DVD A3 Strange File Size World

[Stubenkastl]

In respect of the HD space, performance and Windows crash I thank you for your advice. It will be helpful for many users of this forum. I have been working with computers for the last 35 years on a daily basis and worked even for 15 years as software designer in one of the biggest software companies in the world. So I am not a beginner when it comes to handle computers or software and see it even more complicated. In respect of HD performance you have to think about partition size, partition position, cluster size, defragmentation, file system, file position, file cache, interface, transfer mode, etc. apart form the HD technical data. In respect of Windows crash…it is a too long story and different for the OS 🙂

I made some DVDs with DVD A3. A software that cannot calculate the requirements for memory space should provide a warning and not a stop. When I tried Adobe Encore DVD 1.5 and it did not create the DVD without new rendering (but stopped) because there were some bitstream peaks too high (what did not cause any problems to all DVD players I have) the next button I pressed was uninstall.

In respect of the menus I looked at Ulead Videostudio 9. They have great themes. If you compare those menus with what you can get in standard at DVD A3 you look a bit poor. I need subtitles, chapters so I cannot use this software. But DVD A3 has some way to go to provide such menus. I do not want to work weeks to create a fitting button or endless scripts (in case of Vegas). It is not my job to edit videos and create DVDs – it is a hobby. But my DVDs should look better than one of the Videostudio 9 DVDs…without working on it for weeks.

But in any case. Thank you for this forum here. Alone with the hint that I have to set in Vegas the deinterlace methode in the project properties it helped me endless. Now ALL my transitions look great!!! Wanted to switch to Adobe already…

[Stubenkastl]

Thank you for your support! I replied here to an other message/same topic already. But I will try what you write here when I have time. So be warned that I might have further questions then 😉

[Terje A. bergesen]

A software that cannot calculate the requirements for memory space should provide a warning and not a stop.

When DVDA creates a DVD, it will need work-space in addition to the space required for the final product. The exact amount of work-space may not be known to DVDA for a few reasons, one being that it uses a third-party tool (MainConcept MPEG encoder) to do some of the work. DVDA can not know what requirements MainConcept will have. This is just one of the problems. You had 5G available on the drive in question, which was not enough. You can not expect DVDA to randomly use disk space available on other drives. If DVDA felt free to randomly stuff data whereever it wanted on my drives, I would throw it out. That is bad software design. Also, if DVD thinks it will not be able to finish the job, it should also stop. The reason is simple. Say it didn’t stop and wait for you to clean up your HD? Say it continued working and then stopped when it ran out of space. If you couln’t easily fix the issue, you would have wasted a lot of time. If you were encoding from AVI to MPEG on a slow-ish computer, perhaps a couple of hours. How would you react if DVDA wasted that many hours for you? Cleaning up a little bit of extra space, in this case about 3G, should be fast enough. I can do it in less than 2 minutes. I am not sure why you spent so much time on it.

I looked at Ulead Videostudio 9. They have great themes.

I have not used Videostudio in qute a few years, I was usgin Ulead DVD Workshop before moving to DVD Architect. Since DVD Workshop can not create 16:9 menus and almost all my footage is 16:9, I have to go with DVDA.

Now, for the templates in Videostudio vs Vegas, that may very well be so. Ulead seems to have focused all of their attention on the low-end market, where eye-candy is more important than features. I prefer features, and I would like Sony to focus on features rather than eye-candy. It is trivial to create nice-looking menus in DVDA, but impossible to add subtitles in Videostudio.

Of course, more eye-candy is good too.

I have been working with computers for the last 35 years

That is impressive. I haven’t met many people who was working with computers back in 1970. Not outside of the big companies anyway. I have also worked in the computer industry, but only for some 20 odd years. Currently I work for the largest computer company in the world.

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Terje A. Bergesen

[Stubenkastl]

I know the largest software company in the world and the largest hardware company in the world but not the largest computer company in the world…

Let us stop here. This forum should be a source of help but not a source of insult. And so far it was a soruce of help.

[Terje A. bergesen]

I know the largest software company in the world and the largest hardware company in the world but not the largest computer company in the world…

LOL. Sorry, I was trying to be funny, probably not entirely successful. What the largest company is is a matter of how you measure I guess. The company I work for is bigger than Microsoft in number of employees, and has more than twice their revenue. Microsoft on the other hand has significantly higher market cap than do we 🙂

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Terje A. Bergesen

[Stubenkastl]

I guess you are talking about IBM. My brother and my sister in law work there. But IBM sold so much to China that almost nothing is left 😉 I had a Thinkpad 770 (I guess one of the most expensive Notebooks ever). A nightmare story I will never forget ;-))

I am 50 now and I really started with 14 already to work with computers on a daily basis. With 24 I had my first software for big companies – it was the only one in this field at this time. But then I decided to finish university to make my father happy. So I sold the software and the rights. A step I will regret until the end of my days…

Just got Adobe Encore DVD 2.0. Bit tired of learning new software… But lets have a look if they still have the STOP :-)))