http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdYYq1LEtfE

I discovered that the new Slideshow speed filter can be used to turn a group of time lapse photos into a video. The above video was made from 350 photos taken 5 seconds apart. The program split them into 2 slideshow clips because of the 200 photo limit. I set the photo duration at 1 second, and a crossfade transition of 1 second. Then I set the speed filter to 10 times faster.

The photos are 4000x3000, so I first set the pan and zoom to crop to 16x9 aspect ratio. The corner handles appeared, but I couldn't drag them, although I could move the x,y of the picture. I have the text size set to 125% in Windows 7 (Personalize/Display). Setting it back to 100% worked around this problem, but makes it hard to see the screen on my TV across the room, where I like to work. Hopefully, this bug will be easy to fix.

Another bug I discovered is that the Position/Size values for a keypoint seem to have limits, so they aren't correct when you zoom past a certain point by dragging the handles. Also, if you change them manually, the amount of zoom doesn't always change. I think you need to change both height and width whenever you change one of them, if you have fixed aspect ratio checked.

The 200 picture slideshow limit means there is often more than one clip. When going from the end of one clip to the beginning of the next one, it is important to be able to match the keypoint values. Since the displayed values aren't correct at higher zooms, there is no way to do this except by dragging with the mouse, which is inaccurate and frustrating.

So it would be very useful to be able to copy and past keypoints (Sony Vegas has this feature). If the displayed keypoint values were correct, you could do this one value at a time, but that's tedious.

Another bug I noticed is that when you get to higher zoom values, the x/y motion gets "jerky." I suspect this is a truncation problem from using single instead of double variables in the code. This is noticeable in the high zoom part of the video.

Finally, instead of using linear zoom/panning between keypoints, it would be more useful to have smooth starts and stops. That is, instead of starting off at full zoom/pan velocity, you accelerate up to that velocity and then decelerate back down to 0 at the end. Sony Vegas has the option to set different types of keypoint acceleration, but just changing from linear to smooth would probably be good enough for this program, and avoid having to add more input options.

I'd like to say that being able to use the slideshow speed filter to make time lapse video with crossfades between pictures at full resolution is a fantastic feature that I haven't seen anywhere else. Being able to zoom and pan within the slideshow without loss of resolution is something other programs can't do either.

It would be useful to raise the limit of pictures in a slideshow from 200 to as high as possible (3,000 to 5,000 maybe?). The ability to join two slideshow clips together so you could zoom between keypoints in different clips would serve the same purpose.

Thanks for a major improvement.

hi,

open a iPhone 4S created mov video i cant change the framerate from detected 31,583 to that one i want (30fps). this is why my output clips are jittering.

any idea ?

regards Stefan

Can't you change the framerate in the Clip Properties tab of the Clip Editor? Since it's a mov file, you should be able to set the framerate (usually, only MPEG files have a locked framerate setting).

Hello!
I download and install TMPGEnc Video Mastering Works 5 (trial)
But this program can't import my MPEG-2 HD-video, only audio track was imported.
This MediaInfo example of my source files:
====================================================
General
ID : 0 (0x0)
Complete name : D:\m2t-original\hdv10_30.m2t
Format : MPEG-TS
File size : 2.00 GiB
Duration : 2mn 38s
Overall bit rate : 108 Mbps

Video
ID : 2064 (0x810)
Menu ID : 1 (0x1)
Format : MPEG Video
Format version : Version 2
Format profile : 4:2:2@High
Format settings, BVOP : No
Format settings, Matrix : Custom
Format settings, GOP : N=1
Codec ID : 2
Duration : 2mn 38s
Bit rate : 102 Mbps
Maximum bit rate : 100.0 Mbps
Width : 1 920 pixels
Height : 1 080 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate : 25.000 fps
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:2
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Interlaced
Scan order : Top Field First
Compression mode : Lossy
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 1.973
Stream size : 1.89 GiB (95%)

Audio
ID : 2068 (0x814)
Menu ID : 1 (0x1)
Format : MPEG Audio
Format version : Version 1
Format profile : Layer 2
Codec ID : 3
Duration : 2mn 38s
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 384 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Compression mode : Lossy
Delay relative to video : -490ms
Stream size : 7.28 MiB (0%)
==========================================================
Whether you plan such enhancement in your program?
Thanks and excuse my awful English.

It might be the 4:2:2 YUV format that is the problem.

You should email that info to support to confirm.
Use the "Pre-Sales inquiry" form here:
http://tmpgenc.pegasys-inc.com/en/contact.html

After installing VMW5, no videos installed on my system with a .WMV format will play in MS Media Player. Audio plays, video will not display.
I have Win7 64bit, 6 gig RAM. I have latest Radeon video drivers installed, I have run MS Fix tools on Media Player, but stil no luck. .WMV play fine inside VMW for editing - but not the output. -Files generated on my system in .wmv format, work fine on other PC's.

That's weird. I can play wmv files fine, I can even play the same file at the same time in both windows media player and TVMW5. I'm also on Win7 64-bit.

Is it possible to have full importation SUP/IFO support in both Video Mastering Works and Authoring works. Noticed that WTV and TS DVB subtitles do not correctly display in certain situations i.e. wrong placement and colors. Correct handling of DVB subtitles can be achieved using ProjectX demux function.

I got the same problem with the DVB Subtitle as well, when try to render the TS file to any format, the subtitle will display on the left middle, instead of bottom. Any Solution or could fix that please? Thanks

I bought and install the software Mastering Works 5 only to realise it does not work and warning that it cannot find TImageDataSplash_enDataModule and shortly another pop up says MPEG Stream (%s)|%s).

kindly assist or i required an refund, afterall it is not a 20 software, i paid 99 bucks for it.

Thanks

Carol

FYI, this is not an official support forum. We're just a bunch of users like you.

You should use their official support form if you need an official response:
http://tmpgenc.pegasys-inc.com/en/support/support.html

You might want to try running the installer again and choosing the "Repair" option. You can also try reinstalling it altogether.

I have exactly the same problem. Please let me know if you find a solution - I've tried reinstalling, repairing, downloading again and still no success :-(

Hey Guys, I am new to TMPG. I create AVI type 2 files using the AG AC-130 camera. I set up my encoding using general MPEG-1 settings:


MPEG-1
720 x 480, CBR, 2000 kb/s
Audio Layer II, 48000Hz, Sterio, 128kbs

I get an error about 1/4 into the compression.

Any thoughts on what might be causing the error. or at least a location to decifer the error message. Your quick reply will be appreciated.

Terry

Okay I have located the fix. Here's is how you do it.

Load a test AVI file.
Go to "options" tab in upper right hand corner
Go to preferences
Clip on File input plug-in
Un-Check Media Foundation file reader

You are done.

I've had problems in TVMW5 with working with different input file types and
especially avs input files that require the VFAPI input file reader.

I found that by disabling all the input file readers except the VFAPI reader I could get TVMW5 to run without crashing.

There must be a more simple way than enabling/disabling input reader filtrs
every time you input a different file type.

Perhaps simply changing the order of how the program chooses input file
readers might help make TVMW5 more reliable.

Does anyone know how to change the priority of the File Input Plugins?

Many thanks,

Options => Preferences => Input/output format list => File input plug-in

Here you uncheck everything but NOT DirectShow file reader.

Shut down TVMW5.

Go to the videohelp.com site and locate Haali Media Splitter and FFDSHOW, download them both and install them (Haali first, FFDSHOW next).
During install of FFDSHOW, you will be offered to change settings about video and audio, don't!
Just install with its preset settings.

Reboot computer.

From now own when ever you open a video file, the decoders TVMW5 will be using is Haali and FFDSHOW, two extremely stable decoders used by thousands of people.
It is also possible to open some videos files you previously had no support for, just open those by choosing All files.

You can get asked after choosing to open the files how you wish to import them, just choose Import 'as is', since that makes Haali and FFDSHOW take care of the decoding.

Since I updated my TMPGEnc Master Works 5 to the latest version v2.4.68 I can
no longer process either mpeg2 or h264 using an aviSynth.avs file as an input
source. The program will start to encode and then crash/shutdown after about
60 seconds of processing.

Program is also crashing when I include a discrete ac3 audio file to process.

I upgraded my TMPGEnc Author Wotks 5 to the latest version and it is now also crashing with an AviSynth video and ac3 audio file.

Anyone have any ideas about why this is happening?

Many Thx,

OK TMPGE,
Thank you for all your help.

I found a workaround to this bug.

The default setting for the File-Input-Plugin-list is "all filters enabled"

I disabled all input plugin file readers except the VFAPI File Reader.

The program is now running without crashing.

I hope anyone else with this type of problem may benefit with this information.

Hi everyone

I'm a happily paid user of video mastering works 5.

I use this on my main beastly machine but will soon. E taking a trip and want to use my laptop to create some slideshow movies for friends while I'm on the road, which means installing my licenced copy onto my laptop, meaning a second install for my onelicence?

Is this possible as I've checked with so e other productive bought and been told in all accounts yes as long as you don't run it on. Oth machines at the same time. Which should be fine since I can't use the other machine at the same time anyways.

Thanks for any help

Ivan

IS this software available in french.. i already have a license of TMPGENC 4.0, i want upgrade but i don't want for one english version...

regards

No.

For the purpose of making a DVD, assuming I don't need to apply any special filters, is there any benefit to using TVMW5 to make a DVD compliant MPEG first out of my FLV souce file and then use that MPEG as my source in TAW4? Or am I better off just using the FLV source file in TAW4 and bypassing TVMW5 altogether? Or does it make any difference?

Thanks.

Addition to the above: I want to be sure I get the best possible video quality is my primary concern in askiing. In either case, I would use 2 pass VBR at the highest bit rate possible so it fits a 4 GB DVD.

You might be better off just importing the source file into TAW4.

You can set the encoding to 2-pass VBR and max out the bitrate in the track settings for each track.

Since you're not using filters and you're encoding to MPEG-2, I'm not sure there would be any advantages to using TVMW5, unless you need to do some major editing or are using a hardware encoder such as SpursEngine.