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I have a problem with reusing VOB files in TMPGEnc DVD Author 1.5.
Scenario:
- A DVD has been successfully created with TDA.
- one of the films from that DVD should be reused for another TDA project
- VTS_03_1.VOB and VTS_03_2.VOB are copied on disc and tragged into the 'Add File' field of a new project. The first VOB file is accepted as input, however when editing the file it only contains the first 7 minutes, although the VOB file is 45 mins long.
- I also tried to merge VOB files 1+2 into a single file. This worked ok however when editing the new VOB file the length is displayed as 15 mins and still does not contain the full length.
- I tried to repair the VOB files but did not find any tool which changes the length of the file to the correct value.
I have a bunch of ASF files that I am using as the audio/video source to create DVDs. I am getting digital overload (pops) on the high levels of the audio once the DVD output is created which was not present in the ASF source file. These ASF files contain decent quality audio (music). While editing the video, I went into the audio properties and set the level to 99% to be safe but after the DVD folder creation process (3-4 hours later), there is popping in the peaks of the audio.
I have done a few projects where instead of using the ASF's audio for the project, I have used a WAV file that I had previously extracted out of the source ASF file, and those projects all came out fine with no audio clipping.
Is there a problem with the ASF->MPEG encoding process which increases the audio and causes this digital audio overload? Any suggestions?
I am currently processing a project with the audio level set to 95% and we'll see if that helps.
95% did not help. The audio level seems to be quite high in the source file so I dropped it down to 75% and it is processing now.
I don't care about Dolby Digital, so I'm wondering if rendering the audio to something else would help...perhaps there is something in the Dolby Digital rendering process causing a slight jump in amplitude and the subsequent digital popping?
What you need it for? I don´t thin it is possible. Better use editing solutions like AVID or so. What you can do is to download the AVID DNxHD Codec (its free) and compile a Quicktime.
Hey, I've made many DVDs with the previous version of this software, but recently I wanted to add the option of subtitles. So... I got this software, but every time I compile a DVD, each track plays for 1-15 minutes before the audio stops quite abruptly. I've played the VOB files without the use of the menus and junk and STILL, the audio stops at the same place (although that place is different for each file)...
It's driving me crazy!!
Has anyone any idea why PC shuts down when outputting the file and writing to DVD. It doesn't get to the writing to the DVD stsge, and shuts down at 53% in the first stage. It worked fine a couple of days ago, but even shut down at 20% the last time I tried. Any help would be very much appreciated.
Hi TK
Thanks for the reply. It must have been a corrupted file as it still won't write, but everything elde I've done since is OK. I used the noise filter on this file and adjusted the audio volume, so can only put it down to that. I did check the hard drive space and opened the box up to check the fans were OK, and everything was fine.
As I said, I can only put it down to me fiddling about with the audio controls as I transfered this file to DVD before, and it's only since the adjustments it won't write. Very strange!
I've been trying to create a specific Menu Structure, but so far i get the wrong results. Here is what i want:
Top Menu with 5 choices, let's say Earth, Wind, Fire, Animals, Flowers.
When one of those is selected it takes you to a menu with thumbnails of short videos related to that category, for example, choosing Earth takes you to a screen with 8 Thumbnails, each of those being a 40 second video about Earth.
When you select one of the videos you should watch the video and when that video finishes it should take you back to the category's menu, in this case Earth, so you can choose another video to watch. Also need to have a "Play All" option to play all 8 videos within that category and then go back to the category's menu. And finally an option to take you back to the Root menu with the main 5 categories.
So i added the 40 clips to the Source, each being a 30 - 40 second video, and here's when i think i messed up. I created 5 tracks, one for each category, then i moved the 8 videos belonging to a category into its track, then created a Custom menu - Top menu and Track Menus, The top menu has the 5 categories, and the 5 track menus each hold the 8 videos belonging to one specific category.
The problem comes when i select a video from one of the categories, it plays the video, then instead of going back to the track menu so i can choose a diferent video, it just keeps playing the rest of the videos in order, which i guess is because the 8 videos inside the "Track" are not treated as individual pieces but as "Chapters" of a big video composed of the 8 short ones, so when i choose one of them it just plays from that point on until the end of the sequence of clips.
So is it possible to have the menu structure the way i want? 1 main menu with 5 sections then each section holds 8 short clips that can be watched individually by returning to the menu after watching each short clip instead of just playing the group of clips as a big 40sec x 8 video?
Thank you so much in advance and sorry for the lenghty message, just wanted to explain as much as possible...
I know what you mean, I've had that problem as well. I'm sorry, but I don't really know a way to fix it, just an annoying work-around...
If you have eight 30sec clips in each of 5 tracks, but want them to go to the main menu after each one, work only with a top menu.
Make (5 multiplied by 8) 40 tracks on the top menu and arrange them in the order you'd like. Then, make only a top menu, but allow only 8 clips to be displayed on it. This will make a menu with your first eight tracks that will go back to the menu after each one. You can then move back and forth through each portion of the top menu (themed how you would like).
I know this limits the movement to only left or right through the portions... but to the best of my knowledge, this is the only way to do it...
I ripped an unencrypted DVD using DVD Fab Platinum, and then was trying to use DVD Author to select a few chapters for a song compilation. Out of few DVDs that I processed, a few give GOP length error in DVD Author, saying the output may not be DVD compliant. I find it weird given that the source is a commercially available DVD in the first place. I haven't yet tried burning to DVD nevertheless and see if it actually impacts playback, but any ideas why I could be getting the error and how I can rectify it?!
2. Missing Audio error
Similar as above, when I select some tracks from the DVD rips, it shows that the track has DD 5.1 audio in selection window, but when I add it to my compilation there is no audio. The original ripped files play fine with audio in WinDVD. Any suggestions to correct this?!
Is it possible to output video as DV (using Microsoft DV PAL or NTSC codec) using this software? I cannot find any DV option listed under AVI or anywhere else. It is hard to believe such a common video format is missing. Maybe I just can't see it. Can someone confirm if DV output is supported?
The specs say that only uncompressed DV Type2 is supported and that you need the correct codecs to enable input/output.
Check the Options-->Preferences-->AVI Settings to see if your codecs are showing up and can encode/decode.
I've been able to use the Panasonic DV and Cedocida DV codecs to decode/encode. With the Canopus codec, I can only decode.
I am not sure about the Microsoft DV codec; it doesn't show up on my list in XPress.
TMPG Enc free version doesn't seem to support cdg video files (for converting mp3 & cdg to mpeg for karaoke video CD's). Is there an add on or something I can change in the settings to rectify this? I had an older version of TMPG freeware on a previous pc I had which worked fine.