I've been using TMPG for a number of years to create MPEG video files, and I'm currently using TMPG 4.7.3.292 on a 64-bit Windows 7 machine. I often use .mpg files as video clips in Powerpoint presentations. This always worked until recently. Now, the *.mpg files that I have created recently play fine in Windows Media Player, but Powerpoint won't let me insert them into a slide show. It gives an error message: "Powerpoint cannot insert a video from the selected file. Verify that the necessary codec for this media format is installed, and then try again." Unfortunately, it doesn't tell me what codec is missing.

I can solve the problem by coding the files to .wmv, which Powerpoint will accept,but I would prefer to use .mpg.

Has something changed in TMPG's encoding that could produce this? Or might this be an issue related to 64 bit Win 7?

I am able to insert mpg video into PP. However, I'm on Windows XP using Office 2003. 4.0 XPress is latest version.
Update to the latest version; that might solve your problems. There have been a lot of updates since the one you're using.

Hello All;
I am using TMPGENC 4.0 Xpress to import HD Video footage from a consumer Canon Camcorder and want to encode the footage at the same resolution to DIVX. Though I noticed that when I add DIVX file output, the default resolution is 720 X 480 but it looks like we can change that.

Question - since the file was originally created in HD resolution, am I free to manually increase the resolution to 1920 X 1080 with no loss of quality, or will the quality be reduced if I do this ?

Is there any way to tell XPRESS to use the oriignal clip settings or isn't this currently possible ?

I am interested in outputting other formats too and most are much less than 1920 X 1080.

Tim

For 1080p DivX, make sure you select "DivX HD 1080p profile" when you are choosing your output format.

Since you're changing the format of the video, you can't really use the same encoding settings as the source file since compression rates are different. The quality of the encode will depend on various other settings like the level, performance, and rate control mode settings. The higher the quality, the larger your file size will be.

Bug or????

Try to encode 6 projects eaths containing multiple file's.
I set the "Task count" at 4 (have quad CPU)
1e project starts. After a while 2e project starts to a few % and then both stopped. Have to close the program.
After restart, set the "task count"at 1 and it works fine even with 12 projects.

Using HP Z400 3.2Ghz, Hypertreading On, Windows7 profesional,Videocard NVDIA FX3800

I got the same issues.

Hello,

I downloaded the trial and tried to convert a wtv file from windows media center and I get an error stating ad2h264.dll is missing. I assume this is the main concept 264 decoder.

Do I just download the dll from somewhere? what do I need to do?

Tnks,

In the past I've ripped my DVD's to my hard-drive and played them in Windows Media Player on my PC. This has worked well and served my purposes for a couple of years now.
I recently tried burning a couple to DVD-RW's and thought I'd watch them through my home DVD player which can play DIVX/XVID files , however they play oddly in my TV .. there being a large black bar across the bottom of the screen , which is rather annoying!!
I think this is because I ripped them at 29.97 fps without realising .. (NTSC standard I think) and my TV is german which is PAL standard.
Is there a prefered method of converting these files which is relatively quick or is it best to rip them again?
If I run them through TMPGENC which settings would be best to do the job without losing any picture quality?
Thanks in advance for any advice!

Hi,

Following on from this question in regards to aspect ratio. I would like to ask if it is possible to convert a 4x3 recording to 16x9. If you change the settings on the recording then of course the images all look fat as they have changed in terms of the aspect.

Just curious if one can change without affecting the image, like the DVD's that you purchase today.

Thanks,
Richard

If you don't want to affect the image, but have it be 16x9, you'll have to add black bars to the sides of the video. 4.0 XPress will do this automatically if you select 16:9 in the Format stage. Make sure your clip properties are set to 4:3 though.

Is there any way to select a custom filename for TMPGEnc4XP's output files, apart from the automatically generated name. Like "Save As" in other programs, where you simply type in the name you want

Yes, just type it in in the Encode stage where it says "Output file name". It's right below the preview area. You can also click on the "Browse..." button to select an output directory.

Ah, you must be talking about multiple file output. No, you can't set a file name for that; it'll be based on the clip name. There are some options for the naming if you go the preferences-->Output folder/file settings.

>Yes, just type it in in the Encode stage where it says "Output file name". It's right below the preview area. You can also click on the "Browse..." button to select an output directory.

It says "Output folder name" (not "Output file name").

So if the folder in the field is already say C:\XYZ and I amend it to
C:\XYZ\test.avi as test.avi is what I want the output filename to be, then when I press the Encode button it says:

"The file below will be outputted: C:XYZ\test.avi\[source name-of-file].avi

i.e. it takes test.avi to be a folder name

Too bad as I thought your answer met my requirement.

>Yes, just type it in in the Encode stage where it says "Output file name". It's right below the preview area. You can also click on the "Browse..." button to select an output directory.

Ah, I found you are correct if I changed Format, File output mode to "Output all clips into one file (or one set of files)" rather than what I had previously "Output each clip in a separate file (or separate set of files)"

I used the latter because I was always worried file would be overwritten, but I see that if "Output all clips into one file (or one set of files)" is used, a warning is issued to avoid this.

Other products have it (Bababoom, Loiloscope - and they are fast with CUDA encoding).

Should I wait for an upgrade (CUDA Encoding version), is it planned (when) - Or should I just switch to another product (no CUDA Encoding planned for Tmpgenc).

Thanks

Hi, I have a trial for this product becuase I wanted to test its CUDA functions before I consider purchase.

However, I cannot get CUDA to work on my GTX 295.

I set up 2-pass encode but it notifies me that CPU=100.0% CUDA=0.0%

I have ticked relevant boxes in preferences i.e. enable CUDA and use hardware rendereing as well as varies other relevant ones in the CPU/GPU part of preferences.

Are you applying any video filters? CUDA is mainly for encoding filtered video; if you're just doing a straight conversion, it won't kick in.

CUDA only works with one pass encodes (when set to be the encoder)and will only kick in on two pass encodes when using a few select filters (blur, sharpen, etc).

>CUDA only works with one pass encodes (when set to be the encoder)and will only kick in on two pass encodes when using a few select filters (blur, sharpen, etc).

Sorry, I meant that in all other applications it only works with one pass. You can enable CUDA encoding in TMPEGEnc for two pass but it doesn't do anything unless you have filters applied.

HI.
im trying to import an M2TS video file that is using the VC-a video codec.
But when i try to add file to tmpeg ex4 i get error stating it can not open the file.

It seems to be a VC-1 problem and not an M2TS problem as i can open other m2ts files with 264 codecs...

Does anyone have a fix so i can import vc-1 coded videos into tmpegencxpress4?
preferably without having to load in a pile of codec packs..
i could have sworn tmpx4 supports VC-1

Hey guys!

I have the latest copy of TMPGEnc and have recently run into some Canon Digital camera files that are .AVI's and are using the Motion Jpeg Codec. So when I add them into a new Project, TMPG will report that my Morgan-Multimedia Codec has expired and it can only do the audio part of the file and not the video. Any suggestions?

Thanks!

Knuckles

Has your Morgan-Multimedia Codec actually expired? If so, you'll have to buy/renew it.

If you're just using the 60-day trial of that codec, then yes it will expire at some point and be unusable.

>Hey guys!
>
>I have the latest copy of TMPGEnc and have recently run into some Canon Digital camera files that are .AVI's and are using the Motion Jpeg Codec. So when I add them into a new Project, TMPG will report that my Morgan-Multimedia Codec has expired and it can only do the audio part of the file and not the video. Any suggestions?
>
>Thanks!
>
>Knuckles

I have video from my camera in a .MOV file that says it's frame width:height is 640:480 (4:3). I want to include it in my 16:9 DVD (Pinnacle Studio 14)along with a number of photos. I would like to resize the video so that it fills the full width of the screen but with the correct aspect ratio; by cropping the top and bottom off the video. After much tinkering with the Clip Settings/Aspect Ratio and applying resize and crop filters, it still will not generate the correctly sized output. Please help, I'm loosing my mind!

This is what worked for me.

When you crop your video, make sure the dimensions after the crop are 16:9. For example, the width of my video ended up being 644 pixels, so my height needs to be 362 pixels to make it a 16:9 image.

For the resize filter, the only thing I needed to change was unchecking the "keep aspect ratio" box. It's kind of counter-intuitive, but leaving it checked added black bars to the sides of my video (for DVD output). Leave everything else at their defaults. The format chosen in the format stage will make it the correct dimensions.

In the format stage, choose DVD standard MPEG file as your output format (since it's for a DVD) and make sure to choose 16:9 as the Aspect ratio.

In the Encode stage, click on the preview button to make sure it looks the way you want it to. It should look just how it does in the crop filter screen.

Actually, you might need to keep the "keep aspect ratio" box checked for your video. See how it looks with it check and without.

I say this because my source file is a 4:3 DVD-Video MPEG-2 so its pixel aspect ratio is probably different than your .mov video and this could make a difference in how you should process your file.

I have a question regarding subtitles. When I use TMPGEnc to create a MPG backup of my movies sometimes the subtitles are not in the MPG. By subtitles I mean the ones that are part of the movie itself not the different languages. For instance District 9. During the movie there are several times when the alien’s words show at the bottom of the screen. But when I look thru the video I can't find it. I see the director comments, foreign languages, etc., but not the captions. When I do the conversion there are no captions.
Am I missing something?
When this happens I end up just copying the DVD in it’s entirely which wastes a lot space.
Any suggestions would be helpful.
Dave

TMPGEnc doesn't support line21 captions for some dumb reason. Your only choice is to try ccextracter to create a srt file then get a program like Aimersoft that will convert to mpg using the srt file so you get the captions back.

Should be mandatory for serious video editors to fully preserve Line21 in any conversion because there is no excuse not to.