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Adding sound from a QuickTime movie to a menu

If you have a QuickTime movie with audio that you’d like to use as the soundtrack for a DVD menu, you can easily add the QuickTime file to your iDVD project so that the audio is used and the video is ignored.

To use only the audio in a QuickTime movie as a soundtrack:

Step 1

Make sure the menu to which you want to add the audio is showing in the iDVD window.

Step 2

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

The Menu Info window has controls for modifying the menu.

Step 3

Locate the QuickTime movie you want to use.

The movie can be in the Movies section of the Media pane or stored elsewhere on your computer or a connected server.

Step 4

Drag the movie to the audio well (shown below) in the Menu Info window.

The icon in the audio well changes to the QuickTime icon.

Image of the audio well
Step 5

Drag the Loop Duration slider to adjust how long you want the audio file to play.

The duration you choose applies to both the audio file and any movie you’ve added to the menu as background. The maximum duration shown on the slider is the length (up to 15 minutes) of the longest media (movie, audio, or slideshow) you have added to the menu background. If you have added just the audio, the slider indicates how long the audio clip is.

Step 6

Adjust the volume of the sound by dragging the Volume slider to the right or left.

When you drag a QuickTime file to the menu background well in the Menu Info window, iDVD uses the movie as a background for the menu and selects the first audio track in the file as the menu soundtrack.

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