Continuous Looping DVD
Here's a really "nifty" trick for making an automatically
LOOPING DVD.
1) Place your FUSED (i.e. finished) sequence at the very beginning of a video
track.
2) Drag the BLANK DVD menu icon to the Timeline. It will appear on the
DVD track.
3) Stretch the BLANK DVD thumbnail so that it extends over the entire
video sequence
4) Go to the Menu Editor and place a tiny button - ANY button. Or type something
like a period (.) Whatever you add, place it out of the way, for example, in the
lowermost right hand corner. Make it a NORMAL button. Place it OUTSIDE
the safe region -- we do NOT ever want to see this button. And be sure to leave
the background as it was by default - totally transparent.
5) Connect (i.e. LINK) this tiny button to the START of your video clip.
6) Preview your result. PRESTO! You have an automatically looping video clip.
The reason this works is because the DVD menu is automatically looping but it's
totally INVISIBLE! Therefore all that shows up is the fused video clip.
or
I've made this years LabWeek video a looping DVD. I used
the autoplay function on page 11-29 of the Edition manual, combined with a
return to menu marker after the last chapter. It works fine. If no menu item is
selected within 20 seconds, the dvd starts playing at the first chapter. It
plays through the last chapter, then returns to menu. Then waits 20 seconds and
starts again
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