looping movie on DVD

pwcjan wrote on 1/18/2005, 4:43 AM
I am trying to put 2 different movie on a DVD with one of them looping. I have vegas movie studio 4.0 that came with DVD architeck studio 2.0. Is there a way to do this? I did download a trail of DVD Architeck 2.0 and that will do it. Do I need to upgrade to get this?
I can get the movie to loop by putting it as the background and telling it to loop, but I wanted to add another movie to the DVD.

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ChristerTX wrote on 1/18/2005, 12:08 PM
This is something you have to look for in DVD Architect. I seem to recall a post about it some time ago.
You might want to ask in the DVD Architect forum.

If I understand it correctly you want a movie on the DVD to start and loop but it should be possible to stop the loop and then get to a menu to start the other movie.

Ch
jimmyz wrote on 1/19/2005, 6:43 PM
Yes you can do this.
On the right side is background video or image. Just put your movie file name in there and it will play when the dvd is inserted. A small link could launch another movie or a sub-menu. There may be a size limitation on the introductory media but I don't know.
tceaves wrote on 1/20/2005, 7:10 AM
I read on a post in on DVDA forum that the limit on background video was 20 min.
ScottW wrote on 1/20/2005, 8:23 AM
It's not a time limit, it's a size limit. All of the material associated with menus must be able to fit within 1GB of space (not just one menu, ALL menus).

The 20 minute figure comes from the average encoding rate of 6,000 Kb/s, if you can afford the quality hit and if you had control over the encoding rate (which I don't think VMS gives you) you could easily fit more than 20 minutes if needed.

With more advanced authoring programs there are ways to get around this limit, but then with more advanced programs the limit isn't usually an issue since they allow the functionality being looked for.

--Scott
jimmyz wrote on 1/20/2005, 6:46 PM
if you go to optimize dvd in the menu you can change the bitrate for the whole project.