My 2.9G turns into 5.1G.. and wants to recompress..

box532 wrote on 3/6/2003, 4:08 PM
Capture AVI.

Edit in Premeire.

Encode with VBR CCE for the video.

Take a .wav from there.

Use Scenartist to encode .wav to .ac3.

TMPEG .mpv and .ac3 to create .mpg file.

Open DVD.. load in my muxed .mpg file (2.9G). Add three pages of menus.. backgroup pics.. No AUDIO on with the menus.

Go to Make DVD... says file is 5.1G and needs to recompress.

How do I tell "Art" to leave my original Video/Audio alone??

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JSWTS wrote on 3/6/2003, 4:49 PM
You need the program stream to get your video into DVD-A, but you also need to drag and drop or associate the original elementary ac3 stream with it because DVD-A doesn't 'see' the ac3 file within the program stream properly. Once you do this, I think you will see the file size drop significantly.


Jim
box532 wrote on 3/6/2003, 4:59 PM
Hey Jim...

Where do you "drag" the .ac3 file too?????
box532 wrote on 3/6/2003, 6:56 PM
So... when I go to Optimize my Project...

The main menu is there.. along with Menu Page 1 thru 4.

There is a warning under "Audio Format" (recompression notice)

Should these audio settings be at pcm audio?

I didn't select any audio files to run behind my menus.. so I guess the .ac3 file is a default. Should I change that?

The last file in the group is my video.. it's say the file is 5.1G. It isn't. Actually 2.9 or so.

Changing the "audio" setting here does seem to change the file size.. actually makes it bigger. Nothing here seems to lower it.

When I select the Video file in this menu... there is no option to "not" recompress.

I tried muxing my .mpv to .mpeg without a audio file in there, and they selecting the .ac3 file later.

Made the file in the optimize page over 10G.. not good.

Is this something that will be addressed in the upcoming fix?

Is so.. I'll wait. But if this is the way it goes... then goodbye to this program.
JSWTS wrote on 3/7/2003, 6:03 AM
Go to the window that displays your movie (if your movie is a button on your main menu just double click on the button and it will take you there). Once you are at that window, you can find your ac3 file in the explorere window on the bottom and drag and drop it onto the filmstrip representation of your movie above, or on the upper right hand side there is the option to find your audio stream and associated it that way.

jim
box532 wrote on 3/7/2003, 6:57 AM
:o(

I've done that.... no luck.
JSWTS wrote on 3/7/2003, 9:08 AM
It sounds like something is not compliant with your ac3 file that DVD-A want's to recompress it. I had huge file estimates when I imported a program stream alone, especially if there were chapters (55 gig estimate for a 3.2 gig file!!), that was corrected when I associated a compliant ac3 file elementary stream with the program stream. If the file is non-compliant, you will continue to get the message that it will recompress, and the erroneous file size estimates. There was a similar thread earlier relating to this, but I can't find it now.

Jim