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Steve Grisetti wrote on 3/24/2009, 6:03 PM
I'm sorry. I can't make sense of what you're asking.

Peter Wahl wrote on 3/24/2009, 9:53 PM
Thanks for your response. I'll go back and document the steps that lead me up to the message I get about the "Menu being more than 1 GB." Once I get that message it doesn't allow me to proceed with the burn step. I will go back and record the steps that led up to this block.

Thanks for you interest.
bStro wrote on 3/24/2009, 10:02 PM
If I had to guess, I'd say you dragged your video onto the timeline for the menu -- which tells DVD Architect Studio to use your video as the menu's background instead of add it as its own movie like you want.

If that's the case, you want to drag your video file onto the menu itself (not its timeline) in order to create a button linking to that video. Alternatively, if you don't even want a menu, go to File > New, choose Single Movie, and hit OK. DVDA Studio will then let you browse for your video file.

If that is not the case, carry on with detailing the steps you took, and we'll take it from there. ;)

Rob
gpsmikey wrote on 3/25/2009, 4:14 PM
yeah, I've made that mistake before -- not intuitively obvious that when you drop the video on the menu, it becomes an object with a button on the menu, but when you drop it on the timeline for the menu it now becomes a video for the background for the menu (which is limited by the DVD spec to 1 GB). Took me a while to figure it out too.

mikey
Peter Wahl wrote on 4/2/2009, 9:21 PM
Rob, thanks so much for your comments. I did stumble around and found the single move procedure which worked fine.

The next project will be to use the same "movie" and build a menu for different parts. I thought I was dragging the "movie" onto the timeline. I still want to have the "movie" on the "some" timeline so I can pick out scenes to use as buttons.

We'll see how that goes.

Thanks again for your time.

Peter Wahl