DVD-Lab Pro question about music and video in a menu!!!

[Jonas_Vedder]

Hi!

I have a question here with DVD-Lab Pro...I wanted to put in a menu a sound clip of 2 minutes and a video still, so I would be able to render it, and have a render motion video of 10 seconds more or less...so what I wanted was that the 10 second of the video could be played, so the audio clip could still be played until it reaches the 2 minutes...

In the connections I put a loop in this menu, and in the PBC section of that menu the duration stayed automatically with this "a/v", wich means that the menu will have the duration of the video or audio...

But when I played the authored DVD I noticed that in that menu, after the 10 second of the video, the menu would loop, and didn't allowed the rest of the music to be played...it would restart from 10 to 10 seconds....

Is there a way in DVD-Lab Pro to allow the menu only loop after the longest duration of audio or video to timeout?

DVD-Lab experts....please help!! Thankx

[guns1inger]

No. The duration is really driven by the video, as DVD Lab assumes (I believe quite rightly) that the video and audio will be of equal duration. If you want the video to last as long as the audio, loop the clip in an editor first (just add it to iteself until it is the required length), then bring it into DVD Lab.

DVD Lab does not include editing and other features because it assumes you will have all your assets created and ready before coming in to author. This reflects the semi-pro and now pro audience it is aiming for.

[Jonas_Vedder]

Thanx for the reply...

I see the situation...I'm going to explain a bit better to you what I did...I didn't import from the assets to the menu a video...I took a movie still from the preview window and dragged to the menu...and then I rendered the menu so the movie still could have the duration of 10 seconds..finally I added the 2 minutes song clip..and in the connections section, i made a loop to that menu...so what happened after the rendered menu played the video, it looped and didn't finish the song clip..
So the only way is to edit the video outside DVD-Lab and then import it to the project right?

[reboot]

If your menu is a still, make it as long as the audio on the rendering tab/window that pops up.
If you want a 10 second motion menu, with a 2 minute audio track on it, you need the video to also be 2 minutes.
You could take your 10 second video, loop it 11 times (to make 12 plays of 10 seconds each, equalling 2 minutes), then import that with your 2 minute audio.
Yes, this will have to be done outside of dvdlab.

[Jonas_Vedder]

Thanks for the feedback reboot!

But listen...

For example, when I make a scenes selection menu and I render that menu so the chapters could have motion, and select to all only 10 seconds of duration, can I add a song clip of 2 minutes to that menu? If I understood you well, I can't, because after the 10 seconds, the menu will loop (if i did that option in connections) right?So the 2 minute song clip would never play to the end...I think that DVD-Lab is a great program, but this is one important thing, and this, DVD-Lab can't do...that's a pity!!

[reboot]

I think...you can add the audio AFTER rendering the motion. This should play the full 2 minutes, even if the motion loops after 10 seconds.
I haven't tried it though.

[Jonas_Vedder]

Yeah..maybe...I'm going to try that then..

But maybe what will happen is that the song will play, but after those 10 seconds, the movie in the thumbnails will stop and the audio will go on...maybe the movie in the thumbnails won't loop...I think...but i'll try

[Jonas_Vedder]

Hey ;P

Well I try that, but no, it does the same...after the 10 seconds from the movie thumbnails, the menu restarts and interrupts the song clip...that's a pity..wich means that when making a render menu, it's better not to put music or it won't work correctly...like you (reboot) said in your guide about DVD-Lab, almost every scenes selection menus only have about 10 seconds of movie of the chapters...it doesn't worth putting only a song clip of 10 seconds, don't you think?

[reboot]

Yup, back to my original idea. Loop the video 12 times to play 2 minutes, then add 2 minute audio.

[guns1inger]

This again comes down the audience DVD Lab / Pro is aimed at. It expects that your assets are prepared in advance in external tools.

[GangstaMo]

Did u try the D-FX,u could adjust the Render, to 2 mins,then add the Music

a workaround,maybe

[ACIDman]

If you still failed to achieve what you want, you can always loop the video in, say, Adobe Premiere for those 2 minutes and render the new animation out. You can also use VirtualDub for that.