How can you prevent multiple clips within a track, from automatically playing when the previous clip ends? The "Do Not Connect The Clips" option is enabled, and page links indicate upon completion, each clip should return to the track menu.

The "Do not connect clips" option is more of an encoding setting and doesn't affect menu behavior.

Is this a DVD or Blu-ray?
For Blu-rays, there is no clip end action option, only a track end action option.

For DVDs, you can set a chapter end action, which will do what you want. You can access it via the "DVD-Video Global Menu Settings" button in the Menu Stage.

I'm using AW5 for Blu-ray creation, so I guess I'm out of luck. I've been unable to figure out a way to setup a menuing system for multi-episode TV shows, that behaves like a DVD: A top menu, episode menu, features menu, where the option to return to the "episode menu" upon completion of playing an episode, exists.

If the "Top Title Menu" were able to allow you to display links to whatever track you wanted, this would be another option, but I haven't been able to figure out a means of doing that, either.

I'm trying to imitate a DVD layout, but on a Blu-ray disc. I've used NERO VIDEO to do this, for years. However, NERO VIDEO doesn't support multiple audio tracks, pop-up menus, or subtitles. But it does allow for many options that TAW5 doesn't; like full duplication of menus and menu items, more flexible editing options, like copy and paste. TAW5, however, is superior in everything else -- and I wish I would have started using it years ago.

I've never owned a BD player that wasn't able to play any DVD or BD disc I've created in any authoring program. I understand the desire for Pegasus and other authoring software publishers to create programs that adhere to strict DVD/BD structure guideline, but I wish somebody would allow you at least the option to create discs that "bend the rules" (at your own risk), since so many players DO handle discs that don't adhere to such strict parameters.

I'm pretty sure the DVD/BD standards allow for what you want to do, it's just that Pegasys hasn't really updated their menu authoring system for years (it's pretty much been the same sine DVD Author 2.0, I think).

I don't understand why they stick to this particular menu structure; it's fine for home videos, but you can't really replicate a typical studio-produced DVD/BD menu, which I think is what most people want today.

If you could just add sub-track menus to a track menu, I think a lot of issues would be solved.

I think they need to completely overhaul the menu authoring system for TAW6.

I haven't used Authoring Works 5 for long, but have been authoring DVD's and BD's with other software, for many years. I can't afford the high-end price tag of professional authoring software, but a lot of these less expensive programs are capable of some professional output features. I just wish there was one that combined them all.

If I could figure out a way to create an "end-of-clip" action for blu-ray menus, I'd be very satisfied with TAW5. Compared to NERO VIDEO, HD content that requires re-rendering seems to be superior in TAW5. It's just that the menuing edit process is quite cumbersome when creating many customized menus, and the ability to link menus, clips, tracks is pretty limited.

I don't know enough about the strictness of BD requirements, but I agree with you in regards to the DVD/BD standards should allow for what I'm trying to do. I would think it's something that would be commonly done for multi-episodic BD creation, with or without Java support. Besides, NERO VIDEO does it (though without subtitle, pop-up menu, or multiple audio track support) and the resulting BD's play fine on a myriad of different brand players.

I don't see a lot of Pegasus feedback on this forum and wonder how much they interact with their customers, or heed user input. Like you said, they haven't really updated their menuing system in years -- and it doesn't seem as though user suggestions are being implemented into the occasional updates. "End of clip" function for BD authoring, copy & paste menu items, duplicate complete menu pages...seem to be pretty standard and basic functions that should have been implemented a while ago.

I full last version of TVMW6 not correctly work Mask filter with reverse(Speed) filter in Clip Editing mode!!!

I have video with reverse speed filter (Speed filter with Reverse option). When I try to add Mask filter I cannot select Range for Layer inside Mask filter.

PLEASE, FIX IT QUICKLY !!!

I have tried multiple versions, both the latest and previous versions, and i'm constantly getting the following problem - 'invalid window handle'. When i load in a first clip - fine, no problem, i can edit it, fine. The moment i load in a second clip, then go to the edit screen, the buttons stop working and the program stops functioning. When i go to close it, i get this error message 'invalid window handle'. I have tried not using CUDA, same result. I've made a video showing what is happening, which you can see here: https://youtu.be/1XR4QQOJzvg
as you can see the moment i load in a 2nd video, buttons stop working, then when i go to close the window it just crashes with the invalid window handle error.
please help as the program for me is basically useless.

Problem solved. It was to do with teamviewer.
I had to disable one of the features on teamviewer which creates some button on every window open.
Now smart renderer works fine. thanks to pegasys support for their prompt help.

As an experiment, to see how good H265 was I encoded a movie from a blu-ray disk to H.265 with 5.1 AAC audio.

The video work well with a file size of only 1.3GB.

But the 5.1 audio was messed up.
TVMW6 seems to have just dropped the rear channels from the 7.1 audio and encoded only the front and side into the 5.1 audio. Players seem to see that there is a strange 5.1 speaker arrangement with side speakers and no rear speakers and just play it as stereo on the front speakers.

Please can this be fixed?

I know I can do lossless editing keeping the same format but can I also edit a file and output it in a different format?

That would be file conversion, which requires re-encoding. Unless you are talking about different container formats which I think the software allows.

Does Video Mastering Works 6 do lossless editing - just copying any unaltered material and only converting the joins?

No. It is an encoder, so it's mainly for re-encoding whether that be adding filters or format conversion.

Authoring Works 5 and TMPGEnc MPEG Smart Renderer 4 have lossless editing.

Does TMPGEnc VMW 6 support a SLI technology?

Hi

Version 6.0.7.19 Trial

Where i can the Keyframes bigger?
i cant customize the Frame of Keyframes an the Keyframes are very small (the size of the Keyframes in Mastering Works 5 are fine for me..)

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Sigi

i am presently working on a very important project on a TV series in which i have to import SRT sub files to each episode of over 100, the problem is that all the sub files are all messed up when imported into TWA5 showing characters like this all over the place <i> yes okay !</i>".

is this an italic character issue, if yes how can i solve it without manually editing all 100 episode of an hour clip each ?
am not a professional in subtitling, is it possible to remove all the italic characters before importing to TWA5 ?

Thanks in advance for all your helps

Because I'm deaf as a doorknob I spend a lot of time dealing with .srt files. They are simple text files so you can edit them with any text editor - my favourite is Notepad++.

With Notepad++ you can do two things that would make it trivial to remove the italics tags from all of those .srt files:
1.) You can tell Search/Replace to run across all open files.
2.) You can use regular expressions. (If you don't know much about using reg exp you could still accomplish your task without much extra work: delete the opening and closing tags in separate steps instead of all in one step.

Files I have made using v6.0.7.18 or 6.0.7.19 will no longer play on my LG TV (via USB drive). Using v6.0.6.17 or earlier play without any problems. When trying to play on my LG TV, I get an error on the screen stating "This file is invalid." There is no problem with the file itself (it will play just fine on my computer and other files not created with TMPEnc VMW6 will play on my LG TV). I *think* this problem may be from a change made to the x264 encoder as stated in the changelog for v6.0.7.18 (Improved: x264 encoder updated.) I am not sure if this is the cause of the problem or not because if I use either the x264 or the NVENC encoder the file will not play on my LG TV. But I do know that any files I created using v6.0.6.17 or earlier will play without issue. Any help in fixing this problem would be greatly appreciated. Thank you. And Thanks for making such a wonderful program.

I had a similar problem with h.264/mkv files created by V6.0.7.19 Trial,
playing on my old LG BD370 blu-ray player. Re-multiplexing them with
Mkvtoolnix V5.8 fixed the problem.

I am having the same issue with my Samsung TV. I think you are correct about the bug introduction in the last version. One thing that I noticed was that if you open the file using MKVtoolnix you can see that the audio track shows up first as ID 0 and the video track shows up as ID 1. This is completely opposite from any other encoder that I have used. Thoughts?

Now I just need to find out where I can download 6.0.6.17 so my encoding works again. Any ideas?

Please shoot me a message via my email if you have any ideas or want to chat off line. Thanks!

How do I get NVENC working? I don't see any options for it in VMW6. I have a Quadro K600 board.

You should be able to select NVENC as the encoding engine when outputting an MP4.

Are there any plans to open some of the other encoding options in TVMW6 to being able to use NVENC, like, say, Blu-Ray h.264 rendering? I need to find an alternative to using Intel hardware rendering because it has become increasingly unreliable. It took me two days to render a 45-minute episode of a show because it would always lock up or crash, and never at the same point.

Hello, I can't find this information anywhere, so I am asking for your help, please.
I don't know how to include free play clips in TMPGEnc Authoring Works 5 (or 4) between the first track "locked" track and the track menu.
In other words I am trying to author a Bluray but it's the same if it was a DVD:
in the "First play" Track I need to put the discalimer, and I set the "Restrict control during this track playback".
After that I need to put 3 trailers without the restricted control and after the 3 trailers the track menu should appear.
I really can't understand how to put clips that should play direclty between the first track and the track menu.
Thank you for your help.
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I don't think it's possible in TAW4/5 because of the inability to specify end-of-clip actions and other related clip playback characteristics. This is definitely one of TAW's shortcomings which needs to be addressed.

I realize that this forum is designed to be 'User Supported', but users don't have all the answers ... and the TAW design team doesn't appear to want to address the occasional problems that users are unable to address, except in a limited fashion via direct email contact. Whereas, it's far more logical and beneficial to their customers if they would address problems and remedies, publicly ... on THIS forum.

This is certainly a strange way to show customer appreciation to those who are responsible for the success of their products.

It's not possible in this software to add a "first play" item. For a while I was obsessed with first-play videos loading before the menus, and I used a vob file editor to manually add one to the VIDEO_TS folder, but it was a pain in the neck and sometimes ruined your VIDEO_TS folder. Sony's DVD Architect can add a first play, and I think Adobe Encore does it as well. Why these guys don't add that feature I will never know. It definitely makes your DVDs look a lot more professional.