Hi
I am trying to encode video that I have shot with a camcorder and edit.
it's PAL interlace and basic quality in term of noise as it is a home camcorder.
I am very disappointed with the result.
The divx coding is configured to HDTV 3000kbps with multipass of 2.
I am getting quite a big file, about 600Mbytes for half and hour.
If I compare it to DIVX movies that I have, which were ripped from DVD, the output that I got from TMPGEND Express is very poor qulity while the bit rate of it is higher than the Movie. in the movie more than 1.5 hour are in 700Mbyte.
what do I miss?
how can I make my conversion more quality?
thanks
Elihay

Is it accurate to compare a home video with a commercial DVD?

How does the quality compare with the original footage? This is the question you should be asking. If the source is of a "basic quality" you can't expect the output to be any better.

Sure
I am not expecting the quality to be like the DVD movie and better than the original camcorder video. I mean that I get encoding noise, like the mpeg squares which are seen clrearly at the video that I created, compared to the DVD DIVX with much lower bitrate and much less encoding noise seen.

ok this means that you are either setting it so that its trying to encode a large film inot a small size which quality will always go slightly, or you have not got it set right so that instead of like xvid for example, if you only do a single pass and not a multiple pass, th quality will deminish.

maybe the codec itself is currupt. so try updating it or re installing it as this could also cuase the instructions of the encoder to go quite a bit and mis place intrsuctions .

What resize filter use TMPGEnc Authoring Works 4?
(Linear, Lanczos, etc)

Hi all,

Help! I am using TAW4 and cannot figure out how to do what I need. I am putting together a DVD of about 60-75 clips of funny videos. The top menu has the categories (e.g. Animals, Autos, Idiots, Oops, etc.) When you click on a category such as Animals, it goes to a track that has 6-12 Animal videos. That part works OK. I want to click on one of the videos on that track and when it is through playing, it would take me back to the Track Menu. Instead it plays all of the videos in succession and then returns to the track menu.

Several years ago I did this with version 2.x of TMPGenc Express and it work beautifully.

How can I get TAW4 return to the track menu after each clip?

I saw in the forum where someone suggested each track having only 1 clip, but I can't figure how to get the categories. Seems like that would require a Top Menu (with the categories), then a sub-Menu for each category (with 6-12 videos) which would point to the correct track for each video shown in the sub-menu.

What am I missing here?

As I remember it, TMPCenc 2.x express had a option to select what to do at the end of each clip, but I can't seem to find that in TAW4.

Any ideas are most welcome.

Regards,
Mark (aka PepperHead)

Yes, my old software used to have this option to set the behaviour after a clip was played. I need it ASAP in TAW4!!

Is it possible to set a menu button to "resume" so that the DVD starts playing at the same point that it stopped when I pressed the menu button?

For example I might access the audio menu to change the soundtrack and then wish to resume. As it stands I can only see that it's possible to return to a track menu.

Thanks

I would like to request the ability to have more than 2 subtitle tracks.

I have projects that use more than 2 subtitle tracks, so I have to author them in DVD Architect, but I would prefer to use Authoring Works.

Thanks

When I tried to including a new track and after the inclusion of the subtitles I often run the Simulation Phase in order to see if everything is allright.

But now I got a message error when I tried to play a simulation of a specific track (in fact the last one.

The message was: No SampleFormat.

I tried to fix it using the video and audio settings for that particular track but It did not work.

Please someone help me.

Thanks in advance.

Sergio

i beieve sampleformat is towards the encoding process and nothign to do with thr menus etc

Is it possible to create a custom frames in Photoshop or any other 3rd party software?

Yes, you can use Photoshop (or a similar program) to create custom frames. Check out this tutorial (it's for DVD Author 3 but it also applies to Authoring Works 4):
http://tmpgenc.pegasys-inc.com/en/lab/lab06_customFrames.html

Thank you so much!!!

I've been trying to install the latest version of Authoring Works 4 (4.0.6.28) and it always freezes the system. My machine is running XP Pro 32 bit. Is there a known issue with this installation? Does the previous version need to be uninstalled first?

your operating system that needs redoing.
or your master hdd is corrupt, which is causing the installation to freeze as the hdd is not read and writing correctly and missing data via the transfer.

there shouldn't be an issue at all with the installation otherwise.

No, it's definitely a software issue with the installer. Other programs load/run just fine and the system is fairly new. I have another machine that runs Vista, I could try it on that.

It may also be a bad download. Try and re-download the installer to make sure.

Hi there,
I have the exact same problem.
I tried to install the newest version (4.0.6.28 I think) and it freezes at the installer. I tried to deinstall the old one, cleaned/defragmented the registry, downloaded it again and even let the computer running over night to see whether it just needs some more time but nothing worked. I'm running XP Pro 32Bit with 3.8 Gh P4 and 4 Gb RAM. Could it be that the file at the server is corrupt?
Help would much apprechiated!
Thanks
Alex

I just downloaded and installed the latest version and it works fine on my comp. Windows XP SP3 32-bit, Pentium 4 3.4GHz, 2.75 GB RAM.

AND im going to re iterate my statement.

its your os.

just because other software seem to be fine, it only takes a little thing to make everything go wrong.

Hi,
I just installed it on an other XP on the same HD and it worked. I didn't try to run the software yet but the installation was just fine.
I think you where right Mathew, it is the OS. Its just confusing because I can install other software just smooth. It might even be that it won't run together with a particular set of software. Well, time will tell.
Happy Authoring...
Cheers
Alex

Ok, I finally got a chance to try to install this version on my 64 bit Vista machine and it freezes at the exact same point, so that rules out the "OS". The freeze is symptomatic of a memory leak or endless loop, but since others are having success it may just be a conflict with other software. My XP and Vista computers have very little in common software wise, with the following exceptions: they both have Norton 2010 Internet Security, and both run the same NVidia software. I have a laptop running Windows 7 RC and could try to install on that for kicks, but it too is running Norton 2010 and uses NVidia drivers.

Bottom line, there is a problem with the installer.

Have you tried disabling Norton?

bottom line is that there isnt a issue at all with the installer. just sadly that some people arent as experienced as others to realize that there OS just isnt well enough to do the installation, and its also possible that the hdd needs to have the chkdks done .

Is there someway to set TMA4 to burn multiple copies of a file (rather than having to go back to the burning tool each time)??

It doesn't seem like it.

no, but if you do a suggestion to them, i would also say if they would eb able to put in an option to verify the burn like imgburn does that would be great.

Why the need for windows media player? There are so many great and free alternatives that do the same work much better and without the f****n DRM!

I'm guessing it has to do with DirectShow. Developers often use the Windows Media Player SDK instead of the DirectShow SDK because it is easier to work with.

Hi Iam trying to add hardcodec subtitles to a movie via the filter "subtitles", I can import the srt file, but when I encode the movie the subtitles has the <i> </i> showing and not doing the italic effect that the tag is suppossed to do.....

any ideas how to fix this?

To my knowledge, you can't; 4.0 XPress simply doesn't recognize srt/html tags.

xpress can import the subs, but will only work with its own "custom" layout ie it wont work of the users subs from file.

Hi,

I've been using TAW4 to import .avi files from my Canon S1000 camera. Of the 40+ tracks I've done none of them have the audio in sync with the video. (What is really bad is I deleted the .avi's before I looked at the output.) Anyway, when trying to "fix" the out of sync audio in TAW4, sometimes it is in sync and sometimes it is out of sync and all I do is play the same track over and over. I can not figure out how to fix this problem. Any help would be appreciated. I love the ease of the TAW4 product but it doesn't seem to work for my application.

TIA,

Keith