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
There is also other (PC) software which people recommend

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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
I'm not sure what you mean by "interactive" unless you just mean creating navigation.

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I want to create interactive DVDs from html. The end product will be a website stored and browsable on the DVD using the remote control to navigate the menus. Can I do this with Encore?

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Porting/converting an interactive DVD to Flash/SWF/FLV?

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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If this is not possible in Encore CS4, how can I do this? Thanks

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.

2.1.2 update does not fix DVD Navigation issues :(

The FrontRow 2.1.2 update still doesn't fix the DVD navigation issues where sub menus on MANY DVDs are not navigable. Using the up / down keys on the keyboard or remote causes the Volume to change and not navigating the menus like it is supposed to.
This is a severe issue as it makes it impossible to play some DVDs or turn on the subtitles.

Yeah, I have experienced this as well. Ridiculous -- how could this issue not have come up in product testing by the time the software has reached version 2.0? The solution on Apple's end should be obvious. All 4 directional buttons must act only as directional commands when using a DVD, and all other functions (such as volume) can only be accessible by hitting MENU first to bring up a list of other options.
I'm all for simplicity, but this is the fault of the boneheaded 6-button Apple Remote. It requires their software to overload buttons with different commands depending on context, which is clearly an unacceptable limitation. They'll have to break down and roll out a proper remote with more discrete buttons one of these days and come to terms with the fact that shoehorning everything onto 6 buttons is not an elegant solution.

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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.
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If you did it in encore then your target was making a blu-ray, correct?
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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.
Can this be done and if so, how?
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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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Interactive Images Navigation Bar

Hi....been staring at this so long it's probably really
obvious BUT........just cannot get the default INSERT/INTERACTIVE
IMAGES/NAVIGATION BAR. to work properly. I've got all the images
correct but it seems that although it's happy to display the UP and
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http://www.isaandthefilthytongues.com/test.htm
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I am using it as well
#WORKSPACE_IMAGES#icpdf.gif
and those are displaying just fine. Check if the images you uploaded are real workspace images or they are assigned to an application.
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http://deneskubicek.blogspot.com/
http://www.opal-consulting.de/training
http://apex.oracle.com/pls/otn/f?p=31517:1
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Creating an interactive DVD from a Keynote presentation

Does anyone know how to create an interactive DVD from a Keynote Presentation?
I tried the export to Quicktime option, and then brought that QT movie into iDVD. The problem is that the interactive pauses between slides that I get with the QT version, isn't there in iDVD. The transitions turn into chapters, and when you play the DVD, one chapter goes right into another.
I'm sure someone has dealt with this before.

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.

Interactive DVD?

I'm a Final Cut editor looking for a way to create an interactive DVD with DVDSP4.
I'd like clip 1 playing then, at a specific point, without a prompt, the user will input on the remote one of two choices. If right, clip 2 plays, if wrong, clip 3 plays. Is something like this possible?
I have purchased The ripple training DVD authoring. It's great, but doesn't get into this kind of complexity.
Thanks for any ideas

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...
The button stays available only for the duration of the subtitle clip, so setting this accurately will be important to you.

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

DVD Navigation Woes - Advice Needed

Hi
I'm working on an education DVD with multiple sections. Within each section, there may be, for example, a video sequence, then an interactive element implemented as a menu (multi-choice questions etc.), followed by more video.
At present, this is implemented as a track with a marker in the middle that jumps to a menu and then a button ("Done") on the menu that jumps back to the marker on the track.
The problem with this set-up is that it wrecks havock with end-user navigation. The user expects the sequence to 'flow' as a continous piece and expects that when the hit 'back' or 'next' on their remote, that the will follow the sequence through.
Of course, that does not happen. Because there is a jump away to a menu, it's ignored when the user uses the remote to navigate. Or when on the interactive menu, back and forward buittons have no effect.
Can anyone propose a solution that will allow me include interactive menu items in video material and make this as transparent as posible to end users?
Many thanks for any advise posited.
Peter

Welcome to the boards
What you can try is buttons over video with a pause...in other words the video will play then come to a section that looks like a menu (but is effectively a still) where you can make multiple choice selections, when the selection is made it continues from there
Download this
http://www.dvdstepbystep.com/BOV.dmg
Which is a quick rough of the idea, and some tweaks can be added

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.

Multi language dvd navigation

I am building a multi language dvd in Encore for the first time as it seems like it could be quicker than the more complex programmes used previously but I have some questions about the navigation.
To conserve space, I have only created one series of chapter menus that will be accessed from each different language menu. The thing is, when I press the HOME button on e.g. menu three of the chapter menus after looking at menu 2, I want it to go back to the menu of the specific language menu I had navigated from. I thought about using the override function, but that would only work for the button directly linked from the the menu and I don't want the user to have to go back to the first chapter menu to then go back their main menu. Any suggestions?

A suggestion: Submit a
feature request
for access to GPRMs. :) A GPRM (General PaRaMeter) is a variable which can be set and evaluated. In this case you could have used it to check from which menu the user came and return to that menu.
Other than that the only solution I can think of is to create multiple versions of the chapter menus. If the menus aren't motion menus the extra DVD disc space required will be minimal, but it will be a lot of extra work.

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