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  • Please explain this DVDA failure

    Posted by Jerry Waters on September 24, 2007 at 3:01 am

    When you encode the mpg2 with Vegas and get a 3,008,981kb file and you encode ac3 and get 136,148, would someone PLEASE explain to me how DVDA can do a single play DVD and come up with “the mpg2 will be reencoded because the project is too big.” I have done bigger files without such a message.

    Please explain this and give me a fix if there is one. I have 15 pieces of Sony Software listed in my account with Sony, a Z1 and an A1U but they are FAST losing my support.

    Mike Kujbida replied 18 years, 10 months ago 2 Members · 4 Replies
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  • Mike Kujbida

    September 24, 2007 at 10:40 am

    Jerry, my experience with DVD Architect (since version 1) is that it’s too stupid to know any better 🙂
    If I know that the file size is under the allowable maximum, I ignore the message and encode anyway.
    The message is ignored and it renders as expected without having to re-encode.

  • Jerry Waters

    September 24, 2007 at 2:45 pm

    So then the, “We are going to reencode the footage,” warning is BS?

    You have a good solution. Maybe I should send in a suggestion to just throw up a sign that says, “Hey dumbass, you can’t do this DVD unless — but I’m a liar so you should try me and see.” It would be an improvement.

    Thanks. I remember this happening in about DVDA2 but I thought it was fixed. I didn’t know it would burn the file without reencoding.

  • Jerry Waters

    September 24, 2007 at 6:45 pm

    Sorry, Mike, but MY version of DVDA shows that it IS REENCODING.
    I will go ahead with this but am totally pissed – almost 2 years into a project, deadline close and I can’t get this program to move past a 4 VERSION problem never corrected.

  • Mike Kujbida

    September 24, 2007 at 7:12 pm

    Sorry about that Jerry 🙁
    I know how frustrating it can be.

    The only other thing that comes to mind is something Edward Troxel said in another Vegas forum and that was that DVDA will always reencode a menu, especially if it has video in it.

    Hopefully he or DSE can expand on this “quirk”.

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