nothing in the FAQ about this!

Just want to have a music track to go along with a menu. can a music track be assigned to a psd file within DVDSP? the psd file is the first play menu. When a button clicked and the video is done playing, i have it end jump back t the menu, I want the music to play when menu is activated. I know I said that already, just wanted to be clearer.

Looked for jedi master Jordans instruction on Lynda, but nothing about music that I could find. To that point, I don't imagine that it's possible to have the music pick up where it left off when the button was clicked, I imagine that's asking too much.

thank you in advance! I hope this is not too obvious.

-md

There are two things to think about here - if you are using a photoshop layer based menu then no, you cannot add audio at all. If you are using a layered photoshop file to create a standard menu, then yes, you can add audio!

So, it depends on what kind of menu you are creating - a standard menu is one with a background and a simple overlay. A layer based menu is one where you have lots of layers for the different button states and are assigning different layers to each state.

A standard menu can be composited from a photoshop file inside DVDSP, or it can be made from flat files (like .pict) imported in to DVDSP.

thanks Hal!

-md

the answer is drag the audio file onto the menu and drop! Larry Jordan strikes again, under creating a menu chapter on Lynda.com.

new problem with a different computer...

On my little iBook G4 the media files encode into a DVDSP project automatically, I open the same project on a dual core tower and the files when imported just sit there with a yellow indicator, they don't seem to encoding at all, no encode bar indicating anything.

I would think that the encoding process in DVDSP is an automatic deal, i should not have to go inot encode setting or anything right?

-md

Check your preferences - you can set DVDSP up to encode in the background as you work, or encode on build. The two machines might well have different settings...