Menu w/ Interactive images, not simple number selection?

[mikecornett]

Hello,
My question to you all is can I create a menu that has interactive images (like on actual dvds), and not simple Number selection (like in most menu tutorials for CD Creator)? I have Adobe Premiere,Photoshop, After Effects, as well as CD Creator. If it were computer programming, it'd be a bit more simple...I could just have animated Gifs w/ transparent backgrounds, although I know this won't work since I'm dealing with movie files, such as .avi, and .mpeg. Any help would be much appreciated..

THank you

[vitualis]

Firstly, read "What Is VCD" on the top left hand corner.

VCDs don't support GIFs or JPEGs or BMP or any other type of format. They ONLY support MPEG -- either, a video sequence or a still (or audio only).

Secondly, the interactivity available to a VCD is a lot more limited compared to that on a DVD. Although you can have "selection areas" defined, these really only work on CD-i players and some software players.

The buttons that can be referenced in a VCD are: NEXT, PREV, DEAFAULT, RETURN and the numerical key presses only.

However, you can have an animated background for a menu (i.e., a video clip) and if you are clever with authoring, you can translate most of the interactivity on a DVD to a VCD with good effects.

Regards.

[mikecornett]

obviously.... i said all that crap u told me about gifs and jpegs already...i said IT WONT WORK. I also mentioned I would be doing an animated video in the background anyway...your reply was no help to my post whatsoever, sorry.

[vitualis]

If you already knew the answer is obviously "NO" then why ask in the first place?

Regards.