Re: Encore CS3 Crashing on Build

Are you creating a single or dual layer disc? SINGLE LAYER

How big is your project? Big - 4.44GB (and it may get a touch bigger)

What is your menu structure? Do you have a main menu, scene selection menu, etc.? My menu tree goes 4 or 5 menus deep - it's a complicated project with many links. It's my demo reel, so I go from the main menu to a "categories" menu. From there I go to "clips" menus, where you can choose individual spots I've done and then you finally get to a "clip detail" menu that has specific info about the clips. You can then watch each clip. There's also a link from the main menu to watch my reel or see contact info.

Have you set any menu user operations? Nothing special. All ops permitted.

Here's the strange thing - I was actually able to burn a disc last night!

Encore CS3 is extremely slow and buggy with a project of this complexity and size. I actually started building it on a PC with Vista and had to move over to a mac b/c I wasn't making any progress between crashes.

After doing some more googling I found something about "Party Menu HD" in several posts on this and other forums. Sure enough, my project has a rogue Party Menu HD that can't be opened, viewed or deleted. What I did was to select the menu buttons for that menu in the Menus tab and delete them.

I tried to build the project again. As before, I got the SWOD, but I just walked away instead of force quitting. 20 minutes later, it started transcoding, building transitions and making the disc. I'm not sure how long it took, but when I got into the office this morning, the disc had burned and was ready to go.

So there seems to be something to this "Party Menu HD" bug that has gotten some chatter over the past couple of months. The rogue menu is still in my project, but at least I was able to burn a working disc.

If anyone else has had to troubleshoot this problem I'd love to hear what your solutions were.