Add blank subtitles, disk space rises to 173%

FacingPoint wrote on 8/31/2005, 4:14 PM
HELP! Adding an empty Subtitle track increa

When I add an empty Subtitle track, my "Disk Space Used" increases by 83%!!!! I go from 90% with just video/audio, and up to 173% as soon as I add a single subtitle track (and there's nothing even in the subtitle track yet!).

I tried just pushing through and burning anyway, but alas, the DVDA gods wouldn't let me and gave me a nasty 'not enough space' error.

Any help out there? Please, please, please???

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johnmeyer wrote on 8/31/2005, 8:17 PM
I ran into this, as did a few other people. I offered my explanation here:

Subtitle Problem

You can have this problem if you use the same media more than once in a DVDA project. Normally, DVDA does not duplicate the media, but instead creates a new reference to it. However, if you add subtitles to one instance of the media, then that instance becomes a new stream (because the subtitles are embedded in the stream) and now that entire stream must be added a second time, once with subtitles, and once without.

There are dozens of ways in which you can reference the same video from more than one place in a DVDA project, and I'm betting a few dollars that your project has more than one reference to the media.

The solution? Put the media into the project outside of any menus, and add the subtitles to this one instance. Then, in the portions of the project where you don't want subtitles, simply turn them off, and for the portions of the project where you do want them, enable the subtitles.

FacingPoint wrote on 9/1/2005, 1:46 AM
Got it. That did the trick! I've got a 2pm Thursday deadline and I was beginning to really panic.

Thanks so much John!!!

-andrew
www.FacingPoint.com
johnmeyer wrote on 9/1/2005, 8:30 AM
Finally -- I actually helped someone. That feels good. Glad I could help.
Steve Mann wrote on 9/1/2005, 11:37 PM
John - you help more people than you realize.

I don't know if it violates any red-book spec for the DVD, but I usually move all my media to the root of the project.