I've just purchased & begun using a new Samsung HMX-H205 1920x1080 60 fps camcorder.

Played around w/the camcorder over the weekend & tried to import some of the footage into Tmpgenc Authoring Works 4 to create a DVD & get familiar with how to do this. My camcorder operates via SDHC cards & I therefore will have to get into the habit of frequently getting the footage off of the memory card(s) and onto my computer for any desired edits, creation of a navigational DVD menu, & outputting of the footage to DVDs for storage.

I'm a little confused. I import a clip into Tmpgenc Authoring Works 4, and at the very top of the window once the clip has been imported & it's ready to let me edit it or move forward w/DVD navigational menu creation, it states that one clip is present at 720x480 and around 29-30 fps. However, when I click on the actual imported clip and go into its properties or play the clip within Authoring Works, it states under the clip that it's 1920x1080 & 60 fps.

So, which resolution / fps ratings is my footage, as there's conflicting info. on the screen as to whether it's been downgraded from how it originates in my camcorder as 1920x1080 (60 fps) to 720x480 (29-30 fps).

My desire of course is to maintain the same high level of quality of the footage as it was captured in the camcorder & not to "water it down" once imported into Authoring Works. I can't tell what Authoring Works is really doing to the footage once imported due to the conflicting info. on the screen as to what level of quality / resolution / etc. the footage is truly at.

Also, for example, one file that I imported into Authoring Works was approx. 60 megabytes in size. I notice that once imported into Authoring Works, it tells me that the size of the project in Authoring Works is approx. 30 megabytes in size. To me, that sounds like the footage is being downgraded to a lesser quality.

Any info. anyone can offer here is greatly appreciated. I'm new to the video editing stuff & want to make sure my footage is kept at the highest quality possible since I've spent money on a nice consumer-level HD camcorder.

Thanks!

Are you making a DVD or Blu-ray?

If it's a DVD, then it's probably just stating what the output resolution will be (which would be 720x480 for an NTSC DVD).

The clip properties show the actual resolution of the imported footage which is why that's correct. However, once you output the file, it will be converted to a proper DVD resolution.

If you want to keep the 1080p resolution, then you'll have to output as a Blu-ray. Keep in mind 60 fps isn't compliant with blu-ray unless you go to 720p.

My camcorder is actually 1080 60i, not 60p. My fault on the incorrect specs in my original post.

Trying to create a regular 4.7GB DVD...

I know TMPGenc Authoring Works 4 can *import* AVCHD footage, but can it also *create* an AVCHD DVD (onto a regular 4.7GB DVD) that will maintain the original 1920x1080 60i quality of the camcorder footage? I know a program named multiAVCHD will do this, but I'm not sure about this capability in Authoring Works 4.

Any additional feedback on this is appreciated!

Actually, you never said it was 1080p, so that's my fault; I should have known you meant 60 fields per second.

Sadly, no, it cannot create an AVCHD DVD, nor can you create a Blu-ray project and then burn it to a DVD (at least, not with this program alone).

I would think that the latter would be simple to implement, but currently it's not possible with their disc writing tool.

Downloaded the trial version. However the app gets stuck after clicking "Obtain a license", i.e., nothing happens. All I can do is "control-alt-del" to end the program.

I just tried out the most recent version to see just how well CUDA performs, but I find it rather disappointing.
I tried creating a 40 minute MP4 video to be used on a mobile device (eg. PPC, PSP, Ipod, etc.) on a Core 2 Duo E6400 with an Nvidia 250GTS.
With CUDA enabled, it took 30 minutes. Without CUDA, it took 25 minutes - rather disappointing.
The same file, using a similar MP4 profile, on Badaboom media encoder takes 4 minutes on this very same computer while using almost exclusively CUDA. And the resulting video has similar, if not better quality.
I really hope that CUDA acceleration gets properly implemented in TMPEGEnc, since it's editing features and filters are vastly superior to what Badaboom offers.

It's worse than that on faster computers...

I just dropped in a Phenom II x6 running at 3.8ghz in my computer that has a 9800GTX. While encoding a 40 minute DV file to a DVD compliant MPEG2 file (at the highest quality settings with 2-pass, video noise reduction, Inverse Pulldown deinterlacing, & a few other minor filters) it was going to take about 60 minutes to process with CUDA turned on. I turned CUDA off and it processed in 24 minutes. It's pretty useless unless you have a really old PC.

Agreed, cuda support stinks, it doesn't speed up anything worthwhile other than PhysX I guess. lol

I really miss support for .mkv files. Any plans to add it to next version?

.mkv files can be used in a project. I should know, I've got a 1080p mkv movie with menus converting at this very moment!

Although it did take a bit of fiddling to get the mkv to work correctly, you need the correct codecs and you need to enable the right parts of the codec.

I use the K-Lite Codec pack full version with avisynth and haali media splitter.

If you google it you should find the answers you need.

We have built a menu using a Top menu and half a dozen track menus. All seems well except at the track menu level there does not seem to be a way to force a return to the track menu at the end of a chapter; instead the next chapter plays. Is there any way to do this?
Thanks

You can use PGCedit to tweak the menu settings after the Output is complete.

I found instructions at

http://forum.videohelp.com/threads/266753-DVD-Lab-Studio-menu-question

Scroll down on that page to the discussion between echo44 and GeorgeW where George W provides step by step instructions. It takes a bit of time to understand the usage and terminology, but I was able to output a test project from TAW4, modify with PGCedit, and create a DVD with 12 tracks and 31-28-31 etc. chapters in each that return to menu after playing. The project mimics a Calendar - 12 titles one for each month. Within each title is a chapter corresponding to a day of the month. So, the DVD has 366 video clips one for each day of year.

HI
BRAND new build,m frsh install of Windwos 7 ultimate 64bit.
Brand new purchase of TMPX4.
when encoding a video, program crashes at about 80% and gives fault info.

"
Problem signature:

Problem Event Name: APPCRASH

Application Name: TMPGEnc4XP.exe

Application Version: 4.7.6.304

Application Timestamp: 3c7838d8

Fault Module Name: MovieMPEG.vme

Fault Module Version: 1.0.3.4361

Fault Module Timestamp: 4b8c0fcb

Exception Code: c0000005

Exception Offset: 000f5103

OS Version: 6.1.7600.2.0.0.256.1

Locale ID: 1033

Additional Information 1: 0a9e

Additional Information 2: 0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789

Additional Information 3: 0a9e

Additional Information 4: 0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789

Read our privacy statement online:

http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=104288&clcid=0x0409

If the online privacy statement is not available, please read our privacy statement offline:

C:\Windows\system32\en-US\erofflps.txt





can someone help or have info?

my specs are as follows.
Gigabyte MB 890Gpa= ud3h
amd Phenome II 6 core 1090T
2gigs ram
onbaord ATI 4290
pciex Nvidia g100
1100W PSU



currently running fresh install with no drivers for Vid cards.
I did this becuase Tmpg4 was crashing with fully install most recent drivers for everything.. board, card, etc etc

First, contact the official user support:
http://tmpgenc.pegasys-inc.com/en/support/support.html

If anyone can help you, it's them.

Hi,

I had the same problem with VMESys.dll module crashing.
The problem was solved by installing TPMGEnc to a non-default location - another logical drive _without_ NTFS security restrictions set up by default for the system Program Files folder.
Now I'm able to run it even without any Compatibility Mode settings.
By the way, there's no such problems on Win7 x86 installation.

Authoring Works flags my Mpeg 2 as non-compliant and wants to re-encode it if it's 29.97 frames per second. If I make the same video 23.976 frames per second it passes as compliant. Or if I change it to interlaced it passes.

Can I not do 1080p at 29.97?

The extension is .mp2 with .wav audio. I've tried really low bitrates and it doesn't seem to matter.

1080p is not compliant at 29.97fps. For 1080p, it has to be 24 fps or 23.976 fps.

See blu-ray specs:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blu-ray#Technical_specifications

Can TAW4 be used to capture video from my camcorder, then convert it to DVD? Thanks.

Yes, you can connect your camcorder to your computer via firewire and TAW4 will be able to see any files recorded on it as if it were an external drive. You can then output to DVD, Blu-ray or DivX Ultra formats.

I should clarify that firewire connection is for DV and HDV camcorders. You can also import footage from DVD, BD, AVCHD, and HDD camcorders.

Thank you for replying. Looks like I'll be buying TAW4 afterall! :-)

Well, try the trial first if you can. I think you should be able test the importing ability with your camcorder.

http://tmpgenc.pegasys-inc.com/en/download/taw4.html

Anyone know if it's possible to have a tracks subtitle menu link in the top menu as well as/instead of being in the track menu?

I don't think it's possible. If you have multiple tracks, it wouldn't know which track's subtitles to show, and there's no way to set it manually. I think the closest you can get is to go track menu only with title page.

Hi! Seems that the best format is some sort of avi. I can't figure out what type of format. Anyone had any luck with TMPGEnc 4 XPress?

Regards / Jimmy

Probably depends on which model you have, but it looks like common formats are MPEG4 Part 2 Simple Profile, H.263, and WMV.

I just installed the latest trial version of XPress 4.7.6.304. I enabled CUDA 2.3 and restarted (no problem). I then enabled the CUDA decoding option, which prompted for another restart.... when I restarted, I received the following error (after the trail popup):

"Read error occurred at address 0A64E978 of module 'UtilsCUDA.vme' with 00000000"

after which the program quits.

I'm not sure how I can reset the preferences. Is there a 'safe mode' I can start the application in?

Thanks,
Scott

OK, out of frustration, I found how to reset the CUDA preferences myself....

To help any others with the same problem, open regedit to:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Pegasys Inc.\TMPGEnc 4.0 XPress Trial with Movie Plug-in\General\CPUSettings

and set all the CUDA* entries to 0.

If do hope that support is more responsive once I've purchased the program...

Thanks,
Scott

Did you actually contact support, or are you just referring to this forum?

This forum is pretty much just users helping users; there's no official support here.

For official support, or presales questions, you have to visit their contact pages:
Product support (once you own the program): http://tmpgenc.pegasys-inc.com/en/support/support.html

For questions before you purchase: http://tmpgenc.pegasys-inc.com/en/contact.html

Is there a way to convert a 4:3 letterboxed movie to anamorphic?

Thanks!
jakewoodblues

You'll have to "cut off" the black bars.

When you use the project wizard, select 16:9 (NTSC or PAL). This makes sure your output file will be tagged as a 16:9 video.

In the 3rd stage of the Project Wizard in Plus 2.5, check the box for Clip frame and click on the "Settings" button.

A clip frame window appears. From here, you can cut off the top and bottom bars by increasing the values for top and bottom.

Output as normal and it should be good to go.