Hey folks,

I have a pretty simple question that I'm hoping you can answer.
What is the minimum menu structure allowed by TMPGEnc Authoring Works 5?

I am creating a Blu-Ray disc for a film director client. The structure we both want is very simple (see below), but I can't seem to find an application that allows for it.

Thanks all,
Legolad

Here's what I've already done:
1. I searched this forum for "default menu" and "minimum menu", but found no answer.
2. I downloaded the trial version and tried to build what I want, but none of the templates I've tried so far (4 of them) allow me to get the structure I need.
3. I found the "Bluray Global Menu Settings" which has a tab that allows me to show/hide certain elements, but without being able to move subtitles to the main menu, I'm a little stumped.

It looks promising, certainly better than PowerDirector and DVD Architect. I just can't tell if I can do what I want.


MENU STRUCTURE I'D LIKE TO BUILD:

Screen 1: Default screen when playing the disc
- Background image already includes the title of the film so we don't need a label for the film title.
- Button 1: [Play Film - 再生] - plays the film from the beginning.
- Button 2: [Scenes - チャプター] - navigates to Screen 2 (Scene Page A).
- Label 1: English Subtitles
- Button 3: On - turns on English subtitles - selected by default
- Button 4: Off - turns off English subtitles for current play session

Screen 2: Scene Page A
- Same Background Image as Screen 1
- 4 Thumbnail buttons: leading to chapters 1-4 of the film
- 2 navigation buttons: Home, Next

Screen 3: Scene Page B
- Same Background Image as Screen 1
- 4 Thumbnail buttons: leading to chapters 5-8 of the film
- 3 navigation buttons: Home, Next, Previous

Screen 4: Scene Page C
- Same Background Image as Screen 1
- 4 Thumbnail buttons: leading to chapters 9-12 of the film
- 3 navigation buttons: Home, Next, Previous

Screen 5: Scene Page D
- Same Background Image as Screen 1
- 2 Thumbnail buttons: leading to chapters 13-14 of the film
- 2 navigation buttons: Home, Previous

That's it. Very simple. Is this possible in TAW5?



SIDE NOTE: Some Terminology Questions
If you know this or can point me to a good explanation, I would really appreciate it.

I found some of the menu terminology a little confusing. I started reading the Help file for this, but it was not clear. I wish it provided plain English definitions of each term with examples. Perhaps I just missed it in my quick read-through.

1. Functional difference between Title Page, Top Menu, Track Menu
2. Difference between Track and Chapter
3. Difference between a "unique page" and a "separate page" for the audio and subtitle selectors

The minimum menu structure is NONE - it plays the video when inserted.

What you want sounds like a typical structure that can be built (although I've not had to work with subtitles)

One thing about AW, it works a bit differently from other authoring software I've used in that you select the menu structure and then delete (or disable) the parts you do not intend to use rather than add the things you want to include.

Legolad,
The structure you want to do is mostly possible if you only have one track. The only thing that would be slightly different is the subtitle buttons. TAW5 makes a separate menu page for subtitles (and audio streams), so instead of having the buttons on the top menu, you'd instead have a "Subtitles" button that goes to a subtitles page where you can then select your subtitles. And yes, you can make English the default subtitle stream.

For your situation, I'd select the Track Menu Only option and include a Title page. The title page will act as your Top Menu and it has buttons to play the track, go to the chapters, and go to the subtitles page.

Title page - Kind of a simpler top menu with buttons for playing all tracks, go to chapters, etc. I don't use it much, but if you only have one track, it could make for a better top menu as in your situation.
Top Menu - The main menu; this is a pretty universal term used by everyone.
Track menu - Basically the chapter menu; also has the subtitle/audio button(s) for that particular track.

I would like to report a problem with the acceptance of the .TS files generated / recorded in Atemio Nemesis tuner:
http://www.atemio.de/index.php/en/hdtv-receiver/terrestrial-dvb-s-t2/nemesis-en
Each file recorded in the receiver is without errors, accepted and properly recognized by other
video editing programs (VideoReDo, DVR-Studio HD 3 ... etc), but TMPGEnc MPEG Smart Renderer 4
and TMPGEnc Video Mastering and Works 5 software do not accept these files. In each case, when I'm trying to load file the I receive following message: "The Specified file could not be recognized as a TS of PGMX file"
In my opinion TMPGEnc MPEG Smart Renderer 4 is the best program and I would still use it but the current situation before I can start processing files I have to load the example to the DVR-Studio HD 3, make a copy of the .TS and only after this operation TMPGEnc MPEG Smart Renderer 4 accepts such files.
If you like to I can send a sample file to let you examine the problem.
If this is correctable I would appreciate an update at the next TMPGEnc MPEG Smart Renderer 4 build.

TMPGEnc MASTERING WORKS 5 offers the choice of whether or not to use multi-threaded encoding but it's an all-or-nothing affair. On my i7 quad core, TMW5 uses 36 threads to encode an AVC(x264) video, which degrades the quality (I've done frame-by-frame comparisons) significantly more than, say, 4 threads would.

Could users have more control over this?

Also, x264 sets the "slices" minimum to 1; I'd rather use 0.

These two issues are THE deciding factors regarding my choice of encoder. If I need a small file size (and want it to finish encoding while I'm still young...-ish), then I really can't abide using 36 threads to encode a single-sliced video.

Other than those two issues, I'd pretty much marry the software. Both options are doable in the x264 engine itself, just not in TMPGEnc Mastering Works 5.

Thanks for reading!

Sincerely,
Thaddeus

I am anxious to know when TMPGEnc Video Mastering Works 6 might be released. Do any members here have any insight?

It is better to wait for a more mature product.
In Japan are the world's best beta tester.

2015.1.16 / Ver.6.0.2.10 (Rev.3).
http://tmpgenc.pegasys-inc.com/ja/download/tvmw6_rireki.html

I have HD Transcoding card "SpursEngine" PxVC1100.
Unfortunately not supported by TVMW6 only 64bit

Currently supported SpursEngine (TVMW5 "yes" - TAW5 "yes")
Previously supported SpursEngine (MovieStyle "yes" - TMPGE4 "yes")

I hope Toshiba manufactures a SpursEngine-2 card with support accelerations H265 and Pegasys-inc place your Plug-in accordingly.

I want to ask you i have a video which is says display format progressive scan,but when i insert and encode it automatically is giving me interlace output.I can change it to progressive ,but i was wondering professional DVD are interlaced.Can someone give me an idea what should i choose.
Thank you

If you are outputting as DVD-Video, then it has to be interlaced according to DVD-Video specifications, unless you are doing VCD resolutions. That might be why it is automatically changing it to interlace.

You don't have to output DVD video as being Interlaced, you can choose Progressive if you want to, if you want to completely avoid interlacing errors during playback.
The modern DVD and Blu-ray players of today don't care, they play Progressive scanned DVDs with out problems.
Have done this with several DVDs, because the source material had very bad interlacing errors.

I've been producing progressive PAL DVDs since quite some time now, and nobody complained so far :)
The mean reason was to save quality on very long theater play recordings (gains was twofold: first during shoot where 25p give 6dB headroom over 50i -important for low-light plays- and second, during encoding as progressive is more efficient compression-wise than interlaced.
I have encoded up to 2h45m on a 4.7 GB DVD (as low as 3.5 Mbps VBR very good quality !)

I'm building a DVD with 2 tracks. A first play track and track 1. Track 1 has three menus with a total of 15 chapters. My question is can a user return back to the previous menu they were just on by pressing the menu button on their remote control? It always defaults back to Menu 1. Not good. Thanks.

I figured it out. During the menu creation wizard you have to check >When playing a DVD, you can go back to the menu by pressing the "menu" button on your DVD remote. Checking this option will make the DVD player go to the menu associated with the current title/chapter you were viewing.
I thought I checked it but I guess not.

Will support be coming for HEV1 / H.265 in TMPGEnc MPEG Smart Renderer 4 or will it require say an upgrade to the next (new) version of mpeg rendering software.

I've been having problems since the first version of Author Works 5 was released. I've kept the version current will all subsequent releases. The problem is this. After enabling CUDA support, encoding will use my CPU=100% and CUDA=3.0%

Re-installing the software does nothing. I can't seem to figure out why my video card isn't being utilized. I've tried changing drivers with no luck. Any ideas?

I forgot to add that I've enabled the CUDA encoding with Mpeg1,2,4 setting. Doesn't do anything

CUDA support has been removed from drivers since 340.52. If you want CUDA you need to use the older drivers.

False. They have reinstated CUDA in their drivers. It comes with 353.30

Hello
I would like to ask if there is an option just to encode the edited video without making DVD.I know is a authoring software but i need to encode into MPEG-2 a movie because i like this encoder.I also have video mastering works but not sure if the quality of the MPEG-2 will be same.Are they using same encoding engine?
Thanks

No, there isn't an option to just encode as a regular MPEG-2 video. However, most video players can play the outputted DVD files without you having to burn it to DVD.

Quality of Video Mastering Works should be the same for MPEG-2, so you can just use that.

You can use VOB2MPG (or VOB2MPG Pro) to extract from the VIDEO_TS folder you created to output a single MPG file. DVDVob2Mpg is another free program, but with less features. Both will create an MPG file from your VOB files without any encoding or effecting quality. They will extract a full DVD folder in less than a minute.

Hello everyone
I have a question
Which has a better Mpeg-2 encoding capabilities bewteen
Video Mastering Works and
DVD Authoring works

I have both but i want the best result.
Thank you

I seem to have read somewhere that VMW uses a better encoder than DAW, but I don't know for sure. I use VMW simply because I want it's other features such as filters and the different output formats. If I am creating a DVD, I use VMW to created DVD mpeg files and then use DAW to author the DVD using those files. If you want a better answer, I would ask TMPGenc Support. If you do that, let us know what they say.

Currently TMPGEnc (Mastering Works/Smart Renderer) uses the "medium" compression setting for FLAC audio compression. It'd be best to either provide us an option to manually configure it or set the maximum compression setting as default (it's always lossless of course). No computer today has trouble to decode the lightweight FLAC compression.

This is the situation: In the holidays i want to do some tests, with joining audio from some 29.97fps NTSC DVD's i have, with some 1080i 25fps HDTV recordings i am going to do.
But how do i approach this with TVMV5, so i don't end up with the audio getting out of sync, due to the difference in number of frames?

I don't think it will be a problem just replacing the audio in the clip settings.

If that doesn't work though, I would use timeline mode and put the audio in a separate layer; that way, it should only look at the duration of the audio/video and framerate shouldn't be an issue.

This is all just theory on my part though, since I haven't actually tried this.

I have tried it once a long time ago, by just replacing audio, which did not work. The audio pretty quickly went out of sync because of the 4% speed difference there is between NTSC and PAL.
But i will try that timeline mode to see if something can be done there, to make it all fit together perfectly in sync.

Thanks for that tip.