Since the new AVC encoder is supposedly based on x264, anyone know how the CQ control relates to x264 ones? When using x264 I prefer to set CRF between 18 to 22. How do I do something like this here? Also can't seem to find any settings for the quantizer. Seems to offer less control than v4. I'm kind of underwhelmed so far.

Hi,

The x264 in TMV5 actually uses the crf factor when set in Constant Quality (CQ) mode. The relation from the 0-100% quality scale to CRF is :
CRF = 1 + (100 - Q)/2
So in your case, if you want CRF between 18 and 22 you would use Qualities between 66 (CRF=18) to 58 (CRF=22).
You can always check the actual CRF value used by the x264 encoder with the MediaInfo utility.
For the advanced x264 parameters, hit the "MPEG Output" button.

Hope it helps,

X.

This clears things up. Thanks for the help.

i tried but couldn't work it out ( not the best with maths ) could you please tell me the numbers for the following CRF values for x264 in tmpgenc mastering works :

CRF - 18
CRF - 19.5
CRF - 20

thank you.

Regards Marty.

I figured it out :

Crf 18 = 66
Crf 19.5 = 63
Crf 20 = 62

Those are correct values.

PS: your math equation was wrong... That's why it wouldn't work for me... But I found the right equation online and worked these values out.

The formula posted above is fine, I'm guessing the way it was interpreted may have resulted in some errors.

The other way to calculate between CRF and Q is using the formula (same as above but by calculating Q from knowing the desired CRF):

Q = 100 - 2(CRF-1)

Hope this helps.

Hello everybody,
The upgrade to Video Masteringworks 5 was worth it for me. It takes .wtv files directly, it has the option of timeline editing, it seems more polished, and the output seems a bit sharper. My only problem is that video files converted using the mkv option won't play on my PS3 using PS3 Server. I never have a problem playing downloaded mkv files, or mkv files converted using Handbrake. Anybody know what might be going on or what options to select differently from the default ones?
Thanks, gordoncanada

I'm trying to test the difference between x264 speed and Quick Sync. I have a i7-2600K on H67 motherboard with both GMA graphics and discrete card active and working with plugged-in monitors. Using a random 5 min VGA-size clip I'm able to encode that in 2 mins with x264. However encoding through "Intel Media SDK" takes 13 minutes! Any idea what's going on?

Hmmm, that seems way too long. I wonder if it has to do with the flaw Intel found in their Sandy Bridge chips?

No that's the SATA port. I realize there's an issue with using the Quick Sync if a discrete GPU is plugged into the H67/P67 chipset motherboards, because it disables the on-chip GMA. But in my system both the on-chip GMA and discrete GPU are working. When using x264 all 4/8 cores are pegged to 100%. When using the "Intel Media SDK" the CPU cores are pretty much idle, and looks that way for the GMA too.

I have the same setup and got the same problem. Tried using other software that support quicksync and it works.

Can convert 1hour long 1080p clip to 720p in 6 minutes compare to 3.5 hours tmpg did

Can't believe they let this get by QA. Quick Sync with discrete GPU is a big deal for many people.

TMPGEnc Video Mastering Works 5 is available NOW!

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Input related:
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* File reader selector function when importing a file;
* Audio only importation;
* Select closed captions or subtitle data from MPEG-TS files, Blu-ray or DVD-Video (when several are available);
* Import Blu-ray or AVCHD file video by the title (VC-1 video not supported)

Editing related:
* Layer editing in a timeline;
* Integrated clip transition effects;
* Setting a blur or mosaic mask while playing the content;
* Vintage image filter;
* Playback speed changer filter;
* Multi-channel audio level meter with each preview;
* Undo/Redo option in almost all editing windows;
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* Uses the x264 encoder;
* Supports the Intel® Media SDK H.264 encoder;
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Other:
* Access the Tools from any stage of the main window from the Start-up Launcher;
* Proxy editing file creation function;
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I bought TMPGEnc 4.0 XPress a few days ago, so I am eligible for a free upgrade .
The question is: how do I do it?

It was not hard to find the free upgrade
Go here http://tmpgenc.pegasys-inc.com/en/product/tvmw5.html
select upgrade and go to store http://tmpgenc.pegasys-inc.com/en/shopping/tvmw5.html where you find it

Hello. I am after the first test of this program. "Cuda" do not work without a filter, Adobe encore CS5, then the material encodes (untrancoded). It makes no sense to buy this program.

New and broken right off the bat.

Start trial, and ends with "illegal floating decimal point calculation order" message box

>Hello. I am after the first test of this program. "Cuda" do not work without a filter, Adobe encore CS5, then the material encodes (untrancoded). It makes no sense to buy this program.

CUDA can be used for H.264 encoding as well, filters don't need to be enabled for that. Or maybe I just don't know what you're saying.

Nice product but VMW5 falls short of including SRT subtitle support. It made no sense to exclude SRT while they include support for closed-caption. I'll have to use a free third-party software to do this simple task of merging the SRT into my videos.

Ahh... while I was researching this some more and they do indeed support SRT.

What I did was...
1) Open a New Project
2) Select video file
3) In 'Clip properties' select Filters button
4) Click 'Edit filter list' button at the bottom
5) Add 'Subtitles' from Filter catalog and press OK
6) Select 'Subtitles' from the filter list and 'enable subtitles' should be checked.
7) Click 'Edit menu' at lower right and 'Import subtitles'
8) Now you can do the videos with subtitles.

Nice thing about this is that you can edit/resync the subtitles and save the subtitle without merging into the video.

Great work TMPGEnc team!

Won't buy this until you support SMART RENDERING.

Good job downloaded trial, and found that it ALWAYS has to re-encode video !

WTF? Other TMPG products use smart rendering.

Avoid this product until they update it unless you like compression after compression from re-encodes where it's not required !!!!

>Won't buy this until you support SMART RENDERING.
>
>Good job downloaded trial, and found that it ALWAYS has to re-encode video !
>
>WTF? Other TMPG products use smart rendering.
>
>Avoid this product until they update it unless you like compression after compression from re-encodes where it's not required !!!!

Other TMPGEnc products use smart rendering for MPEG-2/DivX Ultra ONLY and those are for specific uses such as DVD-Video/BD. It's easy to implement smart rendering when you know a file has to conform to a certain standard (DVD-Video standard, for example) but if it were easy to implement for any old file and any format, then every software company out there would be doing it.

Nevermind the fact that this is an ENCODER. That is it's PRIMARY purpose. It is for re-encoding video for other purposes. If you're buying it to edit your video, then yes, don't waste your time.

I bought this updgrade, but it does not work on Windows XP Pro 64bit. Wish they told me that before wasting my money. Now they have blocked the licence on my version 4 software and refuse to refund my money. A BIG RIP-OFF. DO NOT BUY.

If you are looking at this for a 64bit system, it does NOT work.

It's in the system requirements that 64-bit is only supported for Windows 7. If you didn't read that then it's on you.

It works fine on Windows 7 64-bit, so stop being so dramatic.

Hi All,

I am currently in the process of creating a nice looking DVD Menu with AW4.

I have pictures as my menu items which has titles listed of the content with a small icon also on the picture.

I would like to know if there is a way of being able to animate the icon and have this used as the selecting icon for each title that is in the list. I hope this makes sense. I would like to use the picture as my menu and be able to animate an icon so that this can be used as the selector for the titles that are listed. I don't really wish to use the menu creation and the one with text option as the text is already in the picture.

Thanks to all :)

Hi! Cannot figured out, whats causing to appear the XviD icon in notification area, then import XviD movie into Authoring Works 4. I use K-Lite Mega Codec Pack. In ffdshow options XviD is disabled. Any suggestions

I've been using DVD Author 1.6, which was great until the disk writing tool stopped recognizing my DVD drive (no idea why; one day it did, the next it didn't). I can start DVD Author 3, and even author a disk (however painful the process now is) in it. If I click on the "Launch the Disk Writing Tool" button, I get a popup error stating "The writing drive is stopped." Which doesn't mean much, as I _have_ been writing to disk in past days, just not with Tsunami software.

If I go through the entire disk authoring process (at least now I can do dual-audio and subtitles! Yay for something) and it gets set to launch the disk writing tool, the same thing happens. A reinstall didn't solve anything. A search of the forums here netted me nothing.

Anyone got any idea what might be causing this? Given that the disk works for everything else I'm thinking the problem lies with DVDA3, but I'm not sure.

Thanks

Dj

>I found the fix of the problem:
Go to administrative tools, then go to services, in services go to B's Recorder Gold Library General, in there right click and click start. When started this will fix the problem
I hope this help you.

I recently purchased Tmpg Express and have been using it no problem. However this morning I went to encode a video and got he error message "video could not be opened". I downloaded media info to see what the avi was encoded with and it was xvid. I downloaded the xvid codec then rebooted and tried again but keep getting the same error message. I then checked the files that have worked and it turns out they were all Divx. I just redid my pc last week and installed on of those Shark Codec packages. Does anyone know of a codec package where xvid will work with Tmpg? Any input would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

You need to use Direct Show or FFDShow and a media splitter. I use FFDShow rev. 1868 and Haali Media Splitter. I believe these are easily obtained as shareware. This will also allow you to work with Matroska files. I notice in their ad for the new ver. 5 TMPGExp it will accept the Matroska files and I believe it will also accept XVID files.

There is a minimal number of codecs installed in my application, but I have these two codecs installed that may help solve your problem. Google for the download.

DivX 6.8.5 Codec (1 Logical CPU) (DIVX)
Xvid MPEG-4 Codec (XVID)

I have only a little experience decoding/encoding video. But I have never had an AVI fail to open when selecting the DivX codec. My problem today, is that file size after encoding to smaller video dimensions with the Dvix codec is too large. This happens only with certain AVI files. So obviously, I need to examine the problem files and see what was used to encode them. I had thought that Xvid was a loosely-used term meaning the AVI container with DivX. But it looks like MPEG-4 is also prominent, so I'll try the Xvid MPEG-4 codec instead. :)

I want to ask if anyone know how to compress dvd.I have a dvd9 which i want compress to dvd5 but i cant find a good software to do that.Does any of pegasys software can do that for me?I dont want lose menus,substreams and all other info on disc.Just compress it.Any comment would appreciate.
Thanks

You will lose your menus if you use a TMPGEnc product. You should get DVDShrink which will compress the entire DVD (menus and all) to single layer.

The "VFapi plugin" subpage under "File input plug-ins" in Preferences stopped showing. Because of this, Womble MPEG Video Wizard project files (wbp) are no longer recognized as supported video files and TMPGenc Xpress won't open them. This happened recently. For very long time I've been using TMPGenc Xpress to encode wbp filesl

Many thanks for any help on how to re-enable the VFapi support!

I often bring in (and out) menu selection text as a fade. It works dandy,
but, whatever menu selection was last selected, is highlighted/underlined/whatever the selection criteria is, from the instant the Menu page is displayed. This can be a little jarring and definitely does
not look professional. Is there a way to convince the initial selection
(whatever it's set to) to fade in and out with it's text?

Thanks,

-Craig

This question comes up quite often.
Sorry, but there's no way to fade-in the highlight.

Hi

I am rendering a .m2ts file to mpg for DVD. The problem is that my file is 4 min 20 sec long , but TMPGEnc renders only 3 min 27 sec. I have tried all that I can think of but nothing changes. Can anyone help?

you didn't state much information to go on, but my brain immediately went to FPS math: 260 secs (4:20) * 23.976 / 29.97 = 208 (which happens to be 3:28 - pretty darn close). Is the video playing 25% faster?... or cutting off 52 secs?... Do the input FPS & the output FPS match? hope this helps you