Animated menus

Vance McDaniel wrote on 6/27/2005, 11:40 AM

I am buliding my menus with animated backgrounds. Onece rendereed and put On a DVD, I notice a pause when the menu loops to the startpoint. Is there anyway around this? I have seen this in other DVDS, however..I have seen seemles looped menus before. Is DVD3 able to acieve this....if so.how do I accomplish this feat?

Vance McDaniel
True Iamge Concepts..

Comments

ScottW wrote on 6/27/2005, 1:00 PM

You always have the potential for a pause; how noticable the pause is depends on the player - remember, it's having to physically reposition the laser from the current point on the disk to some earlier point, that action takes a finite amount of time.

One trick to keep the pause from being really obvious is don't have too much motion in your menu; the more motion, the more people will notice non-linear behavior. Make sure your audio takes the pause potential into account (if you have audio).

If you've got the room on the DVD, repeat the menu background yourself in Vegas. if you have a 30 second loop, drop it on the timeline 3 or 4 times in Vegas and then render the resulting AVI. It's not very likely that folks are going to wait for 2 minutes of video/audio to play on a menu just to see if it pauses at the loop point (ok, I do this with commercial DVD's but I'm always curious to see how they cover the loop point).

--Scott

bStro wrote on 6/27/2005, 1:26 PM

It's not very likely that folks are going to wait for 2 minutes of video/audio to play on a menu just to see if it pauses at the loop point (ok, I do this with commercial DVD's but I'm always curious to see how they cover the loop point).

I do it sometimes 'cause some DVD producers put little easter eggs at the loop point .

Rob

Vance McDaniel wrote on 6/27/2005, 2:17 PM

thanks fellow cutters! I was in the process of making the menu about 90 seconds longs.

I have quite a few layers and some cool motion and effects. So a longer menu is the ticket..

Happy cutting!

Vance