. . . er . . Paste it back 7 times ?. . . ;-)

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Drop it into Sound Forge, cut to the length you want, and then save it.
Loop the sound in Forge to check it doesn't click when looping.

Back in Vegas: in properties set the clip to loop and pull the clip out to the length you want.

AH, that's better - Popping . .yeah, forgot about that . . G

Put the loop on the timeline.
Right click, select 'Switches' and choose "loop" from the sub-menu (This is on by default)
Drag the loop out to the right, to make it loop as many times as necessary. The only way it will click or pop is if it has an ending point that is a non-zero crossing.
That's all there is to it.

BTW, this is a GREAT trick for making DVD menus loop perfectly

> BTW, this is a GREAT trick for making DVD menus loop perfectly

Not sure what you mean by that, Spot. Can you elaborate?

You can set the DVD menu to loop anyway so why is expanding the loops a help (multiple times). Do you mean for matching audio and video lengths, or is there some other advantage that I'm missing?

I always create my looping menus (with audio) as longer pieces than the "actual" loop would ordinarily play for. Otherwise it seems you end up getting an audible pause between the loops. This seems to be generated as a result of the actual DVD Player taking it's time to re-start the sequence.

Another problem is that In DVDA the currently selected menu item gets reset to the default at the beginning of each loop. I initially set my loops to be using a 20 second video / audio loop and it gets pretty annoying if you have a scene selection menu where you have moved the highlight and just as you are about to select it... the menu loops and the selection goes back to the default item.

If you drop an acid loop into Vegas, and loop it for length, say....30 seconds, and render it as a full length audio file, or if you find a looping point of a non-acidized audio file so that the end joins the beginning without an audible change, then render it as a file for use in a DVD menu. Done right, with zero point crossings, you will not hear the menu loop in a DVD. It will simply play over and over without issue. If you build the menu's background in Vegas with this method, it also gives the ability to create very cool, timed visual FX to the musical bed/loop that's happening beneath. Render as avi or mpeg, drop into DVDA, and voila', you have a repeatable menu with seamless audio and video.

I am already using video and audio that is perfectly looped if you use it in Vegas and just drag the events out to repeat the loop. I mean that my audio/video loop may be just 15 seconds but I repeat that loop four times and I render the resulting 1minute MPEG to be used as the motion background video/audio for DVDA.

SO I guess I am already doing what you suggest... my issue that I raiased is that whatever I do I am unable to "loop" the Vegas generated "loop" in DVDA without there being an actual slight pause both in the Vedio and the Audio. Do you see a different result with stuff that you author with DVDA in this way?

I had thought this was a result of the players rather than DVDA as I have seen other posts related to this same issue.

The problem you are describing is typical of pretty much all DVD players. If you watch carefully, it happens even on commercial DVD's too.

In view of this, your best bet is to loop an audio and video file, say within Vegas. Loop it to as long as you need it. Keep in mind that when the file ends within DVDA, it will pause for a second before starting over again.

By a second, I was taking you literally. I do 1:30 second menus for the most part, and there is sometimes a hiccup between loop start and loop end, yes. But that's indeed, a dvd player issue. I don't ever see it on my Sony 5 disc, but I always see it on my computer. But it's not as noticeable in the longer length menus, because users have usually moved to another menu by then.