Duration of background music in Menu Designer

smp

Newbie Joined: Aug 25, 2010 23:10 Messages: 9 Offline

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Mar 07, 2012 08:37

I have created a custom menu template, and am trying to change the duration of some background music on the Title/Chapters menu. I have selected an mp3 which is ~90 seconds long, and set the key frames to the beginning and the end of the music. Then I applied that to all pages. Then in the Playback mode dialog box, I changed the Duration to 60 seconds, which is how much I want the mp3 to play before auto-looping. It seems to work correctly on the root menu. But I can't seem to get the background music to play more than the default 15 seconds on any of the Title/Chapters pages. Am I doing something wrong?

JL_JL

Senior Contributor Location: Arizona, USA Joined: Oct 01, 2006 20:01 Messages: 6091 Offline

Mar 07, 2012 09:26

??? http://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/22144.page#118340

Not real easy to do that within the current constraints of the "Create Disc" module and the Menu Designer. This post may give you an insight how to achieve what you want. http://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/17273.page

Jeff

All vodi

Senior Contributor Location: Canada Joined: Aug 21, 2009 11:24 Messages: 1431 Offline

Mar 07, 2012 18:09

Try using the "menu structure" tab first, then select the sub-menu and see if you can make the changes needed. Win 10, i7

smp

Newbie Joined: Aug 25, 2010 23:10 Messages: 9 Offline

Mar 07, 2012 22:38

Thank you for the reference link, Jeff, it provided me with a method for a "successful" workaround:

http://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/17273.page

In my case I was using a static image for the Title/Chapter menu. I simply created a new project, dragged my image to the timeline, and set the duration for 1 minute. Then I generated a video file out of the project, which I then imported as my Title/Chapter background video in the Menu Designer. I selected my background music on the Title/Chapter menu, set the keyframes to the 60 second chunk of music that I wanted, and it seems to have had the effect I desire.

Crazy-ackward workaround though - I would have never tried that on my own. I wish Cyberlink would put a little more emphasis on their DVD menu designer component of PD. Seems strange that it would lack so much functionality and flexibility, when the Edit component is so powerful.

Also sorry for the duplicate post. I posted the first one, then went to find it a little later but never did.