DVD Lab "the subpicture of menu 1 is created from copy of external fil

[BeachNut]

I loaded an external sub-picture for the menu so I'm wondeing why is DLP giving me this warning when I compile the DVD ? Can you tell me the impact and how I clear it ? Thanks.

[guns1inger]

Your subject was cut off. What was the whole warning ?

Better yet, a screenshot of the warning would be nice.

If it is just a warning, you can probably proceed regardless, as you would for the Open GOP warning.

[BeachNut]

Sorry, what do you mean subject was cut off ?
DVD seems to work fine but I'm just wondering what's the potential problem. Thanks.

[guns1inger]

The post subject heading has a limited amount of text. Your was cut off (have a look at the top of the post) so I wasn't sure what was missing.

Which version of DLP are you using ?

The old DLP sometimes gave this warning when subpictures were used (version 1.5 - 1.6), but if you saved the project, closed DLP, then opened the project you could compile without getting it again. If you loaded new subpictures, the warning would appear again until you repeated the process (save, close, open)

There were also some issues with subpictures in versions 2.3 - 2.6, however 2.7 onwards was reported to be OK. I use 2.27, but the only time I use external subpictures is when I import whole menus from photoshop. I have yet to get this warning.

[GeorgeW]

I believe this warning came about as we debugged an issue with external subpics for menus -- they would "stay" with the project the first time you imported them, and then if you changed the external subpic, your project would not pick up the new version (it kept the cached version).

Then there was an issue with DLP deleting the external subpic after importing it (it no longer does that). And finally, there was an issue that DLP would not save the path of the external subpic -- so newer versions of DLP would not know how to locate the external subpic.

Bottom line is that if you download the latest patch, you should be ok to use external subpics...

Regards,
George