What determines how long animated thumbnails run before looping.

HalfDead wrote on 2/2/2004, 10:39 PM
I have created a project that when previews has the animated thumbnails displayed correctly when previewed. After the preview has been playing for about 10 seconds the animated background just goes black & thumbnails continue playing.

The menu's have the option of looping background as well as auto calculate lenght. Since all thumbnails offer the oppertunity to loop I had supposed that one of the thumbnail videos would be the basis of the lenght of time that a video would loop, so that they would all loop after the same duration. Is this not the case? How do I stop the backgroung going to blacK? I have played with both the looping tool as well as auto calculate lenght.

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GaryKleiner wrote on 2/2/2004, 11:00 PM
What do you have as audio? Usually, that's what determines the loop duraton.

Gary
HalfDead wrote on 2/2/2004, 11:15 PM
I do have an audio loop as well. If this is what determines how long the thumbnails run before looping than all I might have to do is change the length of audio clip.

I didn't find this information in the DVDA manual. In fact the auto calculate lenght feature that is on the screen is't in manual either.
HalfDead wrote on 2/2/2004, 11:23 PM
If it's the audio that determines the lenghth for the looping it still doesn't explain why the backgrounds went black. Surely if the audio loop hadn't finished playing all thumbnails hould just keep playing until the audio was finished.
jetdv wrote on 2/3/2004, 6:49 AM
When looping, they will simply play until the loop is finished. If the video finishes before the audio, it goes black. If the audio finishes before the video, it goes silent. Either make sure they are both the same length OR manually specify the length of the loop.
GaryKleiner wrote on 2/3/2004, 9:45 AM
I was thinking of animated buttons.

To clarify:

When you have an animated Menu BACKGROUND with audio, the loop durationwill be as long as the longer of the two (audio or video), and as Edward says, one will go blank while waiting for the other.

If you have animated BUTTONS, the loop duration is determined by the length of the audio, regardless of the video length that is playing in the button.

Gary
cheroxy wrote on 2/3/2004, 9:47 AM
Yes this is unfortunate. It would be nice if you really could loop a background loop video. I usually will put a video loop into Vegas, then render it out to the length of the audio so that they match.
Carson