I was very excited to get a program that would use the power of my new intel Sandy Bridge Core i5-2500k processor, as well as the CUDA in my NVIDIA N460GTX.

I've been a faithful user of TMPGenc Xpress 4 on my old Core2 Duo and noticed that using Xpress 4 on my new comp didn't utilize all its features or cores. the new VMW5 software however advertises to be optimized for Sandy Bridge, as well as CUDA support! But it doesn't seem to capable of using these properly.

1) while encoding video (Tried 6+ formats) I NEVER go above 50% CPU usage from this process. Either it still does not support quad cores, or it does a really bad job of it (all 4 of my cores do seem to share the load evenly, they're all only about 50% usage).

2) Even after turning all the CUDA preferences to on, doing the optimization, and restarting the program multiple times, as well as setting my MPEG encoders to CUDA, while encoding I only see CPU=100% and CUDA=0%. My GPU shows up in the preferences, it tests it just fine, and I've selected every CUDA option available--it just won't use it.

I was really hoping on using my new tech to make my video editing 5x faster, but at the moment its only marginally faster, am I doing something wrong? How do I get my full potential out of this $100 peice of software! Thanks

1) What is your CPU priority? Set it to the highest level. Are you using any other programs on your computer while encoding?

2) Are you using the MPEG-4 AVC format for output and selecting "CUDA" for the video encoder?

Likewise, for Sandy Bridge, you will need to select the MPEG-4 AVC format in the Format stage and select "Intel Media SDK" as the video encoder.

1) While in foreground Highest, on background its on normal. There are no other programs using resources while I ran my tests. My CPU was usually around 50% to 60% max overall for my entire computer while running TMPG. There was easily at least 40% of my CPU that was just idle. I've made sure all my settings (both on the BIOS and in Windows) are for high performance, allowing 100% CPU usage (so in otherwords, not throttled by something silly like power management). the processing power is there, its just not being used for some odd reason. I can start more programs, and they will start using up that extra CPU, but I can't get TMPG to utilize it past about 50%.

2)Yup. Within preferences under the CPU-->NVidia CUDA I have Enable and Use CUDA, and I have my GPU selected, and have done performance optimization. In Mpeg-->Mpeg Video Decoder, I have selected Cuda Hardware option for all of them. (and have tested mpeg4 using the intel media SDK standard--no CPU difference). While actually in a project, having selected MPEG formats, I make sure to select CUDA under the "Video Encoder" drop list. Am I missing any other areas that I need to select/configure CUDA in??

Thanks for showing some helpful stuff though tkrave. Got any other suggestions maybe?

Any chance that you are I/O limited by your disk drive read/write speed?

I would just like to say that AVG started to grab the VMESys.dll and VMESysBatch.dll. I reinstalled before I realized I just needed to pull them out of quarantine.

I'm currently testing the Master Works 5 and was hoping for some speedup in encoding H.264 using CUDA. I have a GTX470 with the latest drivers.

When encoding with MPEG4(AVC) using the CUDA encoder (all CUDA features enabled) there is no noticeable speed increase at all. The GPU activity meter says it's running at about 5%.

Is there something I'm missing or does it just not work as advertised?

Seems very lackluster for something that should be much faster.

the CUDA % listed at the bottom actually corresponds to the decoding done via the VPU, i've noticed it myself that the CUDA % never displays the encoding usage.

you can check in gpu-z, the encoding should be using a bit of the GPU usage, while decoding uses the VPU.

Hello,

I just bought and install this product. I select everything and pick start output. After 30 seconds i will get the error. I have uninstalled and reinstalled. I have the anti-virus program and windows firewall turned off.

Please help!

I've been a licensed TMPGenc user since at least ver 2.5 but I don't think I'll be using this new version 5 unless they make alternate skins available. The change in colors and the ridiculously larger and garish icons are so visually distracting and confusing that I don't even know what to do from screen to screen -- and this is from someone with hundreds of hours of experience in version 4, which is probably not too different in the nuts&bolts.

The GUI of this product is really horrible. I hope you guys can do something about it. I won't be using version 5 as long it gives me a headache to look at.

For me, the GUI is not a dealbreaker...I'm actually a bit shocked you dislike it that much. I personally had no problems using TVMW5. There's a bit of a learning curve in timeline mode, since they've never done anything like it before, but other than that, I don't see how you could be confused; everything other than the timeline is setup very much like 4.0 XPress.

actually, at first glance i hated it too, but you can tolerate it......

What is the red line i.e. 'Karma Level' all about?

I believe that's sort of a "rating" where the level will be higher for videos that have been watched more. Thus, you can organize videos by how popular they are.

Everything is sweet, except KARMA won't playback MP4 files (XDCAM-EX). These are MP4 videos files straight off my Sony EX3 video camera. Anyone?

It may just be a matter of finding a DirectShow codec that can play the files. Can you play them in Windows Media Player?

Is x264 better then CUDA in quality terms?
With x264 it is possible to encode 2-pass, CUDA only 1-pass
And what about quality?

IMHO software CPU based encoding is always as good or better than using CUDA or even Sandy Bridge. The only thing CUDA and Sandy bridge offers is speed.

After simply cutting out a short part out a Blu-ray .m2ts file, how can I tell TMPGEnc Video Mastering Works 5 to simply export the edited file without the cut out part? Does it have to re-encode it for hours?

If this can happen by setting the Output format to be exactly the same as the original .m2ts file, where can *all* original file's properties be viewed so that they can be entered correctly, is there no simpler way to instruct the program to make no other changes, just cut out the small part out of the file as edited?

That way the operation should take as long as it takes to copy paste the original file more or less. Can this be done?

Nope. No smart rendering in this program.

Thank you for your reply. I have tried to cut out a small portion out of a 30GB Blu-ray .m2ts file without success using videoredo, tssniper, h264_ts cutter, and tsMuxeR. They are just too buggy for the end result to be OK.

Any suggestions as to another one I can still try?

TMPGEnc MPEG Editor 3 and TMPGEnc Authoring Works 4 have smart rendering. As long as your Blu-ray is MPEG-2 encoded and conforms to the official specs, it will not be re-encoded except for the edited parts.

TMPGEnc MPEG Editor 3:
http://tmpgenc.pegasys-inc.com/en/product/tme3.html

TMPGEnc Authoring Works 4:
http://tmpgenc.pegasys-inc.com/en/product/taw4.html

I'm trying to find a capable video editing program.

I need these features:
import and edit wtv files (both h264 & mpeg streams)
output them as wtv files
preserve closed captions
cut commercials
open two (or more - but at least two) videos simultaneously in order to cut and paste frames from one video to another.

Can any of the TMPGEnc do these things? If not, can you point me in the right direction?

TAW4 can import MPEG-2 wtv files and cut commercials, but it cannot output as wtv since this is a program for making DVDs, Blu-rays, and DivX Ultra.

None of the TMPGEnc products can output wtv files nor can they import h.264 wtv. TMPGEnc products with a cut-editor can cut commercials and combine two or more videos in any way you want, though not through copy and paste; it's more a process of splitting clips and then arranging the pieces.

Check out a program called "Videoredo." I have it alongside of Masterworks 5. It can output wtv files, and it has an auto-detect commercials function that edits them out automatically. It can also convert to other output types, but I like the options available in Masterworks 5 for converting. To cut and paste frames of one video to another I think you need a dedicated video editing program (like Sony Vegas), but they do not typically make good converting programs.
Good luck

I just upgraded from TMGEnc. However, where it used to take seconds to import a file to work on (.avi, .mkv, .mpg, etc), it now takes almost 30 seconds for each file to come in. Is there a setting I need to adjust? Thanks!

Figured it out. I check OFF a bunch of the file readers so it is using DirectShow.

I'm having the same issue, mucking around with various codecs isn't helping.. Exactly how did you fix it?

Import chapters from mp4 file.