How can I shorten render time with just TINY edit to the Nen

rondi wrote on 4/4/2018, 1:51 PM

I have a slightly less than 22gb BD that I have edited the menu page to insert a "-" in 2 places and that is all the changes. I am using the .dar from the last render--so all settings should be the same--but then it took over 13 hours to render last time--same as this time!

I have a i7-3770 3.4ghz cpu with 32gb of memory. Looking at Task Manager/Performance window, I have 8 cores displayed, 2 have nothing going on, or very liitle depending when I look at it. The data on the left shows CPU average usage of 31% and 22gb of memory used. As I recall, before I had to reinstall W7 Pro 64bit in Dec, I had MUCH higher CPU usage. My computer is pretty much up to date.

Soooo- is there another way like---extract the ISO file, and edit the files that need editing--particularly the first Menu file from the previous ISO? Will DVDA save just that menu file and all the links. I know I could try this, but I am 3hr into a 14hr render. and I don't want to stop it now.

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Former user wrote on 4/4/2018, 2:50 PM

If the menu is not part of the video, but part of the DVD, you should not have to re-render the whole video. Unless you let DVDA render your video (instead of Vegas or Movie Studio), which is not advised.

rondi wrote on 4/4/2018, 4:55 PM

It is part of the video---iow contained in the ISO as 00000.m2ts, is 640kb and has 13 buttons to navigate to the other files. It is not in a sub menu.

Former user wrote on 4/4/2018, 9:30 PM

Is the menu then a standalone video? I guess I am a bit confused.

rondi wrote on 4/5/2018, 10:20 AM

Thanks for the replies David- My Menu was made from the default menu in DVDA 7 and is just a static display--no sound or video. I just dragged the video file onto it. I just modified it, added buttons with names etc. It is the first file in the ISO. Using WinRAR I can I can double click 00000.m2ts and it shows the menu. I think I could also exchange it for an edited version--but I'm not sure if the links to the 13 files on the disk would be correct. The contents are unknown---nothing that makes sense. I should have checked the contents before I asked, because I have not idea what is what. I thought it would be in English--not some unknown code :)

Former user wrote on 4/5/2018, 10:57 AM

Okay, then back to my original thoughts. Did you render your video files to Bluray ready files in Vegas or Movie Studio? If you did, then you only have to change the menu. If you just change the text on the Menu, you should not have to redo the links. If you let DVDA render your video files to Bluray compatible, then it may require that it render them all again. If you let Vegas or Movie Studio render your files and then imported them into DVDA, then you only have to let DVDA rebuild the Bluray structure.

rondi wrote on 4/5/2018, 1:45 PM

I render the files (ex the menu) in VMS to BD m2ts file type. Dragged them into DVDA, created the menu. Prepared them to an ISO to burn later.

I extracted the 00000.m2ts file from the ISO, and put it in DVDA. It looks like a pix, nothing to edit as far as labels go--So I have no idea how I could edit AND then I gotta get it back into the ISO--not sure that can be done.

I think I wasted too much of your time. 13hrs is a long time to reneder when I just added 2 dashes--but the nights are still pretty long :)

Thanks again David for your help,
Ron

Former user wrote on 4/5/2018, 2:03 PM

You would need to edit the original DVDA project, where you created the menu to start with. Extracting from the ISO will get you nothing you can use.

rondi wrote on 4/5/2018, 5:46 PM

Yes, I came to that conclusion too. Thank you for the help.