- Well, after busting my hump for the last two days, trying to figure out how exactly to do this - I've succeeded! Since I couldn't find all the answers in the same place, I thought I would post my method here for all to see.

- This project's purpose is to create a CD that can play standard audio on any CD player as well as a cross platform autostarting Flash Projector. Judging by the posts in this forum and the Projector/Standalone forum - there needs to be a better explanation. The FAQ in this section is spot-on for the Data only hybrid, but adding data and audio together is a little cloudy.

- This assumes you are using a Mac, Flash 5, and Toast 5 (I'm using Toast Titanium). Just buy it if you don't have it and save yourself hours of frustration. You should use a Mac to burn your CD's anyway. Everyone that has done this will tell you the same thing (that is unless their trying to sell you their software or you don't have access to a Mac).

First: Get your Flash (.fla) in order.

- 1. Make a blank movie with the same background color and dimensions as your main movie. There's just one frame and it has this action:

<i>loadMovieNum("support/main.swf, _level0);
stop();
// Main.swf being the real movie. </i>

- You do this to get the movie to load faster, much faster as the movie will completely load otherwise - leaving your viewer with a blank screen for a while if your lucky. This is not as big of a deal if you are planning on doing your own duplication - so you can skip this step if you want to, but I would do it anyway.

- 2. In the publish settings, check the standalone for Mac and PC - and publish.

- 3. Create a new folder and place the projector files inside. Create a folder inside this new folder called "support".

- 4. Make sure all you internal load actions are set up properly to refer to any support files as in #1 above. Make sure your <i>getURL</i> actions have a target like <i>_blank</i>. This will help from locking up the player or your viewers computer, and it's a smooth thing to do regardless.

- 5. Place any support files in the support folder.

- 6. With Toast not open, place your blank CD in the burner, give it a name and make sure it's HFS/ISO in the settings (default).

- 7. Open Toast. We'll start with the audio because it has to be first anyway - pay attention to that - IT HAS TO BE FIRST! This will not work otherwise, as your standard CD player can only read the first session of the CD.

- 8. The Session: This is how it's done, your going to burn the CD in two sessions. A "Write Session" for the audio and a "Disk Session" for your data (and to close the CD).

- 8. Back to the audio. Drag your audio files to the audio window, if you don't have them ripped yet - drag the CD to the window and extract the audio to a new folder. Delete the CD files in the window and replace them with your .aiff files. Set the offsets, 2 seconds on the first track is mandatory - otherwise it makes no matter. Name the disk by clicking on it.

- 9. Record the audio, make sure to check "Write Session". Eject when done and reinsert.

- 10. In Toast, hold down on "Other" and choose "Custom Hybrid". Under "Utilities" create a temporary partition. Place your all your files in the partition. You should have something like this:

<i>PC.exe
Mac Projector
Autostart.inf (see the FAQ on Windows autostart)
Support folder</i>

- Line up the icons with the Mac icon on top and the support files along the bottom. This matters because this is how it will look on a Mac.

- 11. In Toast, click on the "select Mac" button and choose your temporary partition, leave "Optimize on the Fly" checked and check the "autostart" button and find your Mac projector in the temp partition. Click "OK".

- 12. Click the "ISO" button and drag everything but the Mac projector to the "Files" window. Double click on and make invisible, everything except for the PC.exe file. Under the "Settings" tab, select CD-XA for the format (you may need to choose CD-ROM for a duplication house, but I got both types to work). Choose "Joliet" for the "Naming" button and uncheck the "Use Apple Extensions" box. You'll exclude Windows 3.1 users by doing this, oh my! Click "Done".

- 13. Make sure the trash is empty and click on "Record", choose "Write Disk".

- 14. Your done. I saved the disk images to a my main folder (much easier to reuse for duplication and changes). You'll be prompted to save the image when you get done, do it. Close Toast and save the working files on your way out for future use.

-Now that wasn't so hard. After trying for a day to get Toast Lite to do this, I bought Toast and a took another 8 hours and 10 disks to get it right. Now you can do it in an hour.

Good luck,

5G

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