"render failure" error on DVD menus

dibbkd wrote on 11/7/2005, 5:18 PM

When creating menu's in DVD Architect, sometimes the WMV file that I add to a menu comes up with "render failure".

These are all files I've created with Vegas Studio, and the weird thing is sometimes they don't say "render failure" and play just fine in the preview mode.

Any ideas?

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jrazz wrote on 11/7/2005, 9:26 PM

Why are you creating wmv files for DVD menus? You should be using either ac3 or mpeg2 audio for DVDs. Why? WMV compresses the music which DVD has to uncompress and rerender to a format that is acceptable for DVD. Render straight to ac3 or mpeg2 and you shouldn't have that problem.

j razz

dibbkd wrote on 11/9/2005, 7:58 PM

OK - I rendered as an MPEG2 , (I don't have AC3 as an option).

It actually seemed to render much quicker than when I did it as an WMV, I guess I had used WMV because it's just familiar, most videos I've seen are in WMV, but I guess they're not as good.

BUT - when I went to play my newly rendered MPEG2 video, I got no audio. I think an error about downloading a CODEC came up, but it went away so fast I'm not sure.

Anyway, so why did I lose audio on it?

Edit:
Why does rendering in WMV take so long anyway even though it makes such a small file? Is it because it's compressing it too?
WMV: 135 seconds 7MB
AVI: 27 seconds 66MB