5 hours to render scene selection page

ajeastwo wrote on 11/23/2004, 11:04 AM
I have a project that I am trying to burn.
I haven't even got as far as physically burning the DVD because the rendering in DVDA2 takes so long.
The other day i left it running and it had taken 10 hours and with 7 minutes left an error message appeared saying it couldn't finish.
After reading some of the posts i decided to render the video in vegas first(I produced it using Ulead). So i chose the DVD pal template and rendered it, which took 10 hours for one mpeg, and 1 hour for the other.
But now when i choose to produce DVD, the rendering in DVDA2 it takes 5 hours to render just the scene selection page, which only contains links to the video i rendered in vegas(the one that only took 1 hour). Is it because I have 12 scene selections, all animated on the same page, and it has to render each individual selection?

Has anyone got any ideas what i'm doing wrong?

Comments

ScottW wrote on 11/23/2004, 2:52 PM
If you have animated thumbnails or a motion menu, DVDA must read the data stream for each thumbnail (decompressing the information), create a composite video stream of all the thumbnails and the background and then recompress this into the final audio/video stream.

So yes, this can take some time depending on how fast your computer is, etc. and you might not be doing anything wrong.

--Scott