WHAT AM I DOING WRONG???

ciarrochi wrote on 9/20/2006, 6:20 PM

I just installed DVDA4 and now I can't make a DVD! The "DVD SPACE USED INDICATOR" is totally wacked out. Showing nearly double the actual space.

I produced this wedding on Vegas 6, but rendered it on 7. FYI

Comments

ScottW wrote on 9/20/2006, 7:31 PM

More details please. Rendered using what template? How large are the MPG and AC3 files?

==Scott

ciarrochi wrote on 9/21/2006, 5:05 AM

Here are the properties of my project which was rendered with the default template.

By the wa, Now the audio isn't working. I'm getting ready to return this dog and go MAC

General
Name: DAHL SCHROEDER DISC ONE.mpg
Folder: G:\Dahl Schroeder Wedding
Type: MainConcept MPEG-2
Size: 3.56 GB (3,644,899,332 bytes)
Created: Wednesday, September 20, 2006, 1:47:08 AM
Modified: Wednesday, September 20, 2006, 7:29:22 AM
Accessed: Thursday, September 21, 2006, 7:03:56 AM
Attributes: Archive

Streams
Video: 01:53:49.022, 29.970 fps interlaced, 720x480x32, MPEG-2
Audio: 01:53:49.035, 44,100 Hz, Stereo, MPEG Layer 2

ACID information
ACID chunk: no
Stretch chunk: no
Stretch list: no
Stretch info2: no
Beat markers: no
Detected beats: no

Other metadata
Regions/markers: no
Command markers: no

Media manager
Media tags: no

Plug-In
Name: mcplug.dll
Folder: C:\Program Files\Sony\DVD Architect 4.0\FileIO Plug-Ins\mcplug
Format: MainConcept MPEG-2
Version: Version 2.0 (Build 2105)
Company: Madison Media Software, Inc.

GeorgeW wrote on 9/21/2006, 5:13 AM

I suspect that DVDA has determined to recompress your input file. At a minimum, the audio you listed is non-compliant for DVD, so it will need to be recompressed in DVDA4.

In DVDA4, go File/Optimize DVD -- then check under the VIDEO1 and AUDIO1 tabs to see if recompress is required...

ciarrochi wrote on 9/21/2006, 6:00 AM

Well, I just rendered the audio to ac3. It seems to have worked.

However, I still don't understand the false reading on the space indicator. Is there an issue here that is new to DVDA4? I looked and looked.....

ScottW wrote on 9/21/2006, 8:20 AM

Anytime DVDA has to deal with possibly recompressing things, it gives strange indications about space requirements. This has been the case since 1.0 of the product, and while I think work has been done to improve things, there are still a few kinks.

That's why I asked about you A/V file sizes - if the files you are feeding in to DVDA are small enough to fit on a DVD, then you usually don't need to worry about DVDA's size estimates. Though if the size is off, it's usually a good indicator that you did something wrong and that DVDA may end up doing something you don't want (such as recompressing the video stream).

--Scott