Using an NVIDIA GTX580 with Windows-7 64-bit and 6GB of RAM. I get the error "An error occured during the CUDA execution (cudaError_t = 30" when I enable the CUDA options. Im running the NVIDIA WHQL driver ver 275.33. Has anyone else seen this?

Determined after running EVGA Overclock utility that the video card was defective.

Hi,

I'm importing wtv files (from a BBC HD channel) and TMPGENC refuses to recognose the audio track. Works fine with standard def files but with HD nothing. These are bog standard recordings from Windows Media Center so I'm not sure what the issue is. The original files play fine in WMC and in WMP.

Are you getting an error that audio stream can't be read?

No one knows why this error comes out:

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Encoding the avi to MPEG-2

Has anyone had any luck using VMW5 with HDV-encoded QuickTime Reference files?

My main workflow is to capture and edit in HDV on Avid Media Composer 5.5. The sequences are then exported as QuickTime Reference Files referring to a mix of HDV and DNxHD clips which are then decoded by QuickTime using the Calibrated{Q} XD Decode decoder plug-in (and the Avid DNxHD codec).

This works perfectly on Xpress 4 but is a total mess on VMW5. The playback on the Cut-Edit screen is just of a black screen or a horribly flickery one and the output from various encoders looks exactly the same.

I'm in a bit of a fix since I (stupidly) surrendered my Xpress 4 license in the upgrade and am left without any rights to a working encoder so any help would be greatly appreciated!!!!

At 5.5 it's not possible to have HDV QT refs.
How have you managed something like that.
This future has been eliminated because it was problematic on the MAC side of MC.

Hi sverkalo,

I'm not sure I understand you: HDV/Long GOP exports to Quicktime Reference have been in MC since one of the 5.0 point releases (5.0.3?) and continue to work perfectly in 5.5. You will need a third-party decoder to play the files though - hence the need for Calibrated{Q} XD Decode. I believe that if you're on a Mac (I am not), you can use the HDV decoder installed with Final Cut.

Anyway, back to VMW5: support has confirmed that there is a problem with the Quicktime 7 reader component but have no ETA on a fix.

So - if you're using HDV Quicktime Reference files and you're upgrading:

*** DO NOT GIVE UP YOUR XPRESS 4 LICENSE WHEN UPGRADING TO VIDEO MASTERING WORKS 5 ***

Pegasys will not re-enable your Xpress 4 license - even if you offer to pay for it - I have asked.

I record a lot of football games for my "archive" and want to edit them and add transitions between each "cut" - but HOW?!

When I open a clip (.ts-format) and start cutting it in edit clip > cut-edit I end up with say seven pieces on the left of the screen numbered #01, #02 etc. But when exiting I still only have one clip and can't make any transitions.

Do I have to do this in timeline mode (which just seems like a hassle to me) or can I edit my clip, make it appear in "pieces" and just add transitions and then save?

Also, I've been having problems with the audio in my clips. When I edit a file and render it (format doesn't matter) the audio goes silent after 3 minutes in the finished version.

It sounds like you are only adding keyframes. You need to split the clip into separate pieces; use the split clip button to set where the clip should be split. Once you click the "OK" button to leave the cut-editor, you will be asked which parts you want to keep -- just select to keep all parts. Once you are back in the source stage, you will see your clip is separate pieces and can then add transitions between them.

No idea what the cause of your audio problems could be. Is there any corruption at the 3 minute mark?

Hello, I own a copy of Video Mastering Works updated to ver 5.0.6.38.
My system specs are the following: CPU Core 2 Quad Q9650, Windows 7 x64, 6 GB Ram, Nvidia Geforce GTX 580 with the latest 275.33 drivers.
I was trying to encode a standard DV AVI into standard DVD format, using video denoise filters and I wanted to test the power of CUDA.
I enabled CUDA, done the optimization, and also enabled CUDA under the MPEG decoders. No matter what I do, the cuda percentage during encoding remains 0.0% and CPU 100.0%...
What am I doing wrong?
Thanks

I have the same problem except with a GTX 470
CPU=100% CUDA=0.0% when converting video :(

In the CUDA preferences, there is a checkbox for "use CUDA for filtering". Make sure that's checked.

I'm using a GTX 460 and have no problems seeing CUDA usage once that checkbox is checked.

You have also to register Cuda in mpeg 1, mpeg2 and mpeg4 encoders separately at the Preferences.

I would like to know if it is possible to copy the video stream of a file either .mkv/.mp4 and encode the audio only?

For example, file x.mkv contains h264 video stream which i do not want to re-encode(copy) and an AC-3 audio stream which i want to encode to .m4a (LC-AAC) and the output should be in a .mp4 file.

So far i have not found this option in VMW5. Is it possible?

Regards.

Use the Advanced Tools (Start window-->Advanced Tools button-->MPEG tool-->Demultiplexer) to demultiplex the mkv/mp4 into separate video and audio files. This will give you your separate video stream and leave it untouched.

Next, import your mkv/mp4 video into TVMW5 and encode it to your audio specs. If you have an LC-AAC codec, you might be able to use the audio-only WAVE output template. If not, the only way to encode to AAC is to use the MPEG-4 AVC output template. This means you'll have to encode video as well, but since you don't need the video stream, you can lower the video bitrate to almost nothing to make output faster. Once the file is output, use the demultiplexer again to separate your AAC audio stream from the video.

Now that you have your AAC audio, use the multiplexer to combine it with your original video stream into a mp4 file.

I am testing out TMPGEnc Mastering Works 5 and am trying to convert an AVI to an MP4 and it takes 20 minutes to render a 5 minute file which has audio, but the video is just white.

TMPEG 4 Xpress was so rock solid, I never had any issues doing anything.
But I need to be able to generate h264 mp4 files for a large project, and this isn't going to work.

I've tried different settings, but so far I'm not having any different results.
Any thoughts?

The system is running XP, with an Pentium 4 3.4GHz and 2GB of ram.
I know this is old, but it should still be sufficient.

What's the video specs for the AVI file? I'm guessing it's a codec problem. Run the video through MediaInfo or Gspot and post the data.

I'm also running TVMW5 on a computer similar to your specs so I don't think that's the problem.

AVI (OpenDML)(DV): 1.21 GiB, 5mn 44s
1 Video Stream: DV (Sony)
1 audio Stream: PCM (Microsoft)
24.4 Mbps, 720*480 (4:3), 29.970 fps, DV (Sony) (NTSC)


First, I updated the Quicktime player to the most recent version (7.6.9).
That seemed to fix the playback issue of the white screen.

Then I went home and ran the same video through my home system (which is Windows 7, AMD Phenom II x6 1035t processor with 9GB ram).

That ran the same 5 minutes in @ 2 minutes - so it looks like the processor speed was the issue with conversion.

I'd be interested if you run similar spec machine how long something like this would take you?

Hi all, I've tried the spurs engine plugin and it works very well with my firecoder blu card, but I ask more settings/optimizations like better scene change detection scene and better bitrate accuracy. Constant quality or quantization like x264.
The encoder is very fast but in some fast scenes, it produce some visible "block".
Maybe the problem is solvible with "slow" analisys picture per second, slow performances, using slice process, intra or bidirectional encoding. Editable matrix like JTV is not bad idea.
I ask a bit more quality with lower bitrates.

Thanks in advances.

have a Blackgold PCI TV tuner card. I have been recording Freeview HD (DVB-2T) files using windows media centre to wtv format. When I import them into the program for editing and conversion, it says that there is no audio in the file, although it plays perfectly on the computer, so somehow the audio format is not being recognised.

Any ideas

I believe TVMW5 can only import WTV files encoded with MPEG-2 video and MP2 audio. I'm guessing yours is MPEG-4 AVC video and AAC or Dolby Digital Plus audio. I'm not sure why TVMW5 can only import MPEG-2 WTV files. If you can somehow take the video and audio streams out of the WTV container, you should be able to import them into TVMW5.

Is there any way you can post a short sample recording for me to try? All of my WTV files are MPEG-2 encoded, so if yours are indeed MPEG-4 AVC encoded, I'd like to see what I can do with it.

As the title suggests, Is it possible to cut sections of a dvd and save without re-encoding?
I find that i never get thats same "pop" when i save wmv's from original dvds and the quality is never what i think is as good - i even encode at 8000k

Ideally I'd like to use the source wizard to import the dvd and the timeline to crap the part i want and then to save that part without re-encoding

Unfortunately, no. TVMW5 doesn't have smart rendering. TMPGEnc Authoring Works 4 and TMPGEnc MPEG Editor 3 can cut DVD-Video without re-encoding though.

Spent so much money on this product, and some basic things are still missing.
I am very disappointed by its processing speed, and x264 encoding is much, much slower than other implementations like the free handbrake.

secondly, I cannot understand not implementing smart rendering. Why? Can't be that hard.

I am trying to encode a blu-ray folder that has DTS audio as its audio format. TVMW doesn't support this. A Pegasys support person told me to disable the MPEG file reader in the input plug-ins as this defaults TVMW to use directshow to read the files.

However, files loaded up still contain no decodable audio, and the support person said I should find an appropriate codec. Windows Media Player can play the audio fine, so I assume directshow has the right plug-in available.

Can anyone help with the import of the DTS or DTS-HD MA audio?

Install CCCP Codec Pack.
http://www.cccp-project.net/

Set DTS zu FFDShow
Set FFDShow Audio Setting zu 3:0:2+LFE 5.1 Channel
Deselect Compression

Video Mastering Support Only one Audio Track. Strip unwanted Streams with mkvtoolnix (mmg)

http://www.bunkus.org/videotools/mkvtoolnix/

Video mastering not Support Framerate Conversion. Video will jerky.

Take a Pal Speedup Avisynth Script
Install Avisynth
Install & Extract http://code.google.com/p/ffmpegsource/

make a Scrip called HD.AVS

LoadPlugin("D:\Tools\DVD Tools\FFmpegSource2\ffmpeg-mt\ffms2.dll")

A=FFVideoSource("E:\Film.mkv")
B=FFAudioSource("E:\Film.mkv")
AudioDub(A, B)
AssumeFPS(25.000, true)
ConvertToYUY2()

Import in Video mastering.
Path musst be your paths.

Thanks for this. So I understand what I'm doing:

The preparation work is being done by mkvtoolnix - it will strip the other audio files and use FFDSHOW to decompress the DTS audio stream.

The AVIsynth step only applies if I want to change the framerate.

If I don't want to change the framerate I just import the file that mkvtoolnix outputs straight into Video Mastering?

Is that correct?

Thanks again.

OK. I tried what you said and it does work - you get the audio presented as 5.1 sound. However, by using .mkv as the container format the subtitles are not presented. The real reason for using TMPGEnc for this encode was to get the DTS sound and also to keep the subtitles as the film is a foreign language film.

Is there any way to make the workaround work with subtitles?

Thanks in advance for any help.

Nö. Video Mastering no Support Import DTS and subtitle Streams from MKV.

You can demux and Convert Suptitle to SRT Format and Add under Filter Suptitle.

The FFShow DTS Decoding dont work. Channel mapping not correct. To convert DTS to AC3 take The FilmMachine Audio.

http://members.home.nl/thefilmmachine/

Remux MKV with MKVToolnix.