I have noticed what appears to be a bug.

I wanted to do some interlacing repair on a .ts file i have recorded from 1080i HDTV with 25fps. But what i found out was that there is a problem with rendering. I got huge green fields of pixel errors in the image no matter what i tried. I tried both the .ts importer and the 'as is' to use my external renderers instead.
But opening the .ts file in Corel VideoStudio Pro X5 and trying do some repair there instead, everything was just fine, no green pixel fields.

Something weird is going inside TVMW 5, who causes these green fields of pixel errors on 1080i 25fps HDTV recordings.

Does the file play normally on a software player? If so, you should report the issue directly to the product's support page. This is a user-to-user support forum.

The .ts file play just fine on both my software and hardware players, though showing the interlacing errors i wanted to repair, but support had been contacted now about this matter.

Hi,

I tried to download the trail version of TMPGEnc MPEG Smart Renderer 4 software, but I couldn't install on Windows server 2008 R2. I know the server operating system is not offically supported, but is there anyway to force it install? I'd very much like to give this tool a try.
All other video editor tools such as VideoStudio, PowerDirector and Sony Vegas can be installed without problem.
Thank you in advance!

I'm using Virtualdub with subtitles filter to enbedd Chinese Karaoke text onto the video. I have been frameserving it to TMPEGenc Plus 2.521 for many years without problem. Now I upgrade it to TVMW5, I have no problem to frameserve, I can even play the video clip freely at <Edit> level, but when I try to export it to a standard DVD files it said the file type is not supported. Why?

I must use SAA subtitles files, SRT can't work for me. Is there any way to embed SAA subtitles within TVMW5?

Please help

I wrote also to their customer servive / technical support,unfortunately they just keep asking some irrelavant and isolated questions. I seems to me that they just trying to talking away the problem and not trying to understand my problem. When I tell them my feeling, they stopped response to me.

Here is the workaround I found: Frameserve from Virtualdub as usual to a file XXX.vdr, [ then open this file using TMPEGen Plus 2.521 , Output XXX.mpg (any format, it doesn't matter), then save Project as XXX.tpr,] now just open XXX.tpr from TVM5 and it works! Next time you can skip those step in [].

I have a project whose duration is approximately 2 hr. 40 min. edited in Edius. I then used TMPGenc Video Mastering Works 5 to produce a x264 file so as to fit on a Blu-ray disc. So far all is good. I authored the project, adding a menu to it using TMPGEnc Authoring Works 5 and produced the desired Blu-ray disc in which Menu works as required and the disc plays fine. I also have a WD HD Live unit that I store all my travel video’s on. I copied the BDMV and Certificate folders to the WD’s hard drive, but when using this unit, the Menu does not function (it does on the Blu-ray disc). I can get the Menu to show, but it does not link to the movie files as required. Any suggestions on how to get the Menu to function as required on the WD HD Live unit?

You should really be asking this on the WD forum, not here. As this is obviously a problem with the WD software and not with the authored bluray that you have created. Maybe you can try creating an iso file and use that on the WD player. But seriously, ask WD for help.

To my knowlegde, WD TV Live (all of the models) does not support Blu-ray menus, only DVD menus, that also goes for ISO files. They do how ever support direct playing of M2TS files, so you could just create a folder containing only the M2TS files and then rename each of the M2TS files to match what they are about.

I am wanting to purchase Video Mastering Works. The reason I am waiting is I had recently purchased MOVAVI (a competitor in the transcoding package market) It turned out that MOVAVI was not fully able to function with the newer NVIDIA Kepler architecture. CUDA transcodes were not working properly. I ended up with a refund and would like to verify that Video Mastering Works can handle Kepler based NVidia products. I have the GTX680 GeForce series currently installed and I am also using a matrox Compress HD H.264 encoder. I am using your Karma application with both devices and it has been buggy with the thumbnail generating and crashes after several hours of non use. Is there an issue with the Kepler device architecture and the CUDA encoding package provided with the TMPEG products? or am I safe to go ahead with the purchase now

Just download the trial and see how it works for yourself:
http://tmpgenc.pegasys-inc.com/en/download/tvmw5.html

I have a nvidia GTX650Ti and TMPGENC 5 works fine on nvidia Kepler architecture.

I have 2x AMD 7970 too... OpenCL support would be nice ;-)


Regards, Alkermes.

Tmpg is usually optimized for Intel and NVidia, and everything else that is not AMD. Pegasus or Tsunami software prefers Nividia's kuda over AMDs OpenCl. Tsunami's favorite architectures are Kepler, Fermi, Oppenheimer and Einstein!!. So if you have any amd in your system forget about getting support. I've tried that before - just once -and gave up. I kept this purchase on hold for years and years because I didn't see support for amd coming anytime soon. Finally I went ahead and bought it over Vegas (maybe I had one too many and dint know which page I was on). Now I hardly use this and prefer 'AVS'es simpler interface with output quality equaling the best and at speed too.

This tmpg thingy goes along fine with kuda (prefer K to C), there wont be any crashes.

Vegas can't handle MKV but has openCl support.

When encoding to MP4-format is says 100% CPU 0% CUDA. Why? CUDA is enabled and chosen as Video encoder.

This is Pre-Procesing/Decode % use...

You can in Preferences/MPEG Decoder select MPEG-4 AVC Video Decoder to CUDA Hardware (MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 is better by Standar Decoder), by this way you use your CPU and nvidia card too for decoding MPEG-4 AVC files ;-)

I am sorry but my english is very bad.


Regards, Alkermes.

Hello,

Someone know if is it possible and how i can release a simple "direct stream copy" of my media please ?

I would like to add a sound track or crop my file without a complete reencode of it.

I know it's possible with a software like Virtualdub (and probably a frame server in addition)... but is it possible with TMGEnc ?

If it's not, can you add this feature please ?

Best regards,

Take a look at TMPGEnc MPEG Smart Renderer 4. As long as your video is an MPEG (mp4, mpeg-1, mpeg-2) it might work for you.

http://tmpgenc.pegasys-inc.com/en/product/tmsr4.html

Hello,

Thanks for this information but i am using the MasterWork 5 Software, normaly that include this feature ?! no ?

I don't understand why i need another software editor... or i am missing something... i think the smart rendering should be include in the full sofware version... it's only a direct stream copy...

I think i will continue to use Handbrake for BlueRay Rip and VirtualDub for direct stream copy... it's harm...

Thanks

Mastering Works 5 is meant to be used as an encoder/converter; the editing functions are secondary to that. Since editing, filtering, etc. requires re-encoding anyway, there's no reason TVMW5 shouldn't have those functions.

MPEG Smart Renderer is primarily for editing MPEGs which is why smart rendering is central to that program.

I've problem to frameserve from Virtualdub. I wrote to their customer servive / technical support,unfortunately they just keep asking some irrelavant and isolated questions. I seems to me that they just trying to talking away the problem and not trying to understand my problem. When I tell them my feeling, they stopped response to me.

Here is the workaround I found: Frameserve from Virtualdub as usual to a file XXX.vdr, [ then open this file using TMPEGen Plus 2.521 , Output XXX.mpg (any format, it doesn't matter), then save Project as XXX.tpr,] now just open XXX.tpr from TVM5 and it works! Next time you can skip those step in [].

There is a free copy of TMPEGen Plus 2.525 available from download, it believe it works too.

>Hello,
>
>Thanks for this information but i am using the MasterWork 5 Software, normaly that include this feature ?! no ?
>
>I don't understand why i need another software editor... or i am missing something... i think the smart rendering should be include in the full sofware version... it's only a direct stream copy...
>
>I think i will continue to use Handbrake for BlueRay Rip and VirtualDub for direct stream copy... it's harm...
>
>Thanks

When I used to rip Blu-ray I used AppGeeker, Great piece of software that keeps me happy ever after.
http://www.ilikemall.com/bluray/rip-blu-ray-to-mkv-mac.html

I am trying to add fade-out and dissolve transitions, but these are also added to the audio? Is it not possible to keep them video-only?

I don't think it's possible in TAW5 unfortunately.

Thanks for the reply. This is strange. Since there are audio fade-in/outs available, I wonder why they are forced with a video fade-in/out as well.

Is it possible to use the color correction filter in the timeline, with key frames? For example, to gradually change colors (between start/end keyframes)?

I don't think you can with the timeline filters.
I would duplicate the clip and apply the color correction filter (in the cut editor) to that. Then you can do the transition like any other transition.

Thanks, it works (also tried with split) but I can't get the result to show as "one video", it seems a new video is started (there is no 100% continuity, not sure how to explain this), so the effect is not totally natural (tried the crossfade transition).

Is this in timeline mode? Are you talking about the actual output or just the preview? The preview may not be as smooth as the actual output.

No, it's standard mode. You are right, the final output is smoother but still the transition "merges" the 2 videos, and this merger process is visible, not seamless. (I split a 7-sec video in half [2 parts], made the 2nd video b&white and added a 2-sec crossfade.)

I was up-converting some of my 720p .mkv files and ran into a little snaffu when Video Mastering 5 decided it didn't like a couple of them, and stumped the hell out of me when I was comparing upcoversions I had done vs. these pesky ones looking for anything that might have been different. Nada...

So, on a whim, I decided to try mkvmerge (didn't change a damn thing), and low and behold, problem solved.

If you run across some of your files that for whatever reason, Video Mastering 5 says it can't open, mux 'em.

I am having a problem with the clarity of the word “Play” in the mneu title. I carefully chose the size and colors along with the effects, and it looks great. But in both the simulator and the finished file, the word “Play” is fuzzy and washed out, even when the Play command is slected. I’ve went into the “Video Global Menu Settings” and tried every option there, yet I still wind up with the washed out, fuzzy “Play” word. Anyone have experience in correcting this? If so, what was the solution. Thanks for any assistance.

Using the latest version of Authoring Works 5 and I am importing blu-ray ready titles, copied from the Stream folder of blu-ray discs I have previously made myself (no copy protection or regions). The files show up as blue SR for smart render, but when I go to author it still re-encodes them anyway, and I have the setting to "use smart render" in the options of each track.

So what is the reason for this ? Very frustrating as I have 12 discs to author all in HD content and was hoping it would SR the lot, but now it will take 4 hours per disc rather than minutes.

Anything I can do to find out why this is happening ?

Thanks.

Just an update, seems the clock and % was wrong, it said it will take 4 hours but took 50 minutes. What seems to be happening is it is re-encoding selected videos, not all of them, but I am unsure why. Each disc has 4 shows, so on both discs I have done so far it has re-encoded 1 show per disc. Very odd.

Are there any differences between the clips that are being re-encoded vs. the smart rendered ones? Are all your shows in the same track or separate tracks? If they are all in the same track, put them in separate tracks.