Got a new one for DVDA4.

This is my first real project using 4 - I've stuck with 3 up until now.

I have a simple project with 1 mpg file, pointers to chapters, and a menu with button animation. The buttons are nothing more than 20 seconds of the main video looped. There is a 20 second motion background.

I went to prepare, there were no error messages, and I started the prepare. DVDA started rendring the menu, and after 3 minutes sat at 0 progress and the completion time estimation climbed to 3 hours and 34 minutes! Finally the progress indicator started running.

I stopped the render, and replaced the motion background with a still image and the same thing occurred.

Next, I changed the buttons from animation to a still thumbnail and it took off and started preparing normally. Total prepare time including converting audio to AC3 was about 10 minutes.

The menu was only :20 seconds looped, and looked fine in preview, so I don't got a clue. All settings were right for NTSC, anti-flicker was not turned on, and I find nothing else strange.

In DVDA3 this would have worked perfectly.

Anyone else had similar problem?

Tom