Interactive Motion graphics

I have searched the web, and all I can find in terms of having an interactive menu is using DVDSP  - to author the menu's of DVD's.
I have also read in more places than one, that MOTION is used for video graphics while FLASH is used for web graphics. Yet in FLASH you can create an interactove FLASH movie that would allow an animation to play in a loop, and have a user click on a specific "button" or spto within the movie to have it do something else.
I was wondering if it was at all possible to creat a similar function in MOTION. - I have a motion video / graphics running with certain words / menu button floating around. If a user were to click on a specific word, it would in fact "transition" to another movie file - run that file, and then return to the original movie with the menu items.
I don't want it to only run in DVD Player - but be able to run for example on an iPad, or computer screen where the user can click on a word and have an alternative movie run, and retrun to main movie.
Is this possible in MOTION / FCPX ?
Thanks
Manesh

HTML 5 does this really easily, less expenesive, and more universally compatible online.  Look at apps like Hype.
Compressor allows you to create movie files that will do a URL link when a specific part of the video is clicked.  Very limited, but its there.

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