I will NEVER buy this product until it gets up to date with the rest of the world and outputs to AVCHD and H/X264 AND smart renders losslessly of course.

Is there a lack of expertise with the Pegasys developers to handle the job in hand?

And a lot of the world is still quite happy doing DVDs.

You may have moved on. HOwever, they are in business to sell product at a profit> The question is what has their primary market done, and how many additional copies would they sell by adding the features you ask for now, as opposed to at some time in the future?

There is little reason to spend limited development resoruces on adding a feature that will not add corrsponding additional sales

Hm, I'm not quite sure about that. In my opinion Pegasys changed the name of their authoring solution from "DVD author" to the more general "Authoring Works" and added the term "bluray authoring" to their adds in order to sell additional copies to people who want to author blurays and not only DVDs. Fact is: bluray authoring with "Authoring Works" is almost impossible because of the missing support for h.264. For me MPEG-2 makes no sense on Blurays because of the lower efficiency compared to h.264 and because HDTV and avchd streams need to be converted, which consumes lots of time and quality. What really drives me crazy is that in my opinion the user interface of DVD Author / Authoring Works is one of the best on the market. I really would love to spend my money, if only h.264 would be supported...

The Japanese version of TAW5 is out and it has AVCHD and BD H.264 output and H.264 smart rendering. The English version should be coming soon. SO CHILL OUT.

http://tmpgenc.pegasys-inc.com/ja/product/taw5.html

Well that IS good news! Better late than never. What was the release date of the japanese version?

Indy

Looks like it was December 22 possibly.

Actually, it looks like it was released on January 12.
December 22 was just the announcement that it was coming.

I hope this becomes available soon for English market, I had a BSOD which rebooted the entire system while doing a conversion from AVCHD to DVD with the current 4.1.2.49 and I'd love to test the new version.

This is great news. I just received notificaton on the new upcoming release. I wonder when it will be released and how much...

3d bd authoring..............................wiating
when?

Until now there's not even h.264 bluray authoring and you're asking for 3d? That's funny...

I need to convert many files and I want output them as separate files. I cannot for the life of me find a way to do this. I can add them one at a time and then do a batch encode but that is time consuming. Is there no way to do this? I see options that talk about "outputting clips separately" but I find no tick box to select that option. Google search says this was an option in 4 xpress. I'm sure there is an easy way and I'm just overlooking it. Thanks for your help.

The "output clips separately" option is only for Normal editing mode. It allows you to output each clip in the Edit Stage as a separate file.

I've been using TMPGEnc since the version 4 days. I like it. V5 with x264 seems to scale better (or at least use more of the CPU consistantly) on my quad system. I prefer to set every setting on the most cpu-intensive/quality settings. This means that encoding takes a long time... even for my over clocked quad core system. AMD opteron CPUs are relatively cheap and I was wondering if it were worth investing in a rendering system. Can TMPGEnc scale up to 16 or even 48 cores well.

I'm guessing it will, but I don't know for sure since I've only used it with up to 8 cores. The x264 encoder uses nearly 100% of my CPU. Optimization varies for the other formats/encoding engines.

Thanks for the feedback. I've only seen v4 on an 8 thread machine (i7 4 core with HT). It did not load the entire cpu. I believe v5 probably does use a cpu better, but I still can't help but wonder about much higher scaling. In other words I could spend like $1,000 for get 12 cores at ~2.2Ghz-2.6GHz or I could spend around $3,000 and get 48 cores. Could you imagine the let down when only 8 cores were being used?

I must be doing something wrong or missed something, because each DVD I burn shows up in WMP with the name "Unknown DVD", and instead of what I named each of my tracks they are simply each and every one of them labeled as simply "Title 1", "Title 2", etc., and next to each "Title" it also lists a "Chapter 1", "Chapter 2", etc., when I didn't even add any chapters.

Can some one please help me to understand and hopefully fix this?

Is anybody love for ESPOW android tablet pc? They're excellent tablets! Come on, who doesn't get one? You can own it at a affordable price.

Espow.com offers a practical approach to buy a new Tablet PC and accessories for your device. We are specialized on selling best Windows & Android Tablets with Android OS and other gadgets. And We We have been committed to providing customers with the best quality products and service. So go ahead - shop with confidence. Call us or place your order online today!

ESPOW android tablet pc is a wise choice for you!
More information:
http://www.espow.com/wholesale-computers-networking-tablets.html

android tablet pc, best android tablet, android tablets

New here guys, so please be gentle with me. :-)

I have selected motion menu in the background editor and chosen a video file, which plays fine in the menu item editor, but does not show when I click OK and go back to the page editor. Nor does it show in simulation. I have checked motion menu under global menu settings too. A clue may be that there is a padlock showing next to 'background' on the left, but I can't find any way to 'unlock' it.

Also, I want text only buttons on the top menu, but picture buttons on the 'scene selection' menus. Is this possible?

If the background is locked, it sounds like you're using one of the pre-made templates. In that case, I don't think you can animate the background, only the thumbnails or whatever you add to menu yourself.

If you create a custom menu, you can edit and animate the background. Going the custom route also lets you choose a text-only layout for the top menu and a thumbnail layout for the track menus.

i want to author bluray disc 50gb.it should be dual movie 2d and 3d both.during playthe 2d movie there should be one option,when i click on remote 2d button change the movie video into 2d.same like this when i click on 3d option,change movie playback into 3d movi.how is this can be possible .i have original bluray 3d movie "three musketeers"in this movie 2d and 3d both movie.help me?

I'm creating a DVD menu, and I need to move and rearrange a few objects on the menu page. However, the objects are locked, and I cannot find a way to unlock them so that I can move them.

Is there a way to do this?

Not with the pre-made templates.

You can only unlock items for custom templates.

Thank you!

I am trying to emulate the behaviour of a DVD within one DivX file and this program seems to be doing the trick except for one (rather important) feature, and I hope I'm just missing something.
I have multiple pages of menus, but when each clip (movie) reaches the end, it always returns to the title menu, no matter which menu the clip was linked from in the first place - which means that to play the next clip in line, one must navigate back to that menu every time. Very frustrating, is there a way around this??
I'm hoping there is some sort of "End Action" behaviour function like in Adobe Encore which can be set for each individual clip and basically orders a function like "On clip end, return to menu x, button x"

It's not possible with DivX menus. I'm pretty sure this is a limitation of the DivX Ultra format.

When I am encoding a Windows Media Video (recorded tv) .wtv, the encoding process completes, however, the finished video ALWAYS freezes about 15 minutes into the viewing process. Any suggestions on how to fix this?

Thanks

This happens with every wtv file or just one? Are you converting to DVR-MS?

This does not happen when I convert it to DVR-MS. It only happens when I load the file in its native form. It does happen with every recorded .wtv file. I was hoping to bypass DVR-MS process, but it doesn't seem like that is possible.

I have the same problem. The hotline doesn't do anything...I have the problem when WTV are in Full HD with E-AC3 sound (Dolby Digital plus)

Hi

I just want a better MPG2 file edited and encoder.
I currently use TMPGenc DVD author 1.5 ( ancient i know )

A friend of mine is now using MPEG editor 3 and I would be happy with that, but can somebody tell me if Video Mastering Works 5 does exactly the same + a little more, or is it a different piece of software altogether

thanks
Scott

They are different.

The main difference is that MPEG Editor 3 has Smart Rendering, which will allow you to edit your MPEG-1/2 video without having to re-encode it on output. If you only need to cut out scenes, MPEG Editor 3 should be good for you.

With Video Mastering Works 5, you will always have to re-encode the entire video when you output, even if you are outputting to the same format and specs.
However, TVMW5 allows you to do more during the editing, such as apply filters, overlay video, add transitions, captions, subtitles, animation, etc. You will be able to do way more with TVMW5, but you will always have to do a full encode at output.

Download the trials first and see which suits your needs better.

Thanks for that info. I'll be getting MPEG Editor 3 for its smart rendering feature. I have the latest Vegas for the full blown stuff.
Cheers
Scott

I usually work with Avid but when I export an Mpeg2 within Premiere Pro and then dropping this to Authoring Works it hangs for some time and it opens after some minutes.

This is not the case when I go from QT (Avid) to Mastering Works 5 to produce an mpeg2 and then to Authoring.

Also the simulation takes some minutes to start.

I've exported MPEG-2 from Premiere Elements (not Pro) and they work just fine in TAW4, showing the files will be smart rendered. Premiere Elements 8.0 uses the MainConcept MPEG encoder -- I don't know what the Pro version uses.

Perhaps you've changed a setting in the MPEG-2 that TAW4 doesn't like? Are you using the NTSC or PAL DVD Standard export preset, or whatever the Pro version calls it?

Even program streams that are encoded with Sorenson Squeeze are coming with big delay and the preview comes with delay also.

Going at Mpeg2 TS for DVD makes the job right. If it is program stream Works won't import it right from both Media Encoder and Squeeze.