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ScottW wrote on 2/12/2007, 11:36 AM
If this is a menu, you need to set the end action to loop (the default is to hold); if this is a movie, then you need to set the end action to link to itself (the default end action is to lonk back to the menu).

--Scott
Jasonh wrote on 2/12/2007, 2:20 PM
The problem happens when I do both an audio and a video clip at the same time. It seems to screw things up. I guess I have to render the audio and the video as a single movie before bringing it into Architect?
MPM wrote on 2/12/2007, 4:24 PM
You want the streams separate in almost any DVD authoring program -- those that allow muxed input just demux it for you anyway -- sorry but that's the way DVDs work, with separate streams.

Assuming you've rendered your DVD project, does it loop there? If not, and if you've set the vid to loop as already suggested, then DVDA might be having a problem with the conversion from mp3 & mov. Again if at all possible bring in your media in it's final format: mpg2 & usually ac3. If you have to encode in DVDA, convert the mp3 to wav, & if needed, the mov to avi [try just the mp3 1st]. Shouldn't lose much if anything going to pcm wav, and if you pick the right codec, hardly anything going to avi.
Steve Mann wrote on 2/12/2007, 7:38 PM
I am not sure how he is encoding the audio, but if I recall, the audio and video have to be exactly the same length for looping to work.
mikkie wrote on 2/12/2007, 7:43 PM
he posted "using mp3 for audio and .mov for video clip"

If the audio needs to match, mp3 could be the problem? Even if it appears to match if the mp3's vbr....?

Jasonh wrote on 2/13/2007, 1:12 PM
Thank you all for your responses.

You're right it does have to be exactly the same length. I solved it by making the video clip longer than the audio clip. Which was fine because the audio clip fades out before it begins again.

What happens if the audio clip is longer than the video clip is that there is a black blank space in the video section until the audio gets to the end.
Steve Mann wrote on 2/14/2007, 1:30 AM
So why don't you make both from the timeline? They can't help but be the same length then.