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

(Sorry, posted this question in the DVD Author 3 forum, it was intended for here)

Hello,

Just wondering if it is possible with your DVD Authoring software to use an image's EXIF or IPTC data to automatically add subtitles or text to each picture while generating a slideshow?

Or if you can't use the EXIF data, is there any way to manually add subtitles or text to each image in a slideshow? This would be a pain for what I am trying to do (add image author info for each image to the slideshow, info which is currently stored in the EXIF data), but it would be workable, I suppose.

Thanks,
cc

You can't add subtitles based on EXIF data but you can manually add subtitles to your slideshow.

Hello,

Just wondering if it is possible with your DVD Authoring software to use an image's EXIF or IPTC data to automatically add subtitles to each picture while generating a slideshow?

Or if you can't use the EXIF data, is there any way to manually add subtitles to each image in a slideshow? This would be a pain for what I am trying to do (add image author info for each image to the slideshow, info which is currently stored in the EXIF data), but it would be workable, I suppose.

Thanks,
cc

We've recently moved from Encore (too expensive to upgrade because of 'package' deal) but are completely flummoxed by Menu creating & linking.
We are creating a showreel, so we have about 60 short clips, linking animations, and some compilations (all currently as HD avi's no problems using them).We want to create menus & sub-menus from scratch (with looped movie and sound backgrounds), and put buttons we create where we want them, link them to sub menus or tracks, specify 'end' actions for the plays etc.etc.
Is there any clear source of information on how to do this.
The menu creation wizard/ custom menus stuff just seeme to offer lots of preset pretty patterns all tound with no actual derict control of what actions a button initiates.
We were used to encore's 'timelines' - each of which could contain one or more video clips, and where video clips could be used in more than one timeline. Is there any equivalent structuring?
Like I said, we're baffled, and any help would be appreciated.

There is no timeline display mode in this software.

Menu creation is automated, even for custom menus. In other words, it will create the menu pages automatically depending on your page layout settings, whether or not you have subtitles, multiple audio tracks, etc.
You basically have two levels: top menu (for selecting tracks), and track menus (for selecting chapters). So you can't make another track menu within a track menu.

Buttons are created automatically depending on your content, but with custom menus, you can replace the buttons with your own images or simply use text.
You cannot create a button after the fact and set what it does.
You can however, move the buttons around to where you want them and change how the remote control navigates from one selectable object to the next.

You can specify what happens after a track is finished playing so that it goes back to the track/top menu, continues to the next track, or continues to the next track and loops all tracks indefinitely. This can be set in the Menu Wizard or in the Global Menu Settings.

You can create motion backgrounds with audio by activating the motion menu options in the Global Menu Settings in the Menu Stage. Once activated, you can insert video/audio as your background and set looping settings.

I suggest creating a custom menu using the Menu Wizard and using layouts similar to what you need and then editing the positions, size, graphics, etc. after the Wizard creates it.

Authoring Works 4 is still very much consumer software, hence its simplicity and relatively lower price point. That said, its menu creation is definitely not on the same level as Encore. I think you'll have to unlearn a lot of what you learned with Encore and think on simpler terms with Authoring Works.

If you need specific instructions on how to do something, just post it on this forum and I'll try to help you.