I want to create a DVD in which I put many short clips.
In order to categorize them I created different tracks and put the clips into them.
But now all the clips in one track are being played successively when I start playing one of them...can I avoid this somehow??
I would like to get back to the track menu or the main menu after one clip was played.
I hope you understand what I mean =)

You have to put each individual clip into its own track if you want it to go back to the menu after playing a clip. When you put multiple clips into one track, they are treated like chapters, so they will play one after the other.

Unfortunately, this means your organization of your clips will have to be a little different in your menus.

I upgraded to 4.0 Express.. long time TMPEG user. I have an i7 HP laptop with NVDIA Quadro FX1800M GPU. When I start the program, it says that "need GeForce 190.38 or newer" and CUDA is disabled when I check under preferences. I do not have a GeForce card and so I don't know what to make of this? I checked NVIDIA website and they have the Quadro I have seems to be Quadro compatible. What should I do? Is there something I need to download and instaled from NVDIA CUDA developers' website?

BTW, Xpress 4.0 is doing a fine job with 1080p video from my Panasonic AVCHD camcorder and converting into BlueRay compatible Mpeg.. takes about 40 min. for 20 min. of video and that is what I am trying to speed up.

Thanks for your help.

>I upgraded to 4.0 Express.. long time TMPEG user. I have an i7 HP laptop with NVDIA Quadro FX1800M GPU. When I start the program, it says that "need GeForce 190.38 or newer" and CUDA is disabled when I check under preferences. I do not have a GeForce card and so I don't know what to make of this? I checked NVIDIA website and they have the Quadro I have seems to be CUDA compatible. What should I do? Is there something I need to download and instaled from NVDIA CUDA developers' website?
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>BTW, Xpress 4.0 is doing a fine job with 1080p video from my Panasonic AVCHD camcorder and converting into BlueRay compatible Mpeg.. takes about 40 min. for 20 min. of video and that is what I am trying to speed up.
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>Thanks for your help.

I upgraded to 4.0 Express.. long time TMPEG user. I have an i7 HP laptop with NVDIA Quadro FX1800M GPU. When I start the program, it says that "need GeForce 190.38 or newer" and CUDA is disabled when I check under preferences. I do not have a GeForce card and so I don't know what to make of this? I checked NVIDIA website and they have the Quadro I have seems to be CUDA compatible. What should I do? Is there something I need to download and instaled from NVDIA CUDA developers' website?

BTW, Xpress 4.0 is doing a fine job with 1080p video from my Panasonic AVCHD camcorder and converting into BlueRay compatible Mpeg.. takes about 40 min. for 20 min. of video and that is what I am trying to speed up.

Thanks for your help.

It's possible that you just need to update your CUDA/GPU driver to the latest version to get it to work.

It might be a moot point though if your CPU is faster than your GPU. If it is faster, then 4.0 XPress will use the CPU even if CUDA is enabled.

I love the Tmpgenc Authoring Works, however my main problem is creating BDMV DVD9 disks that are compatible on all Blu Ray Players.
I have to use AVCHD-Patcher_1.05 to enable the disks to play on PS3.

Other problems:
Can only play DVD9 disk on Samsung Blu Ray Player.
Will not play on Panasonic or Sony

Can you please fix the problem and make the software more compatible

I am having a problem with my first authoring. The software reaches 14% completetion during a BD creation output then gives an invalid sample format error with the code 0x80048002. This video is from unedited clips recorded from a Panasonic HS300. All of the video is the same which is why I can't see why it randomly stops. I used a template for the menus and I do have BGM playing on the title page. I can go and look at the video that it has created and it stopped in a random area during my movie. After trying twice, it looks like it stopped at the same spot during the main movie creation but there is nothing special about this point in the movie. Any help would be greatly appreciated as I am new to this and I don't really know where to start looking for a solution. Computer should be sufficient, i7 3.2, 6GB, TB's of space...

Thanks,

ED

I wanted to add that I can create a BD project using the same area of the video that causes the crash in my larger project with no problems. It seems that even if I rearrange my clips so that what I thought the problem area is at a different location it still gives the error at the same place in time. It happens at 14% everytime.

Update..

I wanted to update that I have found a solution for the problem. I increased the size of my paga file to 10GB / 20GB first. This made the process work up to 17% instead of 14% and gave the (Not enough storage available to complete this operation error code 0x8007000e). DIfferent from my original problem. I found this strange since I have 1.5TB of free space on the working drive (also the drive that my page file lives on. It is a raid array. I also have 6GB of memory with nothing starting on startup (windows 7 64). My last attempt was to run the authoring in batch mode. The batch mode with no preview worked to full completetion!!! Sucess at last. I don't know why just increasing the page file size didn't fix the problem but it seems that using batch mode along with increasing the virtual memory (page file) worked fine. It took this machine (i7 3.2 quad, 6gb ram, raid 0) about 2 and a half hours to render about 21GB of BD movie... I hope this info can help someone else.

ED

Ed, Don't know if you still check this site since the end of 2010, but I just used the Batch method to author a BD file, and (so far) it's working great!! I, too, received the "Not enough storage available..." error, even though I have 500Gb of space on the drive to which the BD files are being created.
I never would have thought of trying the Batch process (especially since this is a batch of one!). I'm not sure how to increase/decrease the size of my "Page File." Need to research that to even find out what that is. If you read this, I wouldn't mind knowing more about it.

Although I've made standard def DVD-Rs for years now, I'm just starting out with making HD DVR-s and Blu-Ray discs. MUCH easier the second time around (in spite of weird PC error messages!).
Hope you have a great 4th of July weekend!

What is TMPGEnc Video Mastering Works 5? I see it on the JP web page, but cannot read the language. Is it perhaps the next generaltion of Express?

Yes, I believe it is the next 4.0 XPress. Looks like it has a timeline editing mode.

It's now been officially announced for the English version.

http://tmpgenc.pegasys-inc.com/en/product/tvmw5.html

So, I see that if you buy v.4 now you can get 5 for free when it becomes available. Does that means that folks like me who had the good sense to buy it a while back, april 2010, are stuck paying the upgrade fee?

I think one year of free upgrades is not asking too much. I've been chomping on the bit for mkv support so I'll probably pay the price, but I won't be too thrilled about it.

Just my 2¢ worth.

Joe

Sounds interesting.

Industry practive is that major verion upgrades are not free except to those who buy the prior version on/after a certain cut-off date, typically about the time of the official announcement. The reason for this is in part to not discourage sales of product. Keep the revenue stream and prevent people jumping g to another product that might compete with the new release.

An exception is for software that is on a support license agreement (e.g., with annual payments) rather than just a one-time payment for a perpetual license, as is common with most software for PCs.

The people to feel for are thouse who bought Express 4 on January 4th. I am a bit surprised they did not set the cutoff date tot he date it first appearsed on the JP web page back in ~mid December.

Well, it's Feb 3rd and it's not on the site yet. Any news?

Looks like it will be available later today. Check their facebook page:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/TMPGEnc-Pegasys-Inc/296824287819

Still nothing!

I have two tracks and I want to create a menu page with a Play button(for track one), Chapter button (for track one)and play button for track two (no chapters) is this possible?

I do not believe this is possible.

When you have chapter pages, you can't directly play the track from the top menu unless you select the Play All button, but that would play all of your tracks.

The closest you can get is to have a Chapter button for Track 1, and a Play button for Track 2, but you won't have a Play button for Track 1 on the top menu.

Shame, this is so easy to do in DVD-lab. Wish the menu was more easy to customize!

My systems stays OFFLINE.

How can I get around the PITA License Validation Connect to the Internet.

ILOK would be the way to go to cover your self as a company.

But to expect professionals to have their systems connected to the internet all the time is RIDICULOUS.

I don't think there's any way around it. It requires internet connection for validation which happens every couple of weeks it seems.

hi i install tmpgenc 4.0xpress,i have an hd file 1.45min length to encode to mpeg,but the encoding is so slow.. it said about 8hours to transcode..! what am i doing wrong? my pc is windows 7 64bit 8 cores and the power uses tmpge is only 12-15 per hudrent,in task manager the tmpge has 32bit number,but my pc is 64bit,is that wrong? plz help me.

I´m using the latest version of Authoring Works, but I have a problem with a video.
Can I rotate the video in 180° with the software?
If yes, how?
thanks.

If your video is upside-down, then it might be a YUV decoding setting. This answer is from the TMPG knowledge base (this answer was for 4.0 XPress, but it can also be applied to Authoring Works 4):

Question: The source AVI file displays upside-down.
Answer:The codec used for each AVI file may be different. Check what kind of codec was used to create the AVI file then try the following.

1.Launch TMPGEnc 4.0 XPress;
2.Click the Options menu button located in the upper-right part of the main window;
3.In the menu, select the "Preferences..." option then, in the "Preferences" window, select the "Input/output format list"->"AVI settings" item in the tree list;
4.In the list of available codecs, double-click on the codec used by your AVI file then, in the "AVI codec settings" window uncheck the "Decode in YUV" option if checked.

Is there any way to add a logo with Authoring Works 4. If not then can anyone recommend a program to add a logo to DVD video without having to encode the entire video?

Why does MPEG Editor 3 take the frame rate of 23.97 and converts it to 29.97? Is there a way to keep the same frame rate as the original source?

Everything else is correct but this.

It's possible that the framerate actually is 29.97 internally but has a flag to play at 23.97 fps. TMPGEnc MPEG Editor 3 can't change framerates as far as I know, that's why the input file must already be compatible with your output format.

There was an issue in authoring works 4 where the software was outputting the incorrect frame rates. I sent the programmers the issue with documention and they correct the software dode. may be the same issue here.

Using Tmpg to resize avi's very succesfully and then one out of around 40, the audio disappears. I have the codecs on PC because it plays the original fine and audio shows up in settings/audio but isn't there in edit or on the output file