I've been asked to put a quick presentation I had already made in CP5 onto a DVD to play in a normal DVD player. I do not have Media Encoder and have no way of getting it. The presentation had a small amount of interactivity - links to webpages, emails, etc and one fork in the road that would either jump over 7 slides or not.
So, I can do without the links and tried to resolve the other element by creating 2 separate videos and sticking the choice in the DVD menu via iDVD. Once I have the fixed-rate f4v output, I have used a couple different ffmpeg based converters to put the videos in iDVD.
Now here's the weird part: The shorter presentation (missing 7 slides + the decision slide = 8 slides hidden) exports fine, converts fine, burns fine. The longer presentation does not. The f4v is playable in VLC, but not transcodable. Converting using Handbrake gives me a 4KB blank file (in contrast, the shorter presentation file size is 11.5MB - plus 4KB is just too small for anything). Evom fails for some output file types, appears to succeed for others, but the output is a blank green screen.
The added slides are only audio, images and text captions - what could be causing this?
