DVD-Lab motion menu with background music

[Dude_Son]

Ok I got a plain picture background with a lil screen playing a 10 sec loop in the middle of my screen, but everytime it loops the music restarts does anyone know what I need to do to keep it from doing this?

[maa]

Menus are still MPG files even if embedded in a VOB - so - Video and Audio should be the same length.
There is no such thing as a DVD that plays the music indefinately while looping a short clip. You can make this effect with a NLE app. but not with an authoring program and result would be an MPG as long as your music.

[ImaWeTodd]

Dude_son:

It depends what you are trying to do. Here are some general comments. Not sure what you do in DVD-Lab.

- If you want the music to not restart but keep playing, while the clip restarts, like maa said, you need a big clip made that way.

- If you want the music and clip to play once, and then just the video to play, you can put a movie with audio first and then have it go to a menu with no audio.

- The previous could also just lead to a still menu where the audio just played (or not).

You can also time-out a menu and have it go to another menu.

(lots of options)


maa

Menus are still MPG files

As opposed to MPG still files. I had to read that one twice.

[ToddB]

I would take the 10 second loop you have into your video editor and loop it over and over with the music you want in the background. I like to fade the sound out so it matches the last loop of video so that the restart is a little be smoother.

[Dude_Son]

Thank u guys!
ToddB ok, sounds good, now how do I do that?

[ToddB]

I use a video editing software to do this. Currently I'm using Edius from Canopus. I know this could be done in Adobe Premiere as well. I'm sure just about any video editing software could do this, I bet even the one that is built into Windows XP could probably handle doing this.

In the editor's time line, just copy and repaste it over and over to the desired length.

[Dude_Son]

cool I got it, thanks guys :P

[Dude_Son]

Does anyone know if this is possible in TMPGENC? if so how do u do it? I cant figure it out.

[maa]

TMPGENC is not a Video Editor so you can't do it with that.
See:
AdvancedVideoEditors
and check out Magix:
Movie edit pro 2004
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