Hi Chris -

I can see you've partly detected the source of the issue... and I don't recall it happening in previous versions. That doesn't mean it didn't! It just means I've forgotten

Here, I replicated your steps as precisely as I could:

1. Prepare background video 1:42 duration


2. Prepare separate audio 1:42 duration


3. Add 1:42 background video to menu template


4. Apply menu template to project


5. Apply 1:42 audio as menu music


6. Observe playback in Preview

In Preview, the music was cut off & the video did not play completely... similar, I think, to what you found. The same thing happened when I burnt the project to disc!

It appeared the video was playing back more slowly than it should, so I made a few modifications and **produced the 1:42 video with the 1:42 audio. As a guide, I planted a time stamp on the video. Unsurprisingly it was 1:42 in duration!

Out with the screen capture to record playback in Preview. Same thing as before, so at least it's consistent. Next I overlaid the **produced file on the screen capture.

This is what I got:



It'd be good if other members could try this. I may be doing something wrongly here.

A trouble-free way to do what you're after (sorta) is to produce your 1:42 video with audio, as I did, & include that as a first play/opening video. That means it will play when the disc is started, followed by the menu...

Cheers - Tony
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Quote: I was wondering if you can help me with an issue in the custom menu feature.

For the Background audio & video menu page, I tightly synchronized them together at 1 minute and 42 seconds on the "Edit" / "Time-Line" section. The video (series of photos) rendering went well, still remained at 1:42 long. Then I selected it in the "Set Background Image or Video" option under Menu Preference. But when playing it under "Preview" option, it played about 23 seconds longer than what is on the "Time-Line" -- longer then the recording time/play-back time in other programs. Consequently, it no longer matches the audio timing I planned for and there is now 23 seconds of silence while the video portion is finishing--its late!!

**Is there any video play-back speed setting option under Menu Preference to correct the above problem?

**Does anyone know what's going on here? I am using Power Director 14

I'm having a difficult time understanding what exactly you did. To me it sounds like:
1) In a timeline you made a 1:42 long project of a photo slideshow and produced it
2) Created a custom menu and in the menu designer used the "Set background image or video" icon and selected your background video from item 1
3) In the "Create Disc" area, you imported a 1:42 long song as the "Background music:" as the background video of item 2 will have silent audio. Now, if things go well you would have a audio sync with the 1:42 video slideshow
4) During preview, you have a sync issue.

If that is correct, my guess is the following. The PD menu system as controlled by the GUI is limited to 99 second playback of the "Background music:" which does not match your background video of 102 seconds used in the custom menu and this is potentially leading to some issues.

To me you have maybe two options.
1) Trim the background video to 1:39 vs 1:42 and use a 1:39 audio in "Background music:"
or
2) Use your 1:42 produced video with audio as a "First play video:"

Jeff

I haven’t tested any menu for 99 seconds for video and audio sync. In the past I found issues when using default mp3 audio in modifying Cyberlink menus and then previewing them. That was solved by converting the music to wav with WaveEditor.

Think that Jeff’s suggestion of using the First play video is the way I would go.

Chris, Jeff & tomasc -

I retested using the same steps above but with 1:30 video & audio, as Jeff suggested (i.e. within the 99 second limit). YES - that works. In Preview the audio & video finish together, then repeat.

So Chris - either of those two ideas will work for you... shorter video or use the menu opening/first play idea.

[irrelevant to Chris's question] On a purely academic point, I also repeated the side by side test with preview screen capture beside the produced file. For whatever reason, I got the same thing. The menu preview video ran slower than the produced file, even though the audio was in sync. By the 1:30 mark, the preview video was about 4 seconds behind. Probably something wrong with my procedure.



Cheers - Tony
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