I'm experiencing some audio dropouts on a track. The original source never had any such problems. Any ideas on how to fix it?

I've always known MP2 48000hz to be DVD standard/compliant.
So why is AW5 telling me to convert my audio to Dolby Digital AC3 or LPCM?
MP2 even appears in the AW5 list of codecs to encode to if necessary.
Very strange indeed. Anyone?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPEG-1_Audio_Layer_II#Applications_of_MP2

"All DVD-Video players in PAL countries contain stereo MP2 decoders, making MP2 a possible competitor to Dolby Digital in these markets. DVD-Video players in NTSC countries are not required to decode MP2 audio, although most do."

Thanks for that Max.
I live in PAL land so do you know how i can make AW5 accept my MP2 files without re-encoding them into AC3?
Thanks!

I know you can delay the highlight but is there a way to delay the actual buttons?
I have a menu which fades in from black. The highlight comes in at the right time but the buttons are visible throughout the fade in.
Thanks!

There's no delay function like the highlights, but you can add a fade-in effect to buttons.

Ah yes! Perfect. That's just what i wanted!
Thank you so much!

So there's no way of disappearing the highlight before the end of the motion menu then? Not that i can see anyway.
My menu fades out to.

When I open a .ts file and go into the cut-edit mode, scrolling thru the thumbnails at the bottom is causing extremely heavy hdd-usage.
In fact, the computer cannot be used anymore. Any click or key-hit takes minutes before any response (if any at all).
Sometimes, after 10-15 minutes, I have to kill Video Mastering Works..

This is only with .ts files (tv-broadcasts), not with any other format, like DVD, MP4, MKV.

Also important to know is that the other products of TMPGEnc (Authoring/Smart Renderer) do not have these issues at all: there are no delays when moving back and forth thru the same .ts file.
I would be happy if VMW would perform likewise.

TMPGEnc support cannot reproduce this, they used the same .ts file to check.

Does anybody out there have a clue/suggestion?

Thanks
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Purchase more memory for your computer. I had to do the same years ago when i began video editing and recording from HDTV using a Linux PVR, who records as Transport Stream (TS).
So now i have a AMD Phenom II X4 965 CPU and 32GB DDR3 HyperX RAM, who makes everything run smoothly.

The memory idea is a bad one as its not the issue.

your HDD is limited in its performance, go buy a decent SSD...yes it may cost a bit but you will see a DRASTIC change not only in performance and your editing but you will see a change in rendering when the output is to the ssd.

also change your main drive to an ssd ...effectively come away from hdd as they simply slow any system down

hello this software is awesome. I recently upgraded my video to a 2gb NVidia. so im using it but the cuda cores aren't being used. im not sure why, just the processor. can anyone help me?

ok my processor is only 2.4 unsure about the video

hello. I just purchased a motherboard & cpu.4.1ghz AMD. its much better then what I have. im using a 8 year old pc. can I still use cuda with this?

Should be able to use CUDA if you still have the CUDA card in your computer.

In favor of NVENC, nVidia dropped CUDA encoding since the latest set of 340 drivers.

As I wrote here http://bbs.pegasys-inc.com/bbs/list/lang/en/board/TAW5/topic/68607#topic68607 you can get it back by using a modded driver from here:

http://forums.guru3d.com/showpost.php?p=4884017&postcount=17

Cheers,
Max

Suggest trying the latest GEForce drivers, which seem to reinstate CUDA support.
Over in the TAW5 forum people were having the same issues, but CUDA is working fine for me with GEForce 344.75.

It seems a lot of you missed the bit where the user states the system hes on is 8 years old. ie its out of date.

with that in mind theres no wonder the cores arent really being used , its an old card and its not the 2gb memory on the gpu that matters.

i would advise saving some money untill you can splash out on a new system you build, with at least a i7 16gb ddr3 memory and at least a gtx 780.

if how ever you have enough money to get a very good system. fork out on a gtx 980. and yes the cores will work effectively.

When one clicks on "launch disc writing tool" right after having created a Blu-ray (folder), and chooses "Create disc image" right away, there is no way to add a custom disc label, the disc label will be set to the current date and there is no way to change that (the disc label field is greyed out). The workaround is to cancel the operation, relaunch the Disc writing tool from the start menu, and add the just created BD folder: the the disc label field is now editable.

Note 1: I haven't tested this workflow with a DVD, only with a Blu-ray (PAL) project.
Note 2: this has been observed on a system not equipped with a blu-ray disc burner (the goal of the above workflow is to create a valid Blu-ray ISO image to be burned on another system later on); I haven't tested this workflow on a system with a Blu-ray burner.

Hi

When I add a third subtitle stream, it is not showing on the screen. I also tried to author with the 3rd subtitle stream, it says error invalid stream.

Hi, it would be really useful if the date and time stamp from the video file could be displayed for each clip in the source window so that if you bring in clips from different sources its easier to put them in chronological order.
Simple?

Thanks.

I have a 24 fps progressive video clip. What will the encoded result be like if I choose "Progressive" instead of "3:2 pulldown" as the Display Mode in the 'Format' section properties? Thanks.

By the way, my output type is to a DVD standard MPEG which I will then burn to DVD.

Hi,

I have a menu containing multiple source files (top and only menu). After any particular track plays, I'd like to have the DVD/BR return to the top menu and highlight the next track in the sequence (or even just remain highlighting the track that just played).

The only thing that I can find is that I can have the DVD/BR return to the same menu page, but it always highlights the default highlighted item (usually the first item in the track list).

Does anyone know if I can do this? Possibly this could be done with multiple menus but I'd like to see if I can do this with a single menu.

Thanks,
Steven

How do convert the trial version to the paid version? All other software allows you to paste the license number. I can't find a way to do this.

They are two different exe's. You need to register your paid license number on their website and download the software from your user account.

Thank you.

Hello, I have read that Nvidia is set to release a couple new gpu's including a GTX 980 with 2048 CUDA cores. The current top of the line card is the GTX 780ti which has 2880 CUDA cores. Would the extra cores on the 780ti equal faster encoding times? I currently have a GTX 770 (1536 CUDA cores) and am seriously considering an upgrade, not only for faster encoding but 1440P gaming also. Thanks

More cuda cores mean more GPGPU power, but for decoding/encoding video do not need much power and you do not usually use 100% of Cuda Cores. If you only encode/decode several video files at same time is possible to use more Cuda Cores, but limitation will be then HDD speed, CPU speed/number of cores, etc.

Your encode time (for one video file only) will be the same with a GTX 770 or a GTX 780Ti for example.

GTX 980/970/750 are new Maxwell arthitecture based (GTX 770/780 series are Kepler architecture based). Maxwell is more efficient, has better performance per watt than Kepler and with same amount of Cuda Cores Maxwell has more performance than kepler.

In this moment TMPGEnc not works fine with Maxwell architecture.



Regards, Alkermes.

I have a GTX670 (1344 CUDA cores), and using the free GPU-Z utility to monitor loading, I find that encoding rarely loads the GPU or Video Engine more than 50%. So I'm not sure more cores would provide faster encoding. On the plus side, I sometimes run another encoding utility at the same time and make use of the spare capacity.

for much faster editing, rendering etc you need the following.

1. something like the gtx 980
2. a load of memory something like 32gb
3.ssd as a main drive
4.ssd as the drive its reading the source file from
5.ssd for the end project to be rendered to.