DVD Lab Runtime error! Program compile.aux
 

iv gott version 1.3 and once i have created all the menus and stuff, i go to compile, select, and after a few minutes of compiling i get this error message

Runtime error!
Program
c:\pf\dvdlab\compile.aux

abnormal terminatiion

when i check the contents of the output folder, i have all the vob files but no VTS files. any ideas how i can solve this problem, thanks for any help

Either 1.3 or 1.4 can handle motion menus.
If you want to compile your DVD, turn all your motion menus in static ones.

I lost HOURS myself in doing very nice menus that I had to remove :-(
And that happens everytime, on any DVD I do !
The only motion menu taht seems to work are the ones generated directly by DVDLab (transition menus).

I downloaded the trial version 1.3.1 of DVD LAB i havent had a chance to test it yet but according to the mediachance site it does support motion menu's and there was a guide on the site for doing it but like I said I havent got round to testing it out yet. :)

And like I said I lost hours by doing such menu and had to remove them. Guide or not guide. Mediachance site or not Mediachance site.

Now I do not say that there isn't a way to deal with them, but this is definitely NOT by following the guide (perhaps there is a problem with menu directly imported from a DVD).

i literally spent hours making my dvd menus in LAB. i thought they looked pretty impressive, was tellin the whole family how my new dvds going to be professional. then i get this error!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
you dont understand how much it bugs me now to think that its gone 2 waste.

is there another way to do these motion menus on dvd lab without error dialhot?

i made the menu completely my self, so it may not be that

what are transition menus?


after not being able to use lab i went back to tmpg dvd author, and diScovered a nifty trick.
not sure if you guys know this but i always thought you can only have STATIC background for menus in tmpg dvd ( not including the movie clip, and scenes), but you can have a motion background.
all you have to do is set a mpg as the background image (m2v etc), wala u have a full screen motion background and YOU CAN EVEN HAVE SOUND WITH IT. how cool is that??? i wasnt so bummed after i did this and it all works, tried and tested

When you select a menu, in the "menu" menu (:-)) you have a "render transition" entry. Look as into that.

:-D. My first DVD was done with tmpgenc author and all the menu have video background :-)
The fact that when you open the window "add background" there is "*.mpg" and "*.m2v" in the choice gave me a real clue about that :hihi:

Sorry I was only saying that ver 1.3 supports motion menus, Geez! :oops:

I guess I have some work cut out for me then by the looks of reading these posts if I want to make motion Menus. :)

EDIT: I just wanted to know quickly if it possible to have a short movie intro like the Star Wars EP 1&2 have before the menu comes up. Now im not suggestion I can make a DVD any where near the quality or as professional as LucasArts do but I was just curious. Thanks. :D