Under the template in the preview window you'll see music clip...look to the right and there's a music note with a + and that will take you to screen that you can search, import and trim etc. the music you want. I think.

This link is to pretty good "authoring" menu design vid. Helped me quite a bit. Good Luck.

http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=CyberLinkChannel#p/u/43/HJMYmFNWLjo

Melissa in Maine "Pray for the Dead and Fight like Hell for the Living"- Mother Jones

I did discover an "under the hood" way to change the audio.

Let me start with a disclaimer that you need to be careful when making these sorts of adjustments, and realize that in the process of learning you could possibly trash a menu. I would encourage you to experiment with a backup copy. Perhaps MODIFY a menu, then save it as a new template.

And, I'm not in a position to provide tech support. In other words, you are on your own! But this did work for me and I wanted to share with other potentially frustrated users! :

In the CREATE DISC section, on the MENU PREFERENCES tab, you can look under the designer pane on the right and see a line for "Background Music". Notice where it is pointing. It is ultimately buried in your Documents (or My Documents, depending on your Operating System).

Using Windows Explorer, I navigated to that folder. In this case, it was: "C:\Users\....\Documents\CyberLink\Custom Menus\3.0\Menu_008\Audio"

That folder contained two files:

std_music.xml
Calligraphy.mp3

Calligraphy was the standard background music for the template.

I right-clicked on the "std_music.xml" file and made a copy.

I then copied a new mp3 file into the folder.

I then edited the "std_music.xml" file. It made three references to the "calligraphy.mp3" file. I changed those three references so that they would instead point to the mp3 file I had copied into the folder.

I switched back to PD8 and tried to re-apply that template. It did not work. I eventually learned that you need to switch out of "CREATE DISC" (I just went back to "EDIT"), and then switch back into "CREATE DISC". I reapplied the template, and there was my new background music, saved in the template!

Hello Melissa.

Thank you for your suggestion.

You can use that "+" button to change the background music for THAT ONE PROJECT.

But the template does not change.

I need to create a template that I can use many times, and I didn't want to have to make that change every time.

I really appreciate the help!

==> Mike.

Hmmm....whole template, eh? Nice workaround although I would be happy to just be able to get one project to actually burn without crashing.

"Pray for the Dead and Fight like Hell for the Living"- Mother Jones

Mike & Melissa -

I'm not an xml modifier by nature... I'm pretty sure I'd trash more than the menu!

Help me out, here. Would this work?

Menu data (on my PC) is stored in C:\Program Files (x86)\CyberLink\PowerDirector\Menus\, within which are folders for each menu template. Inside those, there's a folder titled Audio - containing the .wma and .xml files.

How about:
1. Make a copy of the Audio folder to modify
2. Replace the wma file as Mike suggested
3. Modify the .xml file to "point to" the new file.

Never tried it, but I will. You guys sound like you might know already.

Cheers - Tony
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Some more detail can be found here :-
http://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/4965.page

I'm fairly sure it still relates to PD8

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Adrian - how on earth do you remember all this stuff? You seem to have a mental catalogue of everything that was ever said.

Bless you, your holiness

Tony
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Yes Tony, you've got the idea.

Thanks for this info. I wanted NO audio for my template and was sick of having to remove audio from each title/chapter page when I used my template by going to Menu Structure and removing the background music that way.

I used the above info and instead of editing the std_music.xml, I just created a muted audio file (using Nero WaveEditor) and named it Calligraphy.mp3 and copied it to this folder where my menu was saved to overwriting the existing Calligraphy.mp3 file. In my case the location was C:\Users\MYNAME\Documents\CyberLink\Custom Menus\3.0\Menu_000\Audio

If anyone wants this MUTED audio file you can get it here http://www.mediafire.com/file/yemznnnmk1j/Calligraphy.mp3

That's not the way I wanted to get that Sports tune removed, but I'll take that muted file, it's the 70% solution in my book.

Nice work!

JF