I wanted to use an animation I made in After Effects that has a transparent background for a project in TMPGEnc Video Mastering Works 5 but the background isn't transparent when I import the video. Is there something I'm doing wrong or is it just not supported?

I don't think it's supported for videos with transparency.
However, images with transparency can be imported if I remember correctly.

Yeah I don't think it's supported either but just wanted to make sure.

Its unbelievebla: there i have a Software that costs me 99 Dollar - which is powerful and wonderful, no way!
but today it's STANDARD to have DTS-Sound on Blu-Ray.
My creations look very good with TAW5, but sounds "crappy" with highest Dolby Digital Sound encoding available (DD2.0 = 448 kbs and DD5.1 640 kbs).

So my wish (and some particular others fans of TAW5): DTS-encoding, maybe as payable plug-in ? as in TAW3 (i mean) the AC3 encoding plugin.

greets sends
I Wanter

We came to TMPEGEnc Authoring from Avid DVD (Sonic DVD IT). The Tsunami product costs a fraction of the (no longer available) Sonic one and is better in every possible way. Firstly, it has never crashed. Secondly, it has never crashed. Thirdly, it has never crashed. Fourthly, even my wife thinks it's easy to use.

I'm particularly keen on the way you can export chapter points from a DVD project and import them into the Blu-ray project - great!

My only gripe - I wish it was easier to find out how to encode my sources to avoid it transcoding them - but I gather the secrecy around this is something to do with DVD specification licensing??

Thanks for a great product

There's no secrecy about DVD/BD specifications. You can easily find DVD-Video specs on the web.
What program are you using to encode your videos? Does it have a DVD output template?

>Its unbelievebla: there i have a Software that costs me 99 Dollar - which is powerful and wonderful, no way!
>but today it's STANDARD to have DTS-Sound on Blu-Ray.

No its not. Most commercial Blu-ray's have Dolby True HD.
If DTS output support was added, which Pegasys has to pay a LOT of money for, how do you think it would effect the price of TAW5? You would not be getting it for $99 for sure, it would look more like $400 you had to pay for it, due to how expensive the rights for DTS usage is.

Then i want to have the feature of Dolby True HD.
This was, what i meant.
And, dear Tmpgenc-Support? When is the next update with this feature ? ;O)

You could always try multiavchd. It has full DTS support, and full subtitle support. It will accept SSA and SRT subs in an mkv file. Something that TMPEG has refused to do. It is also FREE.

I am interested in capturing the video from my camera directly into TMPGEnc.
Any help out there?

No, TMPGEnc does not have video capturing options. It can only open already created video files or audio files.
If you want to do video capture, then you need a video studio, such as Corel VideoStudio Pro, who can do video capture.

But before that, you need to instal a video capture driver first for your camera, so that the video studio can locate the driver and then access your camera as a video capturing device.

I burned some BD-R discs and could only fill 4 Gb (23 minutes) of the 25Gb because of the 200 clips limit in one Project. Can I add several Projects into one BDAV disc or are there other ways to add enough clips to fill the 25Gb BD-R?

You'd have to combine the clips to output as one clip first, output, then import that clip into a new project and repeat until everything can fit.

My previous post asked a question about modifying a video in TAW5 to create a 'divider' clip but I have now thought of a different solution. I have cut one of my MKV clips in TAW5 so that it contains a single all-black frame. Is there any way to duplicate this frame and thus extend the duration of this black image, so that it lasts for about 2 seconds?

You can create an all black clip directly in TAW5.
From the Souce Wizard, choose the last option: "From a color matte or pattern".
It should be set to black by default, so all you have to do is set the clip duration. Click OK and you'll have a new, all-black clip in your clip list.

I am trying to create a compilation of extracts taken from a lossless MKV rip of one of my Blu-ray disks and I want to have a visible marker between these extracts. My intention is to create a very short divider clip that has similar video and audio settings, which should make merging a sequence of EXTRACT + DIVIDER + EXTRACT + DIVIDER + EXTRACT much less likely to create problems in MKVMerge. Please note that I don't want to re-encode my video extracts.

My preferred approach is to create a divider by modifying a short clip taken from the same MKV file, which should guarantee compatibility with my primary extracts. I want to edit this clip to convert the video to a continuous plain black image and reduce the audio signal to zero. Can this be done with TAW5?

David

Greetings,

I have not been able to find a drive that is compatible
with TAWS5. The list provided on the website seems
to be made up of discontinued devices.

I have been using other software to do my writes but I
preferred to stay within TAWS in the past with version 4.

I had asked this of the support people and was referred
to their outdated list.

I have Windows 7 professional 64 bit - 32gb of RAM and
an Nvidia GTX 670 with 4gb

Thanks in advance!

Have you tried to write with TAW5? (I've had no problem with generally available current SATA drives.)

My impresion (I may be wrong) is that drive compatability lists date to earlier days when optical drive control/commands were not as standardized as they are today.

Suddenly today Authoring wors 5 seems to be causing Win 7 home premium geforce 440 version.32 to constantly reboot. other video editing programs not affecting
have uninstalled and reinstalled Problem occurs with/without cuda
?

please disregard the above
auto rebooking is not exclusive to authoring works
system reboots when computer working hard

Dust build up on the graphics card

TMPGEnc Video Mastering works really great, except I cannot seem to do one thing: I have a long timeline with amy clips on it and now I want to insert a clip in the middle of this timeline. When I drop a clip there, it overlaps the clips already in that location. Is it possible to move all other clips forward so I can insert a new clip in the middle of the timeline?

You have to manually move all the clips after the point where you want to insert the clip. Select the first clip you want to move then move to the end of the timeline and shift+click the last clip to select all clips in between.
Zooming out so you can see more clips at a time will help.

I have two large displays. When I am in timeline mode, I would like the editing monitor on one display, the time line itself and other parts on another, so I can get a nearly full-sized monitor.

I can "stretch" the TMPG window to cover both displays, but this doesn't result in a larger monitor as it is height constrained - really what I want to do is reorganize the subwindows inside TMPG to have the TMPG monitor to the 'left' of the timeline.

Is there a way to do this?

I have an interactive Blu-Ray menu that was created with Nero Video 12 that I quite like, and I'd like to be able to import into an Authoring Works 5 Blu-Ray project. I wish it to act as the main interactive menu of the TAW5 project.

I've extracted/exported the menu to a separate file, which I successfully added to the TAW5 project. However, I don't know how to make it serve as the interactive main title menu. Can this be done? If so, how?

Thanks!

Are there any settings or drivers needed to be tweaked to get the Intel media sdk options working? Or does it just work out of the box. I just bought a new 4770k and fired it up, but don't really notice a huge speed difference. Any advice?

Chris

Ok, I take it back. I did a comparison with the old computer and it's at least 2x as fast. Same clip, same encode settings. 8:30 clip time, old computer 21:00, new computer 10:30

now to compare the image quality

Chris

hi, the faster computer wont have any effect on your quality, the quality is determined by the software.

what was your old pc, what cpu was in it, because your new pc is twice as fast in terms of time, but the 4770k has an onboard graphics chip (intel HD4600) which is a very good chip, and if you were using intel quicksync to encode, it will be pretty fast over cpu based encoding.

im not sure what tmpge uses by default, i just let my editing pc (3770 cpu) run the encode, but my cpu doing a 1080/50p m2ts file to mpeg2 runs at about 70% so it must be using cpu based encoding, if my HD4000 graphics was running in quick sync mode, the cpu will not be working very hard, and my speed to encode will be a lot faster.

having said that, my regular software is Video ReDo, and until the next major release, it only does cpu based encoding.