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I'm in the creating menu's and I want the screen to loop the video and audio. (Motion Menu). So far the video loops with no problems but when I select the video + audio, there is no audio. It defaults to 15 secs look in the menu setting (which is set to use local settings instead of global settings) and i set the Motion Menu with video + audio to 45 secs.
Am I missing something here, since the beginning of the movie has audio? (there is audio since you can play the movie and then audio is present.)
Maybe someone can help me here.... I maybe overlooking something....
You have to set your BGM to play the audio from the video you are using for the motion menu. By default, it expects you to use some other audio file.
To do this, go the Menu Item Editor for your background and select the "BGM audio selection" tab.
Then just check the box for "Use audio from the background source".
What kind of source file is it? If it's an MPEG, you can demux the audio and then just load the audio as a separate file by using the Demultiplexer in the Start Stage-->Advanced Tools-->MPEG Tools.
I haven't run into that error so I'm not sure what the cause could be.
It is actually a dvd recording off of Directv. I record them onto DVD-RW's and then put it on my computer to strip out the commercials. (I like SCY-FY, so I record a lot of the movies.) I also have other uses (like from my Movie Camera)and make DVD's out of pictures "slideshow", but this is the main use. I would think if you can loop the video, the audio should be no different. The files on the DVD-RW are standard VOB files and TAW4 works great for it.
Does this make sense?
Now are you saying that I would have to strip out the audio out of the first 45 seconds of the movie and incorporate it into a file for use???
Yes, basically you separate the audio from the video, creating an audio file. You should then be able to load the audio file as your background music in your motion menu.
Usually you don't have to do this if you using the audio from your background video, but since you're getting that error, this method might work.
I see how in TMPGEnc there is an option where you can use a transition effect. It seemed like there were a lot of them to pick from so I just picked something that I'm familiar with, a fade and set it for about 7 seconds, but I never saw the fade in action. What is it supposed to be fading, and/or what are any of the other transition effects supposed to do?
Also...dumb question but I have to ask...How do you pronounce TMPGEnc?
Transitions appear between clips in your track. So if you choose a fade out, it will fade out of the selected clip and into the next. You can preview the transition in the Transition Editor window or in the Simulation stage.
By the way, transitions can only be applied to the end of clips, but there is a way to add a transition such as a fade-in to the beginning of the first clip.
First you'll need to create a clip composed of a solid color.
To do this, just go to the Source Wizard and select the last option, "From a color matte or pattern".
Set the color (or pattern or picture) and duration then click OK.
Drag the color clip to the beginning if necessary. You can then apply a transition to this clip to create a fade-in effect into your first real clip.
If you want to add a transition between scenes within a clip, you'll first have to split that clip into two clips.
You can do so with the Split clip function in the Clip Editor. Once in the clip editor, just navigate to the point you want to split the clip and click the split clip button (looks like this: ←|→ ).
Once you've made two clips from your clip, you can add a transition between them as usual.
When I click on the tracks button in the main menu, it opens up another window and there are the thumbnail's for whatever file(s) I have in there. How do I get rid of the thumbnails and just have text?
I had been using the custom menu's but must have missed the step or option that allows me to select text-only menu's. Do you recall exactly at what point in the options that comes up?
In this example, I selected a layout with two thumbnails for the top menu, and 4 text items for the track menu. For each thumbnail layout, there is a corresponding text-only layout.
I am trying to import my HDV tapes but the "Capture from HDV/DV Camcorder" Source wizard keeps stopping at each gap in the tape and I have to keep pressing the "Start Capture" button. I have about 3 seconds of blank footage in between some shots on my tape.
Is there any way I can increase the giveup time limit to 10 seconds rather than the current 1 second? Or just force the program to import the whole tape even if it finds empty footage?
Thanx for your input "tkrave". It will be nice if they add it to TMPG Enc 4,0 Express. My sattelite reciver is recording in TS files on the harddrive inside the reciver. I want to convert them into *.MKV, and store it in my TVIX multimedia player.
if its not a space issue then its a hdd issue, ie there is soemthign wrong with the hardware.
i woudl use tunetup utilities to scan the file system on the hdd and also scan for bad sectors, and then during reboot it will go througha process to repair.
Since this question is a month and a half old, you may well have found a solution and just didn't report it here. I had the same problem with over 750GB of free storage space, but I resolved it. Check your virtual memory settings on your computer and increase them manually if necessary, or increase your physical memory. If you don't have much physical memory and don't have enough virtual memory, it will throw this error regardless of how much physical storage space you have available. I posted about this already in another thread.
Hi,
this is my first time posting so you will excuse me if i am not up to speed.
I am using a PC runnig XP service pack 3.
I have the latest version of tmpeg installed 4.7.3.292.
I am trying to create a template that will allow me to convert a video file to an mpeg2 file with an odd pixel size 1672 x 471.
I am finding it hard to get tmpeg to accept these settings.
I can change the pixel size and bitrate but cannot get the program to save this as a template,i know mpeg2 has a maximim and minimum pixel,
Some of the setting i am using in the format section are
Output stream type-ES (video Only)
Bitrate-12000
Dispaly Mode-Progressive
GOP -I frames only
These settings have been given to me and are required for the media to work in the device i am using.
Hi,
figured it out with some help.
Under the profile tab i needed to change the profile and level to "MP@HL"
to allow the pixel size to be at the settings required.
I'm using tmpgenc4 with the spurs engine and it's great for fast encodes but does not live up to the max potential that the bluray spec has to offer.. the bluray spec allows for 40,000 kpbs video bitrate and 8,000 audio bitrate with the video codecs mpeg2,AVC(h.264) and VC-1. But tmpgenc4 only offers a bluray option in the mpeg2 format ( wich is the worst compression codec of the three ) why not offer a spurs engine option for bluray AVC(H.264) ??? i'm sure this could be implemented as the spurs engine cards support mpeg2 aswell as AVC(H.264). Another problem is the with the bluray Mpeg2 profile the video bitrate has a max bitrate of 32,000 kbps... why not the max possible video bitrate of 40,000 kbps ??? since the mpeg2 compression is qiute bad to begin with, i think thr extra 8,000 kbps would help. Just my thoughts.. what do you guys think ??
corect me if im wrong here but for avc would you choose the quicktime codecs toe ncode to .
and yes its rather odd for them not to include this in the bluray template settings.
and for the windows 7, would you not think its rather odd for a company to let a trail version work and then not have the master version not work on windows 7?
I received the following email from tmpgenc4 staff when i emailed them about the above issue.
"Dear Mr. Wichtmann,
Maybe, you can still create you own BD ouput profile by using the
Generic MPEG-4 output as a base then adapt the encoder settings to the
requirements of the BD format.
In MPEG-2, the maximum bitrate is 32,000 kb/s.
Yours Sincerely,
Olivier Graves."
However the mpeg2 spec states :
MP@HL can do 1920x1080 at up to 30fps with a bitrate up to 80Mbps in either Progressive and Interlaced formats.
MP@HL can do 1280x720 at up to 60fps with a bitrate up to 80Mbps in Progressive formats.
However tmpgenc4 using the spurs engine output maxes out at a video bitrate of 32Mbps in MP@HL in either of the above mentioned settings.If you wont give us a AVC(h.264) bluray profile why not just max out the video bitrate of the bluray mpeg2 profile to that of the max bluray spec and have the Mpeg2 bluray profile MP@HL have the ability to raise the video bitrate up to 40Mbps.
I have created a dvd menu and of each sub-menu for the chapters there is a play button..I have tried to remove it under display item for the dvd meuns BUT it does NOT delete properly..I have taken the font and made it 0. and then moves the box to off the screen. any ideas??
When I output my project in BD format, it appears to create the necessary folders/structure.
However when I burn to disc and try to play the movie it won't play - for example PowerDVD says the disc is in Unsupported format.