In the past I've ripped my DVD's to my hard-drive and played them in Windows Media Player on my PC. This has worked well and served my purposes for a couple of years now.
I recently tried burning a couple to DVD-RW's and thought I'd watch them through my home DVD player which can play DIVX/XVID files , however they play oddly in my TV .. there being a large black bar across the bottom of the screen , which is rather annoying!!
I think this is because I ripped them at 29.97 fps without realising .. (NTSC standard I think) and my TV is german which is PAL standard.
Is there a prefered method of converting these files which is relatively quick or is it best to rip them again?
If I run them through TMPGENC which settings would be best to do the job without losing any picture quality?
Thanks in advance for any advice!

Hi,

Following on from this question in regards to aspect ratio. I would like to ask if it is possible to convert a 4x3 recording to 16x9. If you change the settings on the recording then of course the images all look fat as they have changed in terms of the aspect.

Just curious if one can change without affecting the image, like the DVD's that you purchase today.

Thanks,
Richard

If you don't want to affect the image, but have it be 16x9, you'll have to add black bars to the sides of the video. 4.0 XPress will do this automatically if you select 16:9 in the Format stage. Make sure your clip properties are set to 4:3 though.

I have been using TMPGEnc 4 for a while - Most movies in the past can take anywhere from 1-3 hours. How come all of a sudden it is taking forever to output an NTSC standard DVD? One project showed 10 hours!!?? Thank you for your help!

Maybe YOU can have a try for Flip Video Converter .Have u listened to
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>I have been using TMPGEnc 4 for a while - Most movies in the past can take anywhere from 1-3 hours. How come all of a sudden it is taking forever to output an NTSC standard DVD? One project showed 10 hours!!?? Thank you for your help!

It could be the format of the source video, or a change in some settings. Running other programs besides Authoring Works could also contribute to longer encoding times. Hard to say though.

The Disc Writing Tool will not write to a dual layer DVD even though the DVD files are less than the capacity of the disc. Has anyone come across this before and been able to identify and correct the problem?
When the folder is added in the Disc Writing window the size shows as 7544Mb with the disc capacity showing as 8152Mb and the disc media is writable. However, when selecting the Write Disc button the status bar quickly indicates it's analysing the files and then displays the error about not enough space.
N.B. I've successfully burned the DVD files to disc using ImgBurn using exactly the same make of discs so I'm pretty sure that the discs aren't the problem.

Help, anyone?

When using `simple' demux tool from MPEG editor3, when I run an mpg file thru, I get *.ac3 for the audio portion.... how can I tell TMPGenc to give me *.wav format?

I don't see any way to make a decision about format inside the `simple or advanced demux dialogs.

All that is possible there is to select a source file

You can't. That simply means that ac3 is the audio format that your video uses, so that's what it's going to be demuxed as. It doesn't convert audio or video formats, it just turns them into separate files.

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TAW is crashing when a try to importe any file to the project. Any suggestions ? Thanks in advance.

Newb here.

Whats the difference between "Track" and "Clip" ?

I am trying to make a dvd for my grandaughter and it's basically Sesame Street episodes.

Would I make a single track with episodes as clips, or should each episode be it's own track?

Clips are basically another name for your video file. The track is one movie in your DVD/Blu-ray. So if you have a couple of clips in a track, those clips will play one after the other as if they were one long movie. In other words, when you put clips in a track they are treated like chapters.

For tv episodes, I would put each episode in its own track. That way, you will be able to play each episode individually.

Can someone help me please? I keep getting the same message every time I try to import a file: Says something to the effect: COULD NOT OPEN THE VIDEO PART OF THE FILE C:----- ONLY THE AUDIO PART CAN BE OPENED??? UUGGGHHH! What the heck? I never had this problem b4!! Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong or what I did to make this start happening?

What kind of file is it? Usually that means you don't have the right codec, so it can't decode the video part of the file. Use a program like GSpot or MediaInfo to find out what codec it requires then do a search on the web for that codec.

Thank You Sooooo Much!! PROBLEM SOLVED! I did some cleaning up & I guess I accidentally deleted my Codec package! Man, who would think 1 little file could screw so much up! Thanks A TON!

By the way - If anyone needs the web address for the package that fixed this 4me it's:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=06FCAAB7-DCC9-466B-B0C4-04DB144BB601&displaylang=en

Is there any way to select a custom filename for TMPGEnc4XP's output files, apart from the automatically generated name. Like "Save As" in other programs, where you simply type in the name you want

Yes, just type it in in the Encode stage where it says "Output file name". It's right below the preview area. You can also click on the "Browse..." button to select an output directory.

Ah, you must be talking about multiple file output. No, you can't set a file name for that; it'll be based on the clip name. There are some options for the naming if you go the preferences-->Output folder/file settings.

>Yes, just type it in in the Encode stage where it says "Output file name". It's right below the preview area. You can also click on the "Browse..." button to select an output directory.

It says "Output folder name" (not "Output file name").

So if the folder in the field is already say C:\XYZ and I amend it to
C:\XYZ\test.avi as test.avi is what I want the output filename to be, then when I press the Encode button it says:

"The file below will be outputted: C:XYZ\test.avi\[source name-of-file].avi

i.e. it takes test.avi to be a folder name

Too bad as I thought your answer met my requirement.

>Yes, just type it in in the Encode stage where it says "Output file name". It's right below the preview area. You can also click on the "Browse..." button to select an output directory.

Ah, I found you are correct if I changed Format, File output mode to "Output all clips into one file (or one set of files)" rather than what I had previously "Output each clip in a separate file (or separate set of files)"

I used the latter because I was always worried file would be overwritten, but I see that if "Output all clips into one file (or one set of files)" is used, a warning is issued to avoid this.

Other products have it (Bababoom, Loiloscope - and they are fast with CUDA encoding).

Should I wait for an upgrade (CUDA Encoding version), is it planned (when) - Or should I just switch to another product (no CUDA Encoding planned for Tmpgenc).

Thanks

I use TMPGenc Authoring 3 to make DVDs of satellite video made on a DVD-Ram disc on a Panasonic DVD recorder. Most of the time it works perfectly, but sometimes I get an error message: Code 23, then it simply stops. I haven't found any solution to the problem. Anyone else had or solved this problem? Thanks

Hi, I have a trial for this product becuase I wanted to test its CUDA functions before I consider purchase.

However, I cannot get CUDA to work on my GTX 295.

I set up 2-pass encode but it notifies me that CPU=100.0% CUDA=0.0%

I have ticked relevant boxes in preferences i.e. enable CUDA and use hardware rendereing as well as varies other relevant ones in the CPU/GPU part of preferences.

Are you applying any video filters? CUDA is mainly for encoding filtered video; if you're just doing a straight conversion, it won't kick in.

CUDA only works with one pass encodes (when set to be the encoder)and will only kick in on two pass encodes when using a few select filters (blur, sharpen, etc).

>CUDA only works with one pass encodes (when set to be the encoder)and will only kick in on two pass encodes when using a few select filters (blur, sharpen, etc).

Sorry, I meant that in all other applications it only works with one pass. You can enable CUDA encoding in TMPEGEnc for two pass but it doesn't do anything unless you have filters applied.

I have a project that I have split into several clips. On two of the clips I would like to change the volume level. It always ends up changing the level on all clips in the project. How is this done?

Thanks for any help.

Problem solved. I needed to enter each clip from the main page, not just go to it from within the edit mode.