DVD Lab Motion Menu AVI Problem

[Highlander]

Hi folks,

I've been trying dvd lab for a little while, and like many on here recommend its very flexible, but

when i put a video file on the menu, either as a background or thumbnail, when i "render motion" the avi file produced cant be played or opened by any program, media player wont play it, and tmpeg says not suported, so i cant convert it to mpeg2 for importing back into dvdlab,

does anyone have any idea what i'm doing wrong ?

Thanks

Highlander.

[pijetro]

Wow, I've definately got to get an update of DVDLab. I didn't know it was capable of encoding motion menus??

Either that, or you're missing something.
The earlier versions in the Help section clearly state that motion menus need to be created via outside software. DVDLab didn't support encoding back then...
Word of advice, if you go this route, make sure that the resolution is the same as your video, since the earlier version didn't support multiple framesizes.
I believe DVDLab pro does though...

Good luck!!!

[andkiich]

I don't know what the problem could be. I've created 30+ motion menus using the DVD-Lab render motion option. I dump that AVI into TMPGENc Plus and it encodes it no problem.

The issue might be as simple as with all the other TMPGEN issues with "unsupported AVI". Do a forum search on thsi issue and you'll se it happens to people quite often.

[Highlander]

Wow, I've definately got to get an update of DVDLab. I didn't know it was capable of encoding motion menus??

Either that, or you're missing something.
The earlier versions in the Help section clearly state that motion menus need to be created via outside software.

Dvd Lab still doesn't support encoding!

But it does "Render" the motion menu to an avi file, which you then encode using somthing like Tmpegenc to produce the encoded file...which you then import back into dvdlab as a motion background/thumbnail but for some weird reason the avi file i get wont open in anything....


Highlander.

[axolotls]

I am having the same problem with DVDLab 1.3

DVDLab renders the motion menu into an AVI.

The AVI cannot be read by Tmpgenc or CCE. It also cannot be played with Window Media Player or Nero Showtime with the basic CODECS installed.

The AVI was only 300MB and the motion was maybe 5 - 10 seconds.


Anyone have a solution. I am bumping this existing thread.

[Roderz]

Have you looked at the avi in gspot or avicodec to see what format it is

[FOO]

Anybody know what "render motion" actually does ?
It's already a video

[petar]

Anybody know what "render motion" actually does ?
It's already a video

It's a workaround since it doesn't have an encoder. It puts together the background video with all additional elements you include in the menu (text, drawings, other videos) into one single video which you need to encode externally to mpeg.

[petar]

I am having the same problem with DVDLab 1.3

DVDLab renders the motion menu into an AVI.

The AVI cannot be read by Tmpgenc or CCE. It also cannot be played with Window Media Player or Nero Showtime with the basic CODECS installed.

The AVI was only 300MB and the motion was maybe 5 - 10 seconds.


Anyone have a solution. I am bumping this existing thread.

DVD-Lab outputs uncompressed AVI (that's why the size is huge). Really weird that you can't open it. Have you tried VirtualDub? If by any chance VirtualDub can open it, compress it with some codec you know TMPGEnc can read. Just a wild guess.

[axolotls]

Yup. That's what trips me out. I tried VirtualDubMod to open it and it wouldn't recognize it.

I'll try reinstalling it again then try a smaller motion menu. It might be just a bug since I read on the DVDLab forums people with the same problem -but- no resolution was posted.

[masterpug]

rendered motion in dvdlab 1.4 standard and pro versions to get motion menu with motion background AND motion buttons for each video. the avi file loaded no problem into MainConcept's MPEG Encoder latest version and I converted back to dvd complian mpg2 which was then imported back into dvdlab. it's a workaround, but a very easy and not too time consuming method to achieve competely custom motion menus AND you get that within such a versatile and user friendly program overall....it's the best dvd authoring tool out there, bar none right now IF you need some flexibility/creativity, otherwise for motion menus just use ulead products or sonic mydvd or tmpgen dvd author.

[axolotls]

Hmm. Yeah... I'll try the upgrade first. I saw the beta version this morning!

[axolotls]

Just tried again with 1.3 and GSPOT says it's unsupported AVI. It's 900MB

Tried DVDPro Beta but that stalled but allowed me to choose a codec (huffy) but stalled.

So off to try 1.4.1

[petar]

Just tried again with 1.3 and GSPOT says it's unsupported AVI. It's 900MB

Weird. Uncompressed AVI doesn't require any codec to play on Windows. GSpot should say something like "no codec required" (it's just a bunch of bitmaps in a sequence wrapped in an AVI format - that's more-less what uncompressed is). Maybe something's wrong with your Windows installation.
Try creating an uncompressed video yourself. Open any video with VirtualDub and under compression select uncompressed and select full processing (use a small video otherwise the file size will be massive). Now open it with GSpot and see if it says unsupported AVI again. If so, something's wrong with your Windows. If it says "no codec required" or something like that then it's DVD-Lab's fault.

[axolotls]

Never figured it out. But, DVDProLabBeta2 has it's own MPEG encoder and it works fine.

Just bugs me that 1.3 is rendering into a useless AVI capsule.

[EMARTY69]

Why is it necessary to render the motion menu? Can't you just let DVD-Lab Pro create the menu when it compiles the DVD? I just started using this program, and I really like the menu options. My only complaint is that I HAVE to render the menu to preview where exactly my buttons are (i.e. - I have a black background when I add buttons to the menu). I can't see where anything is! So I render about 15 secs so I don't get a black background... Regarding the original comment, I use to TMPGEnc Express to recode the AVI file with no problem...