I want to convert some home movie clips to mp4 for web use (and mobile devices), namely Facebook.

The source files are either old sd quality, pal,4:3, 720x576i (DVD compliant)

or

recent AVCHD camcorder footage:- 1920x1080i pal.

I came across this guide for mp4/web settings...

http://www.videoproductions.com.au/html/mpeg4.html

It says keep interlace setting if source is interlaced (which they are), but I would have thought progressive would be more suited for web? or is it de-interlaced elsewhere?

Are these settings any good? I would like the best possible settings maintaing the orig resolution.

Many Thanks

Step 1 in that tutorial is talking about the settings for the source file, so yes, if your source is interlaced, keep it as interlaced in the clip settings.

Encoding it as progressive happens later, in the filters or in the encoder settings (as seen in step 5).

I don't think there is any harm in encoding it as progressive. I do that myself with HD videos I upload to YouTube in order to get the 1080p display option.

Hello all..

please someone help me about making karaoke video with L/R audio.
i have .DAT .Vob or windows media files all with L/R sound
want to create my own dvd karaoke.

in the clip properties i start with billingual and run stimulation, it works. and have L/R sound. and to make it more convince i run export output and really ok in my PC im happy. but when i burn it, theres no L/R sound it mixed. i cant turn off the voice

and i change starting with multi audio
i run stimulation everythings work fine.
but when i burn into dvd.
the L/R audio mixed again..

so i start spliting the audio with other software
and go to clip propertiest multi audio with a different source
source 1 sound, source 2 voice.
run stimulation again works fine.
burn it again and got no L/R sound. only sound without voice.

anyone can help me ? i hope i can get the solution as soon as possible.

- sorry my english pretty bad.


Thank you

My main menu has 3 text links: Videos, Photos, About. I don't like the type of highlights that I have seen so far, so here's what I did.

I set the background black, I re-named the 3 links to the greater-than sign character (looks like an arrow), I set them black and made the Highlight Color white. Then I added my own text next to the greater-than signs.

Now it looks like cool white arrows appearing next to the selected items. Unfortunately, my background must be a solid color, and not an image. Is there an option to have bullets appearing next to the selected links?

Not with this software. You have to throw at least $1000 more on the table and buy a professional software, like the ones that the movie industry uses to create their DVD and Blu-ray menus.

But there is perhaps a way you can pull it off any way. You create a image with solid color background and bullets in a photo studio like Adobe Photo Shop or Corel Paint Shop Pro and use that created image as a background in TAW5.
Then its just about placing the bullets at the correct place on the image when creating it in the image studio that you choose to use.
You could make the image size at 1920x1080 uncompressed JPG to give it a propper image quality.

Will there ever be a support for Radeon cards? Mine is a Radeon and each time I encode something it takes hours to finish, so I got to set to encode faster. But this kind of fast means lower quality video, I prefer speeding up with the aid of a graphic processor. Why Radeon is not included while they have cuda?

Not sure. It's been requested numerous times so I'm sure they're aware of the demand.

thanks for the reply. I'll contact them direct

Plz help

Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: TMPGEncMPEGSmartRenderer4.exe
Application Version: 4.1.3.58
Application Timestamp: 51ee3ce8
Fault Module Name: EffcvBlend.vme
Fault Module Version: 9.0.6.2876
Fault Module Timestamp: 51dcd79a
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Offset: 0001f27a
OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.48
Locale ID: 1033
Additional Information 1: 0a9e
Additional Information 2: 0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789
Additional Information 3: 0a9e
Additional Information 4: 0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789

This is a user forum, contact support for the crash.

Hi everyone. I'm new to this software and I'm trying to import several tga and png image sequences (about 2000 images) using either the source wizard or add files feature.
There does not seem to be an easy way of importing them for re-compression as a movie file. Some other software I have used will recognise the sequence and let you just select the first file and it will gather the rest.
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Which software can do this? I'm just curious because it's something I've wanted to do.

Hello,
I'm looking for a SW for Authoring DivX Ultra files.
The product TMPGEnc DVD Author 3 with DivX Authoring and the product TMPGEnc Author Works 4 are EOLEed by Pegasys and the new version of TMPGEnc Author Works 5 doesn't support DivX Ultra.
I am actually using the trial of the DivX Author v.1.5 that I've downloaded from the DivX site but it is not ass good as the two previously mentioned.
Furthermore it hungs sometimes when Authoring a high quantity of films in a single DivX file which is my case because I'm using DivX compression because I want to fit many low quality films in a single DVD.
Is there any way to purchse either the TMPGEnc DVD Author 3 with DivX Authoring or the TMPGEnc Author Works 4 or is there another good product for Authoring DivX Ultra ?
Thanks in advance.
Enrique.

So I downloaded the trial version so I could try out the smart rendering to see if it would work with my video. All indications were that my video was a supported format (MPEG-4 AVC), but I couldn't get the "Smart Render Analyzer" to indicate that any of the video would be smart rendered. When I rendered, I found it was putting a water mark in the video. So I guess that is why it isn't smart rendering? So is it completely impossible to test smart rendering on my video in the trial? Why isn't this indicated ANYWHERE ON THE WEBSITE OR IN THE PROGRAM?

You should give more info about your situation.

What do you see that makes you think smart rendering isn't happening? Is it all red stripes showing up in the analysis?

Also, what are you doing to your videos? Have you tried simply outputting your video without doing any cuts/edits?

Hello!
Each output format defaults to specific parameters but I rarely use these. I'd like to change these so when I decide on a specific output, it uses parameters I most often use. Ex - Divx defaults to a Home Theatre Profile but I'd like it to be Divx HD 720. MPEG-4 defaults to Level 3 and 352 x 288. I'd like Level 5, 720x480.
Thanks for any help!!!

I don't think you can change the default parameters, but you can just save it as an output template and select that in the future.

>I don't think you can change the default parameters, but you can just save it as an output template and select that in the future.

Ahhh! Thanks for the great idea! I hadn't considered that!!! I was thinking that someone would know how to maybe edit an .ini file or something of the like but your idea is sure a bunch better than what I've been doing! Thanks!

Trying to edit a project made a few days ago.
The project loads fine, the simulation starts ok, but as soon as I hit the "Top menu" or the "track menu" button, I get the following error:
"Access is denied. (error code 0x80070005)"
And I can't do anything useful or even gracefully exit TAW5 after that (the app must be killed with Windows Task Manager).

I have no clue what could have changed since I initially made (without any error or problem) the project...

Any hints ?

found the culprit: the BGM source file was moved ! Everything ok now (but an error message more meaningful than "access denied" would be welcome when a file used as a resource in a project is missing...)

In the Start Window, click on Advanced Tools to get to the Project Checker Tool which will check your projects for missing source files.

Hi,

is there any option to globally set the transitions for a track?

Currently I set the transitions track by track, which gets very annoying when there are many tracks available.

I'm searching for a global, perhaps project based option.

Thanks,
Michael

Looks like you can only apply transition effects to all clips in a track, but not to all tracks.

I'm having trouble aligning to the centre (vertically and horizontally) objects in the timeline. Either text, or video/image clips. If their size or position is changed, there doesn't seem to be a way to properly align them to the centre. The alignment/position settings at the text properties windows, and the left/top sliders at the timeline window, do not help. Is there another way I'm missing? Thanks.

Just use simple math.

Subtract the height of your video clip/text/whatever from the height of the timeline setting. Divide the result in half and that is your Top setting.

Do the same with width to get the Left setting.

Makes sense! Thanks tkrave. A couple of "align to centre" buttons would still be nice, for faster operation.

I agree George!