audio loops during menu

bbrooks wrote on 6/20/2004, 4:10 PM
I think I've seen this topic before so forgive the repeat if it is.

I would like to have some music or soundfx looped during a menu screen. Every thing I have tried in preview works great...burn to disc...ppppt!
#1) There are gaps between loops.
#2) If I am on a scene selection menu and I try to move to a specific scene, if I don't get to it and hit enter before the loop starts over again, I get bumped right back to the first object in that menu.

This is in DVDAC 1.

I have gone so far as making sure all visual loops and audio loops are EXACTLY the same length of time and this doesn't seem to help.

Brandon

Comments

pb wrote on 6/21/2004, 10:25 PM
I too yearn for the ability to loop audio under menus. The job I am finalizing now uses a static image rendered as a DVD-A NTSC Video stream mpeg and an AC3 clip to prevent the one time ony play on the burned DVD. Very annoying bug, this one.

Peter
bbrooks wrote on 6/22/2004, 5:40 AM
I saw in another thread that having the tumbnails set on animate helps, but that doesn't seem to work either. I am working on a lot of music performance oriented DVD and having a loop of some of the performance would be wonderful. I find this very frustrating.

Brandon
bStro wrote on 6/22/2004, 10:40 AM
#1. That's the nature of DVD players. It's not just a problem with DVDA -- most commercial DVDs also have a slight pause between loops. Even The Matrix menu does, and everyone knows that the Matrix is the yardstick by which all DVDs should be measured. <g>

#2. That's the way DVDA1 is. Your option is to either select your option faster or make the loop longer. Open your music in Vegas or some other sound editor and copy it two, three, or four times, and save this as a new background audio.

Rob
bbrooks wrote on 6/22/2004, 11:16 AM
Good one Rob. Now that you mention it. I had a longer loop on the first DVD I made and didn't notice the loop skip issue until I went back and really examined it. I'll try the longer loop next time, thanks.

Is there a way to loop the animated thumbnails other than creating a video loop edit? It would be cool to sync up some music to the visual. I've done this using a rendered loop but if you could do it with the pre-existing video it would free up more space on the DVD.

Brandon