Problem with background music for menu

fehrge · Post by **fehrge** » Tue Jul 04, 2006 7:02 pm

I am creating a dvd using MovieFactory 4. I have two separate clips and and have a sound clip for background music that is approximately 6 minutes long. However if I choose the motion menu option than the sound will restart after the playing for 20 seconds or however long the motion menu is set to. It works fine if I do not use a motion menu but does anyone know how I can fix that either using MovieFactory or a third-party program, or at least change the preview picture in the menu so that they are not both black. Thank you for your time.

Post by **Ron P.** » Tue Jul 04, 2006 8:57 pm

Hi Fehrge, and welcome to the forums..)

First the music background can only be a maximum of 30 secs, then it will loop. To fix it so that it may sound a bit more professional, use a free program like Audacity, to edit your music clip.

For the black preview picture, select/highlight one of them, then drag the Playhead to a point in the video that you want as the image. Then right-click on the Clip thumbnail, and select Change Thumbnail View.

Ron P.

fehrge · Post by **fehrge** » Thu Jul 06, 2006 12:03 am

Thank you for the reply. That is exactly what I needed.

G. Fehr

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Thu Jul 06, 2006 5:29 am

In addition to the method mentioned by vidoman and the use of audacity
You can also do it using the method outlined here:

Creating the thumbnail menus

Although the article is written using VideoStudio the procedure is the same for MovieFactory.