DVD MovieFactory 3 Question

[MAXIMUS01CAN]

Howdy All,

The problem I am encountering is this:

I have produced an edited MPEG from Ulead Video Studio 7 and it was just a tiny bit too big to fit on the DVD so I ran the VIDEO_TS folder created from VS7 through DVDShrink and it compressed it a tiny bit and created the VIDEO_TS files the exact size to fit on the DVD. I burnt the DVD off using Nero and it plays just fine with all the effects, audio and everything. Since then I have wanted to fancy up this DVD a little and downloaded the trial version of DVD MovieFactory 3 Disc Creator Edition basically just to do a little authoring. I've imported the VIDEO_TS folder that was created using DVDShrink and all the video shows up just fine, the menu template that I used was filled with clips, I inserted a different background etc and played the DVD in the test viewer at the end of the authoring and all seems well. When I try to create the output files (I'm not burning at this point) to my hard drive it seems to start the rendering process and gets part way through and after a very long time, maybe a couple hours or so it won't go any further than 20%. So I check in Task Manager expecting to see "Program Not Responding" and it say's it's running but no progress is being made. So after a couple occations of this I just "End Task" as it's going nowhere. Anyone have any ideas if this should work or a better way of doing this?

Thanks in Advance,
Max

[hech54]

You may want to check the placement of the working folder first....but in my opinion as a Movie Factoy 2 user.....the only thing Ulead has ever done correctly is the "Edit Disc" function. The rest of MF2 is a waste of time. Obviously I haven't tried MF3 yet...

[DVD_Ripper]

If your converted MPEG is DVD compliant then it should not re-render the movie (menus, chapters Yes... but not menus)

I can' recall where (options I think) make sure you check off "Do not encode compliant MPEGs"

I never let MF encode (or re-encode) the video... it does not do a good job.