Software To Create Interactive Training DVD

I have a new project I am working on. A interactive training DVD. I invision a split screen. One side text or still photos. The other side a video demonstration on the subject matter. There needs to be 2 controllers. The 1st would allow the viewer to advance to the previous or next slide. The second controller would allow the viewer to pause, start, stop rewind the video in the second screen. Additionally, there needs to be a "quiz" at the end of each section. The viewer would be asked several questions. Depending on their response, they would advance to the next section or be taken back to a previous section where the correct response is located.
I think I can do it in FCP & DVDSP. Does anyone have any recommendations or better software suggestions.
Oh yeah, I need to release the final product for use on windows machines.
Thank you
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You mentioned DVD is your goal, so your options are extremely limited.
DVDSP or Spruce (which is Windows only and recently aquired by Apple) are really your only choices sub $10k as far as I know.
DVDSP could handle the project, but it would require very good planning and mastery of the scripting environment. You can't save files from DVD, or print pages, or have any serious interactivity beyond navigation scripts. Remember, DVDSP produces DVD's and only DVD's so make sure this is your only delivery medium before moving forward.
Personally, I think this is the kind of thing best suited for an authoring program which is most likely a CD-ROM or Web-based delivery platform. You might see if the DVD thing is set in stone, or if other platforms would be OK.
Macromedia Director is my favorite authoring program. It produces Mac and Windows executable files, not DVD's. Users will have to install Quicktime for Director to display video clips. It's a very powerful program which I use for all of my CD-ROM authoring. I've authored 20+ major CDROM titles including some very nice educational games with this software. It's sort of a container application that holds and displays your content which is often created elsewhere. For instance, I make video clips and fancy transitions in FCP or Motion and place them into the Director Timeline as media assets. Director "directs' the footage and makes everything interactive. I also design the interfaces and graphics in Photoshop, then place them and make them interactive or animated in Director, hence it's designation as the "container". Director 2004 has a very advanced way of communicating with DVD projects and "directing" the DVD footage in ways that DVDSP can't, but I can't recommend this to a novice. It's very advanced workflow.
Macromedia Flash is a more common program, and the latest version has a very nice Video codec so your user will not need to have QuickTime. It makes swf files for the web as well as Mac and Windows Projectors that run off CDROM. In my opinion, Flash is not quite as robust as Director for video and large project management, but that's mostly my own bias. Many people have been able to get amazing work out of Flash.
Macromedia Authorware is another platform similar to Director. I have no experience with this and don't recommend it to a novice.
LiveStage Pro is an older program that uses QuickTime's Authoring language so it's files are actually QuickTime Movs with basic interactivity. It's nice, but the user base is very small and you might have trouble even finding the software.
You could also build the project using Web pages with QuickTime content embeded in a table next to your active text and links. Just load a new page with each section. I use Adobe GoLive to make HTML and recommend it for it's superior workflow with Adobe Applications.
If you don't get a lot more of replies to this topic, you might try the DVDSP forum. Hope this helps.

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