Background music & SmartScene menus

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thebiggfella
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Background music & SmartScene menus

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Hello. When putting together a project using SmartScene menus in VS10+, and using background music with the menus, is there a way to stop the background music starting over each time you move to a different title on the menu? I would like it so that the music just plays continuously regardless of whether or not you are moving the cursor through the titles.

I really like the SmartScene menus, but I find this thing with the background music quite annoying. By the way, is there somewhere where you can download more of them from? Thanks. Glynn.
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Post by sjj1805 »

No.
let me explain the mystery of smartscene menus.
They are an optical illusion.

Let us take a single smart scene menu page that has 4 links
We will ignore the navigation buttons next, previous, play all, home.
We will just look at those 4 links.
for clarity we will call them
Link A
Link B
Link C
Link D

In fact VideoStudio (This also applies to the ones created in MovieFactory)
has created 4 seemingly identical menu pages.
Select Link A and you see menu A
Select Link B and you see menu B
Select Link C and you see menu C
Select Link D and you see menu D

whenever you move to a new menu page the music always starts at the beginning. with the traditional thumbnail or text only menus it was obvious that you had moved to a different page. With smart scene menus, due to the almost identical nature of these pages, you think you are still looking at the same page.
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Post by thebiggfella »

Thanks for that. :D
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