro 1.5.

The converted files play fine. The problem is that they are missing the 1st frame of each clip. Sometimes TMPGEnc adds 1 frame at the end of the clip, other times it creates a clip that 1 frame shorter than the original.

Any ideas?

I am having trouble with batch encode, using TMPGEnc 4.6.2.266. When I attempt to add project to batch encode, I get error message "Incompatible file format," then " batch encode has encountered a time out." Just started happening, worked fine a couple days ago. Have tried reinstalling program, running spyware programs, etc. to no avail. Anyone else had this problem??

I was wondering if there are any plans in the future to expand the stream options available to the Mainconcept H.264/AVC encoder. At the moment, it will always create *.mp4 files. I'd very much like to see the option to create BD-compatible *.m2ts files.

Subject pretty much sums it up...processing *.m2ts files from Hauppauge HD-PVR worked with Pentium D 930 processor in Asus P5N32E SLI board, but upon switching to Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz Stepping G0, it would simply not start one-pass encoding and would do only the first pass of two-pass encoding (mpeg). Removed program and reinstalled, and now starts doing encoding, but stops at 1%. Task Manager shows it's still running and CPU is running about 50-70% on all cores, elapsed time counter still runs. When abort is selected, it says it's aborting but never exits. Not sure where to go next.

By the way, the encoding "hang" problem is with the latest release, 4.6.3.268 and it also seemed that 4.5.2.255 was also problematic. I uninstalled and installed 4.4.2.238 and it seems to be working, although it doesn't recognize the AC3 5.1 audio, instead claiming it to be 48000 Hz, 2 Ch.

I also experience hangs with version 4.6.3.268. Encoding just stops and the program hangs. I have a quad core Intel Core i7 920 on a ASUS P6T Deluxe motherboard. I have a dual boot configuration with Windows XP 32bit (SP3) and Vista 64bit (SP1). I tested on both OS and have the same problem.
I never ever experienced this problem on my old PC which was an AMD 64 4400+ on an ASUS A8N-SLI.

I have now isolated the cause for the hangs on my Core i7 system. I found out that the hangs only happened when encoding in DivX format. WMV, QuickTime, MPEG-4, XviD, etc were working ok without hangs

When I migrated to the new system, I have copied the templates filter and exports (C:\Documents and Settings\converterduck\My Documents\TMPGEnc\TMPGEnc 4.0 XPress\Template\Export) to my new system.

While the migrated filters (*.txp4f) work ok, I had to recreate my export templates (*.txp4e) files from scratch. That only worked ok when I selected the "AVI file output" from the "Output templates for specific format" menu and then selected the "DivX 6.8.5 Codec (8 Logical CPUs)(DIVX)". When I selected the "DivX file output" from the "Output templates for specific format" menu, the encoding hangs. So it seems to be a problem with TMPGEnc when selecting the already predefined "DivX file Output". The same bug also exists in the DivX Author 1.5 product, which is based on TMPGEnc Xpress 4.5.

I opened a call with Pegasys-inc support. They confirmed what I found and documented in my last response:

Dear ..., thank you for your mail.

This problem is happening by output DivX format, so please try to
output by the AVI output template then at codec list choose the DivX
codec, and check about it.

Can anyone suggest me which one is better? It looks to me that PLUS is more advance, but it no longer has a new version. Or perhaps it's been discontinued. So I was wondering is the Xpress now a better encoder? Produce a better quality and speed?

Overall, XPress is more advanced because it has more input/output formats, but if you're just converting avi's and mpeg's, 2.5 Plus may be a good option for you. I think some people prefer 2.5's encoding engine over XPress' but personally, I don't know if one can output higher quality over the other.
You can try the freeware version of 2.5 which is almost the same as Plus, the biggest difference being you won't be able to encode to MPEG-2 after 30-days.

2.5 is definitely an older product; if you use it, you'll be able to tell that right off the bat with its somewhat clunky user interface. I think they keep it around in case people want to upgrade from the freeware version.