From the help menu:
Setting Background Music

If you are using background music in your disc menu, click the button to perform the following functions:

Note: the final duration of your disc menu's background music is dependent on the time entered in the Duration field in the Playback Mode Settings window, not the length of the music file used. See Setting Disc Playback Mode for more information on setting your menu's duration.


· click the button to add or replace the current disc menu background music.

· if required, trim the background music using the player controls and the mark-in/mark-out indicators.

· if required, set the menu music to gradually Fade-in or Fade-out.

· if the length of your menu music file is not as long as the specified duration, select the Auto repeat option to loop it.

When you are done setting the background music options, click Apply to All Pages to set the music for all the pages in the disc menu, or Apply to set it just for the current menu page you are viewing in the disc menu preview window.
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Quote: From the help menu:
Setting Background Music

If you are using background music in your disc menu, click the button to perform the following functions:

Note: the final duration of your disc menu's background music is dependent on the time entered in the Duration field in the Playback Mode Settings window, not the length of the music file used. See Setting Disc Playback Mode for more information on setting your menu's duration.


· click the button to add or replace the current disc menu background music.

· if required, trim the background music using the player controls and the mark-in/mark-out indicators.

· if required, set the menu music to gradually Fade-in or Fade-out.

· if the length of your menu music file is not as long as the specified duration, select the Auto repeat option to loop it.

When you are done setting the background music options, click Apply to All Pages to set the music for all the pages in the disc menu, or Apply to set it just for the current menu page you are viewing in the disc menu preview window.

Ok, I edited a piece of music I want for my menu background music down to 86 seconds, changed the duration to 86 seconds and clicked on Apply to All Pages.

Still have a problem - The Root Menu plays the music for 86 seconds which is correct. The Title/Chapter Menus only play the music for 15 seconds. Why? I clicked on the Apply to All Pages why didn't it apply it to the Title/Chapter Menus?

Attached is a print screen showing the duration value that I supposedly applied to all pages.

Am I the only one who has ever had this problem? If not, then I must be doing something wrong. To me a menu page is a menu page, whether it is the root or the title/chapter page.

Hi,
the default duration is 15 seconds I believe as stated in previous post, buut you have to change for each page (root, and chapters/titles) page, if you have more than 4 chapters per page then all the chapters/titles pages have to be changed.
JIm
p.s. I am not an authority on sound as I have a hearing impairement.
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Quote: Hi,
the default duration is 15 seconds I believe as stated in previous post, buut you have to change for each page (root, and chapters/titles) page, if you have more than 4 chapters per page then all the chapters/titles pages have to be changed.
JIm
p.s. I am not an authority on sound as I have a hearing impairement.

As you can see from my attached screen prints I have changed the duration on all pages.

Print Screen 8.png shows my Root Menu page and the duration is set to 86 seconds - this works.

Print Screen 9.png shows my only Title/Chapter Menu page and the duration is set to 86 seconds - this doesn't work I still get the default 15 seconds.

Quote: Am I the only one who has ever had this problem? If not, then I must be doing something wrong. To me a menu page is a menu page, whether it is the root or the title/chapter page.

Hi there -

No - you're not the only one with the problem, and it's been around for a long time & No - you're not doing anything wrong.

http://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/24550.page

In the Root Menu page, you can control the duration of the background music (up to 99 seconds). The Chapter/Scenes page does not allow that control.

Whilst I completely agree that it ought to be user controlled, in PD it's not. It's probably part of the reason many users opt to do their disc creation in other software.

Cheers - Tony
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Quote: Am I the only one who has ever had this problem? If not, then I must be doing something wrong. To me a menu page is a menu page, whether it is the root or the title/chapter page.

Hi there -

No - you're not the only one with the problem, and it's been around for a long time & No - you're not doing anything wrong.

http://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/24550.page

In the Root Menu page, you can control the duration of the background music (up to 99 seconds). The Chapter/Scenes page does not allow that control.

Whilst I completely agree that it ought to be user controlled, in PD it's not. It's probably part of the reason many users opt to do their disc creation in other software.

Cheers - Tony

Could you suggest a separate disc creation software possibilities? I would really appreciate it.

This process in PD has become very frustrating to me. Edit process in PD was fine but I now have been spending the last 3 weeks fighting with their create disc function in PD to get it to do how I want my disc created.

Thanks

Just a quick question. Do you know of any commercial discs that have a long repeat time like you are asking for?

Perhaps there is another way around what you want. How many people want to sit and look at a static screen for almost a minute and a half before getting to the good stuff.

Inquiring minds want to know. .
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Quote: Just a quick question. Do you know of any commercial discs that have a long repeat time like you are asking for?

Perhaps there is another way around what you want. How many people want to sit and look at a static screen for almost a minute and a half before getting to the good stuff.

Inquiring minds want to know.

Haven't you ever put a commercial dvd in to watch and while you're on a menu screen had to answer the phone, use the restroom, or maybe get a snack before you make a choice from the menu? I'm just providing a small bit of music that will loop while the viewer is on the menu screen and can't make a choice yet. Normally I know most people will make a choice within 5-10 seconds but just in case I want to provide a small bit of music while maybe they need to do something else prior to watching the dvd.

Hi,
Using your recent post bout washroom breaks, snack breaks etc., being 69 years old the washroom breaks are inevitable, but when I am doing my duty I can't hear the soundtrackLOL and also that is why DVD players have a pause button.
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Hi again -

Whatever personal preferences may be, if a user wants to author a disc in a certain way there will be a way top do it... it's just a case of finding the right tool for the job.

PD does an excellent job of editing video, which is its primary purpose. It has some great disc authoring features too. Menu function/features/usability has never been one of them.

retpgmr - I very rarely burn discs, & even more rarely burn discs with menus, so I'm not the best person to advise you on other possibilities. I generally just use PD & put up with its idiosyncrasies.

If you want to look at dedicated authoring software, here's a starting point http://dvd-authoring-software-review.toptenreviews.com/

Cheers - Tony
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Toni, I used a couple of them and none of the ones I used were able to do what the original poster was trying to do. I do know of an obsolete $400 program what would do that - DVDIt.

In the 10 years that I have been doing video editing and DVD creation, I know only one other time that a poster asked how to do this. The responses he received were along the lines of what was posted above. The software is just not able to do that because it 1) is nt allowed by the DVD standard or 2) It would be a feature that few people want so it was not developed. .
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