Is there any way in WS2 to define a menu item as chapter point?
I bought Sonic eDVD software which allows one to create links to websites and ROM content either directly from the video or DVD menus and buttons. But it now turns out that such links can only be placed in "chapter points". This is why in order to have the links neatly listed as menu items, the menu items themselves must first be marked with "chapter markers".
But I just don't see any way to do this in WS2!
If there really is no way to do this in WS2, it completely destroys my idea for a DVD-ROM...
Help, anybody?
-Maukka
P.S.
To better understand what I mean, check out this eDVD tutorial:
The Sonic eDVD System is a part of their inter actual player. Extra Content is placed onto the DVD so that if the DVD is placed into a computer the autorun on the disc causes that program to start rather than the DVD video.
This gives the appearance of a DVD that has weblinks, email links, the ability to open spreadsheets and powerpoint presentations etc.
In reality you are not looking at a "DVD as we know it" but at the program that was autorun upon insert.
One of the menu options of that program is to then run the "standard DVD"
Currently there are no ulead programs available to create this autorun program but there is an option to include a "personal folder" this would be that extra content.
Steve, I solved the problem. I created several few-second titles (actually they all have the same content) which I then linked to various menu items. In eDVD they work as "chapter points" to trigger eDVD actions (i.e. web links and links to ROM content). So this part does work in WS2!
eDVD comes with a free copy of Sonic's RecordNow! software, and by simply following the instructions in the tutorial (seemy previous post) I managed to create a well functioning DVD-ROM which installs Interactual Player and works just as it is supposed to be. Brilliant.
This is a very nice way to enhance a DVD. You can link to any kind of files, pdf, image, documents, spreadsheets, websites etc. directly form the DVD menus. Interactual Player is a viewer which allows acces to these ROM folders. But otherwise the DVD remains just like it was before.
My video is a documentary heavily based on archival material. This way the viewer can now watch the video documentary, and then go back seamlessly to view and print the documents and photos which were discussed in the film. It's all very user friendly. Much, much more so than if you have the extra material "hidden" under a coplicated folder and file structure.
Summa summarum, WS2 works fine with eDVD. The only thing is that for burning the final DVD ROM you need Record Now!. But that does not really matter as it comes free with eDVD anyway.
