Looping menu

I created a project with a main menu. I added motion to the menu with video and audio. It works as I expected, except the audio loops as I planned, but the video goes to white once the 3.54 minute video is finished. I tried various things such as the number of loops, hold forever, Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Lisa

Good call! Thanks for your help.
Regards,
Lisa

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Hi- Can someone please walk me through setting up a script where the menu will count the number of times it's looped and if it reaches a certain number (say 4) it then jumps to play a track? To make this a bit harder, what I'd like to do is when the end of the menu is reached I want it to jump back to the looping point of the menu, not the beginning- makes it hard for me to also understand what the script links to and from.
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Robert

Hi Robert,
Set the menu timeout to a script.
add GPRM 0, 1 //adds 1 to the register.
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Can I have the buttons functional before the background goes into a loop? Thanks.

Erik:
Your buttons overlay will become active at the Loop Point time, not before.
I'm not sure what you want to get but I presume you have a backgorund video with some INTRO and then the LOOPING part, but you want buttons get activated at time 00:00 but you want the menu Loop at i.e. time 05:00 secs.
If so, you can get such effect building 2 independen menus.
In teh first, use the full background video (INTRO + LOOPING parts) setting no looping point (00:00). Set the menu properties to auto Jump to the second menu.
Duplicate it with exact same buttons layout but this time use as background just the LOOPING part of your video. Again set the loop point to 00:00 and leave this menu looping on itself.
Hope that makes sense ! ;D
Alberto

Looping menu freezes after one play

Hi there!
I have Adobe Encore 2.0 - and I'm trying to make a simple menu... It's an 8 second long video clip and a link. I set the duration of the video background to 8 seconds, and the loop # to forever. But when I build the DVD and play it in my DVD-player it plays for 8 seconds and then freezes. If I push the button/link before those 8 seconds I get to the next menu - but I have the same problem there...
Can anyone think of what I'm doing wrong? This is a project I'm doing for a friend of mine, and he needs it by this friday - so I'm kinda stressed out right now.
Hope you can help me!!

What happens if you do not set the Loop Point, and just set Looping to Forever? The Duration of your Motion Menu should take care of itself.
Also, you might want to pick up a pack of DVD RW's, to test with - no more "coasters."
Good luck,
Hunt
PS - also, do you have Audio in this Motion Menu? Is it exactly, or slightly shorter Duration, than your Video?

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Hello,
I have a home video of a wedding I am trying to burn to a DVD using iDVD. I have 7 chapter markers in the movie and I would like to use still clips from the video as the icons in the chapter menu buttons. However, once I select "still image", I can no longer scroll through the entire movie to select the image I want. Instead, it only gives me the first 1 minute 37 seconds of the clip. Does anyone know what I might be doing wrong?
Thanks,
Joe

Nevermind, I have figured it out.

Loop menu

Hey all I have a project which I am working on for school and it is going well. I have about 600 lines of code and so far so good. The only problem I am having, (just recently), i added some new method to my menu and it's causing it to come up everytime the menu comes up, even if you dont call it. Here is my menu...
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            System.out.println("1. Generate");
            System.out.println("2. Open");
            System.out.println("3. Save");
            System.out.println("4. Copy");
            System.out.println("5. Restore");
            System.out.println("6. Sort");
            System.out.println("7. Timed Sort");
            System.out.println("8. Confirm");
            System.out.println("9. Show");
            System.out.println("10. Compare Times");
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                catch(IOException e){}
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               try{range1=in.readLine();}     //Asks user to enter a choice
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               range=Integer.parseInt(range1);
               if(size<0 || range<0)
                  System.out.println("Can not be a negative number please re-enter");
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               compareTimes();
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                                            "      - Bubble\n"+
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Thanks,
MS

Answered in other post.
http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?messageID=9921762

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I'm wanting to create a 50 second looping menu with a video background and some music, but I only want the music to play twice. After the second time the music plays, I'd like the video background to continue looping, but not have any music.
How could I achieve this while giving the user the ability to make menu selections at any time? I've seen it done on a number of commerically available DVDs and Blu-rays, but I can't figure out how to do it in Encore.
I'm using Encore CS6.
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Stan Jones wrote:
I do not know if that works, but I don't see why it wouldn't.
I'm not sure what you're referring to. Are you referring the commercially available DVDs that I've seen achieving what I mentioned in the first post?
There's definately a way to do this, but perhaps Encore just insn't capable. I always find it annoying when a DVD menu loops music or some other audio infinately. I may stick a disc in the player and walk into the other room to do something while it's loading up. I always appreciate it when whoever made the disc only has the music or audio looping a couple of times, then it stops.
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Looping don't work in my DVD Menu

Hi I'm Jo from Singapore.
Pardon me... I know this is rather basic... Which really makes me crazy... I was attached with a company last time using Encode V1. Imagine... Now I'm using CS5 Encore! Doing the same thing as Encode 1V ----> But I didn't get the looping menu right when play in my DVD player.
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3rd I open the tab at the Menu Properties > Motion > Set the Video link to the above mov. movie. Leave the audio as nothing, loop point automatic set as 00:00:00:00 and Loop #: Forever.
Then I build/burn the DVD.
I should have get the menu stay forever and looping from the point 00:00:00:00 ya? But the player loop the menu only once and 2nd time when reaching the end of the loop, it continue to play the first movie on my menu. Why is this so? I'm desperately need advise or help. Could it becoz there's some bug from my encore software? Or could it becoz I did some mistakes here?
Jaze,
Email : [email protected]

Override is actually called End Action Override.
So as Minu has explained it to you earlier, let me explain it again to you.
In the screen shot above what I have done is, I have set the Item 1 button's link to timeline IntroMovie and the end action of the IntroMovie is the menu again.
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Garageband can't add loops

I am trying to save some software instrument regions I've created as loops that I can add to the Loops librar so I can easy add them to other projects. Everywhere I look for how to do this, I am instructed to select the region, then go to Edit > Add to Loop Library. The problem is that this option is not in m Edit menu at all. I have tried closing and re-opening GB, rebooting the computer, and making sure I have the latest version of GB. But no mater what I've tried, this option does not appear in my Edit menu. What am I doing wrong?
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In GarageBand 10 it will look like it is not working, it is a bit confusing, but try this:
Cut the region you want to turn into a loop exactly at the bar line.
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Select the region, grab it with the mouse and drag it over to the loop browser.
It will look, like you were shifting the loop in the track - simply ignore this.
Release the mouse, when it is over the loop browser and the panel to add the loop should open.
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Logic 9 Pro won't load apple loops library or EXS24 Instruments!

First off, specs:
I'm running 9.1.8 on OSX 10.8.2
I recently purchased a brand new 13" MacBook Pro (early this december) and used migration assistant to transfer my accounts, apps, and such from my old hard drive to my new one. Everything seems to be in its place and running fine, except for Logic 9 Pro.
Whenever I load up a session featuring the EXS24 sampler, the loading bar will hang up upon loading the instrument, eventually turn into the spinning wheel of death, and become unresponsive. This also happens when I create a new session, open up a new instance of EXS24, and attempt to load a patch. All of the other stock Apple instruments load up just fine.
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Hi
You probably need to re-index the Loop Library.
In Logic 9 control click on the Loop Library and choose "Reindex"
In Logic X use the Loops Menu at the top and again, choose "ReIndex".
If that does not do it, you may need to manually remove the Index files
CCT

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I have installed a loop package that contains a lot of synth loops. They are all named MusicLoop_128bpm_001Cmaj.aiff, the number and keys change and there are about 40 of them.
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My question is why are they not showing in the loop browser. The package is called "Funk Producer" and I can select that in the loop menu. Other loops from the package are there but not these named "MusicLoop128bpm"
Any help would be appreciated.

Clambake wrote:
The loops exist in my home audio folder under user loops{...} why are they not showing in the loop browser.
http://www.bulletsandbones.com/GB/GBFAQ.html#missingloops
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I am following David Dvorin's Beyond the Basics and am up to the part about Apple Loops Utility.
In it he uses an imported audio file called Chimey Guitar, the whole point is to use ALU, use its functions and then save it as an Apple Loop.
When I have saved, it doesn't seem to be in the loops browser, it's not there.
I followed the instructions fine.
Any feedback would be great

I see what you mean, I located it in the Finder menu and then added/dragged it to the loops browser (no probs). In the finder menu it had it down as an Apple Loop in the 'kind' column, but I suppose you have to actually drag it over to get it in the loops menu?
In the loops browser it had the bpm as 120 (this was the original bpm of Dvorin's file/loop), though in the exercise we change the bpm to 110 on the bpm slider and pressed save. Shouldn't the loop say 110bpm in the loops browser? Considering that it is an Apple loop does it even matter?
You've lead me on to something else here, whats the difference between using the APU or using the route of Region > Add to Apple Loops Library? (I understand that APU is for audio).
Is APU more detailed, in the sense that you can do transients? (I read the ALU manual theres a bit of stuff about Soundtrack Pro (which I don't use)).
Do you ever use APU?
Anyway, its most appreciated that you got back!
Logic and its ways are all falling into place its just these itsy bitsy Logic things.

Adding / deleting loops - where Garageband is relevant....

All - this is a question involving Garageband, but only because I have heard Logic will "inherit" GB projects, so I'm assuming (not having bought it yet, pending this question possibly), that Logic operates its loops area the same way.
I stumbled on this (archived) thread....
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1896042
... trying to find out why I couldn't:
a) delete a loop folder that I added:
I know where the Library\Audio\Apple Loops\User Loops folders are, and have
- deleted a couple folders I dragged to the Loop Browser,
- deleted the index files, etc,
...but there is still one folder showing up in the "User Loops" menu section, and all its files, and this folder is NOT in the above Library\Audio\Apple Loops\User Loops folder path. Where is it, and its files?
Also, I thought I read that you could delete individual loop files just using the Delete key. That doesn't respond either, but it could be because I'm using a Windows keyboard.
b) see other loop folders show up that I tried to add:
After seeing two folders show up that I dragged to the L.B., no other folders dragged will show up, in the browser or in the Library\Audio\Apple Loops\User Loops folder/area. I tried
- copying a folder full of files (these are all .wav files by the way) to the
above ...\User Loops path, then
- dragging that to the L.B., which started a "Garageband is reindexing... "
message... but it never showed up in the L.B., nor did it make a new index
file.
All very odd and inconsistent. If Logic uses the same sort of loop add/delete browser functionality, it's doubtful if I'm going to buy it, if I can't even get this problem solved. I need to be able to use my own drum loop files, and see them. Thanks in advance for any help. It's GB '09 v5.1 by the way.

Typically I have had this happen when the loops I have tried to add, were not proper Apple Loops for some reason... I assume you have been using the ALU to create the Apple Loops yes? if so, did you enter info in all the fields needed?
There can be other reasons though...
For example,
Are the loops in other time sigs to 4/4 for example? If so make sure you select ANY in the Signature drop down menu in the Loop Browser to see them...otherwise you only see loops in 4/4 and they won't show up when you look for them. The same applies to to the scale filter in the browser too...Set that to ANY too...
Finally, to confirm it is an error of some kind, be it user or Logic...have you checked the actual Apple Loops Folder to make sure the missing ones do actually reside there?

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