Huge MPEG problem-HELP PLEASE

leprechaun wrote on 1/7/2005, 5:23 AM

Hi everyone,
New to this software so apologies!
Whenever I import MPEG2 into my animated menu or into the DVD architect it it becomes huge i.e a 1.6GB MPEG2 grows to about 4GB+ . In Vegas i rendered a 8,859kb mpeg2 to DVD Architect pal widescreen video stream (for use in an animated menu)and it sized to 10,720kb although when i try to prepare it for burning I get the >1GB maximum error message.
In short my MPEGS are becoming massive. What should i be redndering my MPEG2's to. What exact format?
Would love some help please.
THANKS

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ScottW wrote on 1/7/2005, 5:44 AM

If DVDA is recompressing your MPEG, then you'll frequently find it's size estimates are incorrect. The optimize screen should tell you if DVDA thinks it needs to recompress.

You should be rendering from Vegas using one of the DVDA templates - there's a set of templates that are specific to DVD Arch - use one of those. Do not use the default template.

By the way, you will NOT be able to use a 1.6GB MPEG file for an animated menu no matter what. There's a limit of 1GB for all your menu information. Also, I don't usually find any value in handing DVDA an MPEG file for a motion background on a menu, since 99% of the time, DVDA is going to re-render it anyway (which juxt slows things down since it needs to decompress and then recompress), so I usually just render my motion backgrounds as an NTSC DV AVI file (or PAL if you're from PALland) and feed those to DVDA directly (remember, you're still constrained by the 1GB limit for the resulting menus).

--Scott

leprechaun wrote on 1/8/2005, 8:46 AM

Thanks! Thats sorted many of the problems ive been having