I use one of the premade templates but was wondering if there is a way to edit it?

Not really in the sense that you can't move things around that are already there.

Here's some things you can do though (with the premade templates):
-Change fonts, font color, size, and style for any editable text.
-Add non-functioning menu items such as images, text.
-Change highlight colors.
-Change the thumbnail image for tracks/chapters.
-Add effects to any menu item.
-Add background music.

hi
ive been looking but cant find the option to add back ground music think ive gone brain dead can you point me in the right dirstion please

You have to activate motion menus first. In the Menu stage, click on the global menu settings button, then go to the motion menu tab. There should be an option to have background music (bgm) and/or motion backgrounds. Activate the option you want and set the duration, then click "OK" to confirm.

Back in the menu editor, double-click on your background to open the background editor window. There should be a tab for background audio. Here, you can select a file to use as your background audio.

New update. Not a whole lot of changes, mostly just added support for Zune HD and new Walkmans.

Revision history:
http://tmpgenc.pegasys-inc.com/en/download/tms.html#tabSelector2

I have two overlapping clips that I want to seamlessly merge together into one clip. Does anyone have any recommendations on how to best do that besides just using trial and error where you find an overlap point and visually try to have the 2nd clip start one frame after where I end the first one?

Thanks!

Hi I have setup pop-up menus for my Bluray movie and they work perfectly in simulation mode. How do I access these pop-ups from my remote? I'm using 7MC with TotalMedia Theatre 3 Platinum tp play Blu ray from hard drive and I cannot find out how to make pop-up menus pop up? Thanks

I think this should be in the Authoring Works 4 forum, but anyway...

Is your remote made for blu-rays? Typically there is a button specifically for Popup menus. If your remote was designed for DVDs, it may not have a dedicated popup menu button.

Total Media Theatre's software remote doesn't have a popup menu button either it seems (i'm just using the trial), but it appears you can access the popup menu with the keyboard shortcut ctrl+u, or you can click on the menu button and select the popup menu.

Cool Thanks tkrave very much I don't use the original remote and didn't even think to look at it. Thanks again and sorry about the wrong forum. Gary

Does TAW 4 support projects created with DVD Author 3?

Thanks!

Yes, it can read DVD Author 2 and DVD Author 3 project files. However, there's no guarantee that the menus will behave exactly the same.
If you used pre-installed templates or menu items from TDA2 or TDA3, it will try to use the same templates/items if it exists in TAW4. If you used a template that doesn't exist in TAW4, I think it will convert it to a different template.

Thanks tkrave. One more question...if I install the free trial of TAW4 will it render my TDA3 useless? I would not think so but want to be sure.

Thanks.

No, the trial will not do anything to TDA3.

If you choose to buy TAW4 and use the upgrade option, then it will render your TDA3 license useless. However, using the User Discount option will let you keep your TDA3 license.

Hello, I've recently upgraded my CPU from Intel C2D E6420 to C2Q Q8400 and the problem that I experience is that with the old CPU TAW4 utilized 100% CPU and with the new one it utilizes only 40-50%. I checked my program preferences and everything looks correct - one physical cpu with 4 cores...all instructions checked. I have no idea what would have caused the problem...

My computer specifications are:
Asus P5K Deluxe
Intel C2Q E8400
4GB DDR2 800MHz
ATI Radeon HD4870
RAID0
Win7 x64

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

A couple of weeks ago I posted a question about mp4 files - how to avoid that TMPEGEnc Authoring Works (TAW) turns pitch black color into white. No one has answered. But now I've learned that TAW is inferior when it comes to handling mp4 files, and I've learned how to do it: First convert the mp4 to mpeg or VOB with Free Video Converter (FVC), and then import the mpeg or VOB file into TAW. (Either ignore the VOB warning in TAW, or rename the VOB to mpg first.) Added bonus: It took 16-17 hours (!) for TAW to convert a 5 GB mp4 file to DVD output. FVC converted it to VOB in just 2 hours, and after that it took only 1 hour for TAW to convert it to DVD.

I used to create hardsubbed dvds using vobsub with tmpgenc.
I now have Windows 7 with tmpgenc authoring works 4 and it is
not automatically pulling in Vobsub. Is this because ffdshow is
not being used (older versions of tmpgenc let you increase the priority
of ffdshow)? The subtitle functionality in tmpgenc doesn't fit my
needs so I really hope someone can tell me how to make vobsub
work again. Thanks.

I have been converting some wmv files to MPEG-1 and resulting file is always much smaller than the original and of a lower quality.

Is there any setting in TMPEG that allows the quality to remain the same?

No, that's not possible, because it's a completely different format.
But of course you can change the resolution and raise the bitrate for better quality.

You're converting to MPEG 1 (VCD quality). It is a format with restrictions of of 352 x 240 using mp2 sound at 44 hz. If you want to save them in MPEG 2 (DVD quality) you might be happier but then they will be 720 x 480 with MP2 sound at 48hz. These restrictions are because there are standards to make DVD & VCD quality video. WMV has many more options and less standards.

>You're converting to MPEG 1 (VCD quality). It is a format with restrictions of of 352 x 240 using mp2 sound at 44 hz. If you want to save them in MPEG 2 (DVD quality) you might be happier but then they will be 720 x 480 with MP2 sound at 48hz. These restrictions are because there are standards to make DVD & VCD quality video. WMV has many more options and less standards.

Use Windows Movie Maker to convert from (windows) .wmv into DV/AVI (= .avi) .. then use TMPGENC to do the MPEG conversion (and select something better than the low resolution VCD profile :-) )

I have put 4 avi file into a DVD. By using TMPGEnc Authoring Work 4, everything seems OK. However, when I play the DVD, one of the file got only 'beep' sound. The other 3 is OK with sound. Anyone has any idea about that?

It sounds like an audio codec problem. The audio codec for that vid may have crashed during output. Try outputting that file by itself without the other 3 avi's and see if it the problem still occurs.

I have already tried to encode just that chip but the sound is OK. Is there any setting may affect this. I just choose the auto. Pls help

Is there a way through the color settings to convert a color video to black and white.

It is a black and white show with some minor tinting I would like to remove but mostly it has a channel "bug" that is in color that I would like to see as black and white.

Go to the filters tab in the clip editor and activate the Color Correction filter. Under the "Simple" tab, drag the "Chroma" slider all the way to the left to get rid of any color.

I've never seen an AVI like this before. On the beginning of it were all sorts of warnings about copy protection etc. It went on a long time! Anyway TMPGEnc burned the movie and it played back fine, but there was no sound, and there was sound in the raw file. Did TMPGEnc pick up on the copyright protection and that's what caused the completed burn to not have sound? CopyXtoDVD recorded it and it played back just fine!