Hello,

I plan to buy this SW but I have read that there will be a periodic license activation. Unfortunately I did not find much about this.
I plan to use it on my Notebook where I do not have always an internet connection since I'm travelling and work on different places.
Could it be happen that I want to start the program and it refuses to work since I just have no internet connection? If so then this would make it unusable. Or is there something like a counter where I can see when it will do next activation or even force it? I need to know it in advance to make a decision if I will buy it.

Yes, the software could ask to validate when you are on the road, so be aware of that risk. It requires an internet connection to validate maybe once or twice a month...not too sure since I don't keep track though so it could be more or less than that.

There is no counter so you won't know when it will ask to validate and I haven't taken the time to figure out if there is a pattern. There is no built-in way to force a validation, but I think if you rename the license file it will bring up the validation window.

We upgraded to Smart Renderer 4 after many successful years with version 3. I noticed that you can no longer output to a standard DVD in V4, only to blue ray. We are a community tv station, still broadcasting in standard def and all our programs are stored on DVD. Will you be adding this back into the program or do you have any recommendations to get finished mpgs on to DVD-R's after you have trimmed them using V4? Our V3 version is no longer active.

Hello,
I returned the DVD authoring with reason:
Video Manager IFO and BUP files in Same ECC block.
I scouted the internet and found a solution with PgcEdit. But I wonder whether it has already set TMPG to work correctly.
My original workflow: TMPG authoring, Nero Burning ISO image sent to FTP.
William

Im using Taw5 in Windows 7 64 bits, I have been using it for a while without problems but now the options button on the top right of the program is not responding, it simply does nothing when I press it. What can I do? I have to close the program to get a Save option cause I cant manually save from the options menu...

This happened to me when using Video Mastering Works 5 on Win7 64-bit. I can't remember what worked, but closing and re-opening the program or restarting my system fixed things.

All keyboard shortcuts should still work if it happens again, so just hit ctrl+s to get the save dialog.

Thanks - restarting the system restored the option button.

I've used TMPGenc products for years. I have some h264 AVI files I have captured with an Avermedia device. I want to trim the beginning by about a minute and the ending by about the same amount. I don't want to render the result i.e. no conversion. There is a product called Smart Cutter that will accomplish this very quickly on h264 TS files but I've found nothing that will do this with AVI. Can Mastering Works do this? Thanks!

No, Video Mastering Works 5 cannot do this; it is a video conversion tool so it is meant to re-encode everything.

MPEG Smart Renderer 4 can output h.264 video without re-encoding, but I don't know if it will be able to read an .avi file. Download the trial and see if it works.
http://tmpgenc.pegasys-inc.com/en/download/tmsr4.html

Is there anyway to import H.264 HI10P 10 bit encoded video?

Thanks

Seria genial como alternativa en eficiencia similar a h265, el ahorro de tamaño del codec H264 HI10P en Anime es impresionante.

Y quien sabe si en el futuro cercano tengamos x265 o "Spursengine-2" para codificar y decodificar por acceleracion hardware en h265 y Ultra Alta definicion.

Talvez lo veamos en un TMPGEnc Video Mastering Works 6.

Thanks. I have already send a sample to Pegasys technical team for review. Hopefully they will implement it in the net version

Our company head (Mr. Niranjan Dusane, email - dusanen@gmail.com) had purchased 5 new licenses of TMPGEnc Video Mastering Works 5 (English) for our new project requirement.

We are testing this product on 10-12 different desktops (Win 7 Prof, 64-bit). So we had put a single key on 2-3 desktops. But we run only 4-5 systems in parallel at any point of time.

We had observed that in last 1 month out of 5 keys 3 were suspended. So we are left with only 2 keys. Due to this we are not able to perform our testing properly..

Requesting you to identify the suspended keys & activate them immediately, so that our full testing can start.

Depending on this test results, we would take a decision to buy another 15-20 licenses of this software in next 3-4 weeks..

Requesting you to remove this suspension immediately

You should contact support; this forum is just users helping other users.

http://tmpgenc.pegasys-inc.com/en/support/support.html

Hi, TMPGencAuthoringWorks 4.0.2.14
I have 6 video clips and I wish to see a menu appear showing all 6 clips thumbnails when dvd inserted into dvd player and autoruns.
User navigates to e.g. clip 3 and hits ok, clip plays and loops when it reaches end, so it plays again and again, until user chooses menu option from dvd handset, then user sees the 6 thumbnail menu option and can choose another clip from the 6 clips showing.

Alternatively if thats not possible, clip plays then when it reaches end the 6 clip menu re-appears and user chooses that clip again to replay it.

What should the source window have in it, 6 tracks each with 1 clip, or one track with 6 clips ?
What should the menu choices be when compiling menu. I usually opt for the user chooses thumbnails and frame style etc route !

Merlin

The only thing that's not possible is setting a single track to repeat automatically. TAW4 only lets you repeat ALL tracks. However, your alternate goal is possible and you can set it to go back to the top menu after the track playback ends.

I would add each clip to a separate track, so you'll have 6 tracks.

You can do either custom or template menu option--that's up to you.
If you do not need chapter menus, choose "Top menu only" when the option comes up. Choosing this also allows the track to play immediately once it's selected.
For Disc insertion action, choose "Display the top menu".
For Track Playback end action, choose "Display the top menu".

That should do what you want.

Many Thanks, I shall follow this.

I do find the way TAW gives the menu options confusing, maybe someone has done a...you want this, so choose this...user guide to TAW, I could do with one. I mess around with DVD_RW discs and various combinations and it takes ages, sometimes as this, I get nowhere.

Cheers

Merlin

Hello,

how can I add a transition, i.e. fade-in black, at the beginning of the first clip?

thanks,
n00bert

For a fade-in effect on your first (or only) clip, you will need to create a color clip to fade-in from.
To do this, click on the Source Wizard button in the Source Stage.
In the Source Wizard window, select "Add color matte or pattern clip" option.
You will then be able to set the duration and the color of the clip.
If you want to fade-in from black, select black as your color.
The duration of this clip should be as long as your fade-in effect's duration at the minimum. So if you want a 3 second fade-in, this clip should be at least 3 seconds long.
When you are finished with the settings, click the "Finish" button and the color clip will be added to your clip list in the Source Stage.

Move your new color clip to the top of the list (or before the clip you want to fade-in to). With your color clip selected, use the same method for adding the fade-out effect as described above but be sure to select a crossfade effect to crossfade from your color clip to your actual clip.

thanks a lot for the workaround!

I already have a PAL formatted DVD that has 2 subtitle formats on my hard drive of course in exact DVD file structure. I would like to use TMPGEnc Authoring Works 5 to create a DVD that is NTSC compliant so that it will play on my U.S. Standard NTSC DVD Player. I also would like to keep the menus/chapters/subtitles ect the same as what are on the original. Has anyone tried this? and if so can you please provide some tips so that I don't end up with a DVD-9 mess!
Thanks

You can convert the actual tracks to NTSC (it will do a full re-encode) and keep subtitles/chapters but you will not be able to copy/convert the menus.

Thank you! I don't care if it re-encodes that's to be expected going from 25fps to 29.970fps...Forgive my ignorance here but I did play around in trying to do as suggested but in the simulation mode the english subtitle never displayed so I stopped and did not go any further. Can you please be a little more specific on the steps-Thanks
Saph

When you import the tracks you should be able to select the subtitles to import.
Use the Source Wizard's import from a DVD option to make sure you're importing everything you want. It will show available subtitles and audio streams to import.

After that, the subtitles should be selectable in preview windows. By default, the subtitles might be off, so you may need to activate them. In the Simulation stage, click on the right-most button in the play controls to select the subtitle stream.

Thanks tkrave! there was a small button way before menus and chapters where I needed to select which subtitle track that I wanted as well as the font-size-color-placement options...However in the simulation stage the changes I made to the subs did not simulate. I guess that happens during the encode process which I will check out very soon!

Hi,
Is there any chance to burn more than one DVD at once? I have 3 DVD burners in my PC and it takes ages to burn let's say 30 DVDs. I tried to run another session of AW 4 but cant run burning tool as it says another application is active.

My PC is i7-3770K, 32 GB RAM, all HDDs are SATA 6GB and all DVD burners are SATA. System drive is 240GB SSD so it should not be a problem for PC to do that kind of job.

Not possible right now, but who knows? Maybe they'll see this request and add it later.

in editing movie forced subtitles appear. how do I remove them

Are they encoded as part of the video? If so then they can't be removed.