An interactive DVD

I would like to be able to play a slideshow from a DVD but I don't want to preset the length of each image. I want to be able to narrate the show. I will be making a presentation at a location that normally plays all digital presentations from a ceiling projector connected to a DVD player.
Is there a way to do this on my Mac?
Mary Lou

Would I get higher quality results if I created an iMovie and played it from a DVD using the remote pause control?
No - DVD is as standard rather poor today (only CRT-TV at it's best - Whatever program used to author it)
BUT - no less either - Texted DVD with slides on CRT-TV and 42" FlatScreen - and I can not see any difference when playing the Slide-Video and when I Paus it.
alt.
HD-DVD - are no option due to - Very few DVD-player playback this (rare Toshibas) - and HD-DVD authoring programs are scarce (and expensive) too
Blu-Ray - are better and ev. slightly cheaper - You need Roxio Toast™ incl BD-Component. For SlideShows less than 30 minutes this can be burned onto Standard DVDs (PLAYS ONLY IN Blu-Ray Players anyway). But for longer duration - BD-Burner and BD-Disks are a must.
I've done some on standard DVDs and playback on a PlayStation3 - Works Greatly !
USB-Memory - Many modern flatscreen TVs can take material from an USB-Memory Stick - but then it:
- MUST BE PC-formatted as DOS or FAT32
- Movie I used were in .mp4 and here I selected H.264
Plays greatly on my TV with High Quality
Directly connected MacBook - Also superior playback Quality - I use a HDMI or VGA adaptor dep on what TV or Projector can take. HDMI = Best
Good Luck - Bengt W

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How do I make interactive DVD/Blu-Ray menus with motion?

So, adobe doesn't support Encore anymore which means I can't use dynamic link to AE to create interactive DVD/Blu-Ray menus with motion.... or can I? Is there something I'm doing wrong? While in Encore, I go to dynamic link and boom, dynamic link to AE is not highlighted. If I can't make an interactive menu with motion using adobe, then what can I use? This is causing a major problem for me and my clients. (if i over looked the answer to this in another post, my apologies)

You can use the "Create After Effects Composition." This prompts you to create an independent version of the Encore PSD menu file, and opens the layered file in AE CC and creates a new composition with appropriate settings. AE no longer has mpeg export, so you export from AE to AME.
There were some workflow options that I did not play with much, but they were never what I saw as the basics for using AE to create the motion background.
You need to understand these two help pages:
Adobe Encore * Menu timing and looping
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/encore/cs/using/WSF49EA5DB-3743-49c2-9831-F66328B192F8.html
Adobe Encore * Using After Effects to enhance menus
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/encore/cs/using/WSA5513911-0AD1-440c-BDAD-2E0E806B425E.html
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Is it possible to make a complete mirror port or conversion of an existing interactive DVD to Flash (swf+flv) so that I can put it online and interact with it with my mouse through a flash enabled browser, just like were running on a DVD player, with all the existing interactivity (menus, chapters) intact? I know about Adobe Encore CS4:
http://www.adobe.com/products/premiere/e... (See "Publishing of DVD projects to the web")
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It's not possible with Encore - you must have an Encore project, and DVD is not an importable source in Encore.
I don't know if there is even any software in existence which could do what you are asking.

Is Encore the tool to make an interactive DVD?

I've never used Encore, but is it the Adobe tool I should use to make an interactive DVD?
I need controls like, pause, loop, start, stop. Those kind of controls.
I particularly need to make my animations have a control that allows the speaker of the presentation to loop the animation indefinitely until he wants to continue with his talk.

No. You asked in what I think is the right place: Director.

An Interactive DVD Menu-Like project

I am working on a project that requires a Main looping video with buttons to link to different videos, and a button to link back to the Main video - think of it as an interactive DVD. I created it in Encore but the problem is the computers this will be displayed on do not have blu-ray drives and the DVD really cuts the quality at full screen.
Is this something that could be done in flash? I have minimal training with Flash, but am up for learning. If anyone has pointers or reference links that could help me out that'd be great.
thanks.

If you did it in encore then your target was making a blu-ray, correct?
I presume you want to do what Encore does and make a "Computer" version of your DVD menus?
Have you tried Encore's File->Build->Flash... ?

Converting interactive DVD to IPad ?

I have an interactive DVD which I would like to be able to play on my IPad (Gen 4). It is an educational DVD with lessons for each section.
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Here is further clarification from the owner of the DVD's. Does this change how to convert so I can view on iPad?
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Does anyone know how to create an interactive DVD from a Keynote Presentation?
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I should make something clear here...
Be careful with terminiology. WIth Keynote 3 you can create a linear DVD, that works the same way a show in Keynote works if you plan to move through the show in the order you built it (complete with all the builds). What it does NOT appear to do is allow you to make a non linear DVD, which is, if you put a button/hyperlink on a slide, it won't work in the DVD. See my other thread about this for the reason why. I'm praying the next version of DVD Studio Pro will read iDVD projects, which would allow us to customize what Apple creates for us automatically.

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Check the manual about BoV... it's actually pretty easy to apply. The trick is to set an in and an out marker in the timeline and apply a subtitle stream between them. Once you have got that in place then you can add a button and set the target. Once the button is set up, it acts like any other button in a menu, and can be made invisible. In your case it sounds as if you only want to type a space character in the subtitle...
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Keynote Interactive DVD

After doing some research I have discovered that Keynote does not have the ability to export a file where it can be used as an interactive DVD (strange this feature does not exist).
Anyway, I have been finding some application that are more like a DVD authoring tool. I have even found application that will take a Powerpoint presentation and convert them into a interactive dvd so that all hyperlinks would be DVD menus and submenus.
Unfortunately, I haven't been able to locate one that will do the same for Keynote. I was wondering if anyone has used any Mac application that will perform the type of tasks that I am looking to complete?
I have a presentation on Keynote that I want to put on DVD but have it retain it's interactive features. So far, I have had no luck in trying to accomplish this. It doesn't seem like this would be too much to do. I don't know why Keynote does not have this feature built in.
Thanks in advance

May I join in your club. Although we can export to QT or power point it always looses a lot. I would like to be able to export to a dvd. But let's not forget the primary objective of keynote and the amazing prive we pay for it.
Mireille

Cannot Play Interactive DVD on MacBook

Am completely new to MAC, so please forgive me if this is a completely stupid question:
For some reason I cannot get my MacBook to play an interactive tutorial DVD. It plays all other DVD's I own without any problems, but for this one it gives "+supported disk not found+" message. I am sure nothing is wrong with the DVD, as it plays normally on my PC and my TV's DVD player. Spent the whole day trying to figure out what's wrong but still cannot.
Should I just download RealOne Player for MAC and try to play it there? Or is there any kind of codec I need to install?
Please help, as this is driving me nuts and I really need to be able to play this DVD on my MAC in front of my staff tomorrow!

Apple Support told me that most likely that DVD was formatted specifically for Windows, therefore it would not be played on MAC.

Interactive dvd navigation

i'd like to have a dvd open up with menus that don't lead necessarily to video files, but rather other files that would be on the dvd as well, (ie. picture files, pdf files, text files, and maybe video too).
i figure it would have to be a 'data dvd' and not a 'dvd video' since i want the non-video files included. is that even the case?
is it possible to set up an interactive menu among any items on the dvd, and how would you add or include the 'links' back and forth from item to item?
my only thought has been to create a .pdf file with links off of that to various pictures, videos. can you get a dvd to open up to pdf files, or link to them as a 'chapter' or at least open up with a menu still even if the dvd ends up being a 'data dvd'?
can dvd studio pro, or idvd do it?

Take a look at this thread
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=2206820&#2206820
and the links there about DVD@access and realted issues (which is what you are speaking about)
and this
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=457869&tstart=0
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Hi, I am making a DVD based on clickable menus. The idea is to create a DVD portfolio, where the user can click through different screens, a lot of them with images, some only videos. I am creating the menus in photoshop - using rather small text. When the menus are imported to Encore, they look ok in the editing mode, but in the preview, the text gets blurry and unreadable - this also happens to some extent with the bigger text, edges also get very pixeled. The format I am working with is 1280 x 720, 72dpi (but i guess the dpi doesn't matter when it's video), RGB color, PAL widescreen square pixel... I have tried a lot of different formats, both bigger and smaller, but it doesn't get better. I have tried to do this in so many different ways now, but simply cannot find a solution - which seems strange to me, as I have seen DVD menus before with small type, without it being blurry (for example describing different episodes of a TV show) - Is there another program that would be better for this project, as I am also worried that the images will be very pixelated... I also tried to export the project, but it is still blurry. Another problem I have, is that the highlights of text buttons appear a few pixels left of the original button - I used the correct layer names, and only text in one color. the highlight is white. I hope someone can help me with this!
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Welcome to the forum.
Why are you starting with 1280x720 PS files when you are trying to create a 720x576 PAL SD DVD? The downscaling alone would account for your quality loss.
-Jeff

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quick and easy way (if there isnt hundreds of questions) is have the question in text with the three answer choices as buttons each linked to a separate menu, one for correct answer another for the inncorect answer. A next button will navigate to the next question menu.
Director and Authorware is still very much around, not as popular as Flash these days but you would create a CD ROM not a DVD-Video. Computer based systems provide far better control and authoring opportunities than DVD-Video; point displayed at each stage, final scores given tracking system allows more that one playe and logging in to multiple sessions.

Flash Video with DVD-like motion menus -- Is this possible?

Hi all,
I just joined this gropup. I have some SMIL 2.0 presentations
with synchnorized multiple audio (several languages supported) and
video as well as DVD-like still and motion menus. These are
semi-transparent menus and actually are super-imposed over main
playback area (root layout in SMIL).
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Can this type of a/v synchronization and menuing be done in
Flash Video?
I don't want to write as SWF with menus since clips and # of
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currently clients need RealPlayer (has SMIL 2.0) support to be
downloaded and installed. Another local app to manage!
Any ideas or recommendations?
Thanks and kindest regards,
-Mark

You can build interactive DVDs with video and audio, but no Word documents (at least not as part of the interactivity). DVD SP can certainly be used to create interactive DVDs. The advantage is that interactivity will extend to DVD players, not just computers.
If you want very rich interactive content, with Word docs, PDFs, etc. Then the best program would be Director. However there are some caveats with Director.
1) The learning curve for Director is extremely steep. You would be better off hiring a freelancer who already knows the program, then spending all the time learning all the ins and outs of the program.
2) Director is essentially a dead program. Since Adobe acquired it a couple of years ago, they have made no upgrades of the program. Nor have they made any announcements on continued development.
3) The content you develop will only be playable on computers, not DVD players.

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