Animated Buttons with DVD-Lab Pro

[Aleks]

Hello everyone!
I've been searching for this topic all over the internet, but couldn't find any satisfactory answer.
The problem is simple: is it possible to import and/or create animated buttons in DVD-Lab Pro (I'm using v2.0)?
Or, to put it the other way around: What I want to do is to import animated gifs showing waving flags of countries, which I want to use as buttons for choosing subtitles/audio streams in my DVD menu. I tried to import gifs directly, but it seems that DVD-Lab Pro does not support gif format (even in version 2.0) yet, neither simple, nor animated.
Then, I converted the gif into avi (using Animated GIF Banner maker), but I couldn't import it into DLP, because the "framerate and aspect ratio were wrong" (DLP message).
Finally, I converted (demuxed, since there're no audio anyway) the avi using TMPGEnc to get an .m2v file with the correct framerate (25 fps), but, of course, not the correct framerate (the size of the gif was 200×112). I tried to import it again in DLP, which worked within the Video & Audio bin, but I could apply the movie as the background animation only (and NOT as an, e.g. object - rectangle, button, etc. - animation). I also tried to import it into Clips bin, but I got again an error message that the framerate or aspect ratio were wrong, and that I should switch to Video & Audio bin and try to import it again (which I already did).

So, to summarize: is it possible to import/create animated buttons in DLP(2) and how?
If not - how come? It seems to me such a simple feature, I can't believe they omitted to include it in the DLP...

Anyway, thanks for any help in advance!

[guns1inger]

The short answer is that you cannot do this. In fact, I don't believe it can be done in authoring program as the DVD spec doesn't allow for it. The closest I have seen are four colour sub-pictures that change, although I am unsure how it was achieved (it was either Spiderman or Spiderman 2, if you want to check it out). To do what you want would require a motion menu, prepared externally, then imported into DLP for finishing.

[Baldrick]

You must make the entire background as one video clip with animated buttons a so called motion menu.

Maybe http://www.mediachance.com/dvdlab/tutorial/rendermotionmenu.html
but I don't if you can use it as a button.