The output process has so far taken 5 hours 33 minutes and shows that it will take another hour and 16 minutes.All this for a movie that has a running time of 90 minutes?What the hell?It's not supposed to take this long is it?

What format are you outputting it to? What are your track settings? What are your computer specs? What format is the source file?

There are a lot of variables that can affect the output time. Full encoding is usually not in realtime or a 1:1 scale. In other words, don't expect to encode a 90 minute movie in 90 minutes.

The only time output will be super fast is when the source files are already compliant with your output format.

The format was originally AVI and 4:3.Before authouring,I used Mediacoder to transcode(is that the correct term?re-encode?)to mpeg2.
I outputted it to NTSC 16:9 onto a single layer DVD.

So you re-encoded it with Mediacoder to MPEG-2, then used Authoring Works 4 to output as 16:9 NTSC?

Changing the aspect ratio from 4:3 to 16:9 will cause Authoring Works to do a full re-encode, which is why it is taking so long. If you output your the track as 4:3 it should output much quicker (assuming it is DVD-compliant).

For the most part, transcoding = re-encoding, but with TMPGEnc authoring software, transcoding means something slightly different. They use it to shrink your content to fit a certain file size (i.e. shrinking a 6GB video to fit on a single layer DVD). It's not exactly re-encoding the video, but instead applies filters to shrink the video somehow. I don't know how it works, but that's what I was told by support.

This raises another question I was wondering.Should I just leave it at 4:3 everytime?I noticed that one of the DVDs I outputted to 16:9 when played back on my 16:9 big screen,does not take up the entire screen.There is just a bit of black around the image(and i don't mean letterboxed).

OK, since i hate vista and so do most of the world, i wish to know if tmpgenc plan on doing their dvd ahtouring and xpress to this os, and i ask this becuase im planning on using windows 7 x64 but will not if the software wont work on it.

As of version 4.6.2.266 it does not work on windows seven RC

Tried on my friend's computer, not mine as i don't use it. i use version 2 free

Hi, all, I recently purchased a new Dell w/ an I72.66, 6GB of RAM and Vista64. While encoding 1080P WMV videos w/ DTS sound I am only using around 45% of my CPU processing power, and the encodes take around 10 hours for a 2 hour movie. How can i set up TMPEG to take advantage of my full processing power?

Thanks
Shawn

make sure your cpu is not placed on limit in the bios, in otherwords some boards have a feature where it wont use half its power unless its needed, and this feature is anoyign as i had to turn mine off with my asus maxismus se formula since the cpu power just didnt arrive.

also make sure that the software and process of the software in task manager is set to high as this will kick the system into high gear for that software

Thx for the response Matt,

Tried bumping it in task maager and in TMPGEnc, no luck. Anyone have any information on Dell limiting the CPU power in the BIOS of the 435MT? I cant see to find any information about this.

Thanks Again,
Shawn

ill have a look at my bios see where it says it on mine, maybe that could helpyou out there.

i do hear though the dell have gone down quite badly in quality wise with their systems

which is a shame

This is not utilizing the full capacity of i7. It's got nothing to do with bios settings. Tmpgenc needs to address this with an update.

It might be one of the 2 or 3 common energy saving settings in your BIOS, but then again it could be the new Core i7 architecture. Try turning off C1E, EIST, T1, and T2 options in the BIOS. If you have hyperthreading enabled then my guess is that 4.0 Express isn't coded yet to do the hyperthreading correctly which would drop you to the 4 actual cores being used instead of the 8 virtual cores with hyperthreading. That would make a %45 CPU load make sense. The core I7 architecture is the first new intel CPU to have hyperthreading in 2 or 3 years, so maybe the software needs an update. I would think that TMPG would have been on this by now since Core i7 has been out since last year.

Also, 10 hours to encode a 2 hour movie in 1080p doesn't sound too horrible. I haven't put my i7 to the test yet, but my old quad core Q9300 could do a standard definition movie in about 2 hours and 1080p has about 4 to 6 times more information than standard definition. Even if you do get the extra 4 cores working through hyperthreading your encode times probably won't get cut in half.

I have de version 3.

When I join 2,3 tracks - 2 or 3 live concerts in one DVD, something strange happens.

Between some of the chapters that are imported to new DVD we can see some square pixels in the image, although the original track don't have them.

How can I solve this?

Thank you.

Luís

Whenever I make a MPEG-4 the final frame of the picture turns white.
Even when I tell TMPGEnc to fade the clip to black, it fades to black and then show a white frame. Does anyone know why this happens.
Thanks.

Dear all,

I've been using tmpgenc 4.0 to convert my dvd's to wmv for the last month or so and I'm happy with the results so far. Yesterday I started to convert the series "friends" from dvd to wmv and I noticed a vertical blue line at the right side of the screen after the conversion. The line isn't visable at the source and not all the dvd's convert this way. Most of them come out just fine.

Does anyone have a clue at what's going on? I know I can always crop the picture, but I would like to know what's causing the issue.

Thanks

Michael Waterman

I've got some HD Video shot by a Sony HDR-HC3. Using DVD Authoring 4 I've been able to make a DVD using 2 pass Video re-encoding that looks great and builds fine. But when making a Blu-Ray disc using the 2 pass video re-encode on the exact same files, the computer will reboot several hours into the re-encode (at different points). If I just make the Blu-Ray disc WITHOUT doing the re-encode step, the authoring completes fine and I can burn the disc.

I have enough disk space, (50 gigs free on the target drive with temp files on another with 200+ gigs free) My computer isn't overheating and I ran memtest on the memory overnight with no faults found.

I've also tried shutting off file cacheing/multi-threading, moving the target drive, etc; But still have the same results. Instant reboot.

I'm running XP and if I have an Blue screen of death issue, the computer shouldn't reboot. The event logs show no errors either.

Is anyone else having similar issues? Anything else I should try?

(Intel Dual Core 8500 - Windows XP-SP2 on an ABit IN9-32X Max mb with 2 gigs ram)

You might want to submit a user support ticket for this. If you are a registered user of this product, TMPGenc support people will respond with suggested fixes or ask for more information to help troubleshoot your problem.

I started with an HDTV MPEG video in a TS file. I encoded it with TMPGEnc to make it compatible with the DVD format. I have to adjust the audio (with BeSweet) to eliminate lip sync problems. I can play the resulting file with either Windows Media Player or MPC and it looks fine. However when I create a DVD with Authoring Works
4, the audio is out of sync again.

Why not just import it into TAW4? It will accept .TS HD files! It may take longer, the ones I've done take about twice as long as the actual film, but the result is very good....and in synch.

Is there any possibility of TAW 4 outputting in this format(h264 as well to avoid re-encoding)?
Not everyone can afford a BD drive!
I'm sure if a Bulgarian enthusiast can produce a free tool(not sure if I should mention it's name), I'm sure the TMPGEnc team can.

When I import 4 AVI Files into Author 3 and create it as DVD 4 Chapters with Audio Menu, Menu hasn't got any problem but while I test in simulation its sound problem without any speech but only freq. sound.... How to fix this?

- Play them in KMPlayer, Windows Media Player, Media Player Classic without problems
- Only got problem in Author 3 only
- Other formats like MPG, DAT, WMV, MKV, DIVX haven't got any problems
- Codecs installed (K-Lite, XP Codec, DivX, XviD, MKV, FFDSHOW, OGG, etc)

I can't figure out how to create a menu that doesn't include the intro video. I simply want to insert a DVD, auto play a short introduction clip then at it's end display the remaining clips.

Can this be done with a template or at all?

Are there any menues that are animated?

Thanks

In the Source Stage, you'll have to create a Firstplay track. Do this by clicking on the downward arrow next to the "Add a track" button and selecting "Add a firstplay track". Any clips in the firstplay track will play once you put the DVD into the player and will not show up in them menus.

None of the pre-installed menu templates animate, but you can create your own motion menus with any video by going to the Global Settings in the Menu Stage and activating the motion menu options in the Motion menu tab.

Hi

I just got TMPG Authoring Works 4.0.2.14 and am trying to edit a wedding DV clip. Having that chipmunk pitch issue which I beleve is due to framerate. How do I fix this as it is PAL but set to 25 which I thought was NTSC.

I tried droping back to 23.976fps but that didn't seem to work.

ntsc is 29.97 fps and its also 23.97 aswell.

pal is 25 and 24fps

I would say that your recording had gone wrong , becuase the frame rate only adds or takes away frames.

what you are basically saying is that it sounds like your footage has speed up which would cuase the higher voices.

try locate what fps your footage is at.

my footage is at 25fps PAL and plays fine its only when i go to edit in tmpg it chipmunks on me

ok, try creating an image of the disc, ensure that your system is completely defraged and not by shitting windows defrag system.

then load the image onto a virtual drive and do it that way

tmpg reads isos?

i would have to read up again on virual drives. i should explain the sitation more clearly too.i taped the footage on DV camera then saved the avi file on PC possibly using a TMPG product ages ago. this may have been where the probem arose from.

i still have the original DV so will try extracting again. thank for your help.

get me via my mail address, if you need help