DVDA 5 sucks for BD

Sebaz wrote on 12/7/2008, 9:36 PM
I'm trying to author a BD25 with 85% of disc space used. When I get to the point of preparing it, even though the target hard drive has 67,399.3 megabytes available, it tells me "There is not enough space to prepare image".

Why does Sony keep releasing alpha software as final releases? Not even free software works this bad.

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John_Cline wrote on 12/7/2008, 9:51 PM
Although I use Adone Encore for most of my Blu-ray authoring, I have used DVD Architect for some BD authoring as well. It actually works pretty well. I think that the "Not enough space" error message has to do with the drive on which the DVDA temporary files are stored, not the drive on which you are saving the project. You might want to check the drive to which you have set the temp folder.

If this turns out to be the problem, then it was an "alpha" user, not DVDA.
Skuzzy wrote on 12/8/2008, 5:03 AM
Like John Cline said, it is most likely Windows not allowing you to use all the available space on the hard drive. It will do this, especially if you are using the system drive with a dynamic paging file, rather than a static paging file.

Check where your temp folders are going as they do default to using the system drive.

If that is the only drive you have, then defrag it and try setting a static paging file, making sure it is big enough or you will run into other problems.

You may find you have to free up some space, or add another drive to your computer. DVDA is not responsible for Windows not allowing it to use all the disk space.
Sebaz wrote on 12/8/2008, 7:19 AM
Nope. From the beginning I set both Vegas and DVDA to use my biggest drive for everything, temp files, prepare, mastering, you name it. I just double checked, just in case.

Definitely DVDA is less than beta software. For a project that's using 21.1 GB, 64.1 GB of free space should be more than enough. It's definitely enough for Encore CS4, which is happily burning the BD as I type this.
John_Cline wrote on 12/8/2008, 4:42 PM
I believe that DVDA can need up to 3 times the final project size for temp disc space. 64 gig isn't going to be enough.

You have the space required for the original media, then it needs the space to mux the audio and video and generate the menu files, then the space to create the Blu-ray folder structure and then space to take the Blu-ray folder structure and turn it into an .ISO file. So, including the original media files, DVDA may need up to 80+ GB of disc space to finish the project.
MABsr wrote on 12/9/2008, 1:41 PM
First of all I think thay DVDA 5.0 Is OK.
That being said Sony has not done their homework on how it will be used. for a few titles and menues there is no problem. The fun starts when you get more than 20 menues/items.

I have spent the last week back and forth with SONY support and have gleaned this much;
One response says;
"The total size of all menus cannot exceed 1 gigabyte. Your project's estimated menu size exceeds the limit and your project cannot be prepared until you reduce the total menu size."
The gigabyte it mentions is RAM, NOT disc space. It appears that no matter how much RAM you have only 1 gig is useable????

I Posted this question on the forum twice before, and maybe because it lacked a colorful title got ignored, or maybe I'm the only one having this problem.

I have spent literally months preparing HD files of trips, family events, and family historical features, and want each one to be directly accesible. The project gets to this point then hangs.

Main menu has 3 buttons to submenues
Menu # 1 has 8 titles
Menu # 2 has 14 titles
Menu # 3 has 0 titles
The total size of the project is only 4.2 GB.
Adding one more title puts the dual processors to 90% plus and goes on for hours

"The DVD 5.0 Manual says;
(P52) ....up to 250 menu buttons per page...
(P89) ....999 chapter markers."

My last question to SS was how do I make an approx 20 GB disc with 6-10 menues and 2-20 choices each. The answer was more boilerplate busy work.

Mike B