I have used TMPGEnc 2.5 for years for my MPEG-2 encoding for DVD, and it works great. But I want to move up to TMPGEnc 4.0 XPress.

I have been testing the trial version of TMPGEnc 4.0 XPress, but there is an important setting I can't find that is in TMPGEnc 2.5.

The setting ''Output YUV data as basic YCbCr, not CCIR601''. This is on the Quantize matrix page in TMPGEnc 2.5.

How do I enable this in TMPGEnc 4.0 XPress? It is required for the frameserving I do from Vegas Pro 9 to TMPGEnc for the proper contrast range and colors to be used, based on Vegas' RGB Studio space (16-235) that it uses and that it sends to TMPGEnc.

This has worked for years with TMPGEnc 2.5, so I can't imagine it would have been removed in 4.0.

So where is it hiding?

Thanks.

http://forum.videohelp.com/topic163667.html

This authoring program still has absolutely no support for Windows 7.
When you intend to do that ? next month ? next year ? never ?

don't use cracked one

yeah its the patched software which makes it not work.

the patch currently works for all version apart from windows 7, and its all down the the different files system used within windows 7

TMPGenc 4.7.1.284 and TMPGEnc Authorings Works not run in Windows 7 64bits , what happened not works in 64bits plataform

well it will work fine on xp x64 vista x64

they just haven't caught up to windows 7 32 or 62 bit, it may very well be in their next version.

i would say it will be a stupid move of them not to do it

ok they do support windows 7, but don't support cracked versions and yes i know to well you are running a cracked version because its the release groups patch that is causing the software to not work when you load after install and comes up with errors such as runtime error

Hi

I would like to include a kind of chapter at the ending of the clip, which will contain the credits of the movie.

Do you know if it is possible to do that with Authoring Works 4 or I will need to create it outside of the program and import it to the program.

Thanks in advance

Slfreire

if its just to add a segment already done, then yeah just add it on, but if its here you need to create it fom scratch, then outsider software is needed

Hi Mathew

Thank you for your prompt help.
Then I understood I need to create the chapeter of the credits in an outsider software and then import it to Tmpgenc.

Do you suggest any software with power to do that ?

Slfreire

well if your on a pc , adobe premier pro can do it and so can sony vegas pro 9

itl take a bit to get used to with both areas.

with mac, there are many great software since mac is far far better than the pc with editing and video encoding...but i dotn own a mac sadly

I'm encoding 23.976P avi (1920x1080) source to MPEG2 for bluray. After encoding the audio and video duration is not the same anymore. Video duration is always a few frames shorter than it's audio. What is the problem with TMPGEnc 4?

I don't if this is possible or not. I want to create a multiple file DVD project with anywhere from 4 -7 video episodes per disk. I had read somewhere that, if your going to use multiple clips then associate one clip per track. I'm not sure how that's helping my menu plans though.

After I load up all of my tracks and files, I want to create a top menu that says just the name of the show, that's all. Then have it set up where I just click on one button and that would then lead me to just one page that has all of the files I am using.

I don't want to have a separate page for each file but I've noticed that TMPGEnc likes to do that. Ok so how do I do what I want to do?

Here's how to do it.

-In the Menu Wizard, select Create a custom menu.
-In the next screen, in the "Title Page Use" box, check the box next to "Create a title page in the top menu."
-Then go on with the menu creation process and choose the layout you want for your top menu. I suggest choosing "TEXT" for your button template.
-When you get to the Menu Composition Settings window, select Top Menu only.
-Choose whatever other options you want and finish the menu creation process.

In the Menu stage, you should have an extra page (the title page).
This will appear before your Top Menu. By default it should have a Title, Play button, and Track Menu button.
Since we chose TEXT as our button template, the buttons are composed of editable text instead of an image.
-Change the "Track Menu" text to the name of your show. If you don't want the Title and Play button to be visible, just delete the text.

That should get the menu structure that you're looking for.

Can someone recommend a format/program to convert FLVs to that won't double or triple there size? What format would be acceptable to TMPEnc 4 authoring works 4 and still have roughly the same size/quality?
Thanks to all who contribute!

Did you planned to Windows 7 support?

I'm running the Batch Encode tool in the background, and I've noticed my CPU speed varies wildly.

First, my system:
AMD Phenomx x4 810 (2.6gHz)
4gB DDR2-800 RAM
Win7 RC (64-bit)

No matter what I set the priority to, my CPU never shows more than a 75% (total, across all cores) load. Not only that, the CPU speed varies between 800mHz, 1400mHz, 1900mHz, and 2600mHz (according to PC Wizard, from CPUID.com). These correspond (roughly - I think the 1900 is supposed to be 2000, but whatever) to the power-saving states of my CPU.

I've tried changing the task priority under Options, but it doesn't seem to have an effect (I know that option worked when I ran Windows XP, but that was also a different processor).

Has anyone else experienced something like this? I'd like the encoder to be nice while I'm multitasking, but if I'm not using the computer, I'd like it to run at 100% to finish faster.

with the batch too, go to preferences and select high priority on background and other option aswell which i cant remember whats it called.

Did you read my original message? I already set the task priority, and it had no effect.

Hi!

It's not a help, but I have the same problem. CPU usage is max on 60%. It seems that the application is not optimized for multithread (dual, or 4-core) operation. It would be of great interest if a moderator could comment on this and advise if there are any new versions in the near future which solves this.

I'm running on a HP xw8000 dual Intel Xeon processor 2.8 GHz, 512 KB cache, 533 MHz front side bus with SCSI RAID 2x 15000rpm HDD.

/ Martin for Familjefilm in Sweden

ok with both cases, im thinking both of you have a graphics card that has cuda feature on it

I've noticed that if I just start with my Track Menu page, there is a link for "Chapters" on the first page. I've never been totally sure what chapters are. Do you even need them? I've noticed that I can get rid of the reference if I want to.

very simply put, instead of going to the start each time and fast forwarding to the part you missed etc, you can go to the selected chapter of the where abouts it is.

if you go to the start where you added the file theres the edit tab, go in and on the edit tab within it look down right theres a menu button and i think its the top option, i would noral select the 2 option within that ie the mins selection. i go for 5 mins. it will then scan for every selected chapter section.

you thenpress ok and go on with your editing.

Actually, right after I posted this I discovered some revelations about chapters in my AVI's. Basically the ones I have don't have any more than one chapter. I found that out by opening up the "Chapter Editor" That makes sense too because someone else had told me that things like special features, cannot be retained in an AVI, so that would explain about chapters too.

I want to burn several different 50 minute videos to one disc, however I've noticed that, in the main menu, when I click "Start New Project" and add multiple "clips" or "files" that they all just get listed as chapters under "Track 1". Is there any way to make each "clip" an individual "track" instead of "chapter" or how's that all work?

The column on the left side of the Source stage shows your tracks. Click on the "Add a track" button to add another track. Click on a track to select it and add your clip(s). Or you can drag a clip from on track to another.

Got it! That worked out great! So it's kind of designed to where tracks are, or can be the same thing as files or clips, correct? Also... how would I set it up where, say I have 5 tracks...I want my top page to show the track button, then when I click on the track button and go to the main track page, it shows all of the tracks? I don't want separate pages for each track.

Also, I recently had to reinstall TMPGEnc but I never noticed something that may have been happening before. When I loaded up an avi file that was only 808 MB's in size, it showed on the bottom display that it took up 6163 MB's but when I finally advanced to output and set it on single disc, it went back down some. That's normal right?

Also I had a friend that was able to get an hour and a half show and quite a few few 44 min shows on each disc, but I don't know how he did it. In all, he was able to spread out 22 episodes onto 4 discs. One disc had up to seven episodes and the others had less.

I messed around with trying that in TMPGEnc but I was only able to get to two episodes, the one big long one and the smaller one, but they both almost maxed out the capacity. But here again, I know that some of that readout will go down when I set the output...So how do you know how many files you can load up in the Source page and how do you think this guy was able to get all those files squeezed on a disc?

with the files size, can you do us a screen shot as thats around 6gb of file.

Hope I did this right. Here's a screenshot:

http://img186.imageshack.us/img186/4251/tmpgencmainwindow.jpg

ah right, thats normal due to the time legnth of the footage and also depends on what settings you have it on .

with me ill make it encode to the best it can so in the settings on the left i drop the bar down to custom, and push the average and max bitrate to max and also to 2 pass vbr.

you can then at the end change it to the dvd5 size

So at what point can I customize all that you are talking about? I did find where, in the "Output" menu I can select "Custom" and reduce things there. Is that what you were talking about? Is there some other place you can tweak too? You mentioned something about 2 pass vbr...where is that at?

Also...So in regards to putting multiple tracks and files of this show I was mentioning, do I just take a guess and try loading say, 4, 5 or more episodes, then when I get to the end, once again, select custom and drop down the bitrate?

the shot you showed.

look at the elft for track 1 settings, go into there and experiment for the bitrate.

now the output stuff all you need to do is select 4.7 size so that the target is to fit onto a normal dvd5 dvd

So I can do the same thing with multiple tracks or files. Just go in there and crank each individual one down some. How do you know if you go to to low a bitrate?

you wont, becuase you can not change the minimum bitrate.

but its also to do with taste of the users .

I have prepared a tutorial for editing and converting .MTS files with TMPGenc2.5

http://sites.google.com/site/electricfarm/mtsvideo/mtsvideo-edit