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Hey guys, how ya'll doing out there?

It's time for another tutorial from PinnacleStudioPro.

All right, I know some of you guys out there want to have a DVD

That you know just loops for a long time, I don't know

maybe you're going to a convention for popcorn makers or

unicycles or toast that butters your bread

I don't know, but you want to show your product

and you don't want to have to keep going back

and having to play it over and over and over again, yeah I know

There are those repeat buttons, the replay button

on DVD players now-a-days but hey,

let's just make it simple and make a DVD that loops or

some of you guys out there might just want to have

a menu that lasts longer than 12 freaking seconds

I can help you get that done.

Let's get into it.

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All right Pinnacle Peeps. Here we are in Pinnacle Studio 17 Ultimate

Let's go ahead and get this looping DVD or this extended

DVD menu thing popping. First and foremost create your project

Put all your video clips, sound, music, and all that down in the timeline

Do all your trimming, splitting, and make your video beautiful

I'm just gonna pull one clip down in here

It doesn't make sense for me to create all that stuff I'm not doing a

unicycle convention video to be showing to all the people

who love unicycles I'm just make a tutorial for you

Check out the little video I placed in here

I think you're gonna like it...I like it

Let me play it for you.

Hey man, how all the people doing out there on YouTube my brother?

I like the rhythm, the way the sounds are going down man.

All right, anyway, that's enough of that. So I got this little clip

clip down in here with my sound and all this good stuff.

Now the first thing we need to do

is we need to create two files

One file is going to be the total project with the

pictures, video, sound everything every, and then the

other file will just be the audio for the project

You need to have both of them in order to make

your menu looping or to extend

your video menu to make it how you want it to be

So now that we got our project in here we're gonna click on

the "Export" button. The first thing we want to do is we want to create

the video file and for this we're gonna do

a MPEG2 file. The reason why we're doing MPEG2 is because

we're creating a DVD

MPEG2 is DVD compatible so when you go to the choices

here make sure you select DVD compatible

Then you want to select a location on your drive where you will

save this file you must remember this location for later on

you want click on a folder and you want to select your location

click "OK". Now once you're done with that click "Start Export"

and it will export your file to the location

you selected on your computer

Once you're done with that a little pop up will show up

you just click the little close button

but stay in the exporter screen because you need to do the audio file

So what you wanna do now is go up to your settings

and change it from MPEG2 to Audio

All right

Once again you want to select a location on

your computer where this will be saved

Once again you must remember this location

because you're gonna need it later on. Once you have

your location selected click "Start Export"

and it will export the audio file

Once you're done with all of that you can go

ahead and close bad boy out

Over here in the library section or library bin

we need to make sure that the locations where we saved the

video file and the audio file are open in here right now

So if they're not open you just go to "Navigation"

go to "Videos" select the location wherever it's at

And then you want to open up a new tab from if necessary

And then you want to go to "Navigation" again

And you want to choose where you saved your audio

The reason why we want to do that now is because when

we get over into the menu editor

those locations will already be accessible to us for creating our menu

We got our project here we're good to go and everything we created

our little DVD menu, you don't really need the project to be

in here anymore as we already saved it to a location. Don't be scared

If you need to you can do "File", "Save As" and save your project

as something, But then you wanna do "File", "New", "Movie"

I gonna hit "Don't Save cause I don't really care about that clip

Now you wanna bring a small clip

down into the timeline but make sure that whatever you bring down in

the timeline matches the aspect ratio of the DVD menu that you want

Like if I were to bring this clip down

See how it doesn't fill the whole screen in the preview it's

gonna make my DVD menu standard instead of widescreen

I want to choose something that's gonna keep it widescreen which is

this logo here. I'm gonna left click on it drag it down to the timeline

Doesn't really matter what the heck you put in here because nobody's

ever gonna see it okay. If you doing an actual

DVD with a menu and stuff disregard what I just said

you could just go ahead and click on the

"Author" tab but if you're not, if you're just making a looping DVD

then all you need in here is a little picture. Doesn't matter how long it is

So now we're gonna click on the "Author" tab

and it's gonna say do you want to create s disc project from

your open movie, and I say yes...because I do.

When it does that you'll see that a disc menu tab is gonna pop up

I'm gonna click on his "Disc Menu"

and then I want to choose my disc menu. It doesn't matter which one

I pick because I'm gonna cover it up anyway with my own background

And all the other stuff I gonna delete and move the heck out of there

I'm just gonna choose a standard one, I'm gonna left click on it hold the

left my left mouse button down

LEFT, MOUSE, BUTTON, say it with me

LEFT, MOUSE, BUTTON

I'm gonna hold it down and I'm gonna drag it to the menu list area

and now we see that we got our little menu up in here in a preview

screen but down here there's a little edit button

I'm gonna click on this. Once again depending on what you're doing

you might wanna change this text up to

be whatever you want it to be

I'm just gonna get rid of it. I'll backspace here

Click on the text above it and backspace here

I don't need it, I'm gonna have my own background

on my looping DVD, if you're making a menu you can leave

these play buttons down here if you want to

Once again it's really up to you all right

I'm getting rid of them because I don't need them

Backspace and Backspace

I have nothing on here right now

What I wanna do is, I want to go up here to the media area

and I want to select the files that I saved earlier

I told you to remember the location didn't I? I told you to open up that

location didn't I? Now you know why I told you to do that there

I'm gonna click on this one, I'm gonna scroll down to the menu

background I created, I'm gonna left click on the mouse button

hold it down and drag it to the background settings area

All right. In here...beautifully

This little button here for the "Background Aspect Ratio" right now

is set to "Stretch" I'm gonna change that to "Keep Aspect"

You'll see that if I play this even though I saved it with sound

there is no sound, this is why we had to create the second

audio file so now I'm gonna go over here and find

the audio that I called menu music,

I'm gonna left click, hold it down,

and drag it to the audio drop zone

Now if I play this...

I got the audio and I got the video that I created

and they're perfectly synced up

One thing I did not mention, I should have but I didn't

oh well...you gotta remember the amount or the length of time

of your project that you created because you want to change

the time of the menu now

If your project is longer to 15 minutes tough cookies

If you to try make a disc menu that's longer than 15 minutes

it's gonna crash...it's not gonna create it

So do something less than 15 minutes, that's your max

I wouldn't even go close to 15 minutes if I didn't have to

Now I need to change the time on it, so I know the timing for mine

is 59.24, so I'm gonna go down here to the duration

I'm gonna click on this, change it to 59.24 and hit enter.

And now you see my timeline is now longer than

12 freaking seconds, it's actually 59.2 4

that I created, all right.

The last thing I need to do, if this is a looping DVD

and I'm not gonna have the play button nor the selections button

I need to create a button because if I don't it's not gonna

function as a menu, it's just gonna say somethings wrong you don't

have any buttons in it, so I got to create a small button

So I'm just gonna right click here and

I'm going to...as a matter of fact let's do this

I'm gonna right click where there's nothing I'm gonna go to

"Add Shape" and I'm gonna add a "Circle", I'm gonna make the circle

real freaking small so that it could barely even be seen and I'm gonna

move it somewhere off to the bottom of the screen where nobody

can see it and I'll make it smaller again, and then where it says

"Not a Button" I'm gonna change it to "Normal"

and I'm just gonna leave it like that, now that it has a button on it...

nobody can see the button I made it so dang tiny, but it has a button

and I'm good to go now. Everything's all set up, I can click "OK"

If I were to play the "Disc Simulator" here, go ahead and click on this

Now you see that it's just the audio and the video I put in there

You can't see the button, you can't see anything, so basically

just like any other looping DVD or DVD menu when it gets to the end

it's just gonna play all over again, I don't have 59 seconds to waste

to show you that but believe me its gonna just play

all over again, so also remember, no more than...

don't do more to 15 minutes on this

So now I can either just click this little button here

It's gonna bring up the "Burn Disc" screen or I could of clicked "Export"

either one, and now I want to change this to the type

to DVD leave it on "Best Quality"

Now I just pop my DVD in and burn disc or if you want to

create an image first and then burn it, do it however the heck you want

But that's it, It's a wrap baby.

How to make a looping DVD

or an extended DVD menu.

All right people, there it is

A looping DVD or a menu that plays longer than 12 seconds

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