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I am simply trying to build a basic menu that you'd find on most retail DVDs. That would mean the disc loads and you are given the options of play, set-up (audio and/or subtitles), special features, and scene selections.
If I try to do it all on the track page (with no top menu), all of the chapters appear on the first page, which defeats the purpose of having a chapters page in the first place. I have tried workarounds including creating a bunch of phony chapters and then trying to make the thumbnails tiny and delete the chapter names, thereby making the second page the actual starting point. That way I can just change the button that says "next page" to "scene selections." Of course, that creates a problem if I'm using a 16x9 menu, as you are limited to 18 items on a page. But even if I were using a 4x3 menu, I'd still have a whole bunch of pointless, tiny blank buttons that I'd have to navigate around to get to the actual buttons I want to use.
Of course a lot of this could be solved if I could create my own links within a menu page. In other words, I'd like to have custom buttons that I can link to pages within the menu, instead of relying on the choices TDA4 has already made for me. That way I could just create a top menu and link to each page, with no workarounds needed. Is this possible? All I'd need is one button that I can name and add to the title page within my single track.
Or is there a way to simply delete the thumbnails on a page? I know I can delete the text, and have no thumbnails visible, but I'd still like to see the visuals of the chapters, not compromise because of finicky software.
I'm fine with keeping the special features in the same track as the feature film so I can have all the audio and subtitle options in the same track. Of course the only foolproof way to do that is to treat the special features like extra chapters, making sure that they get their own page by choosing the correct template that corresponds number-wise to your total chapters. But is there a way to access a second audio track from a non-audio page (other than while playing the actual movie and doing it on the fly), much as a you would if there was an audio commentary listed in the special features section?
I have taken some screenshots, which you can see below, of some rather basic attempts to almost remedy the situation, though as you can see, I am always one button short.
HELP I am completely new to using this tool and am seeing if it will suit our needs for DVD authoring. ( so far it looks great) however. I am using WMV files and plan to convert them to NTSC DVD. I put up an array of 3 files and when I ran it through the simulator, I am not hearing any video. It is specifying the Audio source as the same file as the video source.
What am I doing wrong? or Does the free trial version not support audio?
While I'm sympathetic to the need for the software to validate its license periodically, is there a specific schedule for when it does this? Where I work, the software is installed on kiosk computers that are meant for video editing only and should not have internet access. I have to manually connect them up to validate the software and then I disconnect them after. Is it possible to get the address of the server they dial in to? I was thinking of just leaving them connected without a gateway and then manually adding a single dns entry on the local hosts file so that the computers can only access the internet for that one thing.
Use multiavchd for your authoring. Much friendlier and will auto encode whatever files you have. Works with every subtitle format and keeps colours and annotations.
I encode using TMPGEnc and the settings give you the option of locking the video size (default is off). To me it makes sense to lock the video size but I am not totally sure as to whether I am right or not. Can anybody enlighten me please?
Hi just installed Nvida drivers 306.23 and authoring works 5 stops working. I can no longer import MPEG elementary streams in. just going to try 296.10 drivers. I can import AVis though ???
Think there is a problem here. for info if others are having issues
This has been an issue for several MONTHS now and we have heard NOTHING from the team in regards to this. Appears that we have been abandoned. Version 4 gets an update, and version 5 just gets shafted. I really feel that I wasted my money buying this program. Stick with 296.10. Or move to multiavchd, as Dean K. has started work on it again. Supports a LOT more media streams and subtitles than Authoring Works 5 ever will.
Last time I EVER buy software. Freeware has a lot more support than buyware. And freeware usually only has 1-2 people at MOST working on it. You suck Pegasys. You used to be great, but now you just appear to be ignoring your users. Way to lose any future sales.
I have the latest version of the nvidia driver 306.97 and it works fine with the version you cited evidence on the preferences menu to turn off the plg-in media fondatiOr uninstall the program and try to reinstall
Avoid installing codec packs "create conflicts with the system" only recommended if you need ffdshow aloneon and leaves sprouted all the others and see if it works.
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I think CUDA is the coolest thing since the Lisp 3.0 intrepreter! But I'm wondering if my GPU is actually being used during H.264 encode.
I select a different H.264 encoder because Nvidia doesn't allow 2 pass encoding (and why is that, BTW? Were the Nvidia programmers lazy?)
Do I have to select the Nvidia encoder in order to get GPU vector processing horsepower, even though the encoding status bar says that CUDA is doing 99% of the work?
If so, do you think that reporting "99% CUDA" when the GPU is not being used is a bug that I should report? I hate to bother these people.
Not problem with Nvidia, but in PEGASYS!
- other encoders use REAL CODING ON GPU AND 2 PASS ON CUDA
- TMPGEnc Video Mastering Works 5, if select CUDA, coding on GPU ONLY(!) FILTERS (and yet not all), x264 ALWAYS on CPU!
...= no 2 pass encoding on PEGASYS
B.
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Are you guys sure that the encoding metrics are reported properly?
I'm getting 1% CPU, 99% CUDA, but all 6 CPUs are at 100% utilization and my geforce 470 is running at 3% utilization.
I know this is possible in theory, if the vector processors are vastly more efficient than the CPU and they both have to process the same frame at the same time. I assume that some tasks can only be handled by the CPU and the GPU might be spending almost all its time waiting for the CPU to catch up.
But isn't this asymmetry kind of, well, ridiculous?
Maybe it doesn't matter because I'll get my edited porn eventually no matter what the metrics say. But if there's an optimization problem somewhere that prevents my GPU from encoding the video at ultra-speed, I want to to fix it, and anyway, I'd like to think that the numbers I'm looking at are accurate.
Does anyone else notice the CPU being maxed and the GPU almost idle, even though it says CUDA is doing most of the work?
TMPGEnc Video Mastering Works 5, if select CUDA, coding on GPU ONLY(!) FILTERS (and yet not all), x264 ALWAYS on CPU! = no 2 pass encoding on PEGASYS
B.
p.s. ...others SW coding x264 Cuda 2pass no problem
If you want to encode with Cuda, you have to select it as the encoder (default is x264), otherwise it will only be used for filters. You cannot use two encoders at the same time.
No 2-pass for cuda encoding though.
However, there is a 2-pass option in the preferences for the x264 encoder.