DVDA Crashes System

Munroe wrote on 10/22/2009, 9:41 AM
I have a couple of years experience with video editing with consumer software .
I recently purchased VMS9/DVDA 4d and I am generally very happy with it.
I had one glitz with DVDA and that is:
I had 3 MPEG2 video files, 1.18 Gbs. In size. (They were not HD)
Using VMS9, I added a title, with music to each of these video and rendered them to MPEG2.
Using DVDA, I made a menu, with music, for these videos and selected Make DVD/Burn DVD. The software indicated that the Blank 4.7 Gb. DVD was too small so I replaced it with DL 8.5 Gb DVD. After about 20 minutes, the estimated time of the burn had reached approximate 24 hours and there was about 1 percent of the burn was complete, I decide to cancel it. A message appeared saying this cancellation would take several minutes. Thirty second after that, the whole system crashed and the blue screen of death appeared. Luckly I was able to recover the system with no apparent damage done.
What do now is I use DVDA to produce a Video_TS Folder and I burn to DVD with another piece of software that I have.
Any ideas why this happened. What I did wrong, if anything.

Comments

Steve Grisetti wrote on 10/22/2009, 1:41 PM
I'm concerned that three 1.18 gig files were too large to fit on a 4.7 gig DVD.

Is there more to the story than that? How large wast the MPEG2 you output from Vegas?

You do, of course, have the option to tell DVD Architect to compress these files -- although you can usually fit about 70 minutes of video on a standard DVD and about twice that on a dual-layer disk at full quality. And, in any event, even further compressing your video rarely takes more than twice its running time.

Have you got any idea why those small files were not able to fit on a 8.5 gig disc?
Munroe wrote on 10/23/2009, 9:33 AM
Hi Steve:
Thanks for reply.
The output files from Vegas was 1.18 Gbs. In size and were approximately 24 min in length .
DVDA indicated to me that these files would not fit on a 4.7 gb DVD. After I replaced it with a DL DVD is when all the trouble started.
I agree with you, these 3 files should fitted quite easily on a DL DVD.
My question is why DVDA seemed to have great deal of trouble burning these, when the subject files are ordinary MPEG2 files.
Oh! When I burned Video_TS Folder using my other software, it too asked for a DL DVD.

Steve Grisetti wrote on 10/23/2009, 9:58 AM
I'm still just a bit unclear when you say "The output files from Vegas was 1.18 Gbs. In size and were approximately 24 min in length ." I'm not sure if you mean the three files together ran a total of 24 minutes and a total of 1.18 gig or if you mean that each were 24 minutes long and 1.18 gig.

In any event -- even if they were 1.18 gig each -- that's only a total of 3.6 gigabytes, well short of the 4.7 capacity on a disc.

So I have to ask once more -- Can you think of anything more that may be adding to this bloat? Are you using huge photos as menu page backgrounds or lots of music clips behind the menus?

And, in the lower right corner of the DVD Architect interface, the program shows you your total uncompressed file size for your DVD project. What number does your project show?
Munroe wrote on 10/23/2009, 10:39 AM
The 3 files are 1.18 gbs each, for a total of 3.64 Gbs
The 3 files are approximately 24 mins each.
I used a back ground Graphic for the menu , it is a jpg 1894 X 1680 in size.
The back ground music is from the content folder from sony, 180 Austin Variation in a loop. The size of this is 12.4 mbs
The size of the file indicated at the lower left hand is 3.98 Gbs
Terry Esslinger wrote on 10/23/2009, 10:52 AM
Can you go ahead and try to burn the project even with the warning (that is-ignore it)? DVDA has quite a reputation for overestimating the size of the project.
Munroe wrote on 10/23/2009, 12:01 PM
I have deleted the files so I can't reburn it. I will try again when I have a another project
Thanks