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I have a problem with Video Mastering Works 5. I used TVMW to encode a file from avi to bluray 25. After the encode the audio is choppy. The video looks fine and has no stuttering and the audio syncs correctly to video, ie words match the movement of peoples mouth. It sounds like there are dropouts every second or less. Like someone hitting the mute button on and off.
The video started as 1280x720P avi, with 2 channel stereo audio 48khz. It was captured using a BlackMagic Intensity Pro. The total file size is 772gb. There are no problems with the audio in the source file.
I chose the default settings in TVMW for a 25gb Bluray disc.
Video: mpeg-4 avc, ntsc, 1280x720, progressive, 59.94 fps
Audio: dolby digital, 48000hz, stereo, 256kbps
Format Type BDMV - MPEG-4 AVC
CBR
Performance Normal
My system is a Intel Core i7 880 @3.07ghz, 8gb Ram, 64bit Windows 7. I use a pair of WD 1tb Velociraptors in RAID0 on 6gbs SATA.
What is the file reader being used for the audio? You can check it in the clip properties tab of the clip editor.
Not sure if it'll work, but you can try disabling the file reader in the preferences: Options-->Preferences-->Input/output format list-->File input plug-in
This will force Video Mastering Works to use a different file reader that might be more compatible with your source video.
As I said, you have to check which file reader is being used by your source file. When you add your file in the Edit stage, the clip editor window appears. Go to the Clip Properties tab and under the video and audio source section it will say which file reader is being used. Whatever it is, that's the one you uncheck in the preferences.
I have made a new attempt as you asked. I checked in the edit window that the audio (and video as well) were using avi file input reader. I the avi file input reader in preferences. The output had choppy audio, the big change was that the video was worse then before, it had a sort of slow motion look.
Here is a media info on my source file:
Black Magic Intensity Pro Captured Uncompressed AVI from HDMI
AVI (OpenDML):773 GiB, 2h 4mn
1 video stream: YUV
1 audio stream: PCM
First video stream
884 Mbps, 1280*720 (16:9), at 59.940 fps, YUV
Your best bet is to move to multiavchd, since TMPEG can not support anything other than srt subs. Kinda sad when a freeware program that has been out for almost 3 years, handles more subtitle formats, and more audio formats than software we had to pay for. The subtitle support in Authoring Works needs some serious work guys. Substation Alpha and Advanced Sub Station Alpha subs should have been a no brainer, unless you are trying to keep the MPAA happy.
As for DTS, your best bet is to convert it to ac3 with popcorn. Unless you want to move to multiavchd, which supports DTS natively.
You can also just instal other decoders and change the decoder setting of TAW-5.
I was already using Haali Media Splitter and FFDSHOW for another video software and for better decoding of .ts files, but found out that using them for decoding in TAW-5, i also had gotten DTS support.
Preferences => Input/output format list => File input plug-in
Here i removed every marker, EXCEPT from the one in DirectShow file reader.
Now when ever i open a MKV file in TAW-5, my Haali Media Splitter and FFDSHOW loads and makes it possible for TAW-5 to decode DTS audio.
So, just install Haali Media Splitter plus FFDSHOW and change the decoding in TAW-5 and you get DTS decoding.
Note: Output is not done in DTS though, this is done as Dolby Digital.
I have built dual opteron 6272 for a client to encode videos. TMPGEnc seems to be using only 4 cores max, at 5-7% of total load.
Is there a way to make TMPGEnc use more cores? Client needs fast encoding and currently there is no difference between single i7-2600 and 32 core opteron setup, as i7 will run at 100% and 32 cores at 6%, output time will be the same.
I think this depends on your source file and the encoding format,
foe ex. when encoding to .avi format 4.0 XPress will use codecs
installed in your PC so if such codecs does not support the cores of
your CPU they won't be used.
Also check if your OS is recognizing well the other cores too.
Say on each track page I want to be able to have links for other tracks on that page. Then I can just add a button that will let me select track 8 instead of having to go back to the main menu.
Also would be nice to be able to just create extra pages and add buttons at random that link to specific tracks and other rather than being limited on where you can go navigation-wise.
Not sure why this hasn't been implemented but it would be nice to have more control over button adding. For example, Wanting a link on the track menu to select another track. Or adding a link on a menu for selecting a different track.
>Not sure why this hasn't been implemented but it would be nice to have more control over button adding. For example, Wanting a link on the track menu to select another track. Or adding a link on a menu for selecting a different track.
In TMPGEnc Authoring Works 5, when I create and apply a custom template to a project, the font size I have selected for the Track Title on a Track Menu is only applied to Page 1 of that track. On pages 2 through N, the font size reverts to 22 point font, the original default IIRC. This behavior did not occur in version 4 and it adversely affects the utility of a custom template.
When you first created the custom template, did you only change the font size on the first track page?
In a quick test I did, it looks like it remembers each individual page setting if multiple pages existed in your original menu that the template is based on.
When you are creating a template and you want to change the font size of something, use the "Edit Menu-->Batch change font for all pages" option. Within that window, you can select/deselect which menu items will be affected and once executed it will apply the change to all pages.
After you're done with the changes, then save as a template.
Ok, thanks for the tip. I went back and remade the template with twice the number of tracks and twice the number of chapters per track that I ever intend to use and now I'm getting the results I want. I hope that was enough.
One thing i would like to see added to a future version of TAW-5, is the choice of using FFDSHOW as the decoder for AVC video, since neither the Standard decoder or Intel Media SDK can decode a few HD movies propperly, who is recorded via DVB-C.
In scenes with very shiny objects or flashlights directed towards the screen. Standard decoder causes very large white/gray pixel error fields.
Using the Intel Media SDK as decoder, causes minor pixel errors in the very same type of scenes as described above.
How ever, playing the videos in question with my media player, where FFDSHOW takes care of the decoding, then the videos are just fine.
I think this is possible if you disable the MPEG file reader in the preferences.
Go to Options-->Preferences-->Input/output format list-->File input plug-in, then uncheck the MPEG file reader. You might have to uncheck everything above the DirectShow file reader.
Looks like your solution actually works. After changing the settings there, i just have to import the .ts files 'as is', then i can see that my Haali Media Splitter, FFDSHOW audio and video decoder also loads.
i am trying out the trial version of "Authoring Works 5"... I have 3 files i want to burn to 1 DVD. Am I right to assume that every file should have its own track?
Also I want to add a thumbnail from each file to the menu. I get a black screen but sound on the playback in attempting to pick my thumbnail
Put clips in separate tracks if you want to play each one separately.
Putting them all in one track will make them play consecutively by default (though there is a new feature which allows you to go back to the menu after a specific chapter).
Typically a black preview screen means that the video overlay mode needs to be disabled or enabled. In older versions of the software, you would right-click the preview screen and toggle the overlay mode. In this latest version, that option appears to be gone, but it may have simply been renamed. Try right-clicking the preview screen and disable/enable "Use fast rendering mode".
The upgrade from 4/23 has not fixed the smart rendering issue. the original video file, avchd h264 hd from my sony camera had a bitrate of about 16000 kb. the outputted file had a bit rate greater than 18000 kbs video. there was no menu, But I used a 24 bit 2304 khz audio file in place of the original 256 hz audio file.
I am trying to take the audio from one mpeg file and combine it with video in another file, but i hace 4.0 express and it won't recognize a wave file or m2p to combine. Does 5.0 do this?
Just download their trial and see for your self, 4.0 express was coveter, v5.0 is video editor and converter too so two-in-one.
v5.0 it will fix your problem :)
I am trying to use TMPGEnc Authoring Works 5 to import video from a DVD RAM (.vro file) to my computer. TMPGEnc recognizes the multiple clips on the video (whenever the camera was stopped and restarted I assume) and imports them successfully. But I have not been able to find a way to then save each clip as a separate mpg file (or any video file format for the matter) and I'm wondering if this is even possible. If not, do you have any reccomendations on alternative software to do this? Its critical to me that the software automatically recognizes each clip and allow me to save each one as separate files without having to manual tell it where to split the video. Thanks in advance!
Some NLEs (but not all) state they have the ability to do automatic scene detection and divide video into separate clips based on changes in image content. Liquid, Pinnacle Studio were some that claimed to be able to do it. However, I've not tried it, but suspect the results would be mixed and fooled by events such as a camera flash or scene changes with minimal change in on-screen content.
I'm importing fully edited mpeg2 into TMPEGEnc AW to create a blu-ray disc. All files have the SR icon next to to them, should be smart-rendered. The only thing I want to do is add a few chapters to the video and create a menu.
All goes fine, but the final output has audio sync issues. The audio is not re-encode, it just jump ahead of the video at some point.
When I compare the original file and the output side-by-side (using Videoredo). The audio is perfectly in sync at first. Then, at some point it jumps by one and a half frame (45 ms). It stays like that until later on it jumps by another frame and a half. At that poin, the issue is starting to show.