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I am wondering if I have a .m2t file that I am frameserving out of premiere that is 29.97 interlaced, can I encode it to .mp4 at 30fps progressive or more likely a 29.97 progressive framerate or should I keep the 29.97 interlaced framerate and de-interlace it? I am uploading it to vimeo and I am having a hard time seeing any difference but 30fps I know should probably not be my best option.
I've managed to create a simple Blu-ray menu in TAW4.
It has a title screen consisting of PLAY ['play track button'] and CHAPTER ['chapter menu button'].
During simulation, pressing CHAPTER takes me into pages 1,2,3 etc. which feature 'thumbnail of chapter' and 'play track buttons', as well as 'go to the next page' and 'previous page' buttons.
However, while clicking the thumbnail picture correctly takes the viewer to the appropriate chapter, clicking on PLAY in these pages always starts the film at the beginning. What I need is for PLAY within the 'chapter' pages to also take the viewer to the appropriate chapter, just like the thumbnail does.
I'm stuck at how to change the PLAY button in the chapter pages to not start at the beginning but jump to the appropriate chapter, while retaining the title menu PLAY as 'play all'.
The Play button refers to Playing the track from the beginning; it can't be set to play from whatever chapter page you're on. To start playing from a specific chapter, you would use the chapter thumbnails/text. It might be more intuitive to remove the Play button from all but the first chapter page.
Play may also start the play at which ever button is highlight. Move the lighlight with the navigation/cursor buttons. The default if no button is highlighted is the first chapter.
I'm new to TMPGenc Authoring Works 4, which I have chosen as a Blu-ray authoring tool because my usual editor/DVD creator Avid Liquid does not have such facilities.
In Liquid, I usually create simple DVD menus consisting of a static background picture, no sound, a list of chapters in plain text, and buttons alongside those chapters for navigation via DVD player remote control.
I'm trying to emulate this approach in TAW4 but am a bit stuck in dealing with the chapters.
So far I have successfully created a background by importing the same picture used in my DVDs from Liquid. Then I have created some chapter titles in a similar plain text. My first question is, can I make my chapter text objects function as buttons? So the DVD remote can simply flick up and down them with each one becoming highlighted? This means I will not need buttons alongside my chapter titles, since the chapter titles are buttons themselves. If this is possible, could someone offer a brief workflow through TAW4 to help achieve my goal? I can't seem to find a function to assign created text objects to chapters.
My second question is, if it is not possible to make text items function as buttons, how would you go about creating a simple menu structure like I mention above? I just want the one page (i.e. TITLE PAGE) with half a dozen buttons displayed on that same page available for chapter navigation.
I think I'm getting a little lost with the Menu Creation Wizard in that I'm not sure from the onscreen information just which format I should be choosing. There seems to be a lot of reference to 'TRACKS', but all I want is one basic title menu with a 'play all' and the option to select different CHAPTERS in the video.
I need to manufacture a Blu-ray quite quickly for a client, so would much appreciate any guidance with regards to my simple menu requirements from any experienced users of TAW4.
Also, when I have created chapters in 'source' with 'marks the current frame as a chapter entry', when I press the 'moves the playhead to the next chapter of the source' button it does not do this... but instead seems to advance the playhead by exactly 15 frames at a time. I don't understand this - how do I make the playhead jump to my next chapter correctly?
Can't answer the question directly. Have not been usign AW4 long enought to have it fully committtd to memory and am not at my edit machine.
With taht in mind, my breaktrough in lerning to use AW4 (after yeasr with Encore and ReelDVD) was to realize that when you first create a menu structure you get full plate of features in it, and you make the changes in large part by deleting, inactivating, changing, or making transparent the items you do not want, and by adjusting some attributes of the menu and menu items. Lots for featutes tucked away in the nooks and crannies of the program.
I've also used it to create both DVD and BD from the same HDV media files and menu. Copy the media files from you DVD project to a new BD project. Save the DVD menua s a custom template, then apply that customtemplate to the BD project menu. The chapter points, navigation, links, buttin still images, etc. all carry over. The only thing I noticed that might not make it is some of the button attributs (e.g., highlight frames).
FWIW: I was a Liquid user, but switched to Edius 5.51 last year to deal with AVCHD and am a happy happy camper. Never really used the DVD creation side of LE.
I just installed the trial version. I've been using Express 4.0 with no problems but wanted to try the latest. I'm getting an error right away whenever I try to encode something, does not matter what it is, I always get this error:
I have a question regarding editing video in TMPGenc.
Let's suppose that I imported a DVD movie, cuted a few scenes, and then encoded.
I have saved the project file, keyframe list etc and closed the program.
Later, i figered out that one or two scenes should't be cuted, and must be returned back.
How can I accopmlished that?
I have the original movie, keyframe list everything, but I can't figure out how to "undo" and put back just that two scenes?
Maybe I'm not understanding something, but it seems as though you're just going to have to start over and re-encode again, but this time don't cut those two scenes.
Acutally, I think if you just reopen your project file and go to the edited clips, you can just set the beginning/end of the clip to include the cut scene. The entire source video should still be viewable in the clip editor, and the area that is highlighted in the thumbnail navigator represents the current clip.
i rendered the same video twice..first time with closed gop..second time not with closed gop. The file is really the same but first one has long GOP 32 fields and second one 36 fields..what is better?what is the difference?thanks
Am I correct that the ability to have surround sound in
divx is not included in this product. I have used authoring works and it does have surround sound in divx so I was expecting this to be available. A plugin has been mentioned. I do not seem to have the plugin??? have missed it?
thanks for any help.
Well, I did it by saving the DVD menu as a template. Then copying the edited video files from the DVD sesion to a new BluRay project. After that I based the BluRay project menu on the template saved from the DVD project. Only minor adjustments to the menus were need. Might not be the best way, but it worksed.
Media files were all at resolution appropriate to BluRay.
I use the "Source Wizard" to select a movie from a DVD, it then copies the DVD to a temporary file with a .dvddata extension. I then realize I've forgotten to select a subtitle track. How do I do this after the Wizard has done it's stuff? Do I have to start the Wizard all over again remembering to select the subtitle this time and wait for it to make the another backup?
In reply to my own question yes you can change both subtitles and audio track settings. The Audio is simple as it is an option under "Clip Properties | Audio". The subtitles are a bit more hidden. They are in the "Clip Properties | Video" section. There you can select the Subtitle stream in "Video Properties" then click "Apply". Not exactly intuitive I would say!
Your program is really really good now that you've incorporated x264. I noticed that b-pyramid is set to '0' (ie, not active) even on the 'very slow' preset. This is major oversight. Please create a new preset (called 'Insane' perhaps?) which has b-pyramid=2.