I have used 4.0 Xpress for years. My Canon video camera creates a new clip everytime the record button is turned on and off. Some of my projects have hundreds of clips. I upgraded to Mastering Works but when I try and import a folder from DVD, BD wizard I get a MTS warning and I have to click through every clip takes 20 minutes to import all the clips. I have the "when adding several clip" option set to do not display the editing window. Anyone know how to import multipule MTS files (Canon ACVHD) files all at once? This was not a problem in 4.0 Xpress

First of all, hello..
i wish to create slideshow with exif metadata as subtitle text. Everything shown in edit window is fine, but soon as i close it, it shows me Untitled under every slide (also after outputing). Thnx in advance for any advice!

Sorry, it shows "Unknown". Anybody any ideas?

With a 16:9 screen on the laptop, with most of the functions the bottom half of the screen is not visible, there are no scroll-bars, and there is a "minimum" size when making the window smaller.

This means one has to count the number of tab presses to know that you are on the Ok button.

Any suggestions for getting round this problem?

What is your screen resolution? TAW4 requires a screen resolution of at least 1024x768. If you can increase your screen resolution, that would be the best option.

It would be nice if there was a possibility to save templates from the clip information settings and apply them to a couple of films - similar to the filter settings.

I have a large number of mp4 files, all are interlaced and TMPG also recognizes them as interlaced. I needed to build QT reference files from these originals, each containing 2 of the original movies.
When I import these files into TMPG they get recognized as progressive.

This is a big problem since there is also no option to apply a general setting for the movie mode and field order to a couple of films like there is for the filters. We need to set this manually now for some hundred films.

Hi,

I have just completed my evaluation of the product.

1. The Category function is seriously weak!
1. a) To tag a video for one or more categories, isn't something like Ctrl+Click on a category label faster then drag and drop?
1. b) It is almost useless since I can not select multiple categories and have the related items all display in the main library view. It should be possible to let me choose to display only videos from category A and/or category B and/or category C etc.
1. c) At least 3 sub levels should be allowed. Currently, only 2 levels. That makes a more sophisticated design of category tree impossible.

2. I like the TileShot creation
2. a) I find a TileShot is more effective than story thumbnail in helping me to recall what a video is. Sadly, there is no way I can relate a Tileshot to a video after I have created one, let alone a quick view of a video's TileShot from within Karma itself

Btw, the lack of 1. b) is the main reason I won't buy a license for this product.

tslim

I was very excited to get a program that would use the power of my new intel Sandy Bridge Core i5-2500k processor, as well as the CUDA in my NVIDIA N460GTX.

I've been a faithful user of TMPGenc Xpress 4 on my old Core2 Duo and noticed that using Xpress 4 on my new comp didn't utilize all its features or cores. the new VMW5 software however advertises to be optimized for Sandy Bridge, as well as CUDA support! But it doesn't seem to capable of using these properly.

1) while encoding video (Tried 6+ formats) I NEVER go above 50% CPU usage from this process. Either it still does not support quad cores, or it does a really bad job of it (all 4 of my cores do seem to share the load evenly, they're all only about 50% usage).

2) Even after turning all the CUDA preferences to on, doing the optimization, and restarting the program multiple times, as well as setting my MPEG encoders to CUDA, while encoding I only see CPU=100% and CUDA=0%. My GPU shows up in the preferences, it tests it just fine, and I've selected every CUDA option available--it just won't use it.

I was really hoping on using my new tech to make my video editing 5x faster, but at the moment its only marginally faster, am I doing something wrong? How do I get my full potential out of this $100 peice of software! Thanks

1) What is your CPU priority? Set it to the highest level. Are you using any other programs on your computer while encoding?

2) Are you using the MPEG-4 AVC format for output and selecting "CUDA" for the video encoder?

Likewise, for Sandy Bridge, you will need to select the MPEG-4 AVC format in the Format stage and select "Intel Media SDK" as the video encoder.

1) While in foreground Highest, on background its on normal. There are no other programs using resources while I ran my tests. My CPU was usually around 50% to 60% max overall for my entire computer while running TMPG. There was easily at least 40% of my CPU that was just idle. I've made sure all my settings (both on the BIOS and in Windows) are for high performance, allowing 100% CPU usage (so in otherwords, not throttled by something silly like power management). the processing power is there, its just not being used for some odd reason. I can start more programs, and they will start using up that extra CPU, but I can't get TMPG to utilize it past about 50%.

2)Yup. Within preferences under the CPU-->NVidia CUDA I have Enable and Use CUDA, and I have my GPU selected, and have done performance optimization. In Mpeg-->Mpeg Video Decoder, I have selected Cuda Hardware option for all of them. (and have tested mpeg4 using the intel media SDK standard--no CPU difference). While actually in a project, having selected MPEG formats, I make sure to select CUDA under the "Video Encoder" drop list. Am I missing any other areas that I need to select/configure CUDA in??

Thanks for showing some helpful stuff though tkrave. Got any other suggestions maybe?

Any chance that you are I/O limited by your disk drive read/write speed?

I would just like to say that AVG started to grab the VMESys.dll and VMESysBatch.dll. I reinstalled before I realized I just needed to pull them out of quarantine.

I'm currently testing the Master Works 5 and was hoping for some speedup in encoding H.264 using CUDA. I have a GTX470 with the latest drivers.

When encoding with MPEG4(AVC) using the CUDA encoder (all CUDA features enabled) there is no noticeable speed increase at all. The GPU activity meter says it's running at about 5%.

Is there something I'm missing or does it just not work as advertised?

Seems very lackluster for something that should be much faster.

the CUDA % listed at the bottom actually corresponds to the decoding done via the VPU, i've noticed it myself that the CUDA % never displays the encoding usage.

you can check in gpu-z, the encoding should be using a bit of the GPU usage, while decoding uses the VPU.

Hello,

I just bought and install this product. I select everything and pick start output. After 30 seconds i will get the error. I have uninstalled and reinstalled. I have the anti-virus program and windows firewall turned off.

Please help!

I've been a licensed TMPGenc user since at least ver 2.5 but I don't think I'll be using this new version 5 unless they make alternate skins available. The change in colors and the ridiculously larger and garish icons are so visually distracting and confusing that I don't even know what to do from screen to screen -- and this is from someone with hundreds of hours of experience in version 4, which is probably not too different in the nuts&bolts.

The GUI of this product is really horrible. I hope you guys can do something about it. I won't be using version 5 as long it gives me a headache to look at.

For me, the GUI is not a dealbreaker...I'm actually a bit shocked you dislike it that much. I personally had no problems using TVMW5. There's a bit of a learning curve in timeline mode, since they've never done anything like it before, but other than that, I don't see how you could be confused; everything other than the timeline is setup very much like 4.0 XPress.

actually, at first glance i hated it too, but you can tolerate it......

What is the red line i.e. 'Karma Level' all about?

I believe that's sort of a "rating" where the level will be higher for videos that have been watched more. Thus, you can organize videos by how popular they are.