Create flip book in After Effects

Hello,
I'm completely new to After Effects. So I wonder if it is a easy way to create like a book/magazine in which you can flip through the spreads and add links. And then save it in a format that can be published online. Anyone know?

As Mylenium says, you will have to do this in something else. After Effects creates video only. No interactivity. Now, you can use AE to make assets to be used elsewhere - I do that all the time - but you can't create links or other interactivity in AE.

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The presentation I mean is called "soft skills training"
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Hi Scott.
As far as I know, that is not a function built into Cp5. It looks like some kind of flash animation/widget built otuside Captivate and then imported.
If someone else knows otherwise, please chime in. Or if that widget can be downloaded somewhere, I'd love to take a look at it.

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The alert message is just telling you that a specific feature won't use the GPU. This message is innocuous. It only means that the processing of one specific, obsolete feature will use the CPU, not the GPU.
Are you saying that After Effects won't start or open your project?

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The links doesn't work because the urls have a red dot on it in the hyperlinks panel in InDesign. Anyone know why that happens?
Missing http:// at the beginning of URL?
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As Andrew said, if (CS6){no deal}. for previous versions it should work, but keep in mind that AE will only open files from a matching version of PS, i.e. CS4 files will not work properly in CS5 nor the other way around. This stuff has changed with every version....
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The flip book out of InDesign is cool - but I have not been able to find a way to create it so that it starts with a single page, rather than a spread (with a blank white page opposite the cover). Any help appreciated.

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Hi there,
Currently, there isn't a direct way to make the cover page a single page through InDesign. You'll need to 'fake' it by fill the left side (first page) of the spread the same color as the background of your web page.
Petteri_Paananen has suggested an alternative workaround using eDocContainer. You can find more info here: http://forums.adobe.com/message/2279180#2279180#2279180
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When i import these TIFFs oder PSDs to After Effects, they will only appear as still images, whatever settings i use on import (footage vs. layers). I don't see how to have the TIFFs or PSDs playing in After Effects as a video.
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>What do you guys think about buying books that are for CS4 when I have CS5?
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