New to Smart Renderer. Trying to figure out how to adjust bit rate to bring video size down. I video my kids clubs soccer games and files are 6/8 GB and need them to be smaller for S3 storage.

Smart Renderer 4 is not a video converter; it's made to keep the output the same as the input as much as possible.

However, there are ways around it using the Rescue clip function. You need to have an existing MPEG file at your desired bitrate and use that file as the Master clip. Your new video will then be re-encoded to match that clip.

Evaluating TAW 5 using trial version. Load 3 TS files form a Canon HFG10 camcorder. Create top menu on track page and a pop-up menu. Create BDMV output. TAW appropriately re-encodes a few pieces to put the watermark in but otherwise shows "lossless". Burn disc. Put in Panasonic BR player and it stops during reading saying "incompatible format".

Any ideas what may be wrong? Ths player plays anything from TS Muxer and Total Media Extreme. when it burps it seldom gives an error message.

TIA for any ideas.

Matt

All set, bad burn speed or TAW burner probs. burned project with Imgburn at 6x all is well.

Matt

My BD recorder is old (GGW-H20L), but once I step TAW5 burn well for PC, but my BD-Player did not read it, I saw that the recording was minimally smaller, TAW4-5 perform shorter recording (Lead -in and lead-out) for DVD and BD.
Currently recording with Nero UDF BD-R-ISO 2.5 (physical partition), and update my firmware on the recorder to the YL07 version (11th May, 2011). although it is not very compatible with LTH disc or cheap versions. works with BD-R DL (check their website MYCE Club)

Are there any plans to add support for nvidia's new NVENC hardware like whats in gtx 680

NVENC

All Kepler GPUs also incorporate a new hardware-based H.264 video encoder, NVENC.

Prior to the introduction of Kepler, video encoding on previous GeForce products was handled by encode software running on the GPU’s array of CUDA Cores. While the CUDA Cores were able to deliver tremendous performance speedups compared to CPU-based encoding, one downside of using these high-speed processor cores to process video encoding was increased power consumption.
By using specialized circuitry for H.264 encoding, the NVENC hardware encoder in Kepler is almost four times faster than our previous CUDA-based encoder while consuming much less power.

It is important to note that an application can choose to encode using both NVENC hardware and NVIDIA’s legacy CUDA encoder in parallel, without negatively affecting each other. However, some video pre-processing algorithms may require CUDA, and this will result in reduced performance from the CUDA encoder since the available CUDA Cores will be shared by the encoder and pre-processor.

NVENC provides the following:
 Can encode full HD resolution (1080p) videos up to 8x faster than real-time. For example, in high performance mode, encoding of a 16 minute long 1080p, 30 fps video will take approximately 2 minutes.
 Support for H.264 Base, Main, and High Profile Level 4.1 (same as Blu-ray standard)
 Supports MVC (Multiview Video Coding) for stereoscopic video—an extension of H.264 which is used for Blu-ray 3D.
 Up to 4096x4096 encode

We currently expose NVENC through proprietary APIs, and provide an SDK for development using NVENC. Later this year, CUDA developers will also be able to use the high performance NVENC video encoder. For example, you could use the compute engines for video pre-processing and then do the actual H.264 encoding in NVENC. Alternatively, you can choose to improve overall video encoding performance by running simultaneous parallel encoders in CUDA and NVENC, without affecting each other’s performance.

NVENC enables a wide range of new use cases for consumers:
 HD videoconferencing on mainstream notebooks
 Sending the contents of the desktop to the big screen TV (gaming, video) through a wireless connection
 Authoring high quality Blu-ray discs from your HD camcorder

A beta version of Cyberlink MediaEspresso with NVENC support is now available on the GeForce GTX 680 press FTP. Support will be coming soon for Cyberlink PowerDirector and Arcsoft MediaConverter.

We are also requesting NVENC hardware encoder support.

Just bought a GTX 650Ti video card, I hope for a support NVENC too. Please :)

Video Mastering Works 5 inhibits / disables the screensaver while encoding. This on Windows 7. Does anyone know how to prevent VMW5 from inhibiting the screensaver?

Do you use the preview function? This could prevent your computer from acknowleding the stand by mode. It is just a guess, though.

Might sound cheesy - but why not simply turn off the monitor while TMPGEnc is working?

It's nice software but there seems to be one bug. I set the end frame of a clip once and saved the project. I opened the project and the new end frame had been saved OK. I changed the end frame, saved the project and opened it again but this end frame had not been saved. This happened with several projects. It is very alarming ! I have reported this to the company and asked them to issue an update to correct this as soon as possible but I thought I should also report it here meanwhile.

I have TVMW5.1.3.85 and TAW5 installed on my windows 7 64-bit computer. Recently, when I tried to convert an mp4 file to mpeg-2 format, I got the following error message: "tmpgencvmw5encoder.exe cannot be launched as a stand-alone application"

I re-downloaded and re-installed TVMW5 and it did not fix the problem. What am I doing wrong?

Delete or rename the file TMPGEncVMW5Encoder.exe
Then re-install or repair the installation. The correct TMPGEncVMW5Encoder.exe file for this version has a file size of 245 KB and a date of 9/5/2012

or remove the old version before installing the new

version 50826
When importing many short TS videos at the same time as from a dance recital the program analyzes the file then asks to specify TS file title selection which are identical either Playlist 1 or Program 1 . This goes on for every file and it is a big waste of time so I'm not using Tmpgenc Authoring works for TS to DVD making, but I would if I could figure how to just go ahead and Import a bunch of files by dragging them into the source window without the slow one by one procedure now used
Any way to do this?
thanks

Just use the "Add file" and follow the prompts. I use it all the time for many many clips. It can be set for unattended import of multi files...

Is there an ETA for a Windows 8 compatible version?

TAW5 is compatible with windows 8. I've been testing it against win7 concurrently and have yet to run into any errors regarding compatibility.

Win 8 x64
Win 7 x64

Doesn't work for me. Incredibly slow to scan through WTV files for editing, even though they work fine on Windows 7 machines.

Very odd. The only problem I've run into so far is when I import some mkv files. The program will freeze. Haven't had any slow down issues though. I'm using a fresh install of windows 8 though. No other programs insralled

I thought that the oddities that were happening were a result of upgrading from TAW4 to TAW 5 until I realised that there was another variable. I had upgraded from Windows 7 to Windows 8 as well. 80% of my divx files will not allow to be converted. The video was totally lines and pixelation. I tried various other codecs but to no avail. 20% of my files will encode. I now think that Windows 8 MAY be the problem.
BTW I stall have TAw 4 running on an older computer and the said files were converted with TAw4. I suppose that that is my solution for the time being.

I am creating a custom Blu-ray menu with a background image that I made in Photoshop. When importing the new BG into BG Editor the image looks fine, like it should. Then when I click OK the actual menu looks like it's being compressed like crazy. The text is blurry and pixelated and the gradient that is used is dithered.

Again, the image looks completely FINE in BG Editor. Though when it goes to the actual menu it is either compressed or Authoring Works imported it as a small image and then resized it causing it to pixelate.

Couple of notes;
1. I have done this before with no problems
2. I have tried importing BG as JPEG/PSD/TIFF/PNG
3. The file is in standard HD settings (1920x1080 - square pixel ratio)
4. Get the same result if I attempt to increase DPI

Any help would be greatly appreciated

So it appears pixelated in the Menu Stage preview? What about in the Simulation Stage?

Hi,

I would like to encode from a DVD Input to MKV x264 with multiple AAC audio streams and Subtitles...

I own TMPEnc Video Mastering Works 5 wich is limited to one audio stream, i've thus buyed Authoring Works 5... but it seems that Authoring Works does not allow to fine tune x264 settings, does not allow AAC audio output nor MKV output :(

Is there any solution with TMPGEnc products to output to MKV x264 with Multiple AAC Audio Streams, with full x264/AAC manual configuration like in Video Mastering Works ?

You might want to try TMPGEnc MPEG Smart Renderer 4. It's not really an encoder, but I believe it can output multiple audio streams and MKV. However, I'm pretty sure the program doesn't support subtitles.

Authoring Works 5 is only for DVD/Blu-ray and MKV and AAC are not compliant with those formats, so that's why it won't let you output in those formats.

I am trying to make a photo slide show; however, the audio does not start until 12.5 seconds after the slide show starts. The Audio file is much longer than the photo show and I have checked both options ("Do not match" and "adjust duration") with same results in each case.

How do I get the audio and slide show to start simultaneously?

Thanks for any assistance...
rap2

Perhaps your audio clip has 12.5 seconds silence lead-in?

In the cut-edit panel you can see the audio waveform.
If there is a flat line at the start of the audio clip
then you have silence in the front.

If this is the case you can fix by either edit the long
lead-in out of the audio clip using an external audio
editor such as Audacity or you can delay (audio gap)
your audio in TVMW5 by -1250 mS.

Hi,
when i open a blu ray from the disk folder, i get the following message:

The selected disc contains titles with audio that cannot be decoded.
Since audio that cannot be decoded does not display in the selector, some titles may not have a selectable audio.

After that, the main audio stream is not available. I think, it is a DTS stream or 5.1 stream. Isn't it possible to choose these streams?

The way i deal with that is:

1: I make a mkv file of the movie with makemkv and export the dts audio file from that with MKVExtractGUI2, so i have the audio file in .dts format

2: In TVMW5 I then choose the titel and subtitel but no audio, and import that.

3: I then click brows in the empty audio box, and brows to the file i exported and import that, but you have to chose "All files (*.*)" in the brows window to be able to see the file, as .dts files are not official supported. I then click "no" to reset the cut-edit and keyframe lists.

Now you can re-encode the audio to a new supported format, like Dolby-Digital

In order for this to work, you need to have installed a directshow filter, i use the one in K-Lite Codec Pack, it will then use "DirectShow file reader" for the import, insted of the default BD reader

If the audio you imported is shown as "2 ch" or other than "5,1 ch" you need to open the DirectShow filter which you can do by double clicking the FFa icon in the Systray. You then need to disable mixer, by removing the checkmark in the box next to mixer. Now you re-import the audio file and it should be shown as 5,1 ch