Almost all of my HD 1920x1080 30p read as fully SMART RENDERING compliant upon loading them into TAW5. In fact, I've even created a few HD videos by taking compliant clips, and re-rerendering them in TAW5 -- then reloading them into a new project. There are no flags, no indications that any clip is not SR compliant, and all the settings indicate the final product is prioritized to utilize Smart Rendering.

However, every time I start outputting the BDMV structure, TAW5 goes through an "ANALYZING" process for each video clip, except the menus (which also contain SR-compliant video backgrounds.) This "analyzing" process is soooo slow that I've given up waiting for it (over 24 hours for 4, 40-minute videos.)

If I simply re-render the videos by disabling Smart Rendering, the same project renders in a couple of hours. So, what's the deal with this extremely slow 'ANALYZING' process, and how do I get rid of it? I don't see any mention of settings for it in PREFERENCES, and the HELP in TAW5 doesn't really mention it.

I use the IBM HARDWARE SDK for encoding, though I've tried using TAW5's X264 encoder as well. I have all encoder settings set to NORMAL, 1-pass VBR, Smart Rendering Prioritized, MPEG-4 AVC (but have tried MPEG-2 SR-compliant files, too), all files in the track are SR compliant (not a mixture of FR and SR files). Even if there's only one file with no menus, and the file is 100% SR-compliant, the damn 'analyzing' begins as soon as I try to output the BDMV structure -- and it takes hours to analyze.

I've given up trying to use TAW5 with Smart Rendering enabled, and just end up re-encoding projects to a slightly higher bitrate, using the SDK Hardware Encoder; it's so much faster. Even when using a software encoder, re-encoding the project is so much faster than waiting for TAW5 to "analyze" each file.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

In my case, "ANALYZING" completes in the matter of seconds (or maybe minutes).

If I were you, I would uninstall the "the IBM HARDWARE SDK for encoding" to see if (1) the uninstall would eliminate the problem you refer to, and (2) TAW's own encoder is better or worse than the IBM SDK.

Well, I've disabled the SDK Hardware Encoder, selected TAW5's x264 Encoder, and it's no different. I tried this with a 30-minute HD (full smart render compliant), and "ANALYZING" appears. I let it run to see how long it would take, but gave up after just about three hours of v-e-r-y slow progress. I'm not sure how to access IBM's SDK encoder settings (there's nothing in Windows' Control Panel or Device Manager that I've been able to locate, but I'll check again. I'm hoping you're right and disabling IBM's SDK hardware encoder will resolve this issue. I'll let you know.

I do not know what your system looks like (mobo, CPU, memory, GPU etc) or how important the IBM SDK is to you but, if reinstallation of Windows is not an option for you, installtion of a virtual machine, e.g. VMWare Workstation Player (free), might be worthwhile to see if the clean and simple setup of Windows environment (without the IBM SDK etc) plus TAW only cures the problem. I have been using TAW for several years by now but have never had a case where ANALYSING took such a long time.

I'm running TAW5 on an Intel Core i5 processor, under Win7 Professional, 8GB's RAM, on a Acer Aspire laptop - Intel HD 3000 integrated graphic card. The SDK Hardware encoder isn't used by any other authoring software I'm using; just TAW5, so I might as well bite the bullet and uninstall the SDK support files. Think maybe I'll first try booting up in Safe Mode, and disabling everything I can that will still allow TAW5 to function. If all else fails, maybe do a clean Win7 install. I really would like to be able to use TAW5 without re-encoding.

I was hesitating on doing anything drastic only because I was hoping, Pegasys would release either an update, or upgrade that would include "end of clip" play options, and integrate some basic "copy and paste" or full "duplicate" menu and menu item features -- something that would seem to be a pretty basic BDMV authoring feature. But alas, they don't seem to be addressing these limitations.

I was able to disable the Hardware SDK encoder, limiting my choice of encoding using the x264 software encoder. Didn't help. I'm using a one-video BDMV format with no menus, and still, when I begin the BDMV creation, the "ANALYZING" message pops up and creeps along very slowly.

I also uninstalled the current version of TAW5, and installed an earlier version, and disabled all other installed multimedia software from loading (via CCleaner's Start-up editor). Still, no change.

At one point (during the past year) after one of the program updates, I actually did have a very short HD video, Smart Render, but it hasn't done so since.

Almost all of my HD video files are recorded with a Hauppauge PVR 2 HD recorder, at 1920x1080 30p. These HD recordings load perfectly into NERO VIDEO and require no re-encoding; audio is AC3 5.1, recorded using an optical (toslink) connection. NERO reads both VIDEO and AUDIO as 100% SmartEncode compliant. I then export them from NERO VIDEO as m2ts BD files, where they will then read as Full Smart Render compliant by TAW5. Nothing is flagged as non-BDMV compliant.

Very frustrating....

Would you be able to upload (a part of) the video file somewhere so that I can check to see if the problem reproduces on my system as well?

Thanks! I'll upload one or two 5-minute segments of SR videos to my server, when I get home today....

Here's two, 2-minute 1920x1080 (30i) .m2ts AVC/AC3 video files, both which load as Smart Render compliant in TAW5 ... and both first go through a slow 'analyzing' process when outputting them to BDMV format.

http://QuestStudios.com/files/TEST_00000.m2ts

http://QuestStudios.com/files/TEST_00002.m2ts

Please let me know when you've downloaded the files so that I can remove the files from my serever. And thanks a lot for the help!

Hi. Thanks for the upload. I just downloaded the two test files. I then loaded them onto TAW5 (5.2.4.63) and attempted to make a Blu-Ray disk out of them (using the default setting in TAW). The "ANALYZING" part took about 4 minutes, and the Smart Render process (yes, my TAW recognized the files as Smart Renderable) also took another 4 minutes resulting in a proper Blu-Ray disc image (am viewing it with Power DVD). Thus, contrary to my earlier suspicion, the files produced by your capture device seem OK as I do not see oddity when I check the files with MediaInfo. One thing I would like you to test is the field order of the interlace setting in TAW: What happens if you change the field order to "Bottom field first" in Track setting (you have to change Output setting to "Re-encode all videos as blow" (instead of Automatic (Smart rendering prioritized) first to choose the field order option)? Does TAW still take a long time in the analyzing part?

Thanks for checking the files. It appears you duplicated the same results I get -- so when Smart Rendering a BDMV with four, 40-minute videos, the "analyzing time" becomes ridiculously long....and re-encoding (via Hardware SDK) takes only a couple of hours.

Reversing the field order doesn't appear to be any different, since TAW5 re-encodes at the same speed on my system, no matter how the field order is set; there's no "analyzing" screen that appears when I use either Hardware or Software encoders. I'm currently trying a 42-minute video Smart Render, and the "analyzing" screen is present: It states the remaining time as, 12 hours, 17 mins, though the time keeps increasing as the video progresses.


I've found that Smart Render works for me with TAW's definition of compliant "PROGRESSIVE" (instead of INTERLACED) video files! My PVR is capturing in Progressive format (1920x1080 30p ~16Mbps AVC.) When I load the captured file into NERO VIDEO, it reads it as 100% Video and Audio Smart Render compliant, and doesn't re-encode it. However, the resulting .m2ts file reads as interlaced, after NERO creates it. Since it's not re-encoding the file, I don't know why this is happening. MediaInfo, TAW5, and even Windows 'File Properties' all recognize the original file as progressive, until NERO creates a BDMV structure.

TAW5 flags several parameters or these original recordings as non-BDMV compliant. I think I need to play around with some PVR recording settings to see if I can find one that TAW likes. I'm not sure how much I'm able to change, but I still can't figure out why NERO is tagging these files as INTERLACED...there would be no problem if it would leave the file data intact.

I do not use the capture device or the video editor you refer to so cannot give you much advice there. Meanwhile, I came across a message that might be relevant to you. I hope this helps.

http://bbs.pegasys-inc.com/bbs/delete/lang/en/board/kheaton@cox.net/messid/66709

Tom

I explained above. The manufacturer used an incorrect flag in the HARDWARE for capturing 1080. It does not stricly follow the DVD/Blu ray standard when you capture 1080. 720P works fine and will smart rendor because the plag is correct for 720P.

It was a simple correction. I brought up the issue with the programmers at the company, they were subborn, and they refused to fix it. Therefore 1080 files will not smart rendor in software that is strict to the DVD/Blu Ray standards. TMPgenc strictly follows the standards other software may not.

Long story short...Give up trying to make it work. Waste of time. I tried for about a year to get the issued at Hauppauge corrected. it would have worked fine if the file was outputted from the pvr as interlaced instead of progressive.

A simple question that seems hard for me to find an answer to. I have sub pages in my dvd for different short films I am compiling onto it. The issue is that the back button seems hard coded as a back to top menu button when I actually want it to go back to the film selection page. So how do I control what buttons do?

When trying to open the recently bought sofware everything appears to load right up to the point where I get the following error message "The application was unable to start correctly (0xc0000ba). Click OK to close the application."
When I click OK the application opens and allows full functionality up to thefinal procedure when I try to encode the operation is aborted with the error message "The output process terminated abnormally (0)" Any help greatly appreciated. I have loaded the software on an alternative laptop running Windows 10 with no problems other than the fact that it is nowhere near as powerful as the Windows 7 machine I'm currently trying to use it with. Interestingly I'm having difficultly upgrading this machine to Win 10 and was wondering if the 2 problems are related?

Out of sudden my Avid files aren't being accepted by my beloved encoder. It crashes.

It gives this error:

Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: TMPGEncVMW5.exe
Application Version: 5.5.3.108
Application Timestamp: 55a4caaf
Fault Module Name: ippvcg9-7.1.dll
Fault Module Version: 7.1.1.1036
Fault Module Timestamp: 506563c9
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Offset: 00036209
OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.48
Locale ID: 1032
Additional Information 1: 0a9e
Additional Information 2: 0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789
Additional Information 3: 0a9e
Additional Information 4: 0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789

I sorted it out. I had install some codecs for QT and that was the problem. By uninstalling them it works fine. Thanks.

Hello,

Firstly, I would say hello from Thaliand

As you can see that i am your big fan, also i do like and enjoyable currently version. Version5 was work very powerful and help me work out perfectly.

Yesterday, i've upgrade to Version6. It've been work great. But i've a problems.

Thing that i have never seen it before even i've been using Version5 for almost last 2years, but Version6 been show me after i did encode button "an error occurred communicating with the output process (6)". It happen to my all pc,which has been upgrade up to Version6, but it is not happen all the time. sometime errors, but sometime works fine.

Do you have idea how to fix it out?

Kind regards

Passa

Pc detials :

OS:
Windows 8.1 64-bit Version
CPU:
CPU INTEL i7 4790 3.60GHz
CUDA function:
Disabled
RAM size:
8
Memory size unit:
GB
Hard disc free space available:

Hard disc size unit:
GB
File system:
NTFS
Software player name or DVD-Video player deck model:
VLC
Software generator:
Blackmagic media express
Capture system:
Intensity Pro
Input video file format:
Other
Other input video file format:
Motion JPEG Video (MJPG)
Input audio file format:
Other
Other input audio file format:
PCM S16 LE (araw)
Ouput format template:
MPEG-4 (H.264/AVC)
Other output video file format:

Output audio file format:
MPEG-4 AAC Main Profile (.aac)
Other output audio file format:

Selected encoder (MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 AVC output):
x264
Free text:

I have had this same issue as well, with both TVMW5 and TVMW6. I wonder if it doesn't have to do with Out Process for VME being 32-bit...

I am also getting this error. Has anyone seen a fix?

Hello
Currently I have a Xeon processor E5 2687W V3 (lga2011-3)
After the change has stopped working decoder "Intel Media SDK Software"
Below, a screenshot of the error.

http://s9.postimg.org/z9tk6ci33/media_sdk_vs_xeon.jpg

On the second computer processor i7-5960 does not have this problem
and decoder "Intel Media SDK Software" is working properly.
Can you fix the problem "Xeon vs Intel Media SDK decoder software"?

greetings

I have last TVMW6 full version.
I have problem with encoding process (in MPEG2 video system only) when project not have sound. About after 30 minutes of video length if I try encode this in MPEG2 I take freeze of encoding process without any error messages. If I try encode same video in MPEG4 - encoding finished successfully, but time of encoding in 2 times more than same encoding with any sound track.

One more: Please enlarge by height of Timeline Seekbar element in Timeline Mode !!!! I have a 27 inch monitor with WUXGA, but this Seekbar is very, VERY thin!

I'm using the Trial version of TAW5. The subtitles as rendered into subpictures are too large. Is there a way to change the font size?

In the Clip Editor window, go to the Subtitle Edit tab and click on the Edit Menu button at the bottom-right of the window and select Layout Edit from the drop-down menu.

This will open up the layout editor where you can select the font and change the size. You don't select a font size, instead you change the resolution %. In your case, you want to lower the percentage to make the font smaller in relation to the screen size.

Hello,
I have one question. Can I put separate track as a separate menu in tmpgenc dvd author?
I have several tracks but I would like to add pages in autorun and arange tracks if possible.

I don't understand what you want.

I apologize I am lousy in explaining sometimes…
One person told me that it is better to cut chapters in separate tracks because of navigation and behavior of the chapters. Everything is fine in menu construction when I have one movie.. I have top page and then a page with chapters (that are mini movies in separate tracks). But what to do when I have several movies that all have chapters (that I want to cut and divide in separate tracks)? Is there a way to put new pages and link what track I want to have in what menu pages? I want a list of movies in the first page and then when certain movie is selected to get me to the page with chapters.

What's the reasoning behind putting each chapter into its own track? Doesn't that just list all of your chapters in the Top menu? I guess that's useful if you want to turn the Top menu into a chapter menu.

Anyway ignore that, and just put each movie in its own track.
That way, the Top menu will list all of your movies, and when you select one, it will go to that movie's chapter menu (track menu = chapter menu).

I do need chapter page for one video but for other I don't. Can I have on the main page one video that would take me to the chapter menu when I click on it, and one that would not and that would start right away? (I have the main lecture with chapters and an interview without chapters all in separate tracks )

Right now I can either have one option or the other in the main page I can't have both. Can anyone help?
Thank you in advance.
Note I am working in Tmpgenc dvd author 4 and am buying version 5 next week.

How can you prevent multiple clips within a track, from automatically playing when the previous clip ends? The "Do Not Connect The Clips" option is enabled, and page links indicate upon completion, each clip should return to the track menu.

The "Do not connect clips" option is more of an encoding setting and doesn't affect menu behavior.

Is this a DVD or Blu-ray?
For Blu-rays, there is no clip end action option, only a track end action option.

For DVDs, you can set a chapter end action, which will do what you want. You can access it via the "DVD-Video Global Menu Settings" button in the Menu Stage.

I'm using AW5 for Blu-ray creation, so I guess I'm out of luck. I've been unable to figure out a way to setup a menuing system for multi-episode TV shows, that behaves like a DVD: A top menu, episode menu, features menu, where the option to return to the "episode menu" upon completion of playing an episode, exists.

If the "Top Title Menu" were able to allow you to display links to whatever track you wanted, this would be another option, but I haven't been able to figure out a means of doing that, either.

I'm trying to imitate a DVD layout, but on a Blu-ray disc. I've used NERO VIDEO to do this, for years. However, NERO VIDEO doesn't support multiple audio tracks, pop-up menus, or subtitles. But it does allow for many options that TAW5 doesn't; like full duplication of menus and menu items, more flexible editing options, like copy and paste. TAW5, however, is superior in everything else -- and I wish I would have started using it years ago.

I've never owned a BD player that wasn't able to play any DVD or BD disc I've created in any authoring program. I understand the desire for Pegasus and other authoring software publishers to create programs that adhere to strict DVD/BD structure guideline, but I wish somebody would allow you at least the option to create discs that "bend the rules" (at your own risk), since so many players DO handle discs that don't adhere to such strict parameters.

I'm pretty sure the DVD/BD standards allow for what you want to do, it's just that Pegasys hasn't really updated their menu authoring system for years (it's pretty much been the same sine DVD Author 2.0, I think).

I don't understand why they stick to this particular menu structure; it's fine for home videos, but you can't really replicate a typical studio-produced DVD/BD menu, which I think is what most people want today.

If you could just add sub-track menus to a track menu, I think a lot of issues would be solved.

I think they need to completely overhaul the menu authoring system for TAW6.

I haven't used Authoring Works 5 for long, but have been authoring DVD's and BD's with other software, for many years. I can't afford the high-end price tag of professional authoring software, but a lot of these less expensive programs are capable of some professional output features. I just wish there was one that combined them all.

If I could figure out a way to create an "end-of-clip" action for blu-ray menus, I'd be very satisfied with TAW5. Compared to NERO VIDEO, HD content that requires re-rendering seems to be superior in TAW5. It's just that the menuing edit process is quite cumbersome when creating many customized menus, and the ability to link menus, clips, tracks is pretty limited.

I don't know enough about the strictness of BD requirements, but I agree with you in regards to the DVD/BD standards should allow for what I'm trying to do. I would think it's something that would be commonly done for multi-episodic BD creation, with or without Java support. Besides, NERO VIDEO does it (though without subtitle, pop-up menu, or multiple audio track support) and the resulting BD's play fine on a myriad of different brand players.

I don't see a lot of Pegasus feedback on this forum and wonder how much they interact with their customers, or heed user input. Like you said, they haven't really updated their menuing system in years -- and it doesn't seem as though user suggestions are being implemented into the occasional updates. "End of clip" function for BD authoring, copy & paste menu items, duplicate complete menu pages...seem to be pretty standard and basic functions that should have been implemented a while ago.

I full last version of TVMW6 not correctly work Mask filter with reverse(Speed) filter in Clip Editing mode!!!

I have video with reverse speed filter (Speed filter with Reverse option). When I try to add Mask filter I cannot select Range for Layer inside Mask filter.

PLEASE, FIX IT QUICKLY !!!