Menu Music

maccafan · Post by **maccafan** » Wed Nov 29, 2006 6:26 pm

I have chosen the background music for my menu and I love it. When the 30 seconds is up it starts playing the menu video again, which is fine. But on the song, it plays maybe one second of it and the starts over again and plays the entire thing. I'll try to explain further using the words of the song. The song starts out with "a certain softness in her eyes" and then continues. When the menu plays again, the music will only play "a certain softn" and then start over again from the begining and play the entire way through. The menu video is fine, it's just when the song loops, somthing happens when it starts playing again. Any help would be great.

Trevor Andrew · Post by **Trevor Andrew** » Wed Nov 29, 2006 6:48 pm

Hi

What format is the audio,

First thoughts, try using Wav. files

Trevor

blplhp · Post by **blplhp** » Wed Nov 29, 2006 7:54 pm

Double post..........double response:

By chance do you have a Menu In effect chosen on the edit tab of the menu creation page? If so, this has been known to cause the "skip" you are experiencing. Select no Menu In effect, which should be the large "X" icon within the choice of Menu In effects and this should solve your skip problem in the audio loop. Having a Menu Out effect has not caused any problems in the audio loop that I am aware of, just the Menu In effect. I experienced this same problem a few months ago and this recommended fix solved my skipping problem. Let us know if this fixes your problem.

P.S. - My skipping problem ocurred when I used .WAV files and/or .mp3 files. It may be that the SP1 patch to VS10 might solve this issue.

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Thu Nov 30, 2006 5:02 am

maccafan
Have you checked the length of the background song?
If you have set your DVD Menu to 30 seconds but the chosen background song only lasts 20 seconds it would reach the end of the song and start playing again until it now reaches the end of the menu (30 seconds) and then both the menu AND the song start playing again from the start.

So using this example you would get:
20 seconds of song, 10 seconds of song, 20 seconds of song, 10 seconds of song and so on.

Idealy you need to match the length of the menu to the length of the song.
If the song is too long then edit it beforehand with an audio editor such as Audacity so that you have a song clip of the correct required length.