Hello,

I am trying to create a PAL 4:3 DVD from scratch, and having trouble figuring out which resolution my clip should have, so when I author it with TMPGEnc A.W. it comes out right when played on the TV. To simplify my tests, I have created a little avisynth script which creates a small video out of thin air (see below).

What happens right now is that it does not fit on the TV screen. I.e., the red border from the .avs is missing, and the text is having some letters cut off on both sides. I have tried many different settings for the track / clip / video in TMPGenc, to no avail so far.

Anyway, here's that avisynth script. It simply renders some text with a red border. **I am fully aware that the everything will have the wrong aspect ratio** (the text will be skewed) the way I have set it up, the only thing I care about right now is to get the red border smack on the border of the TV screen.

video = Version()
sourceW = 436
sourceH = 80
palW = 720
palH = 576
scaledW = sourceW*palW/sourceW
scaledH = sourceH*palW/sourceW
video = BicubicResize(video,scaledW,scaledH,0,0.5)
video = AddBorders(video,0,(palH-scaledH)/2,0,(palH-scaledH)/2)
border = BlankClip(video,color=$ff0000)
Overlay(border,Crop(video,4,4,-4,-4),x=4,y=4)

My last (non-working) clip settings are "Aspect ratio: Pixel 12:11 (PAL 4:3)" for the clip and "Aspect Ratio: 4:3" for the track. Obviously, if I decrease the "palW" and "palH" by trial and error, I could likely get it to work correctly, but I would rather understand where the problem is, and which is the correct resolution of my source video, and the correct clip&track settings.

Any help appreciated!

Hello Everyone,
Could i ask you about the premium templates because i can not understand the difference between them and the build ones.I saw a dinamic tamplate.What does it mean?What can it change?
Thanks

I guess they're supposed to be better than the free ones, but I think that's subjective.

Dynamic templates typically have one track/chapter thumbnail with multiple text track/chapter buttons. When you select/mouseover a text button, the thumbnail image changes to show the selected track/chapter. Some of the free templates have dynamic thumbnails; just download those and you'll see what I'm talking about.

Slideshow with audio is hard to usage.

We can't find song that best fit with a small number of photos.

It should be have an options:

1. Auto loop audio when have too many photos.
2. Auto cutoff and fade audio out when run out photos.

How I can uninstall the trial version from my PC cause the software of authoring work 4 doesn't appear in control panel install/uninstall applications.

Thnak you very much

Angelo

Are you sure it's not in the list? It'd be listed as TMPGEnc Authoring Works 4 Trial or something like that.

thank you
I checked twice before writing and I didn't find it.
Now under Tmpgenc....I find it..ok
Thank you again
bye

How to Create a Page Like Shown in the Pic in scene selection how to link
buttons to next page ( 1-6 7-12 13 - 18 )


http://i420.photobucket.com/albums/pp284/P180B/Untitled-2.jpg

Unfortunately you can't make buttons for each page like in that pic. All you can have is the next, previous, last, and first page buttons.

yes you can.
create a picture "1-7" and replace with "go to first page", create "8-10" and replace with next page, create "11-17" and replace with go to end button...

>yes you can.
>create a picture "1-7" and replace with "go to first page", create "8-10" and replace with next page, create "11-17" and replace with go to end button...

That's assuming you only have a certain amount of chapter pages. If you have more than 4 chapter pages, you wouldn't be able to list them all.

But you are right, it is possible within those restrictions.

I take that back, that would only work if you have 3 chapter pages or less.

Would like AVCHD DVD as an output format for TMPBEnc Authoring Works 4.0. With so many video camera's doing AVCHD now, it would be great to be able to burn AVCHD DVD to use on Blu Ray players, without burning a Blu Ray disk. This works great with Nero's tools. It also allows to play on many computers, even without Blu Ray capability, but gives the top quality.

There is a work around for this.

See my message below...'Can you ouput AVHD to Other Disc Formats Bedides BD?'

Hi.
Compressed several avi files into mpeg2 (TMPGEnc4XP).
Sometimes everything is OK, but sometimes there is a crash

Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: TMPGEnc4XP.exe
Application Version: 4.6.3.268
Application Timestamp: 39755004
Fault Module Name: MSVCR80.dll
Fault Module Version: 8.0.50727.4053
Fault Module Timestamp: 4a594c79
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Offset: 000173d0
OS Version: 6.0.6002.2.2.0.768.3
Locale ID: 2057
Additional Information 1: fd00
Additional Information 2: ea6f5fe8924aaa756324d57f87834160
Additional Information 3: fd00
Additional Information 4: ea6f5fe8924aaa756324d57f87834160

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Can someone help with explaining - why? and how to avoid this problem?

I would say unistall, clean the system with a prog like tuneup utilities, reboot, and reinstall.

and make sure you have up to date codecs.

this is a next version of Tmpgenc Xpress will take advantage of GPGPU computing via directcompute of directx11 ?

nvidia disappoints me more and more by its poltique rating of physx cuda or often "reserved" for software that requires nvidia quadro

Briefly, directx11 and directcompute a new horizon for tmpgenc xpress ?

I have a video in avi format but when it's imported to TMPGEnc Authoring Works 4 shows the error "cannot open the file c://******"

Using gspot shows the following codecs.

Video
codec: H.264 name: H.264/MPGE-4 AVC "codecs are installed"

Audio
codec: 0x0055 MPEG-1 Layer 3 "codecs are installed"

Somebody could tell me why the video cannot be imported?
I'm using windows 7.

Can you play the video in Windows Media Player? And does it use ffdshow?

Yes, i can play it in windows media player but i don't know how to identify if it is using ffdshow

I have installed a codec pack called win7codecs from Shark, and there is a "set h264 to use ffdshow" option. Maybe should i try with that?

I only ask about ffdshow because I've run into problems with H.264 avi files where the video wouldn't load in Authoring Works 4. Turns out they were using ffdshow codecs.

You can tell if the video is using ffdshow because a ffdshow icon will appear in the notification area of your taskbar when you play the file in Windows Media Player. I've found that changing some settings in ffdshow have solved my problems.

Open the ffdshow video decoder configuration (Start menu-->All Programs-->ffdshow-->video decoder configuration). You should see a list of video formats. Under the column for "Decoder" right-click anywhere and select one or both of the options ("Set all stable formats to libavcodec" or "Set all supported formats to Xvid"). Click OK to close the window and see if the file can be opened in Authoring Works.

How do I get TMPGENC to stop inserting extra frames??????

Every time I try to produce a PAL output from a 23.976 source, TMPENG inserts 1 extra duplicate frame after every 24 frames, to keep the speed correct.

But this causes terrible judder.

I just want to produce 25fps video and I accept it will run 4% too fast. How can I do this?

you do realize to gain the extra fps and in fact you do realize what FPS is its FRAMES PER SECOND, therfore if you want to go up in frames ie 23.976 to 25 you will have to insert extra frames which is what the software does.

if you dont wnat the extra frames, stick with what you have .

This is the avisynth .avs file I used to convert a YouTube download of the live U2 concert that was broadcast a few months ago. The 'AssumeFPS' command is what you'll need to alter the frame rate without gaining or losing any frames - the 'true' part keeps the audio in sync. TMPGEnc XPress & Authoring Works will accept .avs files with no problem.
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LoadPlugin ("C:\Program Files\DGAVCIndex\DGAVCDecode.dll")
LoadPlugin ("C:\Program Files\AutoGK\filters\RemoveGrainSSE2.dll")

Video = AVCSource ("U2ube.dga")
Audio = DirectShowSource ("U2ubeREDO.wav")
Audio = Normalize (audio, 0.95)
Audiodub (Video,Audio)
AssumeFPS (30000, 1001, true) # converts A/V from 30.00fps to 29.97 fps

Crop (0,0,0,-2) # cropping off bottom distortion
BicubicResize (684,456) # actual encoded video at same aspect ratio
RemoveGrain (mode=2)
AddBorders (18,12,18,12) # added to create a 720x480 output for DVD
Trim (0,253465) # MAIN movie
FadeIn (96)
FadeOut (96)

ConvertToYUY2()
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Read up a little on avisynth and you'll love it. There's also a filter somewhere to alter the pitch if you don't like what the 4% speed change does to the sound. For my use above, I only changed from 30.00 to 29.97 FPS, and I was able to encode a beautiful DVD compliant file.

no still you will never be able to go from 23.976 to pal without it inserting frames, its impossible.

To those saying you need to insert frames, sorry you are mistaken.

23.976 is a frame rate. Emphasis rate.

To make it 25 fps there are different ways to do it, but one way is to simply speed it up. You don't NEED to insert any extra frames.

The only time you need to insert extra frames is if you want to keep the running time the same and the pitch of the soundtrack the same.

But if you aren't bothered about this, just speed it up. The advantage of doing this is NO JUDDER.

Sorry, I just realised it was only Matt saying you must insert extra frames.

Matt - you are mistaken. Think of each frame as a playing card and the film as being each card placed on a pile at a rate of 23.976 cards per second. (40.708 milliseconds per card).

All you do is start dealing the cards faster! So deal them at a rate of 25 cards per second (40.0 ms per card)

What the software is actually doing is dealer the cards faster AND inserting a duplicate card after every 24 cards. I don't want it to do this!

incorrect chippy, im stating that the software will insert the frames to make up to the 25fps etc, it will not just simply speed up the footage.

yes there are way to speed up the footage, but you are asking about tmpgenc products which insert not speed up.

No Mathew. You stated that it was impossible to go from 28.976 to 25 fps PAL without insterting frames. That is what you said, and it is wrong, as I have pointed out.

If you are now changing your argument to say that TMPGEnc cannot do this conversion without inserting frames, than I can accept that.

But that is not what you said.

im not changign what i said, but i shall help what i said to be understood how it was meant.

it doesnt matter if you speed it up or slow it down, when you get to software such as tmpgenc, it WILL insert or take away frames as per fps you choose

You said "you do realize to gain the extra fps and in fact you do realize what FPS is its FRAMES PER SECOND, therfore if you want to go up in frames ie 23.976 to 25 you will have to insert extra frames which is what the software does."

The software does this, agreed.

But you do not have to insert extra frames to get 25 fps. Your statement above is incorrect.

You can speed up your video with FPS conversion in VirtualDubMod then save as an umcompressed format or any other formats. Then encode with TmpgEnc...

I have DVD with dolby digital ac3 5.1ch (listenable in BSPlayer)
and tried to import a track (DVD import)
into Authoring Works 4 and also DVD Author 3.
But, there, it stated that is Dolby Digital 1ch!
I can't hear any sound.
After exporting (with added subtitle) it'still (GSpot said)1ch
and I can't hear anything in BSPlayer.
Is it some 5.1 issue, cos i did everything like hunderds time before.

ensure that you have got up to date codecs, and check your settings.

Hi everyone,
Can anyone tell me what size should be the subtitles because when i import them and leave them like that ,there are very big.
Cheers

in subtitle editor page, on the top of popup window (where you found import
subs) you can see subtitle layout where you can change your subs apereance:
size, font, color, position, outline, align...
Press some sub, so that you can see it on preview screen, then enter layout
and you can see what you are doing in real time.
(tmpgenc dvd author makes me best looking subs, but with few srt a had problems
with importing, some of that srt CAN be solved by saving them in Subtitle Workshop)

Thanks but i am asking about the size.
ON mine says 10 but there are too big.

so make it 6-8