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TMPGEnc Authoring Works is your All-In-One Media Authoring Solution. Whether you’re young or old, beginner or professional, TMPGEnc Authoring Works 4 is the easy way to author your own DVDs, Blu-ray Discs, and DivX® ULTRA video. Import most video formats, edit out commercials or unwanted scenes, add spectacular transition effects, make your own subtitles, create professional-looking menus, and much, much more. Full description.

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TMPGEnc Authoring Works 5 Version 5.0.8.26 - April 20, 2012

Corrected (Output) Fixed an issue where subtitles are not displayed correctly when you play a Blu-ray created with TMPGEnc Authoring Works 5 version 5.0.7.25.

Notice: This problem would cause the subtitle data to fall outside of the Blu-ray standard created by TMPGEnc Authoring Works 5 version 5.0.7.25, which would cause an error when such files inputted into TMPGEnc Authoring Works 5. If you created a Blu-ray Project with subtitle data using version 5.0.7.25, we strongly recommend you re-output the project using this update in order to ensure proper playback on a Blu-ray player. We apologize for this inconvenience.

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All features / Full description:
TMPGEnc Authoring Works 4 is packed with features to help you create professional-looking DVDs and Blu-ray Discs that you'll love to share with friends and family.
Also, be sure to check out the New Features section for more great features!
Easy-to-use interface.
Intuitive step-by-step process.

Each TMPGEnc Authoring Works 4 project is divided into 5 stages: Start, Source, Menu, Simulation, and Output. Simply complete each stage in order and you'll have a custom DVD or Blu-ray Disc movie in no time. You can even go back to previous stages to make changes, or skip certain stages depending on your needs. Various wizards are included to help guide you through more complicated tasks, such as menu creation and file importing.

Check out our Guided Tour of Authoring Works 4 for a quick overview of the authoring process!
Extensive input formats.
Convert to DVD and Blu-ray Disc compliant video.

TMPGEnc Authoring Works 4 will automatically convert a vast array of video file formats to DVD, Blu-ray Disc, or DivX formats. You can even convert your AVCHD videos and keep them in full-HD (1920 × 1080) when you output to Blu-ray Disc.
DivX® Ultra Authoring.
Create high quality DivX video with advanced features.

DivX® ULTRA logoWith DivX® Ultra authoring, your DivX projects can have advanced features such as DVD-like menus and navigation! DivX projects created with TMPGEnc Authoring Works 4 are the ultimate combination of DVD-like presentation with DivX technology. Play your DivX Ultra projects with DivX Player software on your PC or any DivX Ultra Certified DVD player in the comfort of your livingroom.

* Officially licensed DivX® video software product
* Creates high-quality DivX® video

Search smarter with Smart Scene Search™.
Find scene changes with a single click.

It can be tedious to look for all of the scene changes in your video clips, especially when you've got hours of footage. This is where Smart Scene Search comes in. While editing, all you have to do is click your middle mouse button to the right or the left of the playhead in the thumbnail preview to automatically find the next or previous scene change. This makes it easy to set key frames, find a good place to cut scenes, or split your clip.

Just click with the middle mouse button in the thumbnail preview to find the next scene change.
Add your own subtitles.
Read what they're saying.

Add up to two subtitle streams to your videos with the subtitle editor. Import subtitles from a DVD or create your own with tools for positioning, timing, font styles and more. Create multi-language subtitles or use it for the hearing impared. Subtitles also work great as captions for slideshows too.
Create interactive menus.
Use templates or customize them yourself.

What's a DVD, Blu-ray, or DivX ULTRA disc without a nice menu? The menu wizard will guide you through the menu-making process, allowing you to create menus in standard and high definition with aspect ratios of 4:3 or 16:9. You can even create pop-up menus with your Blu-ray Disc projects. Of course, you can choose not to create a menu at all as well.
Menu Templates

If you're not a creative-type or you're short on time, use one of 23 pre-installed menu templates to create a menu with just a few clicks. With a wide variety of different themes, you're sure to find a menu template to match your video. Check out a few of the included menu templates by clicking here. You can even download additional menu templates free of charge!
Custom Menus

Want to make something truly unique? Then choose to create a custom menu where you can alter practically everything about your menu. Change the background to a personal photo, make your own navigation buttons, add graphical effects to your chapter thumbnails, alter page titles, and more. When you're all done, you can even save your menu as a template so you can use it over and over again.
Add a note page.

Add note pages to your menus that can contain actor bios, production notes, trivia, history, extra images, or whatever else your imagination can come up with. (Not available for DivX ULTRA menus.)
Highlight editor.

Change the way menu items are highlighted with the highlight editor. Maybe you want the play button to be outlined, or maybe you want the whole button to be highlighted when you select it. You can also change the highlight colors.
Menu item effects.

With custom menus, you can add effects to each menu item (buttons, thumbnails, title text, etc.). Add a drop shadow to all of your text, change the color of your chapter thumbnails to a sepia tone, rotate your buttons, change the opacity of your menu title, and much, much more.

Click here to view an enlarged version!
Let your menus come alive with motion.
Animate menus with motion menu settings.

Breath new life into your menu when you activate the motion menu settings! You can use a video in place of menu items such as backgrounds and buttons, and animate your track and chapter thumbnails to give your menus that extra professional touch. You can even add background music to create a complete audio/visual menu experience!

*Video clips courtesy of VCE.COM not included.
Smart Rendering.
Edit and output in a flash.

Smart Rendering allows you to output DivX, DVD or Blu-ray Disc compliant video without having to re-encode the entire movie file. This makes output extremely quick, and when you cut out a scene, only the video frames before and after the cut section will be re-encoded, saving you a ton of time and keeping the same quality as the original source file. Applicable clips will have a Smart Rendering icon in the Source stage of the program.

Check out a video demonstration of how Smart Rendering can save you time!
Simulation feature.
Test your creation before you output.

See what your Blu-ray/DVD/DivX project looks like before you output it with the Simulation feature. This will reproduce what your project will look like when you put it in a real DVD/Blu-ray player. Test out your menus, audio tracks, subtitles, and menu item effects that you've applied. We've even included controls that mimic a DVD remote so you can see what it would be like to navigate through your menus. Don't like what you see? Go back and make changes, then test it again.
Transcode feature.
Never worry about running out of space.

Sometimes you might have so much content that you can't fit it on the DVD. What do you do? You can get rid of some clips, or you can use the transcode feature which can automatically adjust the bitrate of your movie so that it will fit on your target media. Simply set your target media (DVD, Blu-ray Disc) or set a custom output size and TMPGEnc Authoring Works 4 will do the rest.

Please note that while lowering the bitrate decreases the file size of your movie, it will also decrease the quality as well.
Multiple tracks.
Up to 99 tracks per project.

Got a lot of footage? Add up to 99 video tracks to your project. That's 99 episodes, 99 home videos, 99 slideshows, 99 tracks of whatever video you've got! So go ahead and an extra track or two...or three...or four...
The firstplay track.
Add an intro video or logo.

The firstplay track will play once you insert your DVD or Blu-ray Disc into your player. Use it to include an introduction video, corporate logos, sponsorship logos, or whatever you can think of.
Fix your audio.
Make adjustments with audio filters.

Is your audio track a little out of sync? Use the audio gap correction to fix it. You can also adjust the volume levels, add fade in/out effects, and apply noise and signal reduction filters.
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Acronyms / Also Known As:
TMPGEnc Authoring Works, TAW, TAW4, TAW5

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I am an avid user of Tmpgenc Authoring version 3 and 4. I liked both of them a lot. The flow and reliability were great and you really get control of the options and menus. I have been frustrated by other authoring software that makes me add menus I don't want, or splits a single menu into 10 pages of tracks, when that's nothing like I want. Or won't give me control over text or other objects on the screen. Tmpgenc Authoring 3 and 4 never did that, and gave me full control over quality and tracks and fitting things onto discs, etc.

I think I took the plunge too early with Authoring Works 5. I did so for H.264 capability however the program is as good as 3 and 4 but slicker. The menu options are amazing, the bitrates and formats and control over the output is once again great. But the bugs....omg the bugs. Any little thing will throw this program for a loop, never to return again.

Let's assume for the moment that the errors are justified. One time I had moved some files it needed, some graphics for one of my menus were in the wrong folder. Another time I was missing a codec it needed. And the 100s of other times errors were generated, for who knows what reason. Every single time, the error messages were totally worthless. Every error message said "error 0x0923093 at fff210923" or "the process cannot continue"...but why?!! How can I have a prayer of fixing the error with no explanation as to what the cause is, what type of error. I am a software developer at a tiny company and this would never be acceptable.

So I trudged on and finished my project, analyzed and compressed and 8 hours later, ready for Authoring Works to finish, and with (not kidding) 00:00:01 left on the clock, the program stopped with another useless error message, with codes and numbers that help no one.

While I think the price is fair for what you get, a program with really great features and attention to detail...the unacceptable error messages, or the ability to pass-thru DTS audio, make this an unwise purchase until they can get their act together on version 5, as they had with versions 3 or 4.


Posted April 26, 2012 by . Tool version 5.0.8.26 using OS Vista
Ease of use 8 of 10 Functionality 6 of 10 Value for money 8 of 10 Overall score 7 of 10






At first, I thought I had bought a wrong device from a shoddy and irresponsible salesman. But, now ... I felt his recommendation was okay though I do face some problems with the HDD to DVD -R copying using the proprietary Pioneer's VR mode for my PAL video recording of my various favorite programs.

This DVD recorder has a 80 GB HDD to store a normal resolution (2 hours in DVD) up to a total of 32 hrs of programs. Anyway, I have not been able to watch many of my videos on my PC for sometimes and I finally hit the right place on my TSSTcorp CDDVDW SH-S223C ATA property. I changed the region to Singapore and it responded with the word "Region 3". Hitting right note means access to my 'hidden' files in my DVD-R and +R.

However, due to some reason, I'm not able to see my +RW files (not finalised ?).


Posted March 17, 2012 by . Tool version 2.513 using OS Windows 7
Ease of use 7 of 10 Functionality 7 of 10 Value for money 5 of 10 Overall score 6 of 10






The pricing is fair. I had several options. I could have kept version 4 working for a little bit more money but why bother.

Encode speed is OK. I do not expect to encode with it. I use other software from the same people and others to make compliant video and only expect to use it to author BluRays and DVDs and minor encoding.

I take my HD captures and edit them with the latest VideoReDo as a 1st step. or use TMPGEnc Video Mastering Works 5 that I recently picked up. I paid the little extra to keep TMPGEnc 4.0 XPress functional as I have a need for it on another computer.


Posted March 16, 2012 by . Tool version 5.05.22 using OS Windows 7 64-bit
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Thanks for the info pepegot1. With your report, along with their unfair, insensitive upgrade policy, I wont be upgrading.

Posted March 16, 2012 by . Tool version AW4 using OS Windows 7 64-bit
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What a piece of crap!! Compared to ver. 4, it's very slow encoding-too slow. If you want speed, then they want to sell you a plugin-what a rip off! You cannot use your older version 4, with 5 installed, unless you pay $20.00-more rip off. You can encode to 60P but, as there are no 60P players available yet, your player will down convert to 29.977. Therefore, I will stay with ver. 4 which does that.

Posted March 14, 2012 by . Tool version 5 using OS Windows 7 64-bit
Ease of use 6 of 10 Functionality 5 of 10 Value for money 2 of 10 Overall score 4 of 10






I use it to edit the commercials out of WIN 7 Media Center wtv videos ... works just fine.

Posted March 14, 2012 by . Tool version version 5 using OS Windows 7 64-bit
Ease of use 8 of 10 Functionality 8 of 10 Value for money 6 of 10 Overall score 7 of 10






This in line with previous comment....
This exactly what it suppose to do, after charging U$100 out-of-pocket.
ConvertX2DVD is in the same boat, as it is commercial software.

The only those things surprised and pleased me, when freewares like AVStoDVD, MultiAVCHD and FVAC, MeGUI, XViD4PSP,RiPBot and all other freeware produce quality output as good as commercial software(s). Making a good software and keeping it for FREE is a really very... I mean really very BiG Hearted Project. In this way I am thankful to many authors.

There is no software in this planet which is bug-free.
Why to pay extremely high price for buggy-wares. when your primary purpose is served well by free-wares?


Posted July 07, 2011 by . Tool version 4.1.047 using OS Other
Ease of use 9 of 10 Functionality 9 of 10 Value for money 9 of 10 Overall score 9 of 10






I was looking for a program that could convert MKV to DVD or Blu-ray. After trying multiAVCHD, AVStoDVD, FAVC, and ConvertXtoDVD, this is the best I found so far, easiest to use, and produced the best results. It can import an MKV through DirectShow. The user interface looks elegant and most important, it's not complicated and is easy to navigate. You are able to easily edit the video, filter the audio, and create or import subtitles and adjust its font, size, and position. You can easlily create your own custom menu templates, instead of using standard amateurish looking ones. Correcting mistakes or revising selections is not a hassle. The built in disk burner is good and the produced DVD preserves video and audio quality, subtitles look sharp, and encoding time is fast compared to the other programs I've used.

I would have given this a 10 but for the Blu-ray output. It only supports MPEG2 output, if your source is H.264 it re-encodes to MPEG2. It does not pass through DTS audio, it re-encodes to AC3 or LPCM.


Posted July 05, 2011 by . Tool version 4.1.0.47 using OS Windows 7 64-bit
Ease of use 10 of 10 Functionality 8 of 10 Value for money 8 of 10 Overall score 8 of 10






its true and they know it verywell and if it is launched with .h264 authoring there will be lot of illegal blueray dvd on the street and also it contained pop-up menu.

Posted July 15, 2010 by . Tool version latest using OS Windows 7
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The last couple of versions of TDA work directly in Windows 7 32bit, no Compatibility Mode or Virtual XP needed. Main issue I have with it is no H264 Blu-ray creation, only MPEG2 Blu-ray.

Posted July 14, 2010 by . Tool version 4.0.11.39 using OS Windows 7
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Works fine in Windows 7 under Virtual Windows XP mode.

Posted July 09, 2009 by . Tool version 4.0.4.24 using OS Windows 7
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Version 4.04.24 DOES WORK on my Windows 7 RC build 7100.
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400 dual core, 2GB Ram.


Posted July 06, 2009 by . Tool version 4.0.4.24 using OS Windows 7
Ease of use 10 of 10 Functionality 8 of 10 Value for money 8 of 10 Overall score 9 of 10






Great program but has some issues, will not run under Vista SP2 or Windows 7.

Posted July 06, 2009 by . Tool version 4.0.4.24 using OS Vista
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Continues the Tempgenc DVD Author tradition of simple, template driven authoring. This one is a little more flexible, and combines Divx and BluRay authoring into a single package. It is still no substitute for a full authoring tool, but for most consumer users it is more than adequate.

@schematic2 : You will never see more than 32 items on a menu in any authoring tool because the DVD specification does not allow for it. You may as well strike it from your wish list now.


Posted May 06, 2009 by . Tool version 4 using OS WinXP
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No support for AVCHD output and when I imported a 61 mnute M2TS file from a BDMV folder, only the first 12 mins were displayed. Took an age to encode even those few minutes.

Posted April 27, 2009 by . Tool version 4.0.2.14 using OS WinXP
Ease of use 5 of 10 Functionality 4 of 10 Value for money 2 of 10 Overall score 3 of 10






This version is much more user friendly than past versions. Menus are where they should be. While documentation is limited, this prog is full of nice surprises. Right mouse click for fast scrubbing is an asset. Middle mouse click for scene change search is neat. Although I never tried past versions for encoding, this version will accept non MPG2 files and encode for you. Batch processing is also a nice touch.
As with most TMPGenc products I've tried, TAW4 seems rock solid for stability. The program gives you alot for the money. Divx and Blueray included. The supplied templates are still iffy, but the self generated templates are only limited by your imagination. All the basics are there. The ability to add your own buttons, frames and backgrounds to the menu wizard is also handy.
I liked the prog trial enough to purchase it.
Wish list:
-It would be nice to be able to copy/paste text/graphics from a menu page to another
-99 chapters per menu page should be allowed instead of 32 (nice for text menu)
-ability to change skin to older styles


Posted January 30, 2009 by . Tool version 4.0.2.14 using OS WinXP
Ease of use 10 of 10 Functionality 10 of 10 Value for money 10 of 10 Overall score 10 of 10





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