Using TMPGEnc Authoring Works 4 Trial version, attempting to write to a Dual Layer 8.5 GB DVD, I get the below error message. (I realize that the second sentence is messed up, but that's what it says.):

"The estimated output size is 7920 MB, but the output location offers only 4927 MB of available space. Change of or free enough space in the current output folder."

I know that the DVD I am using is a Dual Layer 8.5 GB disc. I have checked out multiple software products and was really liking TMPGEnc Authoring Works, but I really want to be able to write to 8.5 GB discs. Is this a known problem or a bug of some sort? Anyone know what causes this or how to get past it? Thanks

How much space do you have on your hard drive? TAW4 needs to save the output files to your hard drive before it can burn it to disc. That is what the message is referring to.

Thanks! I hadn't realized it, but I was getting low on hard disk space. I've purchased the full version, now, and I think I'm going to be happy with it.

How I can output many files at the same time, I have a 6 core CPU, and It will be much faster if I can conver many videos at the same time

You can have multiple instances of TAW4 open if you want to output multiple projects simultaneously.

But I Get this message:

"Another TMPGEnc Authoring Works 4 or the batch authoring tool is currently outputting.

Output can only be one at a time per computer."

Ah, sorry. I didn't actually try outputting. I guess it can't be done then. The batch encoder is probably the best solution then.

I created a DVD using captured HD input. The output format was MPEG-2 Video, 720x480, 16:9, Dolby Digital audio stream.

When I put the DVD in a player the audio was only a loud buzz, no other sound can be heard. The audio/video in the output folder on my computer is the same.

I recently installed the software on my new Windows 7 computer. This exact same process used to work on my Windows XP machine. Am I missing a codec or something?

What type of video/audio is your source file? You can use a program like MediaInfo to get the codec details.

I currently have the trial version installed on my machine. Shall I uninstall it before installing the full (paid) version, or can I just install it over the top of the trial without any harmful consequences?

Thanks!

You don't have to; you just install the full version and the trial will be removed automatically.

I noticed that by default, when encoding any source material to PAL DVD standard, TVMW5 assumes the output is 704 x 576 and pads 8 pixels left and right to get 720 x 576. In order to get full frame 720 x 576, one should uncheck the "keep aspect ratio" box in the resize filter.
I believe 704 x 576 is mainly used for analog PAL, and DVD support both 704 and 720 x576...

So, I wonder, when downconverting HD material (1920 x 1080) to SD PAL, what setting gives the correct aspect ratio in the final DVD: the TVMW5 default (but on computer display, we have 8 pixel black bars left and right) or the "forced" 720 * 576 (by unchecking the "keep AR" box, we now have the image filling the full 720 pixels wide). The difference is not really significant (PAR is then either 16:11 or 64:45) but not negligible either...

Cross-posted from the Avid forums:

It looks to me that 704 * 576 usable pixels inside a 720 * 576 frame is a legacy from that analog world; confused between the specs and the reality, I decided to run a little pratical test, to solve once and for all the PAR issue in TMPGEnc MPEG-2 encoder, when encoding HD1080 (square pixel) material to anamorphic DVD for the PAL region.

The results of my simple test are somewhat surprising !!!

Method: I created in Avid Symphony a 1080p sequence (square pixels) containing a.o. a geometrically perfect circle.
I have then encoded this sequence using TVMW 5.3.1.85 twice to the "PAL 16/9 DVD" format, once keeping TVMW5 defaults (which generates 704 * 576 anamorphic video) and once forcing 720 * 576 by unchecking the "Keep Aspect Ratio" option in the "Resize" filter of TVMW5. I have then authored these two short sequences on a PAL DVD (without any extra transcoding). I also copied the MPEG-2 files on a USB memory stick for use with a standalone media player.
I have then played back and measured the result on a long list of combinations of players, display devices and connection types.

Players:
- WMP 12 on Windows PC
- VLC 2 on Windows PC
- 'old' JVC DVD player
- Sony DVD+/-R player-recorder
- Panasonic Bluray player
- WD TV HD media player

Display devices:
- 1920 * 1080 laptop LCD panel
- DELL 24" 1920 * 1200 LCD monitor
- 'old' 26" HD-Ready Sony LCD TV
- low-end 19"HD-Ready Samsung TV
- 1920 * 1080 Panasonic projector

Connections:
- CVBS ('coax')
- Y/C ('S-Video')
- YCbCr ('component')
- HDMI
- DVI

I won't list the complete results here, but the general trend is that more than the player or display device type, it is the CONNECTION TYPE that determines the image geometry !
IOW, using the same player and display, generally, to get my perfect circle, I need to encode in 704 * 576 if using analog connections (CVBS, YCbCr), while in the other cases (HDMI, computer digital connections), it's indeed 720 * 576 that must be used when encoding the DVD (and so the TVMW5 default must be overridden !). I tested the Y/C connection type only in one player/display combination, and hence, the results is not statistically relevant (strangely though, this single Y/C combo gave me the same results as HDMI, not CVBS...)
Yet IOW, if one encodes PAL DVDs from digital sources (and specifically, from non-anamorphic HD material) using TVMW5 and its default settings, the results will be geometrically correct only if the audience uses "older" hardware with analog connections !
If the audience uses "modern" hardware (HDMI connections, computer, etc...), the DVDs encoded with the defaults TVMW5 settings will be about 2% too narrow !
In essence, with the time (as people phase out analog hardware and connections), the defaults chosen by TMPGEnc engineering become more and more obsolete, despite the fact that they claim to follow the official standards.

So, people encoding DVDs in the PAL region with TMPGEnc encoders should make sure to UNCHECK the "Keep Aspect Ratio" option in the "Resize" filter....

Comments welcome...

I have a some files that are in mono.I want to use the stereo audio that I took from a CD to replace the mono.
How do i do this?
The video files are already on my hard drive,as is audio from the CD.

From the Edit stage, double-click the clip or click on the "Edit" button to open the clip editor.
Go to the clip properties tab. For the audio source, click on the "Browse.." button and select your stereo audio file to replace the original audio.

I have the audio and video so that they both start at the same time(as Jon Anderson introduces Igor Khoroshev).
However,when I click on play,the video starts at the beginning,but of hearing Jon speak,I hear the playing I've Seen All Good People
????

Everytime I install TMPG version 5.1.1.52 and try to load it it says cannot TImageDatasplash_enmodule

Try running the installer again and select the "Repair" option.

So I was trying to test this out on a Rip which contains VC-1 (AP@L3) video according to MediaInfo and i receive the following error:

This title cannot be selected because it does not contain and processable video.

Is this a known issue and are there any plans to implement support for VC-1 Source video?

I don't think certain types of VC-1 video can be processed. I tried importing a VC-1 encoded Blu-ray and it couldn't read the video stream.
I have emailed their support about adding VC-1 blu-ray support and they said they would add it to their request list. Whether or not it will actually be implemented is unknown.

THat was the response i recieved as well. they also alluded to it possibly working in other situations but were unable to elaborate on when that might be. Here was their response:
"We have other reports that with some codecs such format could be
imported into Video Mastering Works 5.
We cannot give you a suggestion of codec due that we don't know and we cannot
be responsible of codec's functionality over your PC so you could try to
look for it by google or other portal, please try to look for a codec
which supports VC-1video files and it is compatible with your OS."

Not quite sure what to make of that.

They are suggesting we find a codec with VC-1 support. Since TVMW5 uses the codecs on your computer, if a proper codec is installed it should be able to read the file. It would have been nice if they said which codec was found to work because I have yet to find one.

Here was the latest from support:

" if you can find a codec which can be used for
decode (import) VC-1 from your .m2ts file through Video Mastering Works
5 and DirectShow then probably you could convert it to another formats
using Video Mastering Works 5."

So here is what i've tried.
LAV CUVID
ffdshow
ffdshow (DXVA)

all in both x86 and x64 flavors and none worked.

Ok, not sure why but i was able to get Microsoft's Expression Encoder 4 to work with ffdshow on the same file.

The settings in ffdshow were only set for VC-1 and i used libavccodec instead of wmv9.

It appears that i cannot get TMPGEnc to utilize ffdshow for some reason. Anyone know how to force it to use another Direct Show codec?

I can even verify via graphstudio that the video should be using the FFDSHOW settings for VC-1.

Anyone have any thoughts?

I think the only thing you can do is force it to use the directshow file reader (which should contain ffdshow codecs). Go to preferences and look for the "file input plug-in" option. This lists all of the file readers. You can uncheck all of them except the directshow reader to "force" it to use only directshow codecs.

I was finally able to get this to work. by setting FFDSHOW to Libavccodec for VC-1 and then use the Windows7DSFilter Tweaker program to set the preferred Direct Show filter to FFDSHOW, i was able to import and convert VC-1 video to WMV.

I did not actually have to uncheck all the values in the file input plugin area in preferences.

I am trying the trial version and i have added my videos but when i view the videos through the player i am getting lots of digital break up and it looks horrible.

I have burnt a dvd to check it is the same on a DVd player and it is.

But when i watch the original videos there is no break up?

I want to buy this software but bot if it is going to look like this

any ideas?

What will really help is if you tell us what your source video format is. Use a program like MediaInfo and post the video's info here.

Will I be able to open my TMPGenc Xpress 4 projects with this version?

You can, but it warns you that it may not be able to convert every aspect of your 4.0 XPress project over to tvmw5.

By default it will only look for tvmw5 project files, so you have to make sure you select to view all file types when importing the 4.0 xpress project file.

Thanks tkrave.

Tmpgenc 5.1.1.52 is duplicating frames in the output. I have posted an 8 second video input,
recorded in HD 1920 x 1080, progressive scan, 30p, on a JVC GY-HM100U camera in Quicktime .MOV format.
File is: www.sportsflashtech.com/video/stutter/765_0636_01.MOV
For output I select DVD-Video standard MPEG file, 16:9 aspect ratio, CBR, set Average video bitrate to 8500,
select Display_mode: Progressive, Encode, Export.
It takes only a few seconds to encode.
I posted the output file, www.sportsflashtech.com/video/stutter/765_0636_01-8500k-8s.mpg
Go back to Edit, add file, select 765_0636_01-8500-8s.mpg, Cut-edit, then play/single-frame to frame number 92.
Now step one more frame and you will see frame 92 is duplicated. Also duplicated is frame 186 and frame 279.
When I repeated this encode, I did not get duplication in the output the second time. However the reason I reduced the failure to a simple 8 second video clip is when I encoded my entire video,
consisting of 3G across 10 .MOV files, I was getting a much higher frame duplication rate: every 3rd frame
was duplicated!!
What is going on here?
I am on Windows 7 64bit. I use the Calibrated Software codec,
http://www.calibratedsoftware.com/QXD.asp

Thanks for any advice. At this time I am continuing with TMPGenc 4 XPress.

Hi,
I get an error message every time I try to run a simulation for a given video project : "The GOP is too long"
There's no way I can modify it in TMPGenc, so how can I change this?

Thanks for your help.

There are a few possibilities.

One, it could be a false positive and you can ignore the error. If you know for a fact that the GOP is correct, then you can ignore it. The ultimate test will be when you play the outputted files through a DVD player (you can test it on your computer if you have DVD playing software).

Two, it could be that the GOP is actually wrong and you'll have to re-encode your source files. There needs to be a certain GOP length for NTSC and PAL DVD-Video. See this thread at videohelp.com for info:
http://forum.videohelp.com/threads/211205-The-Video-GOP-is-Too-Long-TmpgEnc-DVD-Author?p=1211975