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I'm from Russia, so sorry for my english.
I recently reinstalled windows xp. Install the TMPGEnc DVD Author 3 with DivX Authoring again and tried to open a project that I saved before reinstalling. The program said that it was not her project! How to convince her that it was not right?? I definitely need to open it - it's too difficult to build it again!
when I open *.tda3 file, it displays an error "This file is not a project file generated by TMPGEnc DVD Author 3 with DivX Authoring"
But this is a save of this program!!!! I just reinstall it!
I was working on a big project (32 chapters, 140 min total runtime). It was epic and quality. It was practically finished, being the music for the menu the only thing remaining to finally do an output. Saved, closed the software.
The next morning, tried to open it, but I only got the message that reads "this is not a TMPGEnc...blah blah... project". Tried several times, but it just won't load.
All the settings in the project were ok, even I watched the whole project in the simulation screen and all the videos runned without a single problem...
Don't know what happens... Could it be because the size of the tda3 file (11MB)?
Please, help! Don't want to start again with this, cause it will take years to reach the same point!!!
I see that no one ever got back to you on this. That is a bummer.
Having experienced this myself, here is what I discovered. I opened a copy of the TDA3 file in Notepad to see if I could spot anything useful to use to rebuild the file I had worked upon for a week. I saw that that 75% of the file was blank. I compared this to another TDA3 file in Notepad and saw that it was supposed to have data in the whole file. My conclusion is that DVD Author experienced an error and did not save the file completely. I would have resaved it the night before if it given me any indicator that it had experienced an error.
In short, there is no way to fix the file that has the error. If anyone has a clue as to how to rescue that data still present, this would be helpful, but that is a programmers question to answer, not a clueless software user.
What do we learn from this? Always save a backup copy of anything.
Then I guess there's some cracks I haven't tried. A lot of them can open, load, create a project, but somewhere during the project creation an error will come up or something won't work correctly.
My question is about screen size. I seem to not be able to get a full screen when I do the simulation and output parts. Events I have recorde in full screen do not come out that way in the simulation. Can anyone help!
I am seeing a full screen from top to bottom, but there are black areas to the left and right side of the picture. I have tried using 4:3 and 16:9, some times I get a full screen and other times I get the picture cut off.
Is your screen 4:3 or 16:9?
Is your source video 4:3 or 16:9?
What are the default clip properties you see when you add the clip into the program? (dimensions, aspect ratio)
My tv screen is I think 4:3. It is a 20 inch lcd. I am not sure if its 4:3 or 16:9. It is not a wide screen tv, or a high def. It is just a regular 20 inch.
The source video is 16:9 I think, its full screen after I record the game on it.
There are 5 to 6 choices for the defalut prperties, and I don't know which one to choose to get a full screen. I am really unsure about this. I have tried both 4:3 and 16:9. Sometimes I get a full screen, other times I don't?
OK, so your video file is 16:9, but what about the actual video content? If there are black bars on the left and right of the video, it sounds like the content is 4:3 but it's been encoded as 16:9. If your source video is 4:3 and your TV is 4:3, you should change the encoding setting to 4:3 in Need 4 Video.
Is there anyway you can post a screencap of your video before you put it into Authoring Works 4?
I've bought an MP4 player a time a go. It's a generic model from the supermarket here in Belgium (Bluesky). This MP4-player was bundled with a program "Avi Converter". You have tu use this program to convert a video to the right codec, resolution, etc. But I'm not satisfied with the results of this program (Sound is not at the same time as the video,...). So I want to use TMPGEnc 4.0 XPress for this job. But I don't know which settings I have to configure. I've uploaded a small video: http://www.2shared.com/file/6558211/7839e988/iPhone_Commercial_Parody_The_Daily_Buzz.html This video is converted with "Avi Converter". Can someone tell me which settings I have to configure?
What kind of MP4 player is it? As in the make and model number? Knowing what it's specs are will help determine the best video format and settings. Did it come with an instruction manual or is there a company name and model number anywhere?
Just going from your AVI, it's XviD, 20 fps, 320x240, video bitrate 310 kb/s, audio is MPEG-2, 128kb/s stereo CBR.
Hi, I've been using DVD Author 3 and now trial TAW4.
I have recorded .ts files (h.264, multi-audio-tracks). So I demux the tracks to the elementary streams (.264, ac3). When I'll open the .264 file i get an error, that the file coudn't be opened? (in DVD-Author 3 i can open .264 files!). So why i can't open these? The problem not using the .ts stream is a asynchron audio/video track. In the past it was the best (when will also cutting scenes), using elementary streams.
Any Help or Information for me available?
thanks for help a lot
cheers
Tom
I have various clips.
I want the viewer to be able to start/view
- some of those clips directly after selecting (one of) them in the top menu
and
- the other clips after navigating to a subpage
starting clips from a subpage is easy.
how can I have clips start directly from the top menu ?
I don't think that's possible. You can have videos play directly from the top menu only if you choose the "Top menu only" option when you create your menu.
what are the results for a MacPro System? There are two models, the Quad Core Nehalem Single Processor 2.66 Ghz and the eight core dual Processor 2,26 GHz,.. Anyone tried this configuration? If so, what OS do you use?
Does the stnadard NVIDIA graphics card support CUDA? It´s a NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 512 MB.
Is it possible to use the WinFast accellerator board?
The GeForce GT 120 is on the list. However, be advised that not all cards have been tested with TMPGEnc 4.0 XPress so download the trial first and see if it works before you buy it.
Trial Download: http://tmpgenc.pegasys-inc.com/en/download/te4xp.html
Are you talking about the WinFast PxVC1100? You can use it with TMPGEnc 4.0 XPress as long as you have the SpursEngine Plug-in which is sold separately (unless you buy the bundles). http://tmpgenc.pegasys-inc.com/en/product/te4xp_spurs.html
I´ve done some testing with a Mac Pro System running BootCamp and WinXP Pro 32. The System is a dual xeon 2.26 GHz and it has 20 gigabytes RAM (Win XP uses only 2 GByte or so) and the GeForce GT 120 graphics card. This system is actually used as a final cut pro editing system under OSX an so it has a AJA Kona LHi HD capture card and a 8x1 TByte external Sonnet RAID; these weren´t used during the tests.
TMPGEn 4 runs fine on this system. I own the 3.0 version running on an rather old AMD type PC; so one can expect major speed improvements. In fact, i tried to encode the same 90 minute SD movie on both machines with identical settings; MPEG 2 PAL 16:9, 5.7 MBits average, highest motion search precision and some noise reduction (set to small, about 35 units) The old pc finished after more than 26 hours; the Mac Pro under Windows in 2 hours and 40 minutes.
However, i was unable to activate CUDA. I tried installing all the latest drivers from the Nvidia homepage. Still showing CPU = 100%, CUDA = 0%. I haven´t had the chance to run a test with the leadtek accelerator board. but i will try this in the near future. maybe the grphic card in the mac is just a little to weak to support encoding systems.
When prefiltering some HDTV Material with the noise filter, the spatial filter works fine, but the temporal filter immediately turns the video to black, if the noise reduction amount is more than zero. maybe this is a bug .(Input file was a HDTV 1080 25i QuickTime with AJA Codec.
Hi I have a MKV file which opens in TMPGEnc, I want to convert to AVCHD in TMPGEnc 4.0 Express. Can anyone tell me the settings or can't this be done, does this program only import AVCHD?
I think to output AVCHD with XPress 4 is not possible yet, but may be in future could be, I recommend you to output with Blu-ray output template or mpeg-4 AVC in HD for a high quality files.
I have the full verison of TMPGEnc DVD Author 3 with DivX Authoring.. What i am trying to do is I taped something off of TV but im trying to edit out all of the commericals. When im editing it u can hear the audio when i hit play and such but after i am done editing and try to out put i get the message saying
"The "Track 1" Track does not include an audio conform to the DVD-video standard.
When authoring a NTSC DVD-video, each Track should at least contain one Dolby Digital or Linear PCM audio Stream. In the track settings change MPEG-1 Audio Layer II into Dolby Digital or Linear PCM to avoid this warning"
My Question is it is set on Dolby Digital and I am doing everything i do every time anyone know what might be causing this? Thanks any help is greatly appreciated...
Thank you for your answer, I now Canoous brand is very very good, I work whit edius, gratefull. Why only 5-10 % ? The problem is the cpu?
Whit your firecoder how many time I will save?
Thank you Ottudali for your test,
you are very kindly. I would buy Winfast Pxvc1100 to convert only Mpeg2 to H.264 files like your test. I think the time to transcoding is similar to your firecoder blu.
Is there a preferred video format that is best suited for use in TMPGEnc Authoring Works 4, or a format it was specifically designed to work best with?
Thanks