Stan Jones wrote:
I don't think the codec of my main video (which is h.264) makes a difference in the speed of the motion menus rendering, but who knows.
I suspect it does. Encore's transcode engine is from the sonic core, and does not take advantage of adobe media encoder. (Even if that option is selected, it is only for "transcode now" - meaning timelines.) With H264 timelines, encore must decode before generating the new menu background and then transcoding.
Did you see any difference as makdm1 in the menu durations?
Fixed!
I wanted to post an update to this since I'm working on a new project and wanted to give it one more shot by exporting out my main Blu-ray video using MPEG-2 rather than H.264 as Stan suggested. I am happy to report that this did, indeed fix the problem! The motion menus are now taking about 1-2 minutes to render out (compared with the ridiculous 4 hours it used to take). Now if only my computer would quit blue-screening when I'm rendering out the MPEG-2 videos from Premiere using Media Encoder, but I'll save that problem for another thread.
Thanks Stan.