Setting background media with audio & loop - always causing a black stutter/fade? at DVinfo.net

David Delaney · December 6th, 2008, 08:05 AM

This is strange. Whenever I insert a background media piece - the timeline in Arch looks great. BUT as soon as I add the audio to go with it, it puts some extra black screens at the end of the clip. I am not sure how else to explain it. So what happens is that when I loop the background clip, instead of it being seamless, it runs and then there is a few blank frames and then it loops again. This takes away from the professionalism of the DVD because of this black stutter at the end of the clip.
In Vegas, the clip has NO FADES and works perfectly. When I bring it into ARCH as a MPEG it is fine, but as soon as I add the background media AUDIO, this occurs. I have even tried to shorten the audio, but the same thing happens. Any ideas?

Edward Troxel · December 6th, 2008, 08:38 AM

Did you make the audio to be SHORTER than the video? You said you shortened it but did you make it shorter than the video? If the audio is longer than the video, the video will go to black until the audio finishes.

David Delaney · December 6th, 2008, 08:42 AM

That is the weird part - the audio and the video are the same length - so I shortened the audio to see what would happen - same thing.
What I have ended up doing is changing the MENU length to be shorter in ARCH and that seems to work BUT (a big BUT), now when I burn the DVD and play it, it pauses when it loops.

Edward Troxel · December 6th, 2008, 09:18 AM

It SHOULD pause when it loops. That's normal. The pause was probably on your black screen before so it wasn't as noticable.

David Delaney · December 6th, 2008, 01:44 PM

I guess I will have to make the original video really long so that I won't notice the PAUSE for looping as much - why is this? I am guessing there is no way around it.

Edward Troxel · December 6th, 2008, 02:03 PM

Some players will be longer than others. It's a matter of the player needing to go back (i.e. search) to the original point.

December 6th, 2008, 08:05 AM	#1
David Delaney Trustee Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Niagara Ontario Canada Posts: 1,121	Setting background media with audio & loop - always causing a black stutter/fade? This is strange. Whenever I insert a background media piece - the timeline in Arch looks great. BUT as soon as I add the audio to go with it, it puts some extra black screens at the end of the clip. I am not sure how else to explain it. So what happens is that when I loop the background clip, instead of it being seamless, it runs and then there is a few blank frames and then it loops again. This takes away from the professionalism of the DVD because of this black stutter at the end of the clip. In Vegas, the clip has NO FADES and works perfectly. When I bring it into ARCH as a MPEG it is fine, but as soon as I add the background media AUDIO, this occurs. I have even tried to shorten the audio, but the same thing happens. Any ideas?

December 6th, 2008, 08:38 AM	#2
Edward Troxel Sponsor: JET DV Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Southern Illinois Posts: 7,953	Did you make the audio to be SHORTER than the video? You said you shortened it but did you make it shorter than the video? If the audio is longer than the video, the video will go to black until the audio finishes. __________________ Edward Troxel [SCVU] JETDV Scripts/Scripting Tutorials/Excalibur/Montage Magic/Newsletters

December 6th, 2008, 09:18 AM	#4
Edward Troxel Sponsor: JET DV Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Southern Illinois Posts: 7,953	It SHOULD pause when it loops. That's normal. The pause was probably on your black screen before so it wasn't as noticable. __________________ Edward Troxel [SCVU] JETDV Scripts/Scripting Tutorials/Excalibur/Montage Magic/Newsletters

December 6th, 2008, 02:03 PM	#6
Edward Troxel Sponsor: JET DV Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Southern Illinois Posts: 7,953	Some players will be longer than others. It's a matter of the player needing to go back (i.e. search) to the original point. __________________ Edward Troxel [SCVU] JETDV Scripts/Scripting Tutorials/Excalibur/Montage Magic/Newsletters

December 6th, 2008, 08:42 AM	#3
David Delaney Trustee Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Niagara Ontario Canada Posts: 1,121	That is the weird part - the audio and the video are the same length - so I shortened the audio to see what would happen - same thing. What I have ended up doing is changing the MENU length to be shorter in ARCH and that seems to work BUT (a big BUT), now when I burn the DVD and play it, it pauses when it loops.

December 6th, 2008, 01:44 PM	#5
David Delaney Trustee Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Niagara Ontario Canada Posts: 1,121	I guess I will have to make the original video really long so that I won't notice the PAUSE for looping as much - why is this? I am guessing there is no way around it.