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1. Re: Can you loop video forever as a menu background, but audio only once?
raj2ashok Oct 10, 2010 10:54 PM (in response to Webshark2000)Yes you can. Try this:
1.Set loop point
2. go to "Specify Link", then set your link to the , and select "Set to Loop Point" at the bottom.
->This option whould allow you to jump to the menu's loop point (instead of seeing the pre-loop animation),
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2. Re: Can you loop video forever as a menu background, but audio only once?
Webshark2000 Oct 11, 2010 11:22 AM (in response to raj2ashok)raj2ashok wrote:
1.Set loop point2. go to "Specify Link", then set your link to the , and select "Set to Loop Point" at the bottom.
In your 2nd step you say to go to "Specify Link". Are you talking about the "End Action" of the menu or something else? Also, what do you mean by "then set your link to the , "?
Thanks.
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3. Re: Can you loop video forever as a menu background, but audio only once?
ram8kumar Oct 12, 2010 5:54 AM (in response to Webshark2000)There are mainly two workflows to set the looping in a motion menu :
1. If you want to loop the entire video and audio, then there are two ways to do this:
a) In the motion tab of the menus properties, set the loop point to 00:00:00:00 and the loop# to the number of times you want the looping.
b) Go to the Specify Link dialog box to set the End action of the menu, select the menu as the target link and check the 'Set to loop point' checkbox there.
2. If you want to loop the video from a specific point in the time, then in the motion tab of the menu, set the loop point to the exact time of the video you want to stat the looping from and set the loop # to number of times you want the looping.
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4. Re: Can you loop video forever as a menu background, but audio only once?
Webshark2000 Oct 12, 2010 7:45 AM (in response to ram8kumar)ram8kumar wrote:
There are mainly two workflows to set the looping in a motion menu :
1. If you want to loop the entire video and audio, then there are two ways to do this:
a) In the motion tab of the menus properties, set the loop point to 00:00:00:00 and the loop# to the number of times you want the looping.
b) Go to the Specify Link dialog box to set the End action of the menu, select the menu as the target link and check the 'Set to loop point' checkbox there.
2. If you want to loop the video from a specific point in the time, then in the motion tab of the menu, set the loop point to the exact time of the video you want to stat the looping from and set the loop # to number of times you want the looping.
Thanks for the reply, but I don't think either of your solutions will achieve the result I'm wanting. I want to loop the AUDIO just once (it plays two times after the menu comes up), but I want the VIDEO background to continue to loop forever. I also want the user to be able to make a menu selection at any time, including right when the menu first appears.
If I set a loop point, it makes the menu unusable until that loop point is reached the first time.
I was thinking I could do this with two menus. The first menu would have the audio and video and only loop one time, then its end action would send it to another menu that looks exactly like the first, but only has the video looping on it. The only problem with this solution is that if the user moves their selection to something other than the default button, it will jump back to the default button when it goes to the second menu (or whatever button the "end action" is set to on the first menu).
Would there be a way to have the first menu jump to the identical second menu and stay on whatever button the user currently has highlighted?
Thanks.
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5. Re: Can you loop video forever as a menu background, but audio only once?
Jon Geddes Oct 12, 2010 3:59 PM (in response to Webshark2000)Your suggestion for using two menus is the only way to achieve what you want. There is no way to have it start on the same button they were highlighting from the previous menu. That is just a limitation you will have to deal with.
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6. Re: Can you loop video forever as a menu background, but audio only once?
Webshark2000 Oct 13, 2010 7:38 AM (in response to Jon Geddes)Dang, that stinks. I've seen it done on DVDs before. For instance, the 7th Season of The Simpsons DVDs do this. It's too bad you can't achieve it with Encore.

