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videoITguy wrote on 8/15/2013, 11:53 AM
Please EXPLAIN yourself? Huh? "Pages" - DVDAPro software? A page is part of a menu. You can only have so many bits/bytes allocated to a menu- look in the help file for spec.
trojanrobmc wrote on 8/15/2013, 11:58 AM
I am using DVD Architect Pro 6.0
I have a bluray project that takes up about half of a 25GB single layer bluray disc.
The project itself has 6 menu pages (page 1, page 1, page 3, etc).
All of the videos in the project are already rendered to .m2ts, and .ac3 audo--so i theory, it should be a pretty fast render.
But for some reason, it takes FOREVER to render the background video on the first page of the project. It's not video, it's a still frame. I don't know why it's taking so long to render the menu page for the first page of the project.
The weird thing, is that all of the following pages render pretty quickly.
This seems to happen on all of my projects; the first page taking a long time to render.
trojanrobmc wrote on 8/15/2013, 12:44 PM
I seem to have figured something out. When I go to optimize disc, under most of my render pages, on the video section, the duration is 0.5. But for some reason, on the top page, the duration is over 4 minutes long. It has to do with the audio that i'm putting into the background. On every other page, the duration on the video section (from the optimize disc menu) is 0.5.

When I remove the audio, the duration drops to 0.5, but when I add it back in there, it jumps back to 4 minutes plus. The strange thing is that when I start over...and rebuild the menu page from scratch, everything works normally. There must be a bug in there somewhere.
videoITguy wrote on 8/15/2013, 12:46 PM
All assets picture type are and will become movies on a Blu-ray disc period. The only thing not converted to video would be an audio asset.
So for conventional video assets - they should be prepared as video streams in your NLE. That expedites the authoring process. On the other hand anything put into a menu in authoring, be it picture or graphic, or another movie as background has to be rendered to a movie in the Blu-ray authoring. That may be why you are saying long time rendering at that step - ? but hey what is a long time?
You can really help your DVDAPro authoring process by only submitting picture format or imported graphic to a menu background by creating it in photo software to a .png file type. No loss and small bits/byte in volume size.

As I said before, the limitation of your menus is to a certain volume size of the sum total of menu/pages. Adding a page with a clean background is much preferred over adding complexity in graphics to additional pages.

Just saw your additional post about menu audio. Do not use this feature in DVDAPro Version 6.0 as it has known bug. Revert to earlier versions preferably 5.0b.