Looking to replace DVD Workshop and landed here. Could a more experienced user tell me if it is possible to do the following:
A simple text driven menu with 2 text options, “Play”, which will play Track 1 from the beginning, and “Continuous Play” which will play track 1 repeatedly.

In DWS, this was extremely easy, just type the 2 text fields, click on the “Continuous Play” field, select the playlist option and add start/end loop points. From what I can see, there does not appear to be a way to assign tracks chapters or actions (such as loop/continuous play) to user added images or text fields, or did I miss something?

The reason this is so important is because I produce videos for weddings/grads/memorials where they just want to start the DVD playing and have the video run continuously through the event without being monitored so a "Continuous Play" option is required. I am moving away from DWS as it is no longer supported and does not run on Win7. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thansk,
Mason

Unfortunately, TAW4 is not that robust in terms of customizing functions. You can't have both options present on a DVD made by TAW4; it can play one track at a time, play through all the tracks automatically, or play through all the tracks and then loop forever. You can only choose one of those options and it will apply to the entire DVD.

In order to set that, you can go to the DVD global menu settings if you've already made your menu, or there is an option for it in the Menu Wizard. Just look for the option "Track playback end action" and select what you want to happen.

Thanks for the quick response. Unfortunately, that's what I thought. It's a shame that such a nice feature-rich and well designed program is missing basic functionality. The search continues I guess.

I've not tried this, but perhaps:

You could have one button play the track once and then return to the main menu.

A second button could link to a subordinate custom menu with the video running as a full-screen background, or full screen button with annimation, looping until terminated by the user? Pressing the button here might display a brief "Thank you for watching" adn return to the main menu.

Hello all, new to this forum. Usind Authoring works 4.0. I create a slide show of 197 slides (imported from desktop, all jpegs). the program creates the slideshow, previews no problem in color, burns to disc no problem. When I put the disc in to view, all the pictures are in black and white. Not sure where in the process this is happening. I've never changed any settings for the dvd burner (TSST DVD+-RW burner, using windows Vista). Previous slide show went without a hitch. Any thoughts? Thanks

What are you playing the DVD on? A DVD player? Your computer?
Also, are you in a PAL region? Did you make a PAL or NTSC DVD?
Some PAL players aren't able to correctly display NTSC video, and black and white video can be one of the signs of that.

Using my 4.0 XPress, I once was able to re-encode a film fron one language to another. I cannot recall how I did this. Can somone refresh my memory?

Are you talking about using a different audio stream? If you have the audio stream for the other language, you can select that as the audio source in the clip properties tab of the clip editing window.

Downloaded the trial copy and it installed well. Tried to format an 80 minute XviD file into a DVD compliant MPEG file. After an hour of encoding, I had a black rectangle, with sound, and the trial message every 10 minutes. Can anyone help with this, or is this program totally non-functional in the 64 bit Windows?

System is Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit, with 8GB of RAM.

I've been using it on Win7 64 bit and haven't run into any problems yet. I'm guessing your problem has to do with whatever codec you're using for Xvid.

Does product offers NTSC/PAL conversion?

Yes. For certain output templates such as DVD, VCD, BD, it's as easy as selecting NTSC or PAL from a drop-down menu.

If you're using a generic template, you'll have to make sure the output settings conform to those standards.

Sorry, asked little bit wrongly...
when does it support NTSC/PAL conversion? framerate conversion is exact word...
if my source is NTSC it provides poor framerate conversion to PAL, picture does not move smoothly... picture quality itself is good...

No Support.
No Pal Speedup. Conversion with Add Frame is useless.

The Funktion with Add Frames is really Stupid to jerk

I have and use tnpg authoring works. will i have a need for it if i upgrade to 5 what r benefits over 4enc.

Be aware that TMPGEnc Video Mastering Works 5 and TMPGEnc Authoring Works 4 are two separate products; TVMW5 is NOT the next version of TAW4.

So TVMW5 cannot author and write DVDs/BD/DivX Ultra like TAW4 can.
You will still need TAW4 to create menus and write to disc even if you get TVMW5.

Why 9600gso CUDA not work at TMPGEnc Video Mastering Works 5.
My system: windows 7 X64

Are you not able to activate the cuda options in the preferences?

TMPGEnc Video Mastering Works 5 able to activate the cuda and I select the output format "MPEG-4(AVC)" and the MPG-4 Video encoder setting have "CUDA".But I select CUDA Video encoder it show "An error stopped the output" and “You cannot use the CUDA encoder with the current setting”.
My NVDIA driver is 190.56.
I try to use the new driver 270.61,it able to activate the cuda but not select CUDA encoder at MPG-4 Video encoder setting.
Why???It`s a Bug???

Have a strange problem the CUDA with driver 190.56. I can use the CUDA encoder sometimes. But it not work most of the time and show “You cannot use the CUDA encoder with the current setting”.
I try to the Nvdia driver form 190.38 to 270.61 and only the "190.56 190.62"can use the CUDA encoder sometimes else able to activate the cuda options but unable select CUDA encoder at MPG-4 Video encoder setting.

Downloaded and installed trial of TAW4, ripped my BD with AnyDVD, got lots of files. There are 2 large files, both 1 hr. 57 min. long, one is movie, other is movie with commentary. The commentary version of the movie is in english, however the main movie file is in French! I assume there is an English audio soundtrack, but I cannot figure out for the life of me how to get at it. Can anyone help me?

I've done some tests and here's what I found.
There doesn't seem to be any way to select which audio track to import when importing BD video clips. It's possible with DVD-Video, but not with Blu-rays.

These are my finding using a BD .m2ts file with 2 audio tracks:
When importing the Blu-ray .m2ts file, it typically imports the first audio track.
I've also found that if I use the Advanced Tools' MPEG Tool Demultiplexer (Start stage-->Advanced Tools-->MPEG Tool-->Demultiplexer) and I select the .m2ts file, it will demultiplex the second audio stream! I can then import the resulting .m2v and .ac3 files as a clip.

I'm not sure what will happen if there are more than 2 audio tracks.

Unfortunately, the MPEG tools are disabled in the trial version, so I don't think you'll be able to test that out.

TMPGEnc Video Mastering Works 5 (their video encoding software) can properly select audio/subtitle tracks from BD video just like DVD-Video, so hopefully that will eventually make it into TAW4.

So is there any reason why I would not want to buy Video Mastering Works 5 instead of TAW4? I mean, for what I'm trying to do, which is to edit commercial blu-ray discs? They're the same price.

Since Video Mastering Works 5 is not authoring software, you will not be able to create DVD/Blu-ray menus nor will you be able to burn to DVD/BD.

If you're not planning on burning to disc, then it might be a good fit for your needs.

Yes, I think it would be a better fit. I don't think I'll be burning anything. The recordable disks are too expensive, and I've got enough space on my server to hold the edited copies. I don't plan to be handing these out to anyone, just using at home what I paid for. Thanks!

In that case, I recommend trying the demo for Video Mastering Works 5 just to make sure it can do what you want and that it works with your files.

TVMW5 also has a much more sophisticated editing system if you choose the timeline project option. The only thing you might miss that is in TAW4 (besides menus and burning) is Smart Rendering; TVMW5 will re-encode everything you put into it, so if you have a DVD compliant video clip, it will re-encode the entire clip even if you are outputting in the same format with the same settings.

I have an old version of TMPGEnc, Author v1.6. I used to use to edit DVDs, and now that I have Blurays I was wondering if "Authoring Works 4" will allow me to do the same thing. I need to edit offensive crap out of some of the BDs that I own, so my kids can see them. I already have copyright stripped off (Anydvd). Will this version work as well as DVD Author v1.6 did? Thanks for any help you can provide.

I believe it is possible since you stripped the copy protection. If you can import the video, you'll be able to cut any scenes you want. You might want to try the free trial to make sure your blu-ray files will work.

http://tmpgenc.pegasys-inc.com/en/download/taw4.html

Thanks! I'm trying it now, although a lot of functionality seems to be disabled. Hopefully enough remains to see if it will do what I want.

Do you know if it handles 5.1 audio, or will I need to buy an add-on, like I did with the 1.6 version when I had to buy an AC3 package?

It supports Dolby Digital 5.1 input and output.
None of the current TMPGEnc software requires a plug-in for AC3 support; it's built into all of the programs now.

I have TMPGEnc Video Mastering Works 5.0.5.32
When I use the Divx with the Advanced Acoustic MP3 Encoder,
the picture turns out great,but the sound quality is terrible.
I can barely hear the sound.
I see no way to adjust the sound in the format mode.
In format mode if I choose Divx, it does give me a choice to audio encoders.
Can anyone tell me if and how to fix this problem?
Thank you

What is your source file's video and audio format?

You may also want to download the latest version of TVMW5 (released today); if it's a program error, it might have been fixed.
http://tmpgenc.pegasys-inc.com/en/download/tvmw5_full.html

New version released today. Download it from your user account.
Revision history:
http://tmpgenc.pegasys-inc.com/en/download/tvmw5_rireki.html

Thanks for the pointer, tkrave!

- Dave

Hi guys, any way of deleting the crappy menu thumbnails. I simply want to create full screen motion menu looping which I can do easily but I wish to have no thumbnails at all< I simply want to put in two seperate text words that are buttons, seems near impossible to create anything, please tell me the taw 4 is not for 2 year olds now. I import my timeline and then i create custom menu. I dont want anything on menu other than a couple of buttons which link to the start of the timeline and another that links to the timeline about 7 minutes in. Any help please. Rob

In the custom menu wizard, just choose text options for your top and track menus instead of those with thumbnails. I think all the layouts that end in "(D)" are text only layouts.
http://i56.tinypic.com/1255c1w.png

Sounds like you should do Track menu only and make chapter points for the beginning and 7 minute mark of your video.