Hello Newbie -
Maybe if you give yourself a nick, I won't have to call you newbie...

Anyway -
As far as I understand it, the length of the menu loop is completely up to you. I make my own too - and they're different every time. I haven't ever used the magic feature, so I can't help you with that. In fact, when Iopen PD7, I avoid anything with a "magic" prefix! Some of them seem to be cursed!

Jim, at http://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/5759.page talked about a similar poblem with distortion... but there were no answers and I don't have one either. Not sure what the problem might be.

If you want some free loops, in a variety of styles, try...
http://www.royaltyfreemusic.com/freemusic/free.html
and
http://www.looperman.com/loops.php?type=&cid=4&gid=3&tempo=&ord=date&dir=ASC&Search=Search+

Cheers -

Tony Tread gently and you'll hear the daisies grow...

Thanks for your reply Tony.

I found out that the DVD Menu loops every 15 seconds. I can't seem to change this.

When the menu loops it stops playing the background music and restarts it from the beginning. It doesn't matter how long my background music is.

So maybe I'm missing something.

Where can you set the loop for the DVD menu so that it matches the length of the background music? Mine seems stuck at 15 seconds (which is not long enough)

Ah Charles -
My apologies - misunderstood - I thought you were just talking about the music loop duration.

Your problem is easily solved. In Menu Designer, click on the little spanner icon (Create Disc Preferences) at the bottom - click on the Menu tab... change the setting for User defined menu duration (default is 15 seconds).

How easy is that?

Cheers -
Tony Tread gently and you'll hear the daisies grow...

Quote: Your problem is easily solved. In Menu Designer, click on the little spanner icon (Create Disc Preferences) at the bottom - click on the Menu tab... change the setting for User defined menu duration (default is 15 seconds).

Interesting. I saw that option before. But since it appeared under the "Enable Video Thumbnail" option I assumed that it was tied to that feature.

In other words, I assumed that the duration you set there is how long the video will play in video thumbnails. I did not expect that setting to control the video loop on the main page. I'll have to change that setting and see if it works. Unfortunately, I have to burn a DVD to test this though because I can't tell if it works in the preview mode.

If this is the case, wouldn't it be nice to be able to control the video loop duration for each page separately (Main Page, Chapter Page and Caption Page)? I have different music for each.

Also while I have you, is it possible to change the background music for new templates you create so when you pick them in the main environment you don't have to change the background music?

Thanks again.

Hope that did it for you Charles. I understand your assumption - it's just the way the layout is done in that dialogue box.

I don't think you can do that in PD7 - THAT DOESN'T MEAN YOU CAN'T - every time I use a menu template I've made, I assign different music to it. I always assumed that the music was not attached to the template.

Cheers -
Tony Tread gently and you'll hear the daisies grow...

Hi CharlesF,


Not quite the same issue, but (substituting 'your music' for 'no music') probably the same answer ?

http://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/4422.page

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