Motion Menus - swapping video with image

I'm using Encore CS3. My client wants all of the buttons to be TVs with video of "snow" on their screens. Then when you highlight the button the snow changes to a photo. I can do the TVs and the snow, but I'm starting to wonder if this switch on highlight is possible. Any thoughts?

What about doing a Motion Menu with the TV sets and the static (a Motion Menu, with no real Sub-picture Highlights), then linking each Button to another Menu, that is identical, except that its the real menu and uses the Poster Frame from the actual Timeline? For each TV set, youd have to have an otherwise identical Menu, that had one real Button on it. If you had four TV sets, then youd have to link to four real menus, and then have the remaining Buttons on that Menu, link to an otherwise identical Menu with the corresponding Button live. A lot of Menus, and the 1GB limit might come into play, but would this not work? It would be a lot of linking and a lot of Menus (a really good flowchart would be a necessity). To simplify it a bit, one could link the end of each Timeline back to the first Menu (with the static), rather than allow navigation from any of the real Menus, except to that Timeline activated from the static Menu. Not sure if I got this concept across clearly.
Hunt

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