With the extensive support provided for all kinds of files in KARMA, I was a little suprised (I admit - dissapointed) that MKV was not among them.

Is there any reason for omitting MKV, or is there a workaround / update soon?

All in all, a superb product here!

Hi, I'm Italian and I'm evaluating the trial version of your software which I think is really fine. I'm trying to convert high definition Video in FullHD or HD WMV. The encoding with my Vista 32 bit system (Intel i7 920 CPU, 3Gb DDR3 RAM and Nvidia 8800GT graphics card with Cuda driver) takes almost a day of processing to 1980 x 1080 and about 8 hours to convert a FullHD MP4 file with multichannel digital audio. For my HD test, I set the following profile: Video WMV 9 adv. pro., res. 1280 x 720, asp.ratio 1:1, 24 fps, 2 pass CBR 3850 kbs, 95% quality setted, audio 9.2 WMA Lossless 1 pass quality VBR 100 48000 kbs 5.1 ch. The file of 3.95 Gb obtained is little smooth flow with some slow. Maybe I should reduce the quality setting under 95% to obtain a WMV file with the same quality of the original file? Can You help me? Thanks

I do full 1920 X 1080 video and 5.1 AC3 in about 3 hours with a quad core CPU and 4 gigs ram. I only do one pass CBR on both video and audio. I use Windows Media Video 9 Advanced Profile and Windows Media Audio 10 Professional. I set the video quality at 75 under the Video tab. I set the picture quality one click to the right of +Speed under the Other tab. My file size is around 8.5 gigs.

Hi, thanks for Your reply, I understand my first error... different framerate from original file and output file; Yesterday I have try converting in FullHD res. another time with the same (25p)fps, with 2 pass VBR 3500 kbs avg. with 75% quality on video tab with WMV 9 adv. prof. and WMA 9.2 Lossless (XBOX 360 accept only 9 version within 4 Gb for streaming from Media Center) and 75% picture quality on the "other" tab. I've obtained a 3.99 Gb file (108 minutes of video sufficiently fluid) in 7 hours of encoding. Now I know that TMPGE is my application! Thanks

I have converted 1080p mkv of over 10 gig to wmv hd at 10 gig and they stream fine though media center to a 360. I don't think there is a file size limit as such. The 360 has not been tested at bit rates over 15 mb/s though. Personally I am hoping to test this as soon as I have my avchd problem solved. I'll report back then.
Pushy

Hi, now I've new trouble, import video and audio from MKV, ffdshow don't keep Dolby Digital AC3 5.1 audio, only 2 channel stereo with defauld settings. Changing audio settings of ffdshow preview and output file are full of pulse noise! I've extract the AC3 audio with MKVextractGui application and replacing the audio source the audio is not sinchronized with video... anyone can help me? I want only a WMV HD file with Dolby Digital 5.1 audio.
Thanks, bye

I only have the trial version at this time... so I may be missing something.

BUT; I have a number of clips. I want to normalize the out-of-whack between ALL the clips, not for just a specific clip at a time.

ie; if clip one is a bit low as compared with the rest of the clips, i want clip one to normalize to the same volume level as the rest. ditto if one is to loud.

i don't really see a way to say "use this clip as the base line" so that all other clips can normalize around them.

if i can do this, i'm sold. but i want to make sure i can do something along these lines.

(failing that, is there a different way of doing this?)

thanks,
--c

Hi you can change the audio volume using tmpgenc 4.0 but you have to do it one track at a time so you have to use yours ears basically to judge weather there the same, you can batch encode them together but as for editing them you have to do this one track at a time.

I’m an avid user of TMPGEnc authoring works for the last couple of month. I’ve found this tool to be the single best tool out there that can create pro-looking menu and quality settings. It’d so nice if future version would have integration with Photoshop. I’ve created a lot of DVD menus of old and new films.
Anyways my question is there a way to export the custom menus as template.packs so I can share them in here?
I’ve also noticed that the TMPGEnc authoring works projects created in Windows XP does not open in Windows Vista (esp. the menu file). The reason maybe the difference of path (C:\Program Files & C:\Program Files (x86).
Is it possible to keep the linked file in embedded or something?
Thanx in advance!

Ceaser

You can save custom menus as menu templates by clicking on the "Edit menu" button --> "Save the current menu as a new template". Make note of where you saved the template file. That file can then be shared. (I think you know all of this already)

People using your template would just have to put it in the correct directory. I've had no problems putting the template file (.tda4mt) into the Program Files\Pegasys Inc\TMPGEnc Authoring Works 4\Template directory and getting it to work on both XP and Vista.

I've found that people can also use the directory set with the "Application data save folder" setting in the Preferences. Just make a folder in that directory named "Template" and drop the template file in there. The template will then show up in the menu template list in the Menu Wizard.
So as long as the template file is where TAW4 expects template files to be, then it should work.


I don't think motion menus will work in the same way though since I don't think TAW4 will embed the video (used for backgrounds and the like) into the template file.

Project files probably shouldn't be shared since the videos or any files added to the project aren't embedded in the project file.

Environment: P4 3GHz, 1GB RAM, Windows XP SP2 Hungarian language, TAW4
Situation: Batch Authoring Tool, some DivX PAL project (saved). Options/Final task=Shutdown. I start batch generating and leave the computer alone for 24 hours. Expected generating time is about 4 hours.
Symptom: After 24 hours the program still runs, with a question on the screen: "The project file has been modified. Do you want to save?" This is annoying, since the computer ought to have stopped 20 hours before.

After all, when and why has the project file been modified, moreover without my knowledge? Let's suppose, it was an important question, but the requested shutdown is anyway obligatory. In this case the program shall answer, e.g. it saves the project somehow (maybe combined with a timer and displayed countdown), then shuts down. Otherwise there's no sense in "Final task"

Environment: P4 3GHz, 1GB RAM, Windows XP SP2 Hungarian language, TAW4
Situation: DivX PAL project (saved), Output panel, Register to batch.
Symptom: An error message is displayed, if the batch list already contains one or more items, for which the same output directory was defined: "The ... folder already specified in another project in the batch authoring tool. Choose another output location".
Since the batch list contains only DivX projects, this obstructing is unnecessary - the divx files can be safely saved in the same directory.
I hope that the next version of TAW4 will have a smart handling for this case.

Environment: P4 3GHz, 1GB RAM, Windows XP SP2 Hungarian language, TAW4
Situation: DivX PAL project, simple menu, on the Output panel the output file name contains a comma character.
Symptom: The program performs the generating, then displays an error message: "An error occurred in the DivX. (code CW-3). Unable to parse xml file: ...". Of course, divx file can't be found anywhere. 2 hours were wasted. If a program doesn't like a file name, it would be correct for it to give a warning in due time.
Note: If "No menu", no such an issue.

Is there a way to get TMPGEnc 4 to work in windows 7? i keep getting a error and it closes down...

It's possible, but I'm not sure how. A user was able to use the command line to change something. Check out this thread:

http://bbs.tmpg-inc.com/bbs.php?board=en_taw4&page=3&tcnt=101#topic184

>It's possible, but I'm not sure how. A user was able to use the command line to change something. Check out this thread:
>
>http://bbs.tmpg-inc.com/bbs.php?board=en_taw4&page=3&tcnt=101#topic184



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Hi! All:
I have a problem with MPEG4 converter for my HTC HD
HTC HD can support up to 800x480 resolution, but in TMPGEnc MP4 output, I can only set to 720x526, is it possible to set high resolution to 800x480.
And after converter avi to mp4, I found it is quite laggy to play on my HTC HD, seems H264 hardware decode is not used. So I wonder how to get a correct setting for HTC HD to hard decode mp4

Thanks a lot in advance!

Steve

Using the source wizard, and I select "Copy the selected titles to the hard disk drive", I am getting this error:

An error occurred while canceling the title copy to the hard disc drive. Please refer to the details below. Data error (cyclic redundancy check). (error code 0x80070017)

Any idea what that means? MovieStyle is useless to me now...

Stiv

There are times when DVD-video format files (.VRO, .BUP, .IFO, VOB, ) have
special build structure or has weird data or broken, in case of import
directly from a DVD-video there are broken sectors or problems in files
specially in the .IFO files.
Please check if it happens the same with other DVD-videos.

Also try with another media disc, there are times when some data is
being ignored by some media readers.

At Windows, My computer, please try to copy the DVD (VIDEO_TS)
folder to your HDD, if it becomes a reading error it means that the
recording(copying to disc) is bad, or your DVD media is corrupted, weird,
has some kind of protection, or was wrong or special created data.

- Or... try to drag & drop the .VRO or .IFO file manually and check
about it.

-Or... please try this:
-At Source stage click "Add" button.
-From the file browser choose the folder where your .VRO file is
and select "All files (*.*)" option.
-Choose a > .VRO file and click "Open".
-There will come out a warning message, please click "No".
-then try again to convert it.

- Or... you could try to use an "IFO repair software", search or it
with this keywords in Google or other portal.

Hello,

I am trying to write a DVD using TMPGEnc 4. The problem is that once the software created the DVD files the voice no longer matches the video and has a lag of 2 to 3 seconds. However, the voice is matching in the original video.

What can I do to solve this problem?

Thanks in Advance

-D

You must be using .AVI right?...convert it to .mpeg...if the .mpeg is in sinc...build the dvd and it will be ok...

Wondering if anyone else has had this strange issue.

I am in the process of encoding my whole movie collection and there are two movies giving me the same issue.

I use anydvd and clonedvd to make a copy of the movie in DVD file structure format, I then import the VOB's into TMPGEnc 4.0 express 4.6.3.268 and with both of these movies I get the error code, "Unsupported file. (error code 0x80048003)".

Mind you, I've imported over 100 movies the same exact way and its only these two. They are both Jason Statham movies (War and Transporter 3).

Just happened again with "The Condemned" and "Hancock". Has anyone else run into this issue?

Good luck. it happens to me too sometimes. Not sure why. 1 out of 30 movies.

Maybe try a different method.

Use DVD Shrink to rip the DVD and remove copy-protection. Import that backup into XPress.