I am interested in capturing the video from my camera directly into TMPGEnc.
Any help out there?

No, TMPGEnc does not have video capturing options. It can only open already created video files or audio files.
If you want to do video capture, then you need a video studio, such as Corel VideoStudio Pro, who can do video capture.

But before that, you need to instal a video capture driver first for your camera, so that the video studio can locate the driver and then access your camera as a video capturing device.

TMPGEnc Video Mastering works really great, except I cannot seem to do one thing: I have a long timeline with amy clips on it and now I want to insert a clip in the middle of this timeline. When I drop a clip there, it overlaps the clips already in that location. Is it possible to move all other clips forward so I can insert a new clip in the middle of the timeline?

You have to manually move all the clips after the point where you want to insert the clip. Select the first clip you want to move then move to the end of the timeline and shift+click the last clip to select all clips in between.
Zooming out so you can see more clips at a time will help.

I have two large displays. When I am in timeline mode, I would like the editing monitor on one display, the time line itself and other parts on another, so I can get a nearly full-sized monitor.

I can "stretch" the TMPG window to cover both displays, but this doesn't result in a larger monitor as it is height constrained - really what I want to do is reorganize the subwindows inside TMPG to have the TMPG monitor to the 'left' of the timeline.

Is there a way to do this?

Are there any settings or drivers needed to be tweaked to get the Intel media sdk options working? Or does it just work out of the box. I just bought a new 4770k and fired it up, but don't really notice a huge speed difference. Any advice?

Chris

Ok, I take it back. I did a comparison with the old computer and it's at least 2x as fast. Same clip, same encode settings. 8:30 clip time, old computer 21:00, new computer 10:30

now to compare the image quality

Chris

hi, the faster computer wont have any effect on your quality, the quality is determined by the software.

what was your old pc, what cpu was in it, because your new pc is twice as fast in terms of time, but the 4770k has an onboard graphics chip (intel HD4600) which is a very good chip, and if you were using intel quicksync to encode, it will be pretty fast over cpu based encoding.

im not sure what tmpge uses by default, i just let my editing pc (3770 cpu) run the encode, but my cpu doing a 1080/50p m2ts file to mpeg2 runs at about 70% so it must be using cpu based encoding, if my HD4000 graphics was running in quick sync mode, the cpu will not be working very hard, and my speed to encode will be a lot faster.

having said that, my regular software is Video ReDo, and until the next major release, it only does cpu based encoding.

Hi .I have dvds recorded from vcr tapes
what I want to do is just take the 2 dvds and use tvm5 to put both together and create one file with out losing any of the quality
Ive read they both need to be converted into lossless files ..
so to my question how is that done in tvm5 ?
so far everything ive tried comes out bad quality and very very pixely

once files are created I burn onto blu ray with authoring works 5

thanks

TVMW5 will always re-encode your videos, so you shouldn't use it if you want to keep your files as-is.

You can just import them into TAW5 since it can losslessly output your files. Since DVD is supported by the Blu-ray format, they will not be re-rendered.

hi, you seem to be getting very confused here.

your videos are in dvd format, so you cannot improve on what they are now, so what you need to do is mux the 2 individual dvd's into 2 mpeg2 files on your hdd, and im sure TMW5 can do this, it used to do it a few years ago in an older version.

you then import the 2 mpeg2 files into TMW5 or the TMPGE mpeg editor, and mux both files together as a single mpeg2 file, without it being re-encoded, but you cant join them together in a lossless format, and even if you could, you cant improve the quality of the video, especially tht your dvd's were created from vhs tapes anyway.

when you say you will burn them to bluray disc, will you be retaining them in the dvd format (standard definition) or do you want to convert them to bluray format (would totally kill your videos if you did that)

cheers

Can VMW5 take an external .ogg audio file, delay it, and mux with it a .mkv file (replacing the existing audio file)?

The audio file is not the same size or nor have the same encoding as the original.

It can, but it will re-encode both audio and video. You can re-encode the audio to FLAC to avoid quality loss.

Smart Renderer 4 (which does not re-encode) can't do it because it's not compatible with .ogg files.

I am trying to understand how to output using the popular CRF method. MW does not use this. It seems "VBR constant quality" is the same thing, as suggested by an older thread: http://bbs.pegasys-inc.com/bbs/list/lang/en/board/TVMW5/keyword/crf/topic/64203#topic64203

However: the 0-100 quality setting seems to have absolutely no effect on the output's file size. Tried higher and lower settings. Then, there is the strange "maximum bitrate" setting, which doesn't make sense for CRF use, which is supposed to define on its own the needed bitrate, solely based on the quality setting.

I'm not sure what's going on, and wish Pegasys used the well-documented 0-51 CRF output numbers.

Some more extensive testing reveals that the quality settings does indeed affect output size. Things a bit more clear now.

hi, yes i agree with you, CRF or RF as i know it can be beneficial, however how do you know which RF quality factor to set for any given input file.

the free handbrake and Xmedia Recode programs are wonderful conversion tools, and both use an RF quality factor mode for setting your output quality, or you can use the Bitrate method, but oddly both those programs use a totally different method to calculate the RF bitrate, so if you encode the same file using the exact same settings, including the same RF quality factor, one will output the file at a much higher bitrate than the other, so this is where you must be very careful using the RF method, you need to know and understand how your given software sets this formula.

i just started using TMPGEnc but only for converting 1080/50p m2ts files from my camera to dvd compliant mpeg2 format so i use a constant bitrate setting of 8.0Mbps.

my regular preferred software is Video ReDo and that has built in quality presets that does the work for you based on pre-determined output quality settings, and thats the way it should be done, not have to guess what bitrate your output file is going to have.

cheers

The 0-100 quality setting is a feature that was first introduced in previous (ie. no longer available) TMPGENC products. The value has nothing to do with CRF values. In fact, I only found out about 0-100 from forum posts dated about 2004 when people were still making SVCDs. From what I could make out, 100 is the best, 0 is the worst and 50 is the default. In those days people would try values above 75 but they might end up with bigger than expected files. You just have to try a value and see if you can live with the file size. In the end I just gave up and went back to setting 2-Pass VBR with a bitrate setting ... or I use another tool that accepts CRF

When will H.265 HEVC encoding of 4K media be implemented in Video Mastering Works?

When that codec becomes standard for home use, which is most likely not to happen within the next couple of years any way.
The current situation is that there is an extreme lack of televisions, videocards and computer screens who actually fully supports it, most computers downscale it any way to 1080p because that is the maximum support they have.

hi, yes consumer 4k is still way off in the distance, and i predict 4k for home use actually wont ever eventuate in any reality anyway.

look at bluray, i do not know anyone who owns a bluray player, let alone them owning bluray movies.

some people i know still have a 5 year old standard HD tv (1366x768) and still have a dvd player connected to it, and still buy or hire dvd movies.

fact is, a commercial dvd will upscale and play beautifully on a HD tv, even a full HD tv, and while people are happy with this, there is no way they will move on.

now, i am a videographer, i shoot weddings, and i never burn any wedding to bluray disc, because none of my clients want it, for the reason i gave above.

i shoot my videos in 1080/50p avchd (mts) and after editing, i mux the video to 1080/50p in an MP4 container (for better playback support) which doesnt re-encode the video, and the client is given a copy of their video, and the original camera files on a 500gb usb powered portable hdd to play back on their HD tv because al HD tv's now have its own built in media player.

oddly, every now and then a client will ask me to convert the video to dvd for some of their family or friends because they still have older tv's and dvd players to watch the video on.

so, where does all this leave 4k format, well if bluray still has not become mainstream, 4k most definately wont ever become the future standard.

heck, if i thought 4k was going to be the future for consumer use, i would already be shooting weddings on a 4k Black Magic Cinema Camera in very high bitrte ProRes or RawDNG format.

isnt going to happen while people still have dvd players......cheers

I have downloaded the trial version and I want to test it by creating a BD from several mkv files.
The thing is that the files are loaded ok but just the video, the audio part is not recognized as if the file had no audio.
I understand mkv files are supported so why dos this happen?
Thanks a lot.

DTS audio, not supported by TVMW5 unless you tweak it to use the external renderers Haali Media Splitter and FFDSHOW 32bit version.

I have an MKV project I'm working on with DTS audio file. Want to transcode the x264 video and audio to create a AVCHD DVD. I have been using MeGUI to convert DTS multi-channel audio to AC3. I then bring the x264 vid and ac3 audio into
MW5 to transcode for Author Works 5 smart rendering.

Your way sounds much easier.

I already have Haali-splitter and FFDShow installed in my system.

Can you guide us to info as to how to configure MW5 to use the external filters
you are using?

Many Thanks,

dave

There is a perpetual problem with converting videos of different frame rates in many of the Pegasys products including the MW5. If you take for examples a video with the frame rate of 23.976 or 24 and try to convert it to the 25 fr standard it always results in a jerky output. It is well visible if the movie contains smooth transitions like panning where there is some easy to notice image continuity.

Is there anything that can be set in the options to fix this?

This is definitively one the programs' weaknesses. I don't think you can do something with the settings to help. Pegasys needs to implement a frame blending filter, that creates the most natural results.

The ultra expensive Adobe Premiere has such a feature, but the result is not that great. Motion is smooth (no jerkiness) but also blurred and unnatural.

The free madVR video renderer, has a stunning "smooth motion" feature that works perfectly - in real time, too! Something like that is required here.

hi, can i ask why you would even want to change the framerate anyway, and of coarse the video will suffer, especially if you go from say 60p to 30p as some people do.

i shoot wedding video in 1080/50p avchd @ 28Mbps and i never change the framerate, and i choose 50p because it is far better for shooting videos where the camera does a lot of panning work (as i do) and where the camera has to be carried on a hand held rig while on the move, it just offers far smoother playback than 25p, and this is very well documented.

i live in australia, and our cameras shoot 25p or 50p, and a guy i know bought a 60p camera from usa, and he actually re-convers his 60p video to 25p (not 30p as he should use) and he wonders why his video is playing all jerky, yet his camera shoots 1080/30p anyway.

you should always keep the same framerate, or at least if you down convert, it must be half of the original framerate.

cheers

Is it possible to encode a video in reverse (i.e. - the video would be encoded so that the video plays in reverse or from backward-to-forward?

Just found the solution. The "Speed" Filter has an option to reverse the video. Select this filter and check the "reverse" option and the video will be reversed during encoding.

This behavior just started, about ten minutes into encoding a movie; e.g a mkv to MP4, the system freezes up (nothing moves on the screen) and no amount of mouse click or ctrl+alt+del helps to unfreeze the system. So I got to re-start several times to get the pc to bootup. Anyone has seen anything like this before. I'll probably uninstall and go back to the earlier version.

I am running WIN 8.1.

Windows 8.1 is your problem. I have heard about a LOT of people who has problems with all sorts of softwares after they upgraded from 8.0 to 8.1
Looks like it has a general compatible problem with a broad variaty of softwares, but that can then be used as a warning to others who has Windows 8: DON'T upgrade to 8.1

Oh! really! well..its kind of too late to go back to 8. I'll just ignore video editing for awhile. thanks for the reply.

hi, its not windows 8.1 causing your problem, its more likely hardware related, and i wish people would stop implying that win 8.1 is not compatible with software when it is.

8.1 is exactly the same as 8.0 except when they made 8.0 they removes some features that were in windows 7, and everyone complained about it, so they were forced to release au updated version to put those missing features back in it, otherwise it is still the same as win 8.0.

as for not being compatible, thats rubbish, i have dozens of programs that i had for several years, and they all work with windows 8 or 8.1, because 8 was developed using the same code and driver base from win 7.

your pc has a hardware issue causing it to lock up (could be lack of ram) but not likely software.

cheers