Creating Interactive DVD's

[Gary Robbo]

Hi I have a project that involves me creating a interactive DVD, on this DVD I would like to have a quiz, also would it be possible to add animations from flash?

Does anyone know of any software that can help me along the way?

[drpop]

Hi I have a project that involves me creating a interactive DVD, on this DVD I would like to have a quiz, also would it be possible to add animations from flash?

Does anyone know of any software that can help me along the way?

I've recently been tasked with making a 2000 question, multiple choice quiz, and over the last week I've knocked together a prototype (200 question version ) in scenarist.

I shall try me best to describe how I have done this.

First off, all of my questions where supplied in a text file, in a .csv format. I used the dataset import function of photoshop cs2 to turn these into 200 jpegs, each a different question, and each using the same subpic. The first 50 of these where all correct for answer A, the next for answer B and so on.

I imported each of these as a slideshow, and manually added an ac3 audio of a clock, the subpic and the highlights to each track ( I am investigating the use of script editing to make this process more friendly, see other thread).

I made 4 PCG's, One for each correct answer type and dragged all of the relevant tracks into the relevant PCG. I set these PGC's to shuffle mode. The pre-command of the first PCG sets gprm0 to a random value between 1 and 4 inclusive and then chooses one of the 4 PCG's based on the result. This in essence gave me a random question generator over the 200 questions.

Setting the cell commands for each cell in each PCG works like a 'time-up' and you can set the button programming for cell en-mass by highlighting all the cells within any pcg at the same time.

Sorry if all this sounds confusing, but I am useless as explaining things.

There is probably a far more efficient way of doing this than I have came up with, but If you want i can make a script of my 200 question prototype for you to have a look at.

I have also been pointed to zootechs DVD-Extra-Studio as a possible software solution for interactive dvd's. However thier solution was prohibitively expensive for my budget.

As far as flash go's. I usually turn the flash into an avi, and then software encode the avi into mpeg2.