DVD STudio Pro Menu Limit: HELP

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  1. Myles

    Myles Member

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    Hi,

    Anybody using DVD STudio Pro 3?

    I just finished authoring a 74 menu DVD, 70 of those contain a short 20+ second video clip and 4 are navigation menus (main menu, index menu).

    The problem, when I started building it, it stopped on 36% because apparently my menus excedded over the 1GB limit. Here's the message from the log:

    Menus cannot exceed 1GB in total size. Reduce the amount of data in your menus
    Build cancelled
    Formatting finished.


    Are there any workarounds for this 1GB limit?

    TIA,

    Myles
     
  2. potemkin

    potemkin Active Member

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    try converting your video clips to mpeg2. that should bring your file size down.
     
  3. Myles

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    All video clips are in mpeg2 already (used Compressor to convert) all audio clips were also compressed using Audio Pack.
     
  4. Myles

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    Found a solution! For future reference of DVD Studio Pro users. Convert your menus to tracks and put interactive buttons over tracks (videos) instead.

    I feel so geeky! Hehe.

    [Edited on 1-24-2005 by Myles]
     
  5. Kenneth

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    From what I know, you cannot have one whole vob file that's more than 1gig in size. Its a standard thing. Thats why when you transcode to your final product, you'll see in your VIDEO_TS folder your movie has been segmented into 1gig vob files.

    [Edited on 1-24-2005 by Kenneth]
     
  6. Myles

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    Yup, that's correct. Discovered it the hard way last night.
     

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