I was a fairly regular user of version 3 and thought the addition of 5.1 was reason enough to try version 4 but there seems to be a few bugs. The most glaring is that every time I set the target size for a single layer dvd it over compresses by a gig or more. Has anyone found a solution for this or seen it reported as a bug that will be fixed in the future?

Set the target size to 8,5, and burn it with other burning program that can shrink (e.g. xilisoft DVD Copy).You´ll have all the 4,5 full.If you want a full 8,5...you just set the size in TMP4 manually to a bit more than the 8,5 and burn the same way.

Was this bug solved in future releases? I use version 4.0.7.32 and have the same problem. Before I start writing the project to a DVD structure it shows the size about 4,1GB, but when I look on the created VIDEO_TS folder it has about 5,2GB. Which is useless for me. I dont use any DVD menu and the source data are in MPEG2 so that I dont need to re-encode.
Would it not decrease the quality if I will use some shrink DVD SW to fit it on DVD?
Thanks for an answer.

I always output to 8.5g and then custom shrink in DVDShrink to a .iso image file. Then I check the whole thing in vlc player before burning to disc. Generally I find that not that much quality is lost during compression. I think for around 5gb it would be approx 6% loss if you have no menus.

If your still concerned about quality loss though, you could always output to 8.5gb and burn to a dual layer dvd disc (8.5gb).

I dont think you need any special writer for a 8.5gb disc but I could be wrong..

Setting to 8.5GB to output 4.7GB solution worked well for single layer.

However, the double layer will not work this way because the output setting does not recognize anything over 9GB. Setting the file size to 9GB will compress down the final output to mere 6.3GB... hardly worthwhile bothering to go to double layer.

Perhaps this is only an issue when converting avi files to DVD disks.

I have a few recorded HD (1080i) shows in dvr-ms file format. I would like to convert them so it can be viewed on the PS3. I've tried various mp4 profile settings (AVC, High profile 4.1, 1920x1080) without success, PS3 keep saying it's corrupted. Has anyone successfully done this? What is your setting? I'm currently using TMPGEnc 4 Xpress v4.6.3.268.

I am trying to encode an HD file and I am using settings that have not changed for months. I just had the PMPGEnc 4.0 reinstalled on a new pc, and I am using the exact same settings on this new pc, but when I get to the Encode Screen and hit the Encode icon, I get the "Output file contains invalid characters" error box. No matter what I do to the output file name, it will not encode the file. Anyone else ever get this error?

I really need help with compressing a file. when i try compressing it by bringing down the bitrate, the output video which goes for about 1.5 hours has only about 20 minutes of audio in it. why does this happen? how do i do a full compression (i only need to compress it down about 600 megs or so)
thanks in advance!
aralox


PS: if you have an answer to my question, please email me too! - pravin1992 (AT) gmail.com

Dear Support
When I record a show in Snapstream that is in DD 5.1 and play it back with Snapstream my receiver shows Dolby Digital and sounds correct. This is a HD mpeg 2 file. If I play the file with Windows Media Player or Vista Media Center it gets decoded with the Vista codec pack and arrives at my receiver as 5.1 Multi Channel PCM. When I load it into the TMPGE editor I only get two channels? How can I make a BLU-RAY and keep the multi channel? The sample file I’m working with says in the editor it is “Dolby Digital, 48000 Hz, 5.1 ch, 2 min 51s 74, 384 kb/s “ I have tried creating a proxy editing file and going without. I have tried re importing the audio. The reason I got the software was because it stated it could do DD and Multi CH PCM. I would appreciate any help you could give.
Thanks!
Bill

Try looking at the track settings after you import the clip. It's possible that the default is set to encode at 2ch.

Thanks for the reply but it was set to 5.1.
Bill

>Dear Support
>When I record a show in Snapstream that is in DD 5.1 and play it back with Snapstream my receiver shows Dolby Digital and sounds correct. This is a HD mpeg 2 file. If I play the file with Windows Media Player or Vista Media Center it gets decoded with the Vista codec pack and arrives at my receiver as 5.1 Multi Channel PCM. When I load it into the TMPGE editor I only get two channels? How can I make a BLU-RAY and keep the multi channel? The sample file I’m working with says in the editor it is “Dolby Digital, 48000 Hz, 5.1 ch, 2 min 51s 74, 384 kb/s “ I have tried creating a proxy editing file and going without. I have tried re importing the audio. The reason I got the software was because it stated it could do DD and Multi CH PCM. I would appreciate any help you could give.
>Thanks!
>Bill

I brought this up with a support ticket for Xpress 4.0. It may be the same case for Works 4.0.

They said "thank you for your mail. With XPress 4 you can output in DolbyDigital but in MPEG output format it will be only 2 ch as you well know.
-XPress 4 does not support to output in AC3 5.1 ch for MPEG yet, because its a matter of DolbyDigital license, we do not any information about it but by now we will send about this to user's wish list.

Best regards"

Old-hack, that shouldn't be the case for Authoring Works 4 since it has the license for 5.1 Dolby Digital.

Bill, can you explain what you're doing a bit more? Are you actually outputting the file and it has 2 channels? It's a little bit confusing because you said that when you load it into the editor you only get 2 channels but your sample file says it has 5.1 channels in the editor. If you can, please explain your whole process in Authoring Works 4.

Thanks for the reply!

I record a HD show with Snaptream. I load it into the editor and the editor shows the file to be DD 5.1 but when you play it from the editor it goes to the reciever as 2 ch. The same file played by Snapstream shows up at my reciever as DD 5.1.

When you're talking about the editor, do you mean the Clip Editing window in Authoring Works 4?

It's possible that when playing video through the editor, the audio output is 2ch. In other words, it could simply be a limitation of the clip editor.
Try outputting a small sample file to see if it plays with full 5.1 audio.

RESOLVED
Good point!
I had already done as you suggested. Unfortunately I think the answer for me will be $129.95 I paid to Cyberlink for Cyberlink DVD Suite 7 Ultra. It outputs DD 5.1 from the editor and the disks I burn. I had been using TMPGE for quite a few years. I like the interface and always before got good responses from tech support. Although now I have received some great responses from this board support has not responded. I recently paid $59.95 to upgrade the product; hopefully I can get some benefit from. I defiantly did not want to spend the 129.95 but now I can say the battle is behind me except for paying off the credit card.

Thanks again!
Bill

What input file specs are required for BluRay output. I'm coming from Liquid 7.2 and want to prepare the file format that will give best results when authored in AW4

You can probably follow any of these specs:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blu-ray_Disc#Technical_specifications

Just be aware that Authoring Works 4 can't output MPEG-4 AVC/h.264 Blu-ray video; it can only output MPEG-2 Blu-ray video.

Thanks for your help.

When encoding to an MP4, there is no option for the H.264 codec. Is this a limitation of TMPGEnc?

I have version 4.6.3.268

Select "MPEG-4 AVC format" when you select MPEG-4 file output. It is the same as h.264.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.264/MPEG-4_AVC

Thanks tkrave... I did not realize that!

Can you guys please come up with a way to let the cut-edit operations also include subtitles?

The way it is now, makes handling subtitles really annoying, especially when cutting and splitting clips..

If I import a single clip and the corresponding (synced) subtitle file, cut-edit operations will NOT cut subtitles along with the frames of the video and audio that were deleted. Also when you split a file, each clip gets a FULL copy of the whole subtitle stream, this also makes it annoying as you have to go back and delete subtitles that shouldn't be there..

But more to the point, if I split my subtitles manually, I still have to re-calculate the first and last spoken dialogue start times so they remain in sync - this is EXTREMELY hard to do from my attempts at trying and I often end up making 3 or 4 time corrections to the subtitle stream, in trying to get it to start at the proper time.

As the angle of Authoring Works is an all in one solution, it would only make sense from an ease of use standpoint, to have the program take care of all the math involved with cutting out appropriate subtitles when a cut is made, and splitting the subtitles when splitting a clip, and making the corresponding time corrections (since each new clip restarts at 0:00:00)

Maybe I'm missing something.. I know you can delete chapters from clip sets and the clips still register, although the chapters don't.. Is there a way to apply to import a subtitle file, and correctly edit and time it using only the first clip, out of a group of files, that I haven't thought of? (i.e split a clip into 3 parts, and control the timing and subtitles from the first clip only?)

This has become increasingly frustrated when trying to make dual-audio DivX Ultra DVD's.

>Can you guys please come up with a way to let the cut-edit operations also include subtitles?
>
>The way it is now, makes handling subtitles really annoying, especially when cutting and splitting clips..
>
>If I import a single clip and the corresponding (synced) subtitle file, cut-edit operations will NOT cut subtitles along with the frames of the video and audio that were deleted. Also when you split a file, each clip gets a FULL copy of the whole subtitle stream, this also makes it annoying as you have to go back and delete subtitles that shouldn't be there..
>
>But more to the point, if I split my subtitles manually, I still have to re-calculate the first and last spoken dialogue start times so they remain in sync - this is EXTREMELY hard to do from my attempts at trying and I often end up making 3 or 4 time corrections to the subtitle stream, in trying to get it to start at the proper time.
>
>As the angle of Authoring Works is an all in one solution, it would only make sense from an ease of use standpoint, to have the program take care of all the math involved with cutting out appropriate subtitles when a cut is made, and splitting the subtitles when splitting a clip, and making the corresponding time corrections (since each new clip restarts at 0:00:00)
>
>Maybe I'm missing something.. I know you can delete chapters from clip sets and the clips still register, although the chapters don't.. Is there a way to apply to import a subtitle file, and correctly edit and time it using only the first clip, out of a group of files, that I haven't thought of? (i.e split a clip into 3 parts, and control the timing and subtitles from the first clip only?)
>
>This has become increasingly frustrated when trying to make dual-audio DivX Ultra DVD's.

Here is what I do. Before I do any splitting, I add the subtitles and let TDA write out the files. I then use those files as the final source for my project. The subtitles are now part of the video stream and you can edit and split without getting them out of sync.

-Bill

Do you know if it will keep those streams when you re-import them though? Because I ultimately like to make projects with Menus and whatnot, and I know already it doesn't recognize the second audio stream of a dual-audio source, even if outputed by TA4 and reimporting, or importing a TMPGenc Xpress 4 file.

i need to author a dvd movie with 3 audio streams and 3 subtitle streams, is TMPGEnc Authoring Works 4 able to do that? if not , is there any TMPGEnc products able to cater my requirements?

Unfortunately, no. 2 audio and subtitle streams is the most you can do in Authoring Works 4 and no other TMPGEnc product can do more.

Hi to all. I would just like to add that, besides cuda enabled encoding, it would be nice to have the possibility of encoding video with both cpu and gpu at full speed, without offloading cpu, in order to maximize encoding speed. I wonder if tmpgenc is going toward this mode too.

I would like Movie style or another product you make to be able to transcode:

AVCHD files from Canon and Panasonic cameras.

From 1080 p (with pulldown from canon cameras at 24p)

From 1080 p (with native progressive frames at 24p from Panasonic HMC150 cameras)

Also many are having a great time editing footage from AVCHD at 1080 from all camcorders that are now shooting this file type due to the clips being seperated in 4 gig chuncks of footage.

It would be ice if Movie style could do a straight unchanged (or pull down removal only) cut edit to say i gig clips.

Better yet, to allow input to the clips meta data (but that is a wish not a need). Sequential numbering of the output files is a must.


Also the same would be desired for Panasonic MXF files from P2 cards.
We want full raster files not the DVCproHD non-square files, so something to convert DVCproHD into an AVCHD full raster clip divided at 1 gig segments.

One gig segments allows easier editing. It is hard to edit when the computer has to manage4 gig 1080 files.

Thanks
GG

Have you checked out TMPGEnc 4.0 XPress? It's much more geared towards editing and encoding than MovieStyle is and it can do AVCHD input. I don't know if it can do all of the things you're describing, but it is probably the type of program you are looking for. They have a trial version in case you want to try it.

http://tmpgenc.pegasys-inc.com/en/download/te4xp.html

I have TMPGEnc 4.0 XPress
and i does not do this.

I have about 100 users looking to buy such software that can transcode these files.

Point taken, but I doubt MovieStyle will ever have cut-editing capabilities.

It is more likely that 4.0 XPress will be able to do the things you are asking for.

Does anyone here know how to set the moov atom at the beginning of an h.264 file to enable progressive download using a flash player? I have tried qt-faststart.c but it fails when I try to run it against an enc xpress generated mp4 file. I have scoured the internet but cannot find a tool that will get it moved.