DVD Architect Studio 4.5 background audio

jodygirl wrote on 10/12/2010, 12:30 PM

I rendered a project through Vegas 9.0 into Architect 4.5. I setup the menu and gave it background audio. The preview is fine. When I burn it to a DVD and play it in a DVD player (I have tried several different DVD players with the same outcome), the music is choppy and the menu loses it's background after awhile, then the button disappear. If I hit select, the actual video will play perfectly with great sound. I cannot for the life of me get this menu figured out (I have done it successfully in the past), please help!

Ideally I would like the menu to stay on the screen and the audio to loop over and over.

Comments

Steve Grisetti wrote on 10/13/2010, 5:54 AM

What format is your background music in?

Did you rip it yourself or was it downloaded from an iTunes or Amazon or similar site?

I recommend downloading the free audio editing program Audacity. Open your music in it and then use File/Export to save the file as a WAV. This WAV should work perfectly in DVD Architect.

(Sometimes downloaded music is especially highly compressed or has some digital rights management issues.)

jodygirl wrote on 10/13/2010, 7:36 AM

I tried many formats (WAV most recently) and they all seem to work fine in the preview, but when I play it on a DVD player (two different ones), that is when the trouble starts. The music will not play smoothly (in and out- like one second on, one second off, ...) and I lose the menu graphics after about 30 seconds- I can still access my video but I would like the menu to stay on the screen. The video and audio files in the videos are perfect.

My music files are from my itunes library (imported from my cd's) and I convert formats using the Sony Sound Studio program, in the past the WAV format worked perfectly, not sure what I am doing differently now.

dan-hedrick wrote on 10/13/2010, 8:27 AM

Is there a possibility that it may be the DVD medium....ie DVD+R vs DVD-R or the manufacturer...Verbatim,
Memorex, etc. My understanding is that "Verbatim" is the best for videos. (Comments?)

lcdrdan

jodygirl wrote on 10/13/2010, 8:59 AM

In the past I have had good luck with both and most brands. I have wasted about 15 discs of varying brands on this problem so far, both +R and -R. The first thing I did was try a different type of disc.

Steve Grisetti wrote on 10/14/2010, 5:39 AM

I agree with Icdran. I suspect the medium itself. The brand of disc can make a big difference. I never use anything but Verbatim. (Memorex are far and away the worst.)

Also, does your DVD burner burn at faster than 4x? That can also lead to problems.

Finally, have you tried the disc on more than one DVD player? Home-burned DVDs use a different method to store their data than commercial DVDs, and not all DVD players are equally compatible with them.