ReAuthorist 1.0.0 finally released

[aquabubble]

Hi all,

It is with great pleasure that I announce the first public release of ReAuthorist! :D Please visit my new web site at:

http://www.aquabubble.org/ReAuthorist/

To find out the latest news and to grab yourself a copy. Any issues, please post back here - but make sure you've searched the forums first in case your question has already been asked!

[ShaneZ]

Well, your website looks spiffy! :) Only good results with RC3 so I am sure the first public release will go well. Congrats on finally getting it out. I am sure you just made a lot of ppl happy.

[hendrix]

ya ...nice website, oh ya...and the proggy ;)

[69Mws]

"The eagle has landed" :D

Congratulations for the final release and keep up the great work :)

Greetz
69Mws

[jerschwab]

Congratulations! Months of hard work and now a public release! I've been having good success with your program for a couple months now and look forward to future development (especially the vobid and cellid project functionality!!!).

Thanks again!

[mrbass]

hmmm...I'm up at 3:30am and lo and behold decide to check out this forum and whaddya know. Sweet moses and mary...thanks a bunch. Never used a beta so I'll be jumping in cold turkey but hope to get up to speed soon enough. Thanks aquabubble wow only 184KB.
Eye catching graphics on the website...awesome.

[-=ViBeZ=-]

Congrats aqua!

[fourtyfour]

servus...

I am sure the first public release will go well

Like the RC1 ?! :D
(sorry, I couldn´t resist :D)

Aquabubble:

You´ve done a great job.
Hopefully RA will support VobID/Multiangle for RA for a 100 percent possibility to make backups.


I appreaciate your work very very much :)
Thanks again.

[influenza]

I've been using the beta version for quite some time now. I really love this software :p . reauthoring becomes a lot quicker then doing everythin by hand. So thanks a lot:sly:

[brashquido]

It's like christmas, but only better as we're getting something we actually want! :D

Very nice work Aqua, top job! ;) Greatly looking forward to future development in the areas of VOB ID and multiangle as already mentioned.

P.S

Where's your donation link, only another 2 months before my credit cards are cleared and I can put a little money where my mouth is ;)

[Fmazzanti]

Me also happy to hear the good news!
Aquabubble The Macho :D

[raptor79]

vobid reauthoring suport would be very nice with this app, for seamless branching titles, yummy

[VerbaL]

Nice to see it go public. A lot has changed since I started using this program and I must say...it was all to the good. Excellent work Aqua! Thanks for making scenarist life a little easier and some pretty damn accurate bitrate calculations :D

I hope to see some support for more complex titles in the future and I'm sure it will get there.

Greetz,
verb

[Xitrum]

Thanks for the great tools, I first used it yesterday and it was awesome:)

Just one question, if the DVD title contains force sub inside a normal sub, then does Reauthorist takes care of this as well?
In the past, I used to do the force subs manually.

Thanks again

[69Mws]

Originally posted by Xitrum
Just one question, if the DVD title contains force sub inside a normal sub, then does Reauthorist takes care of this as well?

Yup, forced subs are processed by DIF4U and implemented right by ReAuthorist.

Greetz
69Mws

[Xitrum]

Thanks, this is really great news!!!:D

[klona]

Well, thanks a lot.

I wasn't beta tester and did not post 10 times as there were too many requests alreadY.

So i waited, imaging what benefit can allow RA, still doing my Re-authoring on scenarist manually, and quite happy with the result and the amount of time needed to. Perhaps this can frightened some people (the time needed) but as i did first re-authoring with subrip in OCR mode, plus SBT and so on... along with vobedit to demultiplex streams... and of course manual DVD2AVI, avs script and so on.

But I am not an "old fashion is better" guy, so I get asap youe 1.0 release, and :

I AM IMPRESSED.

Your tool is already nearly perfect. Easy to use, but you keep control when you know what you do, doing great scp scripts.

So I really want to thank you and suggest you put a donation system online. In the other hand, please do not move to wonderfull sunsets with an USA company for a one-button proggy... ;-)

I tried several movies, and only get errors with Peter Pan, rented.

14 VTS, 5 of them with more than 40 PGCs...

- errors are on subs import with incorrect times in sst files (ie 2nd sub start before previous one ended, 1 frame subs, or end time before start time).
Anyway, it gives the same without re-authorist as it's coming from DIF4U files, and it's normal because error are in the original title...
A small notepad work and it's OK.

- Scenarist hangs on compilation.
VTS7 which is 47 PGCs just do a fatal error in Scenarist.
But I already get that problem with manual re-authoring woth tons on PGCs and I think it's more a scenarist bug (anyway, import is OK)



So, you see, very small error, and in my mind, not due to RA.


Well, wonderfull toy, which will enable lots of people to do great 1:1 without having to understand everything under-related.

an this is exactly the definition of a great proggy.

A small Ola to end my answer _-~-__-~-__-~-__-~-__-~-__-~-__-~-_

Thx man.

/Klona

[quinn]

Definitely get a Paypal button - I'll donate.

This is incredible - takes all the "fun" out of reencoding and reauthoring a DVD.

I'm glad I know how to do it manually, but I sure won't miss it.

Looking forward to the VOBID version as well (Need to back up Die Another Day!)

Greate product.....

[baker]

sorry if this has been asked before as I am now unable to get online and only have this small window of time.

Basically great wesbite and all.

But I went to do an encode there of a film and everything worked perfectly except there is no button in reauthorist to select interlace. I ask for this as I done a film there and reauthorist loaded everything into docce4u perfectly except I have to go and change "every" encode except the first one to interlace :-(.

It would be great to have an interlace button in reauthorist as the preview screen is what I used to tell me if a part is interlaced or not then I would change it in docce4u.

The products great though!

Baker

[hendrix]

1st step is to use DoItFast4U - it creates all the .avs scripts for you

Reauthorist is step 2.

[aquabubble]

@baker

ReAuthorist will soon pick up the new tff detection done by DoItFast4U and pass this on to DoCCE4U. Unless BBWoof gets in before I do and makes DoCCE4U pick up these settings from the filenames! ;)

[Xitrum]

I just wanted to report a problem/bug with reauthorist
Last night I tried to get reauthorist to create a Scenarist script for a movie. After opened Reauthorist, I click on the browse button to point Reauthorist to the directory where DIF4U and DoCCE4U had done the works. Reauthorist started to read the directory and files and crashed when the progress bar at the bottom is about 75% completed. I tried a few times and everytimes the same problem occurs. I thought some of my files might be corrupted, as I already used Reauthorist a few times before without any problems, so I uninstalled and reinstalled Reauthorist. However, the same problem occurs. So I decided to do the Scenarist process manually.
While doing it manually, I found out and thought that maybe the reason why reauthorist crashed was because one of the PGCs in the movie (there were 3 PGCs in the main movie) had a sound track at a different address compared with the other two, and it also had a different bitrate compared to the bitrate of other sound tracks in other PGCs.
Can you confirm to me that the latest reauthorist can't handle this situation yet? What I had to do in this case was to created extra dummy sound tracks for the other 2 PGCs, so they all have the same number of sound tracks, and after Scenarist, I had to use IFOUpdate to manually change the address of the sound track in the third PGC

[baker]

@ aqua,

Great to hear this!! SHould remove a lot of the hassle!

with the way you guys are making progress, I say by christmas 03' we have a fully working, no hassle tool!

Baker

[aquabubble]

Originally posted by Xitrum
...one of the PGCs in the movie (there were 3 PGCs in the main movie) had a sound track at a different address compared with the other two, and it also had a different bitrate compared to the bitrate of other sound tracks in other PGCs.
Can you confirm to me that the latest reauthorist can't handle this situation yet?
ReAuthorist does handle this situation so I think there may be some other problem. Perhaps one of your audio files has been mis-renamed by DoItFast4U? I have seen this causing some crashes. Take a quick look through your demux folders to see if you can see any files that look out of place...

[69Mws]

Got following problem in Scenarist when trying to build after RA Script Import:

Error The Subpicture Attribute(Language and so on) For 4:3 in
PGC<VTS_01_PGC_02pgc>:Stream<2>:Title<VTS01_Title02> is different from The Reference PGC<VTS_01_PGC_01pgc>
Error The Subpicture Attribute(Language and so on) For 4:3 in
PGC<VTS_01_PGC_03pgc>:Stream<2>:Title<VTS01_Title03> is different from The Reference PGC<VTS_01_PGC_01pgc>
Error The Subpicture Attribute(Language and so on) For 4:3 in
PGC<VTS_01_PGC_04pgc>:Stream<2>:Title<VTS01_Title04> is different from The Reference PGC<VTS_01_PGC_01pgc>
Error PreCheck From DB failed
Error DVD files could not be created

That's an episodic DVD and the four Episodes are all in one VTS.

Different Aspect Ratios are not set, they're all set to "Normal" for each sub-track.

Does Scenarist have this problem because PGC1 has one sub-track more than the others? It's an extra sub-track for german forced subs.

Can that be fixed somehow?

Greetz
69Mws

[Xitrum]

ReAuthorist does handle this situation so I think there may be some other problem. Perhaps one of your audio files has been mis-renamed by DoItFast4U? I have seen this causing some crashes. Take a quick look through your demux folders to see if you can see any files that look out of place...
Thanks to confirm this, I'll look out for it in the future as I already reauthored the movie manually, and deleted the files.

[Ripe73]

HI!
I think i find a bug in the latest RA..
When you uncheck a subtitle the "total" size dont change so you can gain bitrate to the mainmovie.
I also have a problem with oversized movies's calculated from RA(latest)etc,one came out 4706977792 with the "safe setting"..this has happen 3 times now only with the 1.0.0 build
Thanks for a great program :)

[69Mws]

Originally posted by Ripe73
HI!
I think i find a bug in the latest RA..
When you uncheck a subtitle the "total" size dont change so you can gain bitrate to the mainmovie.
I also have a problem with oversized movies's calculated from RA(latest)etc,one came out 4706977792 with the "safe setting"..this has happen 3 times now only with the 1.0.0 build
Thanks for a great program :)

I don't think it's a bug. Subtitles are not that big like you may suppose when regarding all the ripped data and how long Scenarists reads and does stuff with them :)

On the final DVD they're quite small, it's not like unchecking one sub and gaining lot of space like 50 MB or more by that.

Here an example from what I tested once:
Movielength: 122 Mins. (What Women Want)
Ripped Subs (Bitmaps from SubRip): 325 MB (341.325.824 Bytes)
Maestro Build without Subs: 4,12 GB (4.425.764.352 Bytes)
Maestro Build with Subs: 4,12 GB (4.431.965.696 Bytes)


Greetz
69Mws

[Ripe73]

I don't think it's a bug. Subtitles are not that big like you may suppose when regarding all the ripped data and how long Scenarists reads and does stuff with them
HI!
Im a PAL user and sometimes there is like 21 substreams,5-10mb each and i maybe want to keep 2-3 substreams..so there is little space to gain :)

[quinn]

Quite often I change a whole PGC from 720x480 to 352x480 in order to be able to use a lower bitrate, but still have a watchable picture.
However, Reauthorist does not notice this, and still creates scripts for 720x480 - I end up hand-editing the scripts (still better than doing this all by scratch).

It would be nice if RA noticed the picture change size (also, if it warned/errord me if I try to mix sizes).

[guitar_george_skank]

@quinn

what do you do to use the CVD resolution? Do you just alter the .avs script to resize? I want to be able to do this for lower bitrates as well. Is there anything else I would need to do. Would the subtitles still work for example? Thanks for any help you might be able to give.

GGS.

PS Sorry to change the topic during the thread.

[quinn]

Subtitles still work for me - I just modify the avs scripts that DIF4U creates to do
Crop(8,0,704,480)
LanczosResize(352,480)

and then for the main movies, I remove those lines before running RA.

Normally, though, subtitles aren't an issue because a lot of disks have no subtitles on the extras.

[guitar_george_skank]

Thanks for that, I'll give it a go.

GGS

[69Mws]

Originally posted by 69Mws
Got following problem in Scenarist when trying to build after RA Script Import:

Error The Subpicture Attribute(Language and so on) For 4:3 in
PGC<VTS_01_PGC_02pgc>:Stream<2>:Title<VTS01_Title02> is different from The Reference PGC<VTS_01_PGC_01pgc>
Error The Subpicture Attribute(Language and so on) For 4:3 in
PGC<VTS_01_PGC_03pgc>:Stream<2>:Title<VTS01_Title03> is different from The Reference PGC<VTS_01_PGC_01pgc>
Error The Subpicture Attribute(Language and so on) For 4:3 in
PGC<VTS_01_PGC_04pgc>:Stream<2>:Title<VTS01_Title04> is different from The Reference PGC<VTS_01_PGC_01pgc>
Error PreCheck From DB failed
Error DVD files could not be created

That's an episodic DVD and the four Episodes are all in one VTS.

Different Aspect Ratios are not set, they're all set to "Normal" for each sub-track.

Does Scenarist have this problem because PGC1 has one sub-track more than the others? It's an extra sub-track for german forced subs.

Can that be fixed somehow?

Greetz
69Mws

Aqua, heeeeeeeeeeeeeelp! :D

Greetz
69Mws

[turtle]

I have had a probelm using ReAuthorist on 3 titles that I have done. Usually everything is perfect, but on these movies the subtitles got out of sync toward the end of the movie, they just kept getting worse and worse. The latest movie this happened on was Sweet November NTSC, when i used reauthorist's script and compiled the dvd, the subs were out of sync at the end. I then reused Reauthorists script, but deleted the subs once they were imported and then reimported the .sst that DIF4U made and then they were all sync'd back and worked perfect. All the moives this have happened on were multi-pgc and did not require vobid ripping. The only thing that I can remember doing on these that I havent done before is uncheck some pgc's that had usless crap in them...the WB logo, the FBI logo, etc. Could that be part of the problem? I dont know but if you could look into this that would be great. Thanks for the kick ass program, keep up the great work.

-turtle

[CLK]

Hi!
I have a problem with oversized movies by RA1.0.0. I use the 4680000000 bytes (recommended) setting but I got 4 movies oversized.
I use DoCEE1.0.1.5 and CCE 2.66.
I think it has something to do with subtitels because a movie without subtitel worked fine.

[turtle]

i dont think that would have to do with subtitles, because they are so small it probably wouldnt make that much of a difference. i have only experienced an oversized movie using ra once, and i think was my own fault. anyways you could always reauthor the dvd without the subtitles and see if that was the problem?

-turtle

[VerbaL]

I seem to be getting tiny oversizes as well with my last few backups. It always goes to about 4.38 or 4.39. I usually take care of it by stripping a studio logo or something. But the problem seems to have come up lately. I haven't changed anything to the software I'm using. No real BIG issue though. Size is usually spot on :)

[influenza]

About subtitles: I don't know if it can make any difference. But most programs are written with NTSC titles in mind I think. NTSC titles usually do not have many subtitles , where PAL titles can have up to 20 sometimes. SO let's say subtitles take up only about 10 MB then 20 subtitles would be 200 MB. If the assumption is that subtitle stream can be disregarded for their size when calculating the total bitrate, then you could end up with a slightly oversized DVD if you have a lot of subtitles?

[69Mws]

Originally posted by influenza
About subtitles: I don't know if it can make any difference. But most programs are written with NTSC titles in mind I think. NTSC titles usually do not have many subtitles , where PAL titles can have up to 20 sometimes. SO let's say subtitles take up only about 10 MB then 20 subtitles would be 200 MB. If the assumption is that subtitle stream can be disregarded for their size when calculating the total bitrate, then you could end up with a slightly oversized DVD if you have a lot of subtitles?

Yup, some PAL titles truly have a lot of subs, but I don't think that anyone would keep them all. Why would someone do that :confused:

I for my part keep only the subs I need for the kept audiotracks, which is regularly german and english in most cases.

I only came up one time 'til now with an oversized result. I didn't want to reencode everything again, so I just reencoded the audio for director's comments at lower bitrate with BeSweet (192 kbps down to 160 kbps) to save space :)

Greetz
69Mws

[Xitrum]

Hi Aquabubble,
Fistly, thanks for a great tool, it really save us a lot of time and headaches.

Secondly, I would like to make a suggestion for future version of RA.
In the current version of RA, for a movie with multiple PGCs, some of which is a short PGC with about 12 frames, which I was told is used as a links to other PGCs, I notice that reauthorist re-created them as still shows. I also read a lot of guide on doom9 saying that when we import these short pgcs, Senarist will prompt us to select one of the 3 options (Still show, still menu or slide show), and these guides suggested that we should select still show.

However, when I read the Scenarist manual and this is what it said:
"A slide show track consists of a series of still images, each of which have their own display duration. Slide shows can have audio and subpicture streams. A still show track consists of a series of still images, each of which remains on-screen until the viewer presses a key on the remote control. Still shows cannot have audio or subpicture streams."

On the weekend, I used RA to help me reauthored a concert DVD, and this DVD had 5 PGCs, 2 of which are short PGCs. I imported the scripts generated by RA into Scenarist and reauthored the DVD, the short PGCs was created as still shows. When I tried to play the DVD, it first displayed the Copyright warning and then just stuck there until I press the play button. I checked the Original DVD and it does not stop at all. So I go back to reauthorist and changed these still show pgcs to slide show pgc and reauthored. This time the DVD played as the original and did not stop.

I don't know a lot of technical stuff behind DVDs, but just wondering that if you could do some investigations into this and see whether the short PGCs should be created as still show or slide show.

[Ripe73]

HI!

Now i have a strange problem with RA,the average bitrate RA calculate is huge:D

look at this log..
"E:\DVDRIP\Vanilla\VANILLA_SKY\VTS02\VTS__02_P01.I-TFF.16~9_1.AVS",0,9160,2232987,0,3
"E:\DVDRIP\Vanilla\VANILLA_SKY\VTS03\VTS__03_P01.I-TFF.4~3_1.AVS",0,9608,112996,0,3
"E:\DVDRIP\Vanilla\VANILLA_SKY\VTS04\VTS__04_P01.I-TFF.4~3_1.AVS",0,9608,249694,0,3
"E:\DVDRIP\Vanilla\VANILLA_SKY\VTS06\VTS__06_P01.I-TFF.4~3_1.AVS",0,9608,99352,0,3
"E:\DVDRIP\Vanilla\VANILLA_SKY\VTS08\VTS__08_P01.I-TFF.4~3_1.AVS",0,9608,93426,0,3

I tried to uninstall and reinstall RA but it doesnt help!..this happen on every movie i choose now on my HD,im not sure why,it suddenly happen!!
I need some help now or i reinstall the XP..RA is very important for me these days :cool:

[influenza]

If you have urgent time problems, you can also have doitfast4u output to docce4u (and do the bitrate calculation). After that use RA

[Ripe73]

Yea i know but the problem is that DoItFast4u,show me 0 in average bitrate of the mainmovie in the textfile,so something is very wrong somwhere...
If i uninstall Ra and Doit4u will it be complete uninstalled or is it still something left in the register??..if it is how to delete that?

[wfn1]

I'm having a strange problem as well. I'm backing up the 1st disc of Futurama and RA's bitrate calculations are way off. So I went ahead and used DIF4U's DoCCE.txt file since it had the right bitrates and encoded it that way. Then I used RA to build the SCP file. The script imports fine into Scenarist but when I try to build the DVD files I get the following error:


Error Multiplex is terminated at 00:00:00:26 in the middle of scene "VTS03_vobid32_cellid01", but other cells are left. Please check video data file or track <VTS_03_PGC_03>.
Error dvd_mux : DoMux Multiplexing Error
Error Terminated Multiplexing (futurama1.scn-VTS_03_PGC_03_t.vob).
Error Some CELLs which do not multiplexed are left.
Error Multiplex is failed.
Info Multiplexing failed, Track<VTS_03_PGC_03>

Error MuxFromDB:MuxVTS failed
Error Multiplex failed
Error DVD files could not be created


Any ideas?

[patzik]

Whenever I press the encode or author it button I get

Reauthorist has encountered a problem and needs to close.

I tried running it under winxp and win98se, same problem on both OS'es. Anyone have any suggestions?

[newguy007]

I haven't seen Aquabubble around lately. Is this project still alive? I hope so.

[alfadude]

Maybe he's on vacation.
He deserves that after the hard work he did.

[jerschwab]

Does anyone use Scenarist 2.7?? I haven't been able to get Reauthorist scripts to work properly in 2.7. After I'm done I use NuMenu4U's IfoUpdate utility, but when I play the DVD the time is all messed up. I can only fast forward through to half of the movie... I dunno what the problem is here. I hate to say it, but I've resorted to using DVD Shrink lately... which is such a compromise!

[allright]

Hey

Try to use IFOUpdate with the setting in the guide, then it should work like a charm.