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Stopping the movement on a motion menu

Many iDVD themes have “motion menus” that include animations or video that loop, or play repeatedly, until the viewer clicks a menu button. Themes with motion menus have a motion icon in the lower-right corner.

You can turn off this motion, so that the menu on your burned DVD has no movement.

Note: When you turn off motion for a menu that has many drop zones that move on and off the screen, only the drop zones that are present at the beginning of the motion loop will show on the menu. If the theme has audio, or if you’ve added audio to the menu, it will no longer loop after you turn off motion for the menu.

To stop the movement on a motion menu:

Step 1

With your pointer over the menu (and with no buttons or text objects selected), press Command-I to open the Menu Info window.

Step 2

Move the Loop Duration slider all the way to the left, so the duration is zero seconds.

Instead of turning off menu motion, you can also simply shorten the playing time of a menu’s motion loop using the Loop Duration slider. Move the slider to the left until its duration is the desired length. This speeds up the motion rather than shortening the loop’s animation. For example, if the full loop animation normally takes 20 seconds to play and you set the Loop Duration slider to 10 seconds, the whole loop will play in 10 seconds.

Related Topics

Editing and viewing the background movie that comes with an iDVD theme

Stopping sound and motion on a menu as you work

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