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Sophie876
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Q: DVD SP "Build/Format" button is greyed out, but everything else works perfectly!  Ideas?  Please?

I have a perfectly simple project in DVD SP 4.  One menu.  One video track.  One audio track.  One button.   It works perfectly when I use Simulator, but when I open Build/Format, the Build/Format button is greyed out.  I've already trashed my preferences.

 

The only additional info that might be relevant is that this is the 4th time I've built a DVD today from the same sequence.  To try to prevent problems, I trashed all previous encodes and the folders that contained them, and emptied the trash.  I did this before I built the project I'm trying to burn now. 

 

Another odd thing is that I wasn't able to format text for the Button.  It gave me a screen with one font only - Helvetica.  I figured that was small potatoes, so I took the text off my button completely.

 

This project is critically important.  I'd appreciate the help very much, if there's anyone out there anymore......

Posted on May 27, 2012 6:54 PM

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Q: DVD SP "Build/Format" button is greyed out, but everything else works perfectly!  Ideas?  Please?

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  • by RatVega™,Helpful

    RatVega™ RatVega™ May 28, 2012 11:05 AM in response to Sophie876
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    May 28, 2012 11:05 AM in response to Sophie876

    Issue 1: Perhaps a better workflow might be to use the separate Build and Format buttons. This would allow you to keep the various versions of the project simply by adding additional Build folders and avoid the possibility of deleteing something important (which may be what happened...)

     

    Issue 2: DVDSP seldom makes an error, so I treat all oddities as potential corruption. I've only had one or two corrupt projects in the 8 or so years I've been using DVDSP, but it's nothing to trifle with.  Start by repairing permissions and see if that helps. If not, restart the system and evaluate again. If that fails, I'd start building a new project file. If it's critical, don't bet on limping through; my luck seldom runs that way.

     

    Hope this helps.

  • by Sophie876,

    Sophie876 Sophie876 May 28, 2012 11:36 AM in response to RatVega™
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    May 28, 2012 11:36 AM in response to RatVega™

    Thank you so much for your reply.  It was wonderful of you to have taken the time to give me a hand.  I will do as you suggest, and hopefully, that will that. 

     

    Again, thanks very much.