Background with audio HELL

[pantsmonkey]

guys i have a wav and a nice jpeg ive resized 800 times to fit the safe zone perfectly while being a multiple of 8 of course its 888 x 668 but when i try to make a system (video+audio) in tmpgenc i get

"this window size is not permitted by MPEG-2 level"

What is up with that? is there some sort of max resolution or something and if so what is it ?

this quick job is becoming sloooow and painful !

[petar]

720 x 480 / 576 (NTSC/PAL) max but not all resolutions below are permitted. For horizontal 720, 704 or 352. For vertical 240/288 or 480/576 (NTSC/PAL)

What authoring tool are you using? Most (that can author motion menus) can do the job for you, i.e without the need to create a system file. Import the image and the audio into the same menu/movie. The authoring tool will resize it to a DVD compliant resolution and will make the length of the cell equal to the audio length.

[pantsmonkey]

TMPGenc DVD author which doesnt allow you to drop in a jpeg then a wav file

Hmm il try resize to those resolutions

[petar]

Get a proper authoring tool!




Just kidding. I use TDA as well though not when I want to make fancy menus. Just use one of the resolutions I mentioned before and you should be fine.

[pantsmonkey]

I can make some pretty insane dvds with TMPGENC dvd author mind you i jsut have managed to fluke the jpeg to wav resolution the last 100 or so times unbelieveable :P

what would you suggest ? dvd lab looks so complex the amount of authoring i do i should really invest a few days of testing!

[petar]

Yeah, DVD-Lab is the one I use when I want more flexibility in the menu creation. But you're right, as with any application, more flexibility comes at a cost - complexity.
It's quite rewarding though - menu transitions, motion buttons, switched menus, the effect generator... It can create some really cool stuff.
Which, mind you, has nothing to do with authoring. It's like you're getting two applications in one with DVD-Lab: an authoring tool and an image&video editing/creation tool. And the author seems quite enthusiastic about it. You can find many tips on how to create cool menus on his website (for which not necessarily you need to use DVD-Lab).

OK, enough marketing about DVD-Lab (someone may think I'm affiliated to mediachance ).

[pantsmonkey]

Well i figured it alllllllll out after trying your resolutions i found the problem to be my high quality exports from PHOTOSHOP copy those puppies into MSpaint (Good ole paint eh) and the work in TMPGENC encoder at any multiple of 8 resolution

photoshop is soo complex more compelxitites that most noob conversion issues thanks for the help guys and reading up on dvd lab it appears to be more complex visually yet very simple.

[northcat_8]

Just a question....why didn't you just make it the size you want it, drop it and your audio on the timeline of any video editing software and encode it to MPEG-2.

Then when you are using TDA and you are selecting your background for that menu, just select that MPEG-2 file?

That's how I do it. TDA is pretty cool about working with menu's and what it will accept and allow.

Also are sure that your problem with your picture was actually the program you used or the format you saved it in? BMP is BMP...microsoft paint, photoshop....doesn't matter.