Motion Backgrounds & DVD Authoring

[quantass]

I'm tried TMPGEnc DVD Author, ULEAD's DVD Workshop, and several of the tools suggested in this site's guides but everything has crippling problems.

TMPGEnc DVD Author is ok but I cant seem to get a video background (motion background?) to be played for 84 seconds without consuming 400MB of DVD disc space. The file I'm trying to use is a gray scale DVD encoded mpeg2 file (352x480) @ 97MB in size. I've successfully dropped it in as a Motion Background and have searched for a way to have the 84 second background video played infinitely from start to end but have only found a way to play a variable # of seconds before the video restarts again. That's fine but the problem is setting 84 seconds increases the overall DVD disk usage by 400MB and puts me at 4738MB DVD usage.

What the heck is that for? I figured it would just stream my 97MB MPEG2 file for the background. It almost seems DVD Author is extracting each frame and storing them alongside on DVD disc *uncompressed*. Ulead's DVD Workshop seems capable of getting it all under 4.2GB though the tool seems VERY non-intuitive.

Can you point me to a easy to use DVD Authoring tool (as easy as TMPGEnc DVD Author) but actually works for composing motion backgrounds.

Thanks.

[jeanl]

The file I'm trying to use is a gray scale DVD encoded mpeg2 file (352x480) @ 97MB in size.

what kind of a resolution is that? Could it be that your mpeg2 video isn't at the right solution so TMPGEnc DVD Author tries to fix that (I didn't think it could
Jeanl

[mats.hogberg]

DVDAuthorGUI?

/Mats

[jeanl]

I forgot to say, I've used motion menus in TMPGenc DVD author, but never noticed that the resulting VOB file (VTS_01_0.VOB for example) was much larger than the original mpeg file....
Jeanl

[Garibaldi]

DVDAuthorGUI?

I'll second that.