Menu AVI

Jameson_Prod wrote on 8/16/2004, 5:18 PM

I have a short 6 sec AVI that I would like to play and loop in my main menu. If I play the AVI in Vegas or WMP, it loops perfectly. But when I place it as the background AVI for my main menu in DVD-A , it runs until the the end (6 secs) then stops...hesitates...and starts back. My question: How do you seamlessly loop a background avi in a menu?

I'm sure it is something I am looking over but..........I can't find it!

Thanks in advance.

Comments

ScottW wrote on 8/16/2004, 9:36 PM

You can't. There's always the chance of a pause when you do this. The best thing to do is try to establish the background A/V so that the impact of a potential pause is minimized.

If you have enough space on the DVD, repeat the clip yourself when you render (that is, copy the same clip 3 or 4 times on the timeline in Vegas). That way it's less likely that anyone will see the pause because they will have navigated away from the menu by then.

--Scott

Jameson_Prod wrote on 8/17/2004, 5:59 PM

Thanks Scott....that thought had already crossed my mind but I thought maybe I was just missing something simple.

THanks again.

whr wrote on 8/18/2004, 12:49 PM

I just did a main menu with a 2 minute AVI background and it works great as a loop. However, instead of starting and ending with a hard frame i faded in and faded out. This made for a smooth restart and there is no delay between finish and restart.