Greetings,

I have not been able to find a drive that is compatible
with TAWS5. The list provided on the website seems
to be made up of discontinued devices.

I have been using other software to do my writes but I
preferred to stay within TAWS in the past with version 4.

I had asked this of the support people and was referred
to their outdated list.

I have Windows 7 professional 64 bit - 32gb of RAM and
an Nvidia GTX 670 with 4gb

Thanks in advance!

Have you tried to write with TAW5? (I've had no problem with generally available current SATA drives.)

My impresion (I may be wrong) is that drive compatability lists date to earlier days when optical drive control/commands were not as standardized as they are today.

Suddenly today Authoring wors 5 seems to be causing Win 7 home premium geforce 440 version.32 to constantly reboot. other video editing programs not affecting
have uninstalled and reinstalled Problem occurs with/without cuda
?

please disregard the above
auto rebooking is not exclusive to authoring works
system reboots when computer working hard

Dust build up on the graphics card

TMPGEnc Video Mastering works really great, except I cannot seem to do one thing: I have a long timeline with amy clips on it and now I want to insert a clip in the middle of this timeline. When I drop a clip there, it overlaps the clips already in that location. Is it possible to move all other clips forward so I can insert a new clip in the middle of the timeline?

You have to manually move all the clips after the point where you want to insert the clip. Select the first clip you want to move then move to the end of the timeline and shift+click the last clip to select all clips in between.
Zooming out so you can see more clips at a time will help.

I have two large displays. When I am in timeline mode, I would like the editing monitor on one display, the time line itself and other parts on another, so I can get a nearly full-sized monitor.

I can "stretch" the TMPG window to cover both displays, but this doesn't result in a larger monitor as it is height constrained - really what I want to do is reorganize the subwindows inside TMPG to have the TMPG monitor to the 'left' of the timeline.

Is there a way to do this?

I have an interactive Blu-Ray menu that was created with Nero Video 12 that I quite like, and I'd like to be able to import into an Authoring Works 5 Blu-Ray project. I wish it to act as the main interactive menu of the TAW5 project.

I've extracted/exported the menu to a separate file, which I successfully added to the TAW5 project. However, I don't know how to make it serve as the interactive main title menu. Can this be done? If so, how?

Thanks!

Are there any settings or drivers needed to be tweaked to get the Intel media sdk options working? Or does it just work out of the box. I just bought a new 4770k and fired it up, but don't really notice a huge speed difference. Any advice?

Chris

Ok, I take it back. I did a comparison with the old computer and it's at least 2x as fast. Same clip, same encode settings. 8:30 clip time, old computer 21:00, new computer 10:30

now to compare the image quality

Chris

hi, the faster computer wont have any effect on your quality, the quality is determined by the software.

what was your old pc, what cpu was in it, because your new pc is twice as fast in terms of time, but the 4770k has an onboard graphics chip (intel HD4600) which is a very good chip, and if you were using intel quicksync to encode, it will be pretty fast over cpu based encoding.

im not sure what tmpge uses by default, i just let my editing pc (3770 cpu) run the encode, but my cpu doing a 1080/50p m2ts file to mpeg2 runs at about 70% so it must be using cpu based encoding, if my HD4000 graphics was running in quick sync mode, the cpu will not be working very hard, and my speed to encode will be a lot faster.

having said that, my regular software is Video ReDo, and until the next major release, it only does cpu based encoding.

I found if install "CCleaner 4" before "TMPGEnc Authoring Works 5" , might cause that the CD-ROM could not read the disk properly .
Try reinstall CCleaner might help .

Hi .I have dvds recorded from vcr tapes
what I want to do is just take the 2 dvds and use tvm5 to put both together and create one file with out losing any of the quality
Ive read they both need to be converted into lossless files ..
so to my question how is that done in tvm5 ?
so far everything ive tried comes out bad quality and very very pixely

once files are created I burn onto blu ray with authoring works 5

thanks

TVMW5 will always re-encode your videos, so you shouldn't use it if you want to keep your files as-is.

You can just import them into TAW5 since it can losslessly output your files. Since DVD is supported by the Blu-ray format, they will not be re-rendered.

hi, you seem to be getting very confused here.

your videos are in dvd format, so you cannot improve on what they are now, so what you need to do is mux the 2 individual dvd's into 2 mpeg2 files on your hdd, and im sure TMW5 can do this, it used to do it a few years ago in an older version.

you then import the 2 mpeg2 files into TMW5 or the TMPGE mpeg editor, and mux both files together as a single mpeg2 file, without it being re-encoded, but you cant join them together in a lossless format, and even if you could, you cant improve the quality of the video, especially tht your dvd's were created from vhs tapes anyway.

when you say you will burn them to bluray disc, will you be retaining them in the dvd format (standard definition) or do you want to convert them to bluray format (would totally kill your videos if you did that)

cheers

I have several HD clips which are exactly the same spec and are all blu ray compliant. The are all flagged as 'SR' in the source window onone track. The track setting is 'smart render prioritised'.
BUT when i come to output the project it RE-ENCODES IT all!!!!!!

Might be a bug if you didn't change any track settings, add transition effects or do some other edit.
Contact support: http://tmpgenc.pegasys-inc.com/en/support/support.html

How do you disable certain clips from the final output?

Sometimes I revisit a project and only want to smart render one or two clips but not remove those that I dont, but I have to just so they don't get ouputtead again which is very annoying.

Many Thanks

Just delete them and don't save the project file, then you can always reopen the project file and have all your clips. Or delete the clips and save it as a different project file.

Can VMW5 take an external .ogg audio file, delay it, and mux with it a .mkv file (replacing the existing audio file)?

The audio file is not the same size or nor have the same encoding as the original.

It can, but it will re-encode both audio and video. You can re-encode the audio to FLAC to avoid quality loss.

Smart Renderer 4 (which does not re-encode) can't do it because it's not compatible with .ogg files.

I am trying to understand how to output using the popular CRF method. MW does not use this. It seems "VBR constant quality" is the same thing, as suggested by an older thread: http://bbs.pegasys-inc.com/bbs/list/lang/en/board/TVMW5/keyword/crf/topic/64203#topic64203

However: the 0-100 quality setting seems to have absolutely no effect on the output's file size. Tried higher and lower settings. Then, there is the strange "maximum bitrate" setting, which doesn't make sense for CRF use, which is supposed to define on its own the needed bitrate, solely based on the quality setting.

I'm not sure what's going on, and wish Pegasys used the well-documented 0-51 CRF output numbers.

Some more extensive testing reveals that the quality settings does indeed affect output size. Things a bit more clear now.

hi, yes i agree with you, CRF or RF as i know it can be beneficial, however how do you know which RF quality factor to set for any given input file.

the free handbrake and Xmedia Recode programs are wonderful conversion tools, and both use an RF quality factor mode for setting your output quality, or you can use the Bitrate method, but oddly both those programs use a totally different method to calculate the RF bitrate, so if you encode the same file using the exact same settings, including the same RF quality factor, one will output the file at a much higher bitrate than the other, so this is where you must be very careful using the RF method, you need to know and understand how your given software sets this formula.

i just started using TMPGEnc but only for converting 1080/50p m2ts files from my camera to dvd compliant mpeg2 format so i use a constant bitrate setting of 8.0Mbps.

my regular preferred software is Video ReDo and that has built in quality presets that does the work for you based on pre-determined output quality settings, and thats the way it should be done, not have to guess what bitrate your output file is going to have.

cheers

The 0-100 quality setting is a feature that was first introduced in previous (ie. no longer available) TMPGENC products. The value has nothing to do with CRF values. In fact, I only found out about 0-100 from forum posts dated about 2004 when people were still making SVCDs. From what I could make out, 100 is the best, 0 is the worst and 50 is the default. In those days people would try values above 75 but they might end up with bigger than expected files. You just have to try a value and see if you can live with the file size. In the end I just gave up and went back to setting 2-Pass VBR with a bitrate setting ... or I use another tool that accepts CRF