I'm new to tmpg4 so please help if you know how to encode *.2mts files to mpg4 including subtitles and audio streams.

Thank You

Laci

Will there be support for .wtv video files in future releases. The wtv file is the defalt format used in recorded videos in Windows 7 Media Center. I would like to be able to burn some recorded TV programs to DVD without having to go through the process of first converting them to dvr-ms and then to avi to get them to work in Authoring Works 4.
Thanks

In case tgere is anyone out there with the same issue, I have found a simple solution. There is a free app called WTV Converter that converts WTV files to a DVR-MS file that Aythoring Works 4 can import. It takes a long time to load but once it does it can be edited just fine.
It can be downloaded at:
http://forums.vso-software.fr/convert-wtv-to-dvd-new-mce-windows-7-video-format-t9479.html

I am attemting to make an iPhone/iTouch comaptible video.

The video looks good but I get a "pulsing effect", about once per second.
It only happens when I use the 2-pass VBR setting...

MEDIA INFO:

Format : MPEG-4
Format profile : Base Media / Version 2
Codec ID : mp42
File size : 103 MiB
Duration : 5mn 25s
Overall bit rate : 2 658 Kbps
Encoded date : UTC 2009-10-27 13:19:46
Tagged date : UTC 2009-10-27 13:19:46

Video
ID : 1
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : Baseline@L3.0
Format settings, CABAC : No
Format settings, ReFrames : 1 frame
Codec ID : avc1
Codec ID/Info : Advanced Video Coding
Duration : 5mn 25s
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : 2 498 Kbps
Width : 640 pixels
Height : 360 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate mode : Constant
Frame rate : 29.970 fps
Standard : NTSC
Resolution : 24 bits
Colorimetry : 4:2:0
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.362
Stream size : 96.9 MiB (94%)
Language : English
Encoded date : UTC 2009-10-27 13:19:46
Tagged date : UTC 2009-10-27 13:19:46

could be the added frame into the video, so the repeat few frames per second could give the pulsing effect.

>could be the added frame into the video, so the repeat few frames per second could give the pulsing effect.

What added frame? Could you be more specific?

TIA

if you have an original video which is different to the frame rate you have encoded to it will either reduce the frames per second or add them.

This is probably what's known as 'key-pop'. In format settings, under AVC change the GOP length from the default 33 frames to something longer -- 150 frames. If the effect is still there, at least it will occur at 5 second intervals instead of every 33 frames.

i notice Videocharge studio has great watermark features for videos

I want to add text slanted on my videos on tmpgenc. but they only have vertical and horizontal styles no slanted. any1 know how i can make watermark text slanted

Not possible. There's no true watermark option in 4.0 XPress; you can only use the subtitle function which is quite limited as I'm sure you've found out. It would be nice if you could use an image as a watermark, but a watermark feature just doesn't exist right now. It doesn't seem like it would be too hard to implement since the trial version adds a watermark to all encoded video.
I've requested this before so hopefully they're listening.

so hopefully they're listening

lol

Hey it could happen! And monkeys might fly out of my butt!

well ive also asked them to do several things like enable logo/subtitle blurring, just like edit studio but with function like msu filter. and the moron came back with "oh there is" it turned out that it blurred the whole damned screen lol.

would also be nice if they added filters like with adobe primer pro where you can tilt and re do angels and then with sony vegas where it allows the rotation dn crop

They responding to me saying they can do it for 1 million dollars. crazy

I have isn't Basic x64 and TMPGEnc Authoring Works 4.02.14. It has worked flawless for me for the last few months, until now. All of a sudden after I set up my options in "Output" which included having the writer settings at maximum, when I click start, it runs for a few seconds then I get an error message that says "Access is denied (error code 0x80070005)"

Luckily I poked around and discovered that, by setting my writer settings from Maximum to 16, that it would work, but lately even doing that gets an error message, but I've found that by hitting start again everything works fine and my burn gets done.

I don't know why this is happening now after all of these months. I haven't changed anything in Windows that I think would affect DVD burning. I did Google this and may people say the error means that the files are in use by another program, but I don't see how that could be it.

Also I did try updating to version 4.4.24 but for some reason I could not get it to run. I also though that maybe I need a firmware upgrade on my two DVD burners but firmware is hard to find for the LG brand.

I suppose a registry entry or two may have gotten deleted and I could always do a reinstall.

this error is really strange becuase it to do with space on your hdd, and its tupid becuase this error only goes away when you have a good 100gb if using a 750gb drive.

well thats how ive dealt with it after getting rid of files.

So your saying you think I don't have enough free hard drive space and that the error will go away if I have 100 GB's free? I don't know if that's possible to do. Currently I have about 30 GB's free on a 75 GB partition.

The thing is, it ran fine for quite a while with that configuration. I'm more inclined to believe that it could be a missing registry entry or something, I will probably just end up reinstalling.

One other thing...I read where that error can also be related to more than one program using a file at the same time and I did just install a new program for downloading Rapidshare links called JDownloader.

I looked in default programs and saw that JDownloader is default for several types of files like .ccf,.dlc, .metalink and ,rsdf files, though I don't think any of those would conflict with TMPGEnc.

what im saying is that my experince with this issues has shown that its a bloody stupid odd one where the software decided it wants space it doesnt need to carry out the operation.

ive wanted my stuff to happen with say 40gb spare on the hdd, and then i have had to either shift or delete files to make a good 100gb spare space and then the problems gne...no idea why it just seems to work

Well I always usually have a very cleaned out system anyway, as I constantly am cleaning things out using Tracks Eraser or CCleaner. But you said something about "Shift" Does that mean hold down the Shift key or something.

as in shift stuff ie MOVE

I have some PAL DVDs that include menus (British TV shows). I can't seem to find a way to convert them to NTSC that keeps the top menu intact. I would think if there's any way to do it, TMPG would have one. But I can't find it.

Any help is much appreciated.

Radiorog

4.0 XPress won't import menus, only the video/audio content.

I wont explain the whole process here but it's rather easy using IFOEDIT (free)(www.ifoedit.com) and the original DVD files. Backup the .IFO and .BUP files so you can revert if you have to. This wont mess with the VOBs.

Look on www.videohelp.com for doing this. Look for the quick method. It will covert PAL to NTSC and maintain all menu functionality and takes around 5 to 10 minutes after some practice. The only problem will be the menu buttons, when selected, the highlighting will be below the menu item on some DVDs but it works fine in any case.

Aloha! I would like to know if the DVD-RAM files I edit in MPEG Editor 3 can then be burned to an ordinary DVD-R disc, or if they have to be copied back to a DVD-RAM disc? In other words, can I convert these RAM files to DVD-R? Email me if you want.

Mahalo!

tmpgenc authoring works 4 work great creating mpeg2 bluray disks without reencoding however why is their no option to create h.264 bluray disks ? i use the spurs engine to harware encode mpge2 and h264. but using mpeg2 the video bitrate must be used at max (32Mb/s) for it to look any good. please add support for creation h264 blurays **without reencoding to mpeg2** in a future release.

It's unknown why they didn't put it in from the get-go, but I'm sure they're working on it since there have been numerous requests for this...at least that's what I'm hoping. They'd be crazy not to include it.

lets hope so :) but i wont be surprised if it doesn't happen.

In the past with a Tape based Camcorder I would create a raw DVD, then import the VOB files and pretty much be able to edit the whole thing in one go. Quick and easy. I now have a HD camcorder that records to SDCard, and each "shot" is a separate file. So there can be over 200 or 300 files of 1 to 20 seconds each per standard DVD. Rather than copying onto a DVD first (using an ordinary DVD recorder) I thought I would import the files direct (from copies on the computer's hard drive) for better quality, as this is what one is supposed to do anyway. But you then have single tracks with 99 short clips, each of which has to be looked at using the edit button, played, edited if necessary and then saved again- taking over an hour per 99 clips on average, where the other method took about 20 minutes because one can just "skim through" a lot of the footage. (Thee is also the problem of having over 99 clips by the finish, and so exceeding the track limit)
I thought the "linking" the clips option would let me import all files as a single editable clip, but it doesn't seem to do this. So how can it be done ? or can't it.

i dont know if this will work, but if the recorded format is mpeg-2 etc, import each file into dgindex and then press ok after you have added all of them.

then what you do is select demux audio and video this will then give you a video file and audio, then just import the two into dvd authour.

hello...
i need to know does TMPGEnc Mpeg Editor or EMPGEnc XPress open video files with mkv extension ?
i couldn't open this files on TMPGEnc Mpeg Editor 2. does it works on EMPGEnc Mpeg Editor 3?

Thanks...

I am pretty sure MPEG Editor 3 will not be able to open mkv files. However, TMPGEnc 4.0 XPress can open them with the appropriate codecs installed.

Hey guys, just bought TMPGEnc.

I have an issue.

I'm encoding a lot of separate clips into a bunch of separate mpg files. At first, it's going great, but then all of a sudden it stops. It never stops at a percentage less than 100%, it just fills the blue bar all the way up, and then doesn't seem to want to load the next clip and start encoding.

There's no error message or anything, and my Elapsed time is constantly increasing.

I don't get the "finished" dialog box either. All of the menu bar buttons at the top are ghosted out except for "Options"

Thanks!

One of your clips my be corrupted. It may not be enough to affect playback, but it is affecting the encoding process. Try load them into the batch encode tool as individual clips.

Hi
I am trying to encode video that I have shot with a camcorder and edit.
it's PAL interlace and basic quality in term of noise as it is a home camcorder.
I am very disappointed with the result.
The divx coding is configured to HDTV 3000kbps with multipass of 2.
I am getting quite a big file, about 600Mbytes for half and hour.
If I compare it to DIVX movies that I have, which were ripped from DVD, the output that I got from TMPGEND Express is very poor qulity while the bit rate of it is higher than the Movie. in the movie more than 1.5 hour are in 700Mbyte.
what do I miss?
how can I make my conversion more quality?
thanks
Elihay

Is it accurate to compare a home video with a commercial DVD?

How does the quality compare with the original footage? This is the question you should be asking. If the source is of a "basic quality" you can't expect the output to be any better.

Sure
I am not expecting the quality to be like the DVD movie and better than the original camcorder video. I mean that I get encoding noise, like the mpeg squares which are seen clrearly at the video that I created, compared to the DVD DIVX with much lower bitrate and much less encoding noise seen.

ok this means that you are either setting it so that its trying to encode a large film inot a small size which quality will always go slightly, or you have not got it set right so that instead of like xvid for example, if you only do a single pass and not a multiple pass, th quality will deminish.

maybe the codec itself is currupt. so try updating it or re installing it as this could also cuase the instructions of the encoder to go quite a bit and mis place intrsuctions .