[Steve Freebairn]

I don’t know what memory you are referring to, but by chance, are your motion menus larger than 1 gb. I’m pretty sure that that is the limit. Although, I’ve never heard of anyone running into that limit. Tim’s right, I’d think that you had at least 2gigs of ram when you say that you have “plenty”

[Steve Freebairn]

Aanarav, can you post a link to some of these benchmarks? I’m always interested in finding out what has the most speed. I know that the Pentium M processor is quite powerful, even more powerful ghz for ghz than the p4 because of the Netburst architecture, but the only benchmarks where I’ve seen a Pentium M beat a P4 is when the Pentium M is highly overclocked. Anyway, can you post a link so I can update my info? Thanks

[Steve Freebairn]

All in all, After Effects is much more powerful than motion, but it doesn’t hurt to know multiple programs since each program has stregnths and weaknesses.

[Steve Freebairn]

As for why the process is stopping at that point, I do not know. I’m sorry that you wre led to believe that a laptop would be great for multimedia, dollar for dollar, no laptop can compete with a desktop because Size and Portability are what laptops are all about. If you wait long enough some genious here on the cow will probably be able to tell you how to fix it. My only thought is to make sure all of your drivers are current.

[Steve Freebairn]

What is the Disc capacity set to? If you build your DVD for a Dual Layer Disc and then try to burn it on a single layer disc you’d have that problem.

[Steve Freebairn]

If you meant the Inspiron 9300, then that means that you are using at max a Pentium M 2Ghz processor with 533MHZ FSB without HT. Premiere runs on equipment like yours, but doesn’t run very fast. Note the 3 GHZ recommended speed on the System requirements. Adobe Media Encoder AKA MainConcept’s mpg encoder uses Hyper Threading, so that is a second reason why it is slow. If you don’t have to run it on a laptop, then don’t. Since laptops usually have slower hard drives, slower videocards, and slower processors (especially if it isn’t plugged in and it is using speedstep to save battery.) To make it faster, close any other open programs, plug it into wall power, and give it more processor. If you meant a different system than I though, then only some of the above info might apply. Good Luck.

[Steve Freebairn]

Ok, here is one way to fake the force 🙂 If you make a subtitle track with the “newspaper text” be subtitle track 1, then track 2 should be the “newspaper text” and the rest of the subtitles for that language. Track 3 would be the “newspaper text” in language 2 and track 4 would be the “Newspaper text” with the rest of the subtitles for that language. Then link your subtitle options so that if they select “NO Subtitles” it does track 1. IF they want “Language 1” then it selects track 2. If they want No subtitles but Spanish audio then it goes to track 3. If they want Spanish Audio with Spanish subtitles then it goes to track 4. Then just highlight all of your timelines and disable the option to change subtitle tracks during the timelines. A little complicated, but it will work for sure.

[Steve Freebairn]

You shouldn’t double post, I’ve answered your last post already.

[Steve Freebairn]

Well, normally that would be done using something like Premiere and it would be in the video. If you want to force only one section to have a subtitle you could very easily create multiple timelines and then when it links to the timeline that needs subtitles then make it link to the subtitle track and not the unsubtitled track.

[Steve Freebairn]

You only have control over the Title button and the Menu button in a timeline really, so if you want it to do something else you’ll have to bend the viewers perception of what they are seeing. For instance, if you want to do what you are asking, you can create your link to your video, but instead of having it point to a timeline, have it point to a menu with a motion background with a 1 pixel size button in the bottom corner (off screen so they can’t see it) then you can create your link for that button so that if they push enter while on that “timeline” they’ll be linked somewhere else. The problems with doing it this way is that you can’t fast forward a menu, and you can’t skip to the next chapter point, and you can’t access the real menu by pushing menu, only the title button will make the dvd hopp to a different section before the menu ends (besides pushing enter). So if you are going to do this, make sure not to have the “timeline” be too long since they can’t navigate. Another way to have a secret timeline is to just put a small pixel size button on the normal menu and then place it away from the text. Consider whether or not you want it to be hard or easy to find. Contrast to the DVD picture can make it easier to find. Also, consider whether you want it to auto activate or if you want them to have to push enter.