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!

This is an important message for those of you who use ffdshow and Haali in order to work with video, who has been encoded with DTS audio.

The latest version of ffdshow has gone thrue some major updates in the mixer settings.
It is no longer required to set it to 5.1 channels or more in order to read all audio channels in the DTS structure.
In the latest version of ffdshow, all you have to set in the Mixer setting is: same as input
Both TVMW5 and TAW5 will be able to read determine the correct number of audio channels in the DTS structure of the video file you wish to work with.

Nice to know, thanks.

Don`t work.
Windows 8 x64 Pro
ffdshow_rev4500_20130106
Haali Media Splitter 1.13.138.14
TMPGEnc Video Mastering Works 5 5.4.0.100 Trial
DTS Audio 5.1 48 kHz 768 kbps 24-bit in M2TS or TS not detected.

It works under Windows 7 64 bit.

If you downloaded the 64bit version of FFDSHOW, uninstall it using Revo Uninstaller (freeware) in order to be 100% sure that everything has been removed, which also incl. everything it wrote to the registry and reboot computer.
Then download the latest 32bit version of FFDSHOW at the official site http://ffdshow-tryout.sourceforge.net/
Reason: Haali is 32bit software and can't work propperly together with the 64bit version of FFDSHOW, they have communication issues.

Once the 32bit version of FFDSHOW has been installed, its time to set the propper settings.

Audio decoder configuration/Codecs:
TrueHD: libavcodec
DTS: libdts
Uncompressed: All supported

Now activate the mixer in FFDSHOW and set Audio speakers configuration to: same as input

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Now the time has come to adjust the audio settings within TVMW-5:
Options => Preferences => Input/output format list => File input plug-in
Remove here everything that has been marked EXCEPT the one at DirectShow file reader, then OK, close TVMW-5 and then load it again.

Above is also how you do it in TAW-5. Their audio configurations are identical.

Note: This does NOT give support for DTS-HD Master audio (Blu-ray), only standard DTS, which is commonly used by Blu-ray movie rippers in their MKV files.

In the list of audio for TS, Dolby Digital only.

The TS and TRP filetypes (both the same) are normally only used for TV broadcast recording by settop boxes and Smart-tv's, where DTS is not supported.
If you have .ts files with DTS audio, then you have files that are out of standard, which i do understand can't be determined correctly by video editors, because they demand that the file types follow the rules that has been made for them.

But for .ts files, you do also have MPEG and AAC audio. These two are also on the list of supported audio formats for TV broadcast and can also be found on the list of audio codecs in FFDSHOW.

Is there a recommended workflow to avoid unnecessary work when authoring both a DVD and a BD, that should have the same menu layout/structure, and the same source files (but with different encoding produced by TVMW5).

I would make the BD version first (better to scale down than to scale up), then try using the "Open with conversion" option in the Start Window. This will allow you to convert the project into another output format, like DVD-Video.

This is a relatively new option they added and I've never actually used it before, but it might work well.

Good idea !
Unfortunately I had to produce the DVD version first due to pressure from the client :)
Will try to up-convert to BD anyway.
There aren't so many fancy graphics so the upconversion should be painless....

OK, now how do I replace the clips (currently SD MPEG2) with new ones (MP4 1080i) of exactly the same duration, while keeping all chapter marks ?

Use the "Export keyframe list" option in the Cut & Chapter Edit window. Then import the list for your HD versions.

looks good - tx