Simple Question about Burning

[Tyler Jensen]

I tried prepare and burn and got 3 things.
1. There is not enough space in the temporary files folder for preparing the disc.
2. The estimated size of the project is larger than the default space available on media.
3. The audio on track 1 of video will be compressed.

What do you think?

[Dave Haynie]

I pull it up in architect and at the bottom it says “disc space used 5.0gb”. Is the menu really that big? I haven’t changed it. Is there anything I can do?

Don’t know.. depends on the menu. If you have a graphic for each one, shouldn’t be a big deal. If you have video, maybe.

The thing to do is click on the File/Optimize Disk… menu option. This will show the assets in your project, those that DVDA likes, and those that DVDA wants to encode/re-encode.

First, check that all of your pre-rendered stuff has the green checks.
Anything with the yellow “exclamation” box will be recoded. You can click on tabs here, and perhaps adjust some of these. Also, the default re-code/encode setting is here… usually something like 8Mb/s. Drop that, and the stuff getting encoded will take less space in the budget.

-Dave

[Dave Haynie]

oops!

[Tyler Jensen]

Still nothing. So I rendered it again, this time putting in 1 hour 40 minutes with the 5 percent margin. Same thing, I pull it up in Windows Explorer. I right click on properties and get, 4.26 GB (4,578,365,440 bytes). The menu I have made is a plain green background, no chapters. I even took out the title. There is no way a plain green background is a half gigabyte.

[Mike Kujbida]

1. The Temp folder defaults to C:/My Documents (or something like that) which is the wrong place for any temp files.
Go through all the various options in both Vegas (Options – Prefs – General) and DVDA (Options – Prefs – Burning) and point them to a folder on a second hard drive (you do have at least two hard drives, don’t you?).

2. DVDA has a long history of incorrectly reporting file sizes.
If you used the numbers I gave you, I guarantee that it will work.

3. Did you follow the AC-3 example I gave you?
When you rendered the project from Vegas, did you give both files the same name and render them to the same folder?
If you did, then when you loaded in the video file, the audio file follows automatically.