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    I found out how to drag audio to a menu but it plays at the very beginning of the menu and then keeps looping. i dont even know how to make it NOT loop while staying in the same menu. anyways, I need like 16 buttons on screen at once and when they click on each button it simply plays a sound of that word and stops.

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    To stop the audio looping you can either use a delayed cell, where the music plays up to the delay point, and after that the menu loops without audio. You will have to create an audio track with a length of silence at the end.

    The other option is to have the menu play through with audio once, then have an end link to a silent version of the menu so you get the audio version that plays through once, then a silent version that loops.

    For the buttons, the simplest method is create a menu page for each button, with the audio for that button. From the main menu, link button one to the menu for button one, then have the end action for this menu link back to the main menu. When button one is clicked, the new menu activates, plays the audio, then returns to the main menu and waits. You could also use a short video clip, however using a menu would make everything appear to stay the same on screen.
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    ya, i was hoping I didn't have to do it the LONG way by creating tons and tons of menu duplicates with sound for each... I never can understand how a company can make such a complicated software like this with awesome features, but leave out the simplest features such as triggers based on remote control clicks, option to tell each audio clip if it should loop a certain amount of times or not, etc.

    if that's the only way by creating duplicate menu's, then guess I'll do that. thanks.

    can you explain more on the "delayed cell" thing? I'm a newbie to DVD Authoring
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    It isn't so much the software as the rather simplistic DVD specification. While the programers could write routines to automate the creation of duplicate menus, it would just be one in a long line of needs they would have to guess at. Personally, I have yet to have a requirement to have a noise played on a button selection.

    A delayed cell menu is a motion menu that has a logical break point to differentiate between the menu intro, and the menu proper. Menus like those on the Star Wars second trilogy have long introductory scenes that you don't want to have repeated every time the menu comes up, but they also have smooth transitions to the menus themselves. The use delayed cells to do this. Eseentially, there is a logical break point, similar to a chapter stop, that defines where the menu proper begins. The first time the menu is run, it begins at the beginning and shows the intro video. Subsequent times that menu is called, it skips that first cell and returns to the start of the menu only.

    Look up delayed Cell menu in the DVD Lab Pro manual/online help. It has diagrams etc. to help you follow how it works.
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    ok thanks gunslinger. appreciate it
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  6. Originally Posted by guns1inger
    For the buttons, the simplest method is create a menu page for each button, with the audio for that button. From the main menu, link button one to the menu for button one, then have the end action for this menu link back to the main menu. When button one is clicked, the new menu activates, plays the audio, then returns to the main menu and waits. You could also use a short video clip, however using a menu would make everything appear to stay the same on screen.
    What happens if I want it to play a specific sound after the menu button is clicked, but then to play the movie or sub-menu that the button is selecting? How is that best achieved? I'm using DVD Maestro by the way but assume the principles are similar?
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    i'm assuming you'd just have a base menu with no sound... a duplicate of that menu for the mouseclick sound, add the sound to play to the duplicate menu... once duplicate menu is finished playing sound you just link it to your movie/sub-menu that you want to play after the sound
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    Chief has it. Simply link the button to a menu with the audio effect, then link that menu to go directly to the movie asset. In DLP this can be done in a number of ways. One is to set the menu to the length of the audio, with no looping, then in the connections window draw a connectio from the menu asset to the movie asset. Another is to use the auto-action setting on a dummy button on the effect menu.
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