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TMPGEnc DVD Author 1.5 | 
 enlarge | From: Global Marketing Partners
Category: Software
This item is no longer available
Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 10467
Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Windows 2000, Windows Xp
Media: CD-ROM
Operating System: Windows XP
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 10.2 x 8.3 x 2.6
Model: 12358
UPC: 880640123587
EAN: 0880640123587
ASIN: B00022KJ8Y
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| Features:
| • | Author MPEG-1/-2 files to DVD-Video structured files | | • | Perform DVD authoring quickly and easily | | • | Create interesting menus using the "motion menu" feature | | • | Supports every setting in TMPGEnc Plus 2.5 software encoder | | • | Precise "cut edit" and "chapter point" ability |
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| Customer Reviews: Read 4 more reviews...
TMPGEnc DVD Author 1.5 February 18, 2008
G. Ewing (Lenox, Ohio)
Good product, does a good job of authoring a DVD, could be a little more robust with its features.
It Does What It's Meant to Do February 6, 2005
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
It may be a bit difficult for some n00bs unfamiliar with video formats, bit coupled with the TMPGEnc MPEG Encoder, this baby can't be beat. It's a bit tedious, the results are great. You can even buy an AC3 encoder! Yeah!!
 Probably the best January 7, 2005
J. Hill (Atlanta, GA)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
If you're unfamiliar with the process, here's what it takes to get your videos from camcorder to DVD:
1) Capture analog video (or transfer digital video) from camcorder to computer (usually as an AVI file).
2) Edit the footage to add titles, cut out boring stuff and white noise, correct color, adjust volume, etc.
3) Render (convert) the edited file (still AVI) as an MPG file.
4) Convert the MPG to the format the DVD player needs (e.g., IFO, NFO files).
5) Burn the files from step 4 to a DVD.
This software package will let you do #3 (DVD Source Creator), #4 (DVD Author), and #5 (DVD Writing Tool) above. You'll need something else for steps 1 & 2.
The whole DVD creating process is still a bit complicated for novices but after trying several other applications out there, this one has been the best for my needs. If you're a real novice and don't want to spend some time figuring things out by trial and error, you might be better off using Pinnacle Studio or another application that walks you through the whole process (with limited flexibility, though).
DVD Author has some pretty cool DVD menu options -- each chapter can have its own little 30-second (time is adjustable) preview, so when you put the DVD in your player the first thing that pops up is 6 (also adjustable) little TV screens showing you a moving preview of what's in each chapter on the DVD. There aren't a whole lot of templates (colors, buttons, etc.) but I'm satisfied with the default template anyway and you can design your own.
Another feature I like is that you can do some last-minute editing of MPG files before creating your DVD. This works great for all the home videos I'm doing. Example: I have a bunch of MPG files on my hard drive ("christmas 97.mpg", "birthday party.mpg"). With this tool, I can make a DVD for my mother-in-law where I cut "christmas 97.mpg" down to just the part where we're at her house. Then, without modifying the original MPG file, I can make another DVD for my brother with just the part of the video he's interested in. This saves a lot of time versus rendering a whole new file of just the footage I want in each DVD compilation.
This is good stuff. And at a great price. I highly recommend it.
This program rocks November 12, 2004
David R. Massey (Ogden, Utah United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a great program that is very simple to use. The only drawbacks that I've seen are there aren't very many menu background choices, and editing isn't any frame to any frame like the standalone recorder. That means perfect edits can only be done sometimes. There also isn't any way to join seperate clips together to make one clip, or if it does it I don't know how to do it. Other than that it's very simple to use and does an excellent job. Menus have plenty of options for setup, display main menu or track menu or both, or auto play instead of starting on a menu. What to do after each title can also be set, back to menu etc. Titles and chapters can be easily added. It's also pretty fast in it's functions, much faster and easier than Nero. Editing is very simple and fast, it uses a timeline which can be played at normal speed, fast speed, frame by frame, or scrolled through, very fast and simple to use compared to others I've seen. Preset menus can be used or you can customize the menus, which can come in very handy when making menus with with long titles. It does RAM, something that some far more expensive programs won't do. It won't write to RAM, but it will import from RAM. It also accepts and burns the AC3 audio that many standalones use, again something that many far more expensive programs don't do, or that they want to sell you a plug in to use. It can deal with the edit points on discs that were edited on the standalone too, some programs have audio sync problems with discs that were edited on standalones. It has it's own burner which works flawlessly every time. You can spend alot more and get alot less, it's worth every penny. After buying you can go to the websight and upgrade to version 1.6 which allows burning dual layered discs. If you are looking for a simple to use reliable program, this is it.
Only TMPG and CCE can handle it November 1, 2004
OverTheMoon (overthemoonreview@hotmail.com)
15 out of 15 found this review helpful
There are only two industry standard MPEG Encoders. Cinema Craft Encoder (CCE) and TMPGEnc [Please Note that this product is called TMPGEnc DVD author - It is not an encoder. It converts MPEG files into DVD files. TMPG offer a product on their web site that does MPEG encoding]. Anything else has inferior maths behind the encoding - essentially the quality can never be as good. TMPG products offer a bundle of conversion, burning, authoring solutions, but IMO CCE is best for converting to MPEG and TMPGEnc DVD author is best for making DVDs from those CCE MPEG files. In fact there is really no two ways about it. Both CCE and TMPG have this market dominated, except for the more expensive software packages that also use hardware/firmware for encoding, however the difference is barely noticeable with CCE and TMPG.
TMPG allows you to do anything when authoring a DVD except for adding subtitles - which is probably the most difficult thing you can do in DVD authoring. If you want to add subs to your DVD then I suggest using the software package D.I.K.O with this one.
Anyway the bottom line is that Hollywood produce their DVDs using software like TMPG and CCE. Although TMPG can give you some trouble on converting some MPEG files to DVD files this is usually to do with having the wrong video codecs installed on your machine or a bad encoding to begin with (a good reason to use CCE). If you can encode with CCE you should be able to author it with TMPG.
As a note there are two issues with TMPG. The first is that its licensing is subject to a renewable licence agreements with things like Dolby Digital (AC3), DTS and Dolby Surround so some additional plug-ins are required to have a full blown DVD authoring system at your command. Here is a hint. If you are afraid that this revalidation key is going to affect your work then just find a crack and patch it. It is easy to do but to be honest this company and CCE are the only 2 out there so it is unlikely they will go bust.
BTW - If you just want to copy DVDs then go use DVDshrink. Its free. You don't need this. This is used for building DVDs from Mpeg files. If you have a DV cam then use CCE for encoding your DV files to Mpeg and TMPG to author the DVD of the converted DV files. That is what it is all about.
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