I am trying to re-author a double layer DVD as a single layer DVD. When I get to the end of the project I get an error massage that says "Total Bitrate is too Large for Standard DVD ....."
I'm not sure what that means or how to fix it.
Would appreciate any suggestions.
Thanks

The video is probably too long or the quality is too high for a single layer DVD. Thus, lowering the bitrate will make the filesize smaller, allowing it to fit on a single layer DVD. The less space on the disc you have, the more you're going to have to sacrifice on quality (assuming it's a full-length movie).

If you don't know much about bitrates, try the Transcoding option in the Output stage and make sure you select single layer DVD as your target media size. This should automatically adjust the quality so your video can fit on the single layer DVD.

Thanks, I will try that, but just for an experiment I ignored the warning and hit the "Continue Anyway" button. It created the DVD and I tried playing it in my new DVD player. It was perfect, but of course it's a new player and that may make a difference. I'm going to find an old DVD player and see if it will play on that. If it works in an old player then maybe the error message is a useless glitch. What I really can't understand is where the message says "total bitrate" I thought a bit rate was just an adjustable number. How is it related to a "Total" as though something is being added up. It's not saying the bit rate is too high, it's says the bitrate TOTAL is too high. I don't understand that at all.

The maximum bit rate you have selected may be above the nominal DVD standard maximum rate, even if the total file size fits on a single layer. Many, but not all, DVD players can cope with the higher bit rate. Thus there is some risk it will not play on some, especially older, DVD players.

Something is screwy. If I set the Source Encoder to Automatic it comes up with a non-adjustable maximum bit rate of 9641 which is well below the maximum of 9848, and that's when I get the error message about it being too high at 9866.
But if I set it to "Re-Encode All" I can set it all the way to 9840 and it does not present me with the error message. Do you think it's a bug in the software?

Might the difference be whether or not audio is included in the bit rate setting/calculation?

Hi

I have been trying to produce a slideshow from high quality photos (15 megapixel) but am very disappointed with the resulting DVD (viewed on the computer only so far). The source pictures are crystal clear, yet the images in the resulting video are degraded so much that the video is 'unwatchable'. I have tried installing various video codecs (thinking I might not have some necessary bit to achieve the quality I expect), and have tried resizing the image files to smaller 720 x 540 size in case TMPGEnc AW4 is struggling with the size of the source files. Both methods fail to correct the problem.

I have also tried to produce a slideshow using MemoriesOnTV and get the same kind of poor quality results. I have used both these packages previously (over a year ago) and was pleased with the results. That was on a different computer no longer available to me.

I am using a Dell Dimension 9200 with Vista.

I hope someone can help, and will thank any responders now in advance.

It's possible that you just have a bigger, better monitor now and can thus see how DVD-quality just doesn't look as good on a larger, high-resolution display.

Can you take a screencap of a frame from the slideshow DVD (via PowerDVD or something like that)?

I have used Tmpg Express successfully to (edit out the ads) then recode TV recordings (English FreeView), giving an output file of a tiny bit less than 4.4GB, which i can then burn to DVD.
Trying to do this with Tmpg Authoring 4, however, gives
a) several complaints about non-compliant data rates etc and
b) a file size less than the original TV recording eg a 1.58 .mpg file gives a file of 1.32 GB - which then burns to my DVD making it look like an idiot has recorded it. What is going wrong? I just can't figure it out . . brianMacD

What are the specs of the source video? is it HD? What output format did you use in TMPGEnc XPress? Specs? Dimensions, bitrate, framerate?

-thnx for your questions tkrave - sorry to be tardy in response. This is the first time that I have had to be involved with any of this, in many years of recording TV broadcasts via my computer to disc!!! And also copying from DVD to DVD has been trouble free.
I put film A into TMPGExpress 4 and it gives :
Highest bitrate 15000 Kb/s; average b/r is 2769 Kb/s.
The film is PAL, 25 fps , 720 x 576, duration is 1h 47 min

The O/P format used is DVD standard MPEG which works fine and here gave
an average video bitrate of 5168 Kb/s and audio 224 |Kb/s which gives
a file size to burn later of approx 4.38 GB.

Now in TAW4 I get identical figures for the input film but when I move to the output stage I select "single layer DVD" and get an o/p size of 2.291 GB at the bottom. If I look at the output size it is grayed out and says 4.359 GB.
When clicking on "Start O/P"; now there occurs 2 complaints about both the video bitrate and the total bitrate being too high for the DVD standard and the recode goes ahead as less than half the required figure.

HAVE YOU ANY SUGGESTION PLEASE? I certainly seem to have been spoilt because this TMPG author 4 prog is obviously meant for use by real professionals. I do know that these terms exist but have never been asked to use them myself.
Using Nero, or FLICK or SHRINK or ISOBURN or Decrypter or DVDFab has insulated me from all that.

This is important to me as I just hate to be bested!! Many thanks for your help. Brian

It might be that the maximum video bitrate is too high, but I don't think it should be since you output it as DVD-compliant MPEG in 4.0 XPress. Your average bitrate and audio bitrate look fine.

My advice is to ignore the warnings.
Also, select "None" as your target size in the Output stage. This should keep your file size the same.

As a video editor for my wedding video company, I've used TMPGEnc 2.5 for years & found it to be great. Now I'm looking at TMPGEnc 4.0 Xpress & it says it supports AVCHD. If it will do the following I'll buy it.

I've made AVCHD DVDs before with Nero 8 & they looks great - far better standard DVD quality. And, my Panasonic Blu-Ray player will playback AVCHD DVDs in true HD. I state it like this because I'm not looking to down convert AVCHD to DVD mpeg standard def quality. I want to keep the video at 1920x1080.

Simply put, will TMPGEnc 4.0 Xpress make AVCHD DVD?

no, i've tried. i can only do it with premier pro CS3, using mpeg pro HD plugin. if you find a way to do it with tmpgenc4 let me know.

Thanks.

1440x1080 at max , but the blu-ray option will do 1920x1080.
best of luck for a proper file size.

When I import a batch of different video files I would like TMPGENC to take
1. the videoframerate (eg. 25 fps),
2. the videodimensions (eg. 800x600),
3. the audio frequency (eg. 48khz) and
4. the audiobitrate (eg. 128 Kbps)
from each individual source file and leave it as is (same way Mediacoder works). This way these are left unchanged.

please someone help me.
i changed my resolution 800x600 for up 1200 and now
turn back 800x600 and desaper, the buton encode.
tmpge window is so big, no resizable. no work. pluease help me
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eu mudei a resolução de 800x600 para acima de 1200 depois que voltei para 800x600, o botao de encode nao aparece na tela, a janela do tmpge ficou grande demais e não cabe toda na tela e nao tem como usar pois ele nao tem opção minimizar maximizar. Obrigado
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yo cambie la opcion 800x600 e ahora volve a 800x600 y la opciona "encoder" no veo admas, la ventana es mas grande que imagene del pc. gracias a todos que podán ajurár-me.

preparesse1@bol.com.br rita

800x600 is too small. The software requirements states that it needs at least 1024x768 resolution.
You have to increase your monitor's resolution or get a better monitor.

I have used TMPGEnc 2.5 for years for my MPEG-2 encoding for DVD, and it works great. But I want to move up to TMPGEnc 4.0 XPress.

I have been testing the trial version of TMPGEnc 4.0 XPress, but there is an important setting I can't find that is in TMPGEnc 2.5.

The setting ''Output YUV data as basic YCbCr, not CCIR601''. This is on the Quantize matrix page in TMPGEnc 2.5.

How do I enable this in TMPGEnc 4.0 XPress? It is required for the frameserving I do from Vegas Pro 9 to TMPGEnc for the proper contrast range and colors to be used, based on Vegas' RGB Studio space (16-235) that it uses and that it sends to TMPGEnc.

This has worked for years with TMPGEnc 2.5, so I can't imagine it would have been removed in 4.0.

So where is it hiding?

Thanks.

http://forum.videohelp.com/topic163667.html

This authoring program still has absolutely no support for Windows 7.
When you intend to do that ? next month ? next year ? never ?

don't use cracked one

yeah its the patched software which makes it not work.

the patch currently works for all version apart from windows 7, and its all down the the different files system used within windows 7

TMPGenc 4.7.1.284 and TMPGEnc Authorings Works not run in Windows 7 64bits , what happened not works in 64bits plataform

well it will work fine on xp x64 vista x64

they just haven't caught up to windows 7 32 or 62 bit, it may very well be in their next version.

i would say it will be a stupid move of them not to do it

ok they do support windows 7, but don't support cracked versions and yes i know to well you are running a cracked version because its the release groups patch that is causing the software to not work when you load after install and comes up with errors such as runtime error

Hi

I would like to include a kind of chapter at the ending of the clip, which will contain the credits of the movie.

Do you know if it is possible to do that with Authoring Works 4 or I will need to create it outside of the program and import it to the program.

Thanks in advance

Slfreire

if its just to add a segment already done, then yeah just add it on, but if its here you need to create it fom scratch, then outsider software is needed

Hi Mathew

Thank you for your prompt help.
Then I understood I need to create the chapeter of the credits in an outsider software and then import it to Tmpgenc.

Do you suggest any software with power to do that ?

Slfreire

well if your on a pc , adobe premier pro can do it and so can sony vegas pro 9

itl take a bit to get used to with both areas.

with mac, there are many great software since mac is far far better than the pc with editing and video encoding...but i dotn own a mac sadly

I'm encoding 23.976P avi (1920x1080) source to MPEG2 for bluray. After encoding the audio and video duration is not the same anymore. Video duration is always a few frames shorter than it's audio. What is the problem with TMPGEnc 4?

I don't if this is possible or not. I want to create a multiple file DVD project with anywhere from 4 -7 video episodes per disk. I had read somewhere that, if your going to use multiple clips then associate one clip per track. I'm not sure how that's helping my menu plans though.

After I load up all of my tracks and files, I want to create a top menu that says just the name of the show, that's all. Then have it set up where I just click on one button and that would then lead me to just one page that has all of the files I am using.

I don't want to have a separate page for each file but I've noticed that TMPGEnc likes to do that. Ok so how do I do what I want to do?

Here's how to do it.

-In the Menu Wizard, select Create a custom menu.
-In the next screen, in the "Title Page Use" box, check the box next to "Create a title page in the top menu."
-Then go on with the menu creation process and choose the layout you want for your top menu. I suggest choosing "TEXT" for your button template.
-When you get to the Menu Composition Settings window, select Top Menu only.
-Choose whatever other options you want and finish the menu creation process.

In the Menu stage, you should have an extra page (the title page).
This will appear before your Top Menu. By default it should have a Title, Play button, and Track Menu button.
Since we chose TEXT as our button template, the buttons are composed of editable text instead of an image.
-Change the "Track Menu" text to the name of your show. If you don't want the Title and Play button to be visible, just delete the text.

That should get the menu structure that you're looking for.