H E L P ! Menu Size driving me NUTS !

will-3 wrote on 11/25/2003, 4:38 AM
My first DVDA project has 3 menu screens. including the Main Menu.
DVDA tells me my menu is greater than 1 GB.

Make DVD | Prepare DVD | Optimize reports...

Main Menu = 3,944.7MB
Screen Selection (Page 1) = 1MB
Menu (Page 2) = 1MB
Screen Selection (Page 3) = 1MB
My Movie (in MPEG-2 format) = 3,069.1MB

- I have a 12 second background audio on the Main Menu only. It is an ac-3 music file that is about 282k.
- When I remove it from the DVD project... leaving no background audio... Optimize reports that the Main Menu drops to 13MB...
- How can removing a 282k audio file change the Main Menu size from 3,994.7MB to 13MB ??? !!!
- Can anyone please tell me what is going here and how to fix it. I need to burn this DVD tonight and deliver it tomorrow.

Thanks for any help. - Will

Comments

kameronj wrote on 11/25/2003, 4:45 AM
Will,

Maybe thi will help you.

When all else fails - start over.

Start a new project and bring everything in again. Make a copy of the file in question - and use the copy instead. See if you get the same result.

Or to really troubleshoot - just bring in the one file and hit prepare and see what you get. Then, just bring in one file/item at a time and check the properties.

It may just be a glitch. And if it is only happenign with the one file - then it certainly is a glitch.

Hope that helps.
will-3 wrote on 11/25/2003, 5:04 AM
I recreated the 12 second ac-3 audio file that I want to loop during the Main Menu and changed the name of the ac-3 file... I have no audio for the sub-menu's.

Still removing the 12 seconds of background audio from the Main Menu changes the size in...

Make DVD | Prepare DVD | Optimize...

from 3,944.7 MB to 13 MB

I'll try starting the entire project from scratch and adding each thing one at a time...

I really just have one video... about an hour long... I want the Main Menu to have 2 icons... One to start the Main Feature at the begining... the 2nd to go to a sub-menu so the viewer can jump into the video for various parts.

Anybody else have any idea's?

Thaniks - Will
craftech wrote on 11/25/2003, 5:23 AM
Somehow you have the video in there twice I think. If you have a single icon on the main page for playing the entire movie, you right click on it and choose to make a scene selection menu from that. Then you have a main menu page with the Play Movie icon and the Scene Selection icon. The number of subsequent pages are dependent upon how many selections per page you chose and the number you have. If you created markers in Vegas for scene selection and gave them names they will be automatically generated in DVDA although the font sizes will be all different and will have to be resized.
When the main page appears in the DVDA project go over to the right side and add your audio file and set the specifics in the boxes below.

John
will-3 wrote on 11/25/2003, 5:38 AM
John,

I think you are on the right track but I did exactly as you suggested... and still same results.

Read my new thread where I super simplified the entire project to a single Main Menu with just the main feature and the 12 seconds of background audio.

Please share any other thoughts you might have on this... it must be something dumb I'm doing.

Will
jetdv wrote on 11/25/2003, 6:33 AM
Try using a WAV file instead?
will-3 wrote on 11/25/2003, 7:05 AM
Jetdv...

Da Da !!! That did it.

Wonder why rendering the 12 second background audo for the DVD Main Menu as a .wav as opposed to an ac-3 file would matter? I don't get it.

BTW, I used Acid Pro 4.0 to create the 12 second audio file... for what ever that is worth.

Thanks again everybody... even though I still don't understand it. At least I can now create the darn DVD.

Will
craftech wrote on 11/25/2003, 5:54 PM
Wonder why rendering the 12 second background audo for the DVD Main Menu as a .wav as opposed to an ac-3 file would matter? I don't get it.
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I don't either. I always use an AC-3 file and haven't seen the problem you describe.

John
wobblyboy wrote on 11/25/2003, 7:12 PM
The message you got has nothing to do with the audio. Some how you manually set you menu size to long. Check auto and all should be well.