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I would like Movie style or another product you make to be able to transcode:
AVCHD files from Canon and Panasonic cameras.
From 1080 p (with pulldown from canon cameras at 24p)
From 1080 p (with native progressive frames at 24p from Panasonic HMC150 cameras)
Also many are having a great time editing footage from AVCHD at 1080 from all camcorders that are now shooting this file type due to the clips being seperated in 4 gig chuncks of footage.
It would be ice if Movie style could do a straight unchanged (or pull down removal only) cut edit to say i gig clips.
Better yet, to allow input to the clips meta data (but that is a wish not a need). Sequential numbering of the output files is a must.
Also the same would be desired for Panasonic MXF files from P2 cards.
We want full raster files not the DVCproHD non-square files, so something to convert DVCproHD into an AVCHD full raster clip divided at 1 gig segments.
One gig segments allows easier editing. It is hard to edit when the computer has to manage4 gig 1080 files.
Have you checked out TMPGEnc 4.0 XPress? It's much more geared towards editing and encoding than MovieStyle is and it can do AVCHD input. I don't know if it can do all of the things you're describing, but it is probably the type of program you are looking for. They have a trial version in case you want to try it.
Does anyone here know how to set the moov atom at the beginning of an h.264 file to enable progressive download using a flash player? I have tried qt-faststart.c but it fails when I try to run it against an enc xpress generated mp4 file. I have scoured the internet but cannot find a tool that will get it moved.
Hi, I should create an avi with Divx 6.8 codec.
I read multipass (2 pass) is better than single pass generally.
Is it possible use multipass with Divx 6.8 and TMPGEnc 4.5 Xpress?
If it’s so, could someone tell me exactly what are the right steps to do it? When I arrive to select the divx codec then I can’t setting it for 2 pass.
One pass, yes I do.
It sounds like you are using the AVI output format with the DivX 6.8 codec?
In the Format Stage, after you have selected AVI file output and DivX 6.8 as your codec, click on the "Settings..." button.
This opens a DivX Codec Properties window. Towards the bottom there is a section called "Rate control". Just select one of the "Multipass" options for rate control mode and that should do it.
Hmmm...you're right, it doesn't seem to do a 2nd pass with the multipass options.
You might want to use the integrated DivX encoder instead of the codec via AVI output. Select "DivX file output" instead of Avi file output in the Format stage. The integrated DivX encoder allows you to do 2 passes, and you can even do more than 2 passes in Advanced mode.
>I tried using integrated DivX encoder, I saw, now it does multi pass but got a .divx extension file not avi file I wanted.
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I know this is an old reply, but for just FYI, a .divx file is same as an .avi file. You can either change the name manually, or better, just go to the options and tell Xpress to use .avi instead. Personally, I prefer leaving it at .divx because then I know at a glance which AVI files I have processed and which are still in their original form. :)
It's really weird, there is a logo support for adding the TMPGEnc logo in the trial version... It would be REALLY useful to a lot of people. Please add logo support, please.
im converting AVCHD footage to images sequences so it could work with adobe premier etc... i have 158 .mts files, how do i make this converter convert each image sequence in a seperate folder? i dont want everything bunched together in one folder making it unorganized and hard to find
Hi! Sometimes when I have problem with banding in encoded material I use to add a little noice to avoid the encoder to simplify areas. I wounder if it is possible to ADD noice?
Hi, I am facing a problem as in TMPGEnc Authoring Works 4 hangs at 95% while creating a DVD from a MKV file. There is no error displayed and the program doesnt respond.
Pretty sure you can use Avisynth to frame serve them to TA4.
It has a small learning curve but it is a great tool, as you can pretty much use it to load any format into any program, even if the program doesn't natively support it. Avisynth works by loading a file and then sending the decompressed frames in a raw format that most programs have no trouble understanding. It will even send audio, although it only sends the first default audio tracks if your file has multiple audio streams.
It's really simple to use once you take 5 or 10 minutes to get the hang of it, and can also do processing on the files like cutting, fading, splicing together, and comes with some internal filters with tons of third party filters available as well. That makes it a great solution to doing all your work on the image without having to re-encode it in another format and lose quality multiple times. You will likely need to install something like the Combined Community Codec Pack as well, which gives you great DirectShow capabilities for loading files like FLV and other rarely supported types directly into programs like TA4, through Avisynth's DirectShow splitter.
So let's say you install CCCP and Avisynth.. Then open Notepad (or any text editor) and type the following - DirectShowSource("path\to\file.flv")
Save it as a "file.avs" file using quotes around the filename in Notepads save file window, then load the .AVS file into Authoring Works 4, or any other video program.
I'm using TMPGenc Authoring Works 4 to put as many of my Anime DVD's onto 1 Disc as possible. I don't know if it has something to do with the fact I am actually "Wrapping" Xvid codec files into DivX containers (divxmux.exe manual says it accepts Xvid as input) however I suspect this is a program limitation.
I have spent countless hours over many days trying to eliminate every possibility that it is TA4 causing the problem and am convinced that it is..
Working with 25 episodes per project, if I split each episode into 3 parts (to apply fade in/out scene transitions) I will get 75 clips. It goes through the initial assembly fine (smart rendering, no encoding going on) however once the Video and Audio tracks are complete and it begins to mux the menu and files together into a DivX File I get a CW-6 error code at around 75/76% without fail every time.
The interesting thing is I can kill the audio tracks and the video comes through OK and the process completes. However if I keep the audio tracks and simply reduce the number of clips (I arbitrarily chose 11 episodes @ 33 clips) the process also completes without any errors.
Obviously reducing the number of clips per track fixes this. As does giving each episode its own track with 3 clips (the only time a 75 clip project will work) - HOWEVER I do not like the menu behavior with more than one Track. As if you hit NEXT or the Track ends, it takes you back to the menu each and every time, and not only that, it takes you to the FIRST menu page, even if you are on menu page 2,3,4,5 - etc..
I don't know if the clip limit is something that can be looked into and fixed, but I have been wondering why for a while now, you guys still haven't done something about the Menu behavior with multiple tracks in a project. I feel they should play the next track automatically just like a DVD, as the whole point of DivX Ultra is to emulate DVD menus.
Also.. TA4 (and to a lesser extent Xpress 4) still suffers from Random lockups when editing tracks. Usually during cutting operations. I have noticed in particular in TA4 if you select your cut range too fast and then hit CUT, it will almost always produce a lockup. I'm not sure if this is solely related to Avisynth served files but I think it has happened with files loaded the standard way as well.
Also if you load an MKV, be it through Avisynth, or straight from the load file prompt, it always triggers multiple instances of FFDshow's Video/Audio decoders, as well as multiple instances of VOBsub/VSfilter, etc.. This did not used to be a problem however I can't solely place the blame on TMPGenc, as it could possibly be an issue with FFDshow, or newer codec packs.
At any rate, please look into solving more of the random lockups, possibly upgrading DivX Ultra menu functionality, and fix the bug (I feel its a bug) with too many clips on one track producing the CW-6 error code.
Just to comment on the DivX Ultra menu behavior, that's probably a limitation of the DivX Ultra format and not something TMPG can do anything about. Remember that TMPG has no control over the limitations of the DivX Ultra format. I'm sure they would have included it if they could since the post-track playback options are included for DVD and BD projects.
Yeah, you're probably right on that. It's still a nice product aside from that, and I can live with editing less clips/transitions into each episode for the time being, although since its practically the only product that can make DivX Ultra files without re-encoding, I do hope they fix the apparent clip limit bug, and work more on solving the random lockups.
I have various HD source material (HDV,...) that I would like to playback using my Panasonic DMP BD35 BluRay player. This unit can playback BluRay discs, but also native AVCHD files on discs (DVD+/-R(W)) or SDHC flash cards.
At this time I don't have a BD burner or BD authoring program. I just want to find a cheap way to view my HDV videos on this player.
>> Can I convert my HD sources to AVCHD (.m2ts) using TXP 4 ? If yes, what are the settings for the best results (lowest bitrate for high quality)
It can only import avchd footage; it can't output to avchd. Although, you can output as a .m2t file or as a Blu-ray compliant MPEG-2, so that might work for you.