That sounds easy enough. Thank you!

You could try creating them as MENUs rather than chapters or videos. Then set the MENU to loop until an action is taken, in which case it would go to the next menu, etc.

Dave T2

Actually, this won't exactly work the way musicvid described. DVD Architect does not allow you to set the End Action command of a video to loop. You can link the video to itself, which will cause it to loop, but then hitting the >> button will also cause the video to start over. You can, however, set the End Action for a menu page to loop.

Therefore, my suggestion would be:

- Render each of your short clips as a separate MPEG-2 file.
- Create a DVD Architect project, inserting as many menu pages as you have video clips.
- Use each video clip as the "background" for its menu page.
- Set the End Action command for each menu page to loop.
- Create an invisible button on each page, which links to the following menu page.

You would probably also want a scene selection, or top menu page, with links to each video. Good luck.

depending on how many clips, what about instead of chapters you use menu's?

Thanks, Bops! I'll give that a try.

Jay, the suggestion bops made is very similar to an issue I had a few years ago that Edward Troxel sorted out for me.
Here's the Q&A.

Q:
I'm trying to put together a DVD for an upcoming banquet.
The DVD consist of 5 separate interviews in addition to a 5 sec. animated logo.
What I want is for the animation (first play?) to loop until I hit the remote's Next button. Then it will play interview #1. At the end of this, it should return to the animation and continue looping until Next is slected again. It then goes to #2 and so on.

A:
Create a menu that is the looping logo. Have 5 menu options there. Make sure the FIRST one is the first interview.
Set the "End Action" of the interview back to the menu but set the SECOND interview as the button to be highlighted.
Set the "End Action" of the SECOND interview back to the menu but set the THIRD interview as button to be highlighted.
Repeat with the remaining interviews.
Now it should behave as you are wanting EXCEPT you'll hit ENTER each time instead of NEXT.

Mike

END Actions are the thing.

Grazie

Thanks for setting me straight on this. I know better than to offer assumptions without testing them, and this time I am reminded why.

on the same 'menu' based solution. If the attendees of the lecture would be put off at all by anyone seeing the 'join' when each menu background loops then you can mitigate this by putting a few repeats in there up front prior to rendering out. Some players show this glitch more than others. Do expect to be limited to ~1GB for the total project length if it is entirely menu based. You should though be able to exceed more than 99 menus (which was once misinterpreted by many DVD authoring tools as a spec. ceiling).

Another approach to this problem, where looping would be more graceful in many PC based 'file' players, would be to construct the source material on HDD/Flash/DVD-ROM and use the playlist function to step through. That approach might well save some mouse hand strain. :-)