Blu-Ray with 1 track and 4 chapters
I want create one page (top menu) with 4 frames (1 by chapter) on this page in order to choose to click on frame to access to a chapter or another one.
How to do this with TAW5 and is it possible with TAW4 ?

Marc

When creating your menu, choose Track Menu Only. In other words, you don't need the Top Menu.

I clean installed Windows 8 & have the latest WHQL NVIDIA driver for my NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285 video card. This driver is dated 12-29-2012 version 9.18.13.1090.

For some reason I can't get Preferences to work and "see" this card to setup CUDA encoding. This card did work/do CUDA before with your software, so I don't know why not now?

Anyone know of a fix for this?

I've tried System Restore to uninstall and reinstall the drivers & TMPGE... but I can't get it to "see" this card to do CUDA.

Thanks for any suggestions/help... :)

When I try to export I get this error everytime unspecified error 0x80004005. I have tried different source files, still happens?? Tried on different computers, still happens

I suggest you try to read the system requirements on the TMGPEnc home page for TVMW5. Many computers out there does not live entirely up to all the requirements.
Some where on that list, there might be one or several requirements that these computers does not live up to, even though the builders claim they are ready to go "multimedia computers".

My computer runs Xpress 4.0 with no problems. I have a I7 Extreme processor with 16gig of ram. I highly doubt the computer is the problem

TVMW5 is not Xpress 4.0 They have different system requirements.
Read system requirements for TVMW5

>TVMW5 is not Xpress 4.0 They have different system requirements.
>Read system requirements for TVMW5

I am having the same issue after updating to 5.3.2.86. Did you ever get yours resolved?

I have such problem only because I get the source file frameserved from Virtualdub, I have found a workaround for it, refer to my post 67645.

>When I try to export I get this error everytime unspecified error 0x80004005. I have tried different source files, still happens?? Tried on different computers, still happens

Did you ever get this resolved? I'm having the same exact problem.

Long time TMPGEnc user, but just trying timeline mode for the first time...
When a clip is deleted or trimmed, the following clips are not automatically shifted: a blank space is created.
Is there a way to avoid that ?
Perhaps a command to detect & clean up all blank spaces in the timeline at once ?

What might be causing the audio to drop out
at about 11.5 minutes into a program
after encoding from .mov to .mpg
as an MPEG-2 file?

I've been looking for an editor for game videos taken with Fraps, and this is the best one I've found so far. However, the price is high for my modest needs. Are there any plans in the works for a cheaper version?

I would like to request playlist functionality in AW5. So far I am very impressed with the program. many of my projects will require opening video files merging seamlessly into the main video file (see my query post below).

Many thanks

Dwight

can you tell me is it possible to make buttons,frames from pictures? and how?

I would like to setup a disc which has one film with 3 seperate audio tracks. I also need to have 3 different videos for the start of the film to accomodate the 3 different narrators' credits. In the menu I need to be able to select 1 of the 3 start sequences which will then merge with the main film which has the three audio tracks embedded (to mimimize disc usage the main film is identical only with the three audio tracks differing).

So it would be like this on the main menu:
Audio/film 1 (using one audio track) -> Main film Body playing track 1 of the 3 emdedded tracks.
Audio/film 2 (using one audio track) -> Main film Body playing track 2 of the 3 embedded tracks.
Audio/film 3 (using one audio track) -> Main film Body playing track 3 of the 3 emdedded tracks.

How can I set this up so that the 3 seperate openers merge seamlessly with the main film. Is it possible to create a playlist seuence that will do this?

Regards
Dwight

I shoot live music performances. Audio track is produced separately after multi-track live recording and mixing etc. Then I use that audio track and sync it with video. Only the start and end of the video are clipped to match the length with the audio track. Rest of the video remains untouched.
I do not like the video to be rendered again. Is it possible to smart render the video with new audio? Is any other TMPGEnc product capable of doing that?
Thanks!

I don't think so, because what you are doing does normally require re-encoding, even in other video editors.

It would be nice if Mastering Works also had the Smart rendering feature. Whenever possible, the option to Smart Render could appear at the Encode step. A situation where one clips only the beginning and the end, or clips some portion of the video, the rest of the video could be Smart rendered barring the transitions. Or, in my case where I have to replace the audio also needs just Smart rendering of the video.
Thanks.

First time using TAW5 but used Author 3 quite a bit.

Taking same files I edited using MPEG Editor 3 and authored with Author 3 a few years back but now going from SL to DL output. Opened my old Author 3 project, it converted it for TAW5, added additional files, and everything appears fine. But when I go to output it insists on re-encoding parts of the video when it should out put lossless.

Some parts do and some parts don't. I'm not doing any HD work but just standard MPEG2 files for a DVD. There is no reason for a re-encode. Author 3 never did. Please help.

I have the same problem as you, the video files are different but from the same source DVD, when i place the 2 in 1 track it Re-Encodes the first file but the second is not re-encoded. Does TAW5 re-encodes all your files?

I cant speak for DVD creation, but when i create Blu-ray's out of HDTV recorded TS files, then they all get re-encoded, even though bit rates are low enough, that they easily could fit with out re-encoding them.
Only twice i have experienced no re-encoding, that was with M2TS files who had standard Dolby Digital audio.

I've had AW4 on my computer for ages, but have just started using it. I have 2 videos set as tracks. What I'd like is a top menu with 2 buttons and to link directly to 2 'scene/chapter' menus. What I get is a top menu, which links to another menu which in turn has links to the 2 scene/chapter menus. How can I link directly from the top menu to the scene/chapter menus?

Surprised this is that difficult. This software seems to be ridiculously inflexible. For instance; you can't use elements of a theme. Has to be the whole thing or nothing. Crazy. DVD Workshop-2 was a LOT more capable - and that's stone-age software now! Now I know why I've left it on the shelf for so long.

Yeah, that's one of the things that bothers me about TAW; they haven't really improved the menu making process since version 2 or so. Maybe they don't want to make it too complicated, but I feel they are seriously behind the times compared to other software.
If they want to keep it dumbed down, that's fine, but at least include an "advanced mode" or something for people who expect to do more.