Menu Loop

I want to play an entire audio song - 6 1/2 minutes for the menu, but have a continuous 30sec loop of video. How do I loop one & not the other? Is there an easy way doing this through options on the menu settings...or do I need to edit something together for 6 1/3 minutes & put it on a track to loop?
Thanks in advance!
Heather

You are best off doing this in final cut. Lay the audio bed on the timeline and add the video enough times to match the time for the audio... export from there and use this as the background asset for the menu. If you don't compress to MPEG2 from FCP then you can add other items from DVDSP to build your menu. Otherwise, you need to create this as a standard overlay menu as if you created the image using photoshop.
There is no way in DVDSP to repeat the video loop to match the audio in this way.

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