recompression when using scene selection

devnull wrote on 6/19/2004, 7:24 AM

Hi!

I have the following problem in DVD Architect 1.0 Build 160:
When I insert just the video clip (and a separate wav file for audio), I get the green check marks on both video and audio. But as soon as I insert a scene selection menu, it wants to recompress the video (I see a yellow diamond). The same thing happens when I copy&paste the clip to the menu a second time, even if I use just a text link, no thumbnail. I use NO animated thumbnails, so that can't be the problem. I even deleted all the thumbnails, but still it wants to recompress until I delete the scene selection menu (or the copy of the clip). Then everything works again as it should.
Summary: as soon as there is more than one link to the same file in the menu structure, it wants to recompress resulting in an unnecessary long rendering time.

Is there a way to avoid this?

Thanks, devnull

Comments

kameronj wrote on 6/19/2004, 9:11 AM

It will always want to recompress your audio if you insert a WAV file.

I'm not sure what you are doing - but every DVD I have ever created has never asked for a recompression regardless of how many menu (sub menues or scene selects I insert).

But then again....I have NEVER inserted a WAV file for audio. I have always set up my audio as a separate AC3 file and rendered the video using the Vegas template for MPEG2.

My production time once brought into DVDA (again, regardless of how many menus I create) has always been rather quick.

So.....from my POV, you are doing something that is causing this to happen and it is not an across the board issue with scene selections.

Filip wrote on 6/19/2004, 9:21 AM

I have similar problem. I have created MPEG2 using DVD Architect preset in VV5. After importing into DVD2, the video file needs to be rerendered for DVD burning. I have a menu structure for selecting scenes. There are no animations in the menu, only stills from the video.

devnull wrote on 6/19/2004, 11:25 AM

Well, if I have only one link to the clip in my project, everything works fine as I have said. And the wav file is NEVER recompressed, only the video. I have also tried using a single mpeg2 file that also contains the audio stream - with the same result. So something is really strange here.

devnull

devnull wrote on 6/22/2004, 2:59 AM

Sorry for pushing this topic up, but I really need to know what to do. The deadline is next friday, and if I can't get this to work I'll have to look for alternatives. Because I need the computer for work during the day, I'm limited to rendering over night, and the estimated time with recompression is just too long.

Thanks for anything you can tell me,

devnull

bStro wrote on 6/22/2004, 10:51 AM

For starters, I'd recommend updating to the latest version of DVDA 1.0d (if upgrading to DVDA2 is not an option right now). It went up to, I believe, build 250. Dunno if that will help, but it might. As you say, something is not right about your situation. Maybe updating will fix it.

Rob

SonySDB wrote on 6/23/2004, 8:08 AM

We were able to repro the problem you described with DVDA1d. The problem occurs when using a video-only MPEG file with an associated audio file which is longer than the video.

A workaround we found is to adjust and then reset back the out point of _all_ references to the video in your project. When reset back, the out point should be set to the last frame of the video indicated by the dotted line. Another workaround is to make sure your audio isn't longer than your video.

bStro wrote on 6/23/2004, 8:33 AM

So much for my solution. <g>

Rob

kameronj wrote on 6/24/2004, 2:48 PM

Nice try anyway...Rob.

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devnull wrote on 6/29/2004, 7:35 AM

Rob, your idea did the trick. I updated to the latest build (230), and now it works perfectly. I checked, and my audio is exactly the same length as the video. So this was a different bug than the one the Sony guys found.
Anyway, thanks for all your input.

devnull

bStro wrote on 6/29/2004, 8:28 AM

Cha-ching!

Rob