Continuous Audio/Different Menus?

Hi there, I was just wondering if it is possible to create a DVD in DVD Studio Pro 4 so that there is one audio asset that plays continuously while the viewer changes from one menu to another.
I like having audio with my menus, but it is annoying to constantly hear either the same song beginning on each menu change, or to keep hearing random different songs.
Thanks for the suggestions!

Hi There,
If you only have about 9 total menus on your DVD that would be good to have continuous audio under, as one navigates to the other, then you could acheive this with 'buttons on video' in a Track with 7,8,or 9 angles.
Depending on your project and how you nest the hierarchy of the menus, you could acheive the effect of even more seamless audio menu switches.
Yes, I have the spec books, which are very explicit that this can be done, and recently completed a massive several months long project helping an authoring studio working for a major sports league implement this exact functionality.
Though, I had to switch them over to Scenarist, which they purchased ( I told them they'd need Scenarist at the get go, but they wanted me to test in our player bank DVD SP and Scenarist projects side by side on this and other questions regarding implementation of this functionality, before they were convinced to spend 20K!), because of DVD SP's lack of being able to define individual subtitles instances as buttons with highlight info and navigation commands; as DVD SP forces a whole complete cell for each subtitle defined as a button. But you won't need as many cells (thousands) as they did.
So, if you really want to get it done, it is possible for certain projects. We ran multiple versions of that project for that company in all 145 of our players, and there were only a very few incompatibilities, which didn't faze them from mass releasing world-wide. Oh btw, check out the new pic on my site of a few of us around the player bank, with the list of players, if you'd like.
But for DVDs with lots (tons?) of menus, Shawn, Steve, and Hal are absolutely correct.
Take care,
Trai
Trai Forrester
TFDVD Research Labs
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