Can Flash MX make DVD menus?

[andyrobillard]

Is it possible to create a DVD menu using Flash? What is the file format of a DVD menu file?

Cheers, Andy

[CNew]

a good question... I'd like to know this too.

[robogumby]

You are not able to just create a full menu for a DVD but you can create components such as animated buttons and backgrounds same them as JPG or AVI and them import them into your FAV DVD authoring program.

setting stuff like button roll overs will not work but you could make two jpgs to do the same thing most people would use photoshop for this kind of stuff

[Frag]

Interesting...now all I need is a camera, a movie editing software, and a DVD authoring program.

[Olli_Budworth]

Originally posted by Frag
and a DVD authoring program.

Macromedia Director MX is you baby when it comes to this - do all your animated stuff and graphics in flash, illustrator and photoshop, then put it all together and publish in in director.

[pelegk2]

what u say aout director is all nice
but when u put flash into director and more then 1 and animated it killes the cpu and the coputer
beacuse the director itself takes lots of cpu

[Olli_Budworth]

Originally posted by pelegk2
what u say aout director is all nice
but when u put flash into director and more then 1 and animated it killes the cpu and the coputer
beacuse the director itself takes lots of cpu

I don't quite get what you mean - when you say 'kills the computer'.

Mine all works fine - running on a 2.4 ghx P4 - 1gb Ram & 128mb graphics card..........

You probably just need a higher spec PC - which in all fairness - is required and standard when doing stuff like this.

[pelegk2]

but most users that wll use your things that u wll o it will move very very slow belive me

[Olli_Budworth]

Originally posted by pelegk2
but most users that wll use your things that u wll o it will move very very slow belive me

DVD players?

[pelegk2]

u mean dvd that connected to the pc
or a rgular dvd for the television

[Olli_Budworth]

AS IN.......

The final result will be compiled and run on Joe Public's home DVD player. DVD Menus nowadays are amazing in quality, they have full motion video, 3D rendered scenes, graphics flying around and all sorts. So yes, I mean DVD players. You need a powerful PC to create the menu in the first place, but once compiled it will run fine on any dvd player.

[pelegk2]

but how can dvd player run flash files

[Olli_Budworth]

Originally posted by pelegk2
but how can dvd player run flash files

It can't - READ what I wrote above:

Macromedia Director MX is you baby when it comes to this - do all your animated stuff and graphics in flash, illustrator and photoshop, then put it all together and publish in in director.

You make things like BUTTONS in flash, then import them into DIRECTOR, make the interface then COMPILE the DVD interface IN DIRECTOR.

[pelegk2]

director files?
is it in exe mode?
and how do u tell using buton's the dvd movie from where to start