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1) If you're creating VERY large slideshows, create each topic as a seperate sub-project. Complete each with music and subtitles (eg Holidays 2001, 2002, 2003 etc) and output as a DVD to your hard disk.
Once you have created all the sub-projects, create a new master project and import each sub-project, selecting the subtitles you want to import. Repeat for each slideshow sub-project. Once all are imported, build the menus then output the entire master project and burn to DVD.
Doing this TAW5 is a lot more responsive and stable than one very large project. If make a mistake, just edit and re-render the sub-project. You should delete the old sub-project from the master project, then re-import to problems - particularly if the new version of teh sub-project is of different length. This way it only takes minutes to correct a mistake and re-render to DVD - instead of hours if it was one large project.
2) Slideshows only need a low bitrate. Slideshows with animation work fine at 2500 kbps, or lower if no animation. This way you can get 6 or 7 hours of slideshow on one dual-layer DVD.
3) It's not everyone's taste, but I think transistions and animations are good. Don't overdo transitions - it can get irritating - usually best to stick to the same simple transistion for each photo - eg dissolve. If zooming in, select local setting for each picture, and select the subject by clicking on it (eg click on the face of a person) - that way TAW5 zooms into the subject (where the eye naturally focuses), rather than zooming off to some random point in the distance.
4) Subtitles are terrific for slideshows. I use three - picture description, the music currently playing and the picture filename. Decide on the duration of each picture before adding subtitles - otherwise you'll have to spend ages changing the subtitle timings (The default of 5s for each seems to work well). I set the picture description as the default (ie it always displays unless turned off or changed to a different subtitle). Each subtitle type (or individual subtitle) can be a different colour - I use a different colour for each of the three.
1) Currently only 200 pictures per slideshow are allowed - although multiple slideshows can be added to one track. I am unaware of any technical reason (ie DVD standards) why this is restricted to 200. This causes difficulties for soundtracks and subtitles. Can this be increased to at least 1000?
2) Currently only one audio file can be selected. This causes problems especially for background music for slideshows, where you have to edit multiple files into a single file before use. It would be great if more than one file could be selected that would then play sequentially.
3) The ability to change the duration of multiple subtitles. For example - in a slideshow if you want to change the display duration of all pictures from say 5s to 6s, all subtitles timings need to be manually adjusted.
4) The ability to import a subtitle file to the end of an existing subtitle file. For example if you combine all the pictures from two slideshows into one, there is no easy way to append the subtitles of the second slideshow at the end of the first.
5) I've noticed a new issue in TAW5 I didn't notice in TAW4. When you are in the pictures tab reviewing pictures, it is very easy to accidentally move the position of a picture (try clicking on each picture on the left in turn - you will find it impossible to do without changing the order of the pictures.
6) Zoom in to a rectangle doesn't zoom in to the selected area. This also didn't work on TAW4.
Other than that and that TAW5 is not quite as stable as TAW4, this is the best slideshow software on the market.
hallo. i have a question to you.In this version you've fixed the problem with highlight fade in,of course it is very good but, is it possible also make highlight fade out?????
Actually, the new feature is a highlight delay, not a fade in. A true highlight fade in (and fade out) option would be a great feature for an update, though.
I found the cause for an MKV video to lock-up when importing it, it's the Nvidia graphics driver at fault.
My setup is Window's 7 x64, ffdshow x86, Haali Matroska splitter and TAW5. Consistently I would import an MKV and it would lock-up. After re-installing Window's a few times, I discovered it worked when I hadn't installed any graphics driver from Nvidia (for my GeForce 520 card).
I installed "GeForce 301.42 - WHQL", the latest driver as of this post, then TAW5 would freeze. When I rolled back to driver "GeForce 296.10 Driver - WHQL", it worked fine and no longer locked-up.
I don't know what the root cause is, whether it's something Nvidia is doing, or if TAW5 is to blame, but rolling back to an earlier graphics driver "fixes" it.
It can be Nvidia's fault, just as it is Ati's fault that people experience problems with their graphics card drivers.
The guys behind Matroska released a drivers package named CoreAVC (pay ware) a couple of years ago, who makes decoding and encoding of HD video run much more stable and smoothly if you have an Nvidia graphics card.
Obviously because there are problems with Nvidia's own CUDA driver.
The guys behind FFDSHOW created their own version of Ati's DXVA and added it for free to FFDSHOW, who runs much more smoothly and stable than Ati's original unstable release.
They did this because Ati leaves their graphics card users hanging dry and refuse to solve the problem with their own horrible DXVA.
Thanks Persen. I wondered what CoreAVC was and thought it was a CODEC package. For DXVA, I wasn't aware it's ATI only. In fact I saw "ffdshow (DXVA)" on the Win7DSTweaker tool. It sounds like the problem lies with Nvidia.
I'll say this though, ATI drivers are worse, much worse. Many times I've used a slightly older ATI card with latest drivers, they would blue-screen on installation, consistently - the problem lie with the card detection program.
I'll report this problem to Nvidia, see if I get any reply.
I am not even using the latest Ati drivers for my graphics card. The drivers are almost 6 months old, but at least they in general are running smoothly, except for the DXVA that came with it, but i let FFDSHOW take care of that instead.
CoreAVC is not entirely drivers package, it does contain codecs (forgot to mention that). Those are the ones who takes over the work of what Nvidia's CUDA is normally suppose to do.
But that said, Ati card users should not waste their time on CoreAVC. I have given it a shot about 8 months ago by trying to use it in DVDFab. Halfway threw the encoding process, it failed with unknown errors, obviously because i was trying to use it with a graphics card who uses DXVA as its engine.
So yup, they are right on the CoreAVC homepage when they say its mainly designed for Nvidia cards, because obviously it will only run smoothly there.
Hi, I've de-multiplexed a movie that's in a vob file in my pc. I've done this by going into MPEG Tools and double-clicking the audio file. When I go play the audio file that I have demuxed, I don't hear anyhting. It has three audio files and none of them make a sound when I play them after being demuxed.
El programa dejo de funcionar por un problema, Windows cerrará el programa y le notificará si exista una solución"
El proble es que uso este programa desde hace bastante tiempo,y desde que e puesto windows 7 no hay qui lo pueda ejecutar,me podria decir alguien a que es devido esto.
doa fresh install of windows . update and install the codecs ie get ird of the ones you have . and update the recent tmpgenc software you have. chances are its a conflict
Hi, I have 76 videos in mp4 format, 75Mb each (a total of 5GB), but when added to new proyect Start - Bluray BDMV video weighs 1.5 Gb each (totaling almost 100GB). I can do to the videos do not weigh much, may enter into a Bluray of 23GB and keep the original quality. thanks
TAW5 will re-encode that video to make it Blu-ray compliant. The resolution will be changed to 720x480 at least. I'm also guessing that TAW5 is giving the videos a larger bitrate. The audio will also be re-encoded as Dolby Digital (ac3) or LPCM. Make sure audio is encoded as ac3 to save space.
You can change the encoding settings in the Track Settings.
My bad, this is for TAW4, so your video will be converted to MPEG-2 which is not as efficient as MPEG-4 AVC, so that's also part of why the file size gets bigger. In other words, the outputted MPEG-2 video can be double the size (or more) because MPEG-2 can't compress as much data as MPEG-4 AVC.