Can VS create movies with DVD features in them?

[Old_Friend]

I'm just curious, since I've tried to do this and couldn't find any way to do it.

In the past I created a movie and put it onto a DVD. It was created with another software program called NCH VideoPad, if I recall. It worked fine. I loved the DVD's special effects and various other screen choices from its main menu. It has numerous effects on the initial title screen, and included 3 links at the bottom which allowed users to select different scenes, and more.

Is there someway that VS X5 PRO can do the same thing, but within the video, and not by creating a DVD? I know that description is rather vague, but since I can't show you the DVD movie, I don't know how else to say it.

I wish there was some way to have VS import the DVD movie I created, so that I could use it and modify it. Any thoughts along this line will be appreciated.

[Old_Friend]

I guess my question was too out of the ordinary to recive a reply. It is being bypassed.
So, never mind. I withdraw the question and my request for comments.

[canuck]

Maybe nobody responded since nobody really understand what you are trying to create.

[BrianCee]

I am not sure I understand exactly what you want to do - but VideoStudio is able to create a "Virtual DVD" in that it can create DVD folders or an .iso file which do not need to be on an actual disc but when played on a PC with suitable software (VLC or Roxio for instance) will replicate everything that happens on a DVD such as scene selection etc. operated by the mouse.

[canuck]

I am not sure I understand exactly what you want to do - but VideoStudio is able to create a "Virtual DVD" in that it can create DVD folders or an .iso file which do not need to be on an actual disc but when played on a PC with suitable software (VLC or Roxio for instance) will replicate everything that happens on a DVD such as scene selection etc. operated by the mouse.

I thought that perhaps Old-friend meant those features but that would have been too simple an answer. I assumed that old-friend knows about those options but maybe I was wrong.

[Old_Friend]

I am not sure I understand exactly what you want to do - but VideoStudio is able to create a "Virtual DVD" in that it can create DVD folders or an .iso file which do not need to be on an actual disc but when played on a PC with suitable software (VLC or Roxio for instance) will replicate everything that happens on a DVD such as scene selection etc. operated by the mouse.

Thanks for the reply.

Even though I 'closed' the topic, your reply made me think that there might be a solution.

I have to ask: Will the same technique work with Windows Media Player, or is it limited to the ones you mentioned (VLC and Roxio)?

Brian, I don't want to continue this line of thought if it won't work. It was only a question, originally. But, if I want to try what you suggested, can you please offer the procedure that I can follow? I've never dealt with 'iso' files, etc., so I'm quite uninformed about what that means, and how to do it.

If I "could" do this, it would add a new dimension to VS's capabilities.

[Ken Berry]

I assumed the most significant point of departure in his question was this:

Is there someway that VS X5 PRO can do the same thing, but within the video, and not by creating a DVD?

In other words, he wants these "effects" and links embedded in the video itself, and not in the menu. And that, of course, is simply not possible with VS...