What's the deal here? I installed the trial version on two seperate computers. BOTH pop up with the trial has expired. My God, I get an e-mail advertising a new trial version and it's already expired when I install it one day later.

I see that I'm not the only one to experience this. This does not bode well for credibility.

Two days later, I try to launch the program. This time it gets the license information correctly and the Trial is to begin.

I am in no way impressed that it is working after two days. IF I were to BUY this program and had to wait days to use it, when I wanted to use it, I would be very pissed off.

I asked this in another thread and I'll ask it here again.

What happens if Pegasys loses it's internet service? This could be caused from one of a million or so reasons. Maybe a disgruntled employee, a virus, a hacker, poor economy, the list goes on. If this license call back fails, the software stops working.

Maybe it's permanent. Maybe it's a delay of 6 hours. Or 6 days. Can you afford to spend your money on with this kind of risk? Can you afford to delay your work because the license won't access the update site?

This information should be more widely available. Not many people are aware that this BBS is even here.

Looks like this periodic licensing could be the demise of TMPGenc as the encoder of choice. At least I'll be able to author the DVD's I create with CCE and MainConcept with the TMPGenc DVD Author.
The makers of TMPGEnc Xpress 3.0 should also visit the forums at www.videohelp.com for more feedback on the periodic license debacle.

SlappyNuttZ

I agree, periodic license renewal will kill the product
I own lots of software that prevents sharing of license key, such as WinXP Pro, it does not require periodic license activation.

Hello guys, for example if you download a movie off the internet that has audio problems such as a muffled sound and hissing is there a way to clean the audio up with TMPGEnc????

Thanks in advance for your help guys!

No, you need an audio editor such as Goldwave or Cooledit(recommended).

Thanks Ashy i will try those!

I have some old Movie Shaker files that I have saved as .avi files. I am wondering if I can use TMPGEnc to convert the files into a format that can be imported to Studio 9 from Pinnacle. When I run the conversion on a small sample file, I get a .m2v file and a .wav file; however, I have no clue how to get this to a Pinnacle format. Any help would be much appreciated.

I am encoding an .avi file that I digitized from a VHS tape. The encoded file will be greater than 4.7 gig so will not fit on one DVD blank. What process should I use to break the resultant .m2v file into to parts so that I can burn 2 DVDs?

How long is the AVI?
If it's around the 2hr mark then you should be able to fit this no problem on one disk with great quality using VBR mode.
However, if you must split it you can either use the source range function to split it while encoding or split it after encoding with the MPEG tools.

Unless this AVI is very long you must have your bitrate set too high for it to be larger than 4.7GB (actually 4.37GB)
I think you're gonna find it unecessary to split it to 2 disks especially seeing as it is captured from a low quality source such as VHS anyway.

Thanks for the feedback.

T3 allows me to output to m2v and ac3 using a file name that already exists, there is no warning most of the times, on rare occasions only, the warning works

Got the trial working.

Two more annoyances. The major features I need are AC3 audio and 59.94fps encoding. AC3 is almost certainly not enabled in the trial (bummer). But what about 59.94fps? There is even a drop down selection for that frame rate.

When selected in MPEG Output mode, an error says it is not a legal frame rate. But I can find no way to select MP@HL like in TMPGEnc 2.5.

Is this a bug or is High Level just not available in the trial?

I am unable to encode wav audio to mp2 or ac3 without adding a video file. I can use T2.5 for audio encoding without video. T3 insists on video!

TMPGenc has been a staple here for DVD authoring and MPEG1, for the last couple of years, and it is disappointing to see that .tga image sequences are no longer supported in the 3.X release.

While I realise that we are in a minority of users, as a high end post production company, image sequences are the foundation of the workflow here, so being able to use .tif or .tga files is a necessity. Unfortunately .bmp or jpg won't cut it.

Is there any intention of adding this support, or are we stuck on version 2.5?

Regards,

Richard

I bought XPress 3 today and it took me 4 hours to try and understand the download instructions. Has to be the most convoluted I have ever seen! I finally got to the point of receiving a serial number.....now the downloaded software will not validate. I have checked everything a hundred times. What is going on here guys???

When I open an AVI clip, it is showing as 30 frames per second, instead of the correct 23.976.

If I encode the file as an SVCD 29.97fps the output is fine. If I choose NTSC Film there are problems with interlacing in the final file.

If I frame serve the file the the correct fps is shown on the source screen.

The files work as expected in TMPGenc 2.5 Plus.

Is this an error in the application, or am I choosing the wrong settings?

Thanks

Where exactly do I have to fill in my serial number to make the programm run after the test period is over?

Go back to the site where you purchased the serial from and you should be able to work it out from there.
As far as I'm concerned if the serial is legit then I can't understand why you don't know the reason you're having this problem because everthing is explained.