I have installed Karma..Plus, TmpGenc 4 Xpress and Authoring Works 4.

So far everything work OK. The only issue that I still have is about the CUDA feature of Karma..Plus which is failing when in optimization mode.

jm.

Whenever I try to import a m2ts file into TAW4, it becomes non-responsive.
Other bluray files work fine. Is this a codec problem, and if so, what is
the codec?

I converted an AVI file to DVD using TAW4 and enabled the sorround sound 5.1 but there is no 5.1 sound at my speakers, just 2.0 DD. At my Onkyo´s receiver display, i can see the DD indicating that the surround option is enabled.But no sound ate the center, sub and rear speakers. Any help?
Regards,

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Does your source AVI have 5.1 surround sound?

No, my AVI file i captured it using an analog video capture card with Virtualdub and thus the sound is analog 48000, 2ch stereo 16bits. TAW4 can`t convert it to DD 5.1?
Regards

I'm not entirely sure since I don't have any way to check it, but that might be the reason. I'm thinking that since those channels don't exist in the source file, they are left empty if you choose to output as 5.1.
It also seems that it only accepts 5.1 input if it is a Dolby Digital (ac3) format audio stream; any other type of audio stream may be limited to 2 channel.

If you can demux the stereo audio file, you can use Audacity with a VST plug-in to convert the stereo audio file to 5.1.

Haven't tried it yet, but in theory, should work:
-Download and install Audacity. http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
-Download and install VST Enabler plug-in. http://audacityteam.org/vst/
-Download V.I Stereo to 5.1 Converter VST Plugin Suite. http://stevethomson.ca/vi/

You should then be able to use the V.I plugin to convert your stereo audio to 5.1 audio.

OK, just tried it. Audacity doesn't seem to support 6 channel audio, so that won't work. But if you have or can find VST host software that supports 6 channels, that plug-in should do the trick.

Ok, thank you very much for your patience and support. I`m going to try this trick.

Regards,

Hello All;
I am using TMPGENC 4.0 Xpress to import HD Video footage from a consumer Canon Camcorder and want to encode the footage at the same resolution to DIVX. Though I noticed that when I add DIVX file output, the default resolution is 720 X 480 but it looks like we can change that.

Question - since the file was originally created in HD resolution, am I free to manually increase the resolution to 1920 X 1080 with no loss of quality, or will the quality be reduced if I do this ?

Is there any way to tell XPRESS to use the oriignal clip settings or isn't this currently possible ?

I am interested in outputting other formats too and most are much less than 1920 X 1080.

Tim

For 1080p DivX, make sure you select "DivX HD 1080p profile" when you are choosing your output format.

Since you're changing the format of the video, you can't really use the same encoding settings as the source file since compression rates are different. The quality of the encode will depend on various other settings like the level, performance, and rate control mode settings. The higher the quality, the larger your file size will be.

Bug or????

Try to encode 6 projects eaths containing multiple file's.
I set the "Task count" at 4 (have quad CPU)
1e project starts. After a while 2e project starts to a few % and then both stopped. Have to close the program.
After restart, set the "task count"at 1 and it works fine even with 12 projects.

Using HP Z400 3.2Ghz, Hypertreading On, Windows7 profesional,Videocard NVDIA FX3800

I got the same issues.

Is there a place where we can request features for newer versions

I believe you can make requests here in the forums or just email them through the general contact form.

http://tmpgenc.pegasys-inc.com/en/contact.html

Hello,

I downloaded the trial and tried to convert a wtv file from windows media center and I get an error stating ad2h264.dll is missing. I assume this is the main concept 264 decoder.

Do I just download the dll from somewhere? what do I need to do?

Tnks,

How can you make this happen?

For example. I have a main (top) menu with seperate tracks. When the user selects one of the tracks, i would like the top menu to fade out and go to the selected track.

thanks.

Currently, there's no transitions effects for menu pages.

Here is tough one.

I have my TRACK 1 page >play chapters>audio

track 2 has other videos

Is there a way to link track 1 to track 2 with a button?

and beable to go from track 2 to track 1 with a RETURN button(link)

I don't think so. I think you need to have a top menu and go to your tracks from there. So if you're in track 1, then you'd have to go back to the top menu and then go to track 2.

Is it possible to make Bullet Styles in Custom Menu Pages.
So instead of a highlighted COLOR use a bullet

I don't think it's an option in custom menu creation. Certain menu templates have that though.

In DVD Author 3, the subtitle and audio pages used bullets to mark which option was selected, but it looks like they took that out of TAW4.

Hello,
I want to ask if anyone have an idea if when i create menu and since i already have play written on my background picture ,can i just have and empty box to put on the top of that word ,so in that case i dont have to erase the word from the background.This is because i am using original menu from a dvd and that have all the buttons(play,next...) so i want to use the same text just link it in Authoring Works.
Thanks

One solution is to position the button over the "play" text and then change the opacity of the button to 0, making it transparent. Just double-click the button to open the menu item editor and then click on the "Effects" tab, click on "Opacity" and enable it, then move the slider to 0.

It is very interesting option but when i possition the coursor to the play button usually the play button changes its color and in this case the TAW button comes visible.

The best thing would be to create an image in the shape you want your "play" highlight to be and then replace the play button with it.

Or,if your "play" text is in a font that you have on your computer, you can choose the "Text" button option in the custom menu wizard and then just type out whatever you want for your buttons in whatever font, style, and color you want.

Thanks tkrave,
The problem is the font because in most professional dvds the font is in a way that i can not find it.I am using 65 fonts none of them is the one.Also sometimes they draw the button so no font is available.

By the way there is a big miss in the Authoring Works.
It is about video filters.There is fade in and fade out audio filter,there is also fade out video transaction,BUT THE IS NO FADE IN VIDEO!!!And the problem is that this is the first video in the track so there is no way to use fadein/out from previous clip.How did they manage to miss this out?
Is there a solution?
Thanks

For your buttons, if you photoshop or some program that can create images with transparencies, you can create generic outlines or shapes. For instance, make a solid colored circle and use it a bullet point next to the "Play" text, or make a rectangle outline that goes around the "Play" text. Combined with the opacity effect, these will only appear when Play is the focus or selected. Just a suggestion.

For a fade-in for your first clip, there is a trick to it.

1.) Add a clip to your track by clicking on the "Source Wizard" button in the Source stage.
2.) Select the last option "From a color matte or a pattern".
3.) Choose the color you want to fade in from and adjust the duration to be at least as long as your fade-in transition time. So if your fade-in will be 2 seconds, your color clip should be at least 2 seconds.
4.) Once your color clip is in the clip list, drag it to the top of the list and add a crossfade transition to it. This will create a fade-in effect for your first clip.

Thanks,
For some reason i knew that you going to offer me the option with adding a clip.I have done that but the result is appalling.It is because the fade in is so slow even if i put 1 sec fade in and also the audio for some reason gets desync.

I'm a new user to TAW having used DVDLab successfully for many years. However, I need to ask some questions to which I can't find direct answers:

1 What is the recommended format for the clips to be input into TAW for output as a DVD? I've been encoding to separate streams in TMPGenc Express 4

2 What is the recommended format for the clips to be input into TAW for output as a Blu-ray disk?

3 Is it possible to insert my own chapters?

4 If these chapters occur at points of the programme which have fades to black, is it possible to select another point for the motion menus to start - as with DVD Lab?

5 Most of my DVDs are dual layer - are there any implications for this in TAW4?

1. For DVD output, your files should be MPEG-2 conforming to the DVD-Video standards. If you are using the DVD-Video output template in 4.0 XPress, you should be good.

2. For BD output, your files should also be MPEG-2 conforming to the BD standards. TAW4 can't output as H.264, so if your clips are MPEG-2 then that will save you some time.

3. Yes, you can set your own chapters in the clip editor. There is also a chaptering tool so you can automatically set chapters at set intervals or by equally dividing the clip into x number of chapters.

4. The animation for motion menus is customizable, so you can change the start and end points of the animation.

5. Dual layer is supported, but I believe you won't be able to make DL iso files. The disc writing tool is based on some old writing engine, so that *might* cause problems too, but in terms of just outputting the files to your hard drive, there should be no problem.