DVD@ccess & Intellidisc - Someone please Help?

Not wishing to re-open the thread about intellidisc from earlier in the month, why don't you simply add the content to a ROM folder and use a menu to inform the viewer of how to get to it and open it? It won't need @ccess or Intellidisc, and as long as the viewer is half competent with opening files from DVDs, it should be easy to access as well.

Yep... I understand where you are, but I'm not the person with experience of Intellidisc. Hopefully Gary Scotland will see this and add his thoughts.

Why not resume using eDVD? Or are you concerned about the player in Vista?

hi Peter

I will be happy to guide you through this, it is straight forward and takes about two minutes to do the authoring in Intellidisc, and then however long it takes to burn the disc.

It is the Autumn holiday weekend here, so I am not at work again until after the weekend.

I have a typed up instruction sheet for exactly what you are doing so I will post that on Monday.

regards

Thanks Gary.

sorry for the late reply-I have been unable to connect to discussions untill today

let me know if this works or if its unclear at any stage
It is very straightforward.

regards
Gary
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Intellidisc - Creating a Blended DVD with a PDF file



DVD Disc:

Author a DVD with two menus and one video track

Set menu 1 as the first play

Menu 1 has two buttons:
button 1 linked to the video track with an end jump back to menu 1
button 2 linked to menu 2

menu 2 has one button linked to return to menu 1

Build the project and burn a disc of the video_TS folder
transfer the video_TS folder on to the PC




Preparations in Intellidisc

• Create a folder for the project files

• Insert a DVD disc in DVD drive
this can be any disc – Intellidisc has to connect with a DVD disc in the drive or the project will not save play

• Close all applications don’t have any running when using Intellidisc

• Launch Intellidisc

• Copy the video_TS folder to the hard drive to the Intellidisc Project Workspace folder

• Copy PDF file on to hard drive to the Intellidisc Project Workspace folder

• A copy of Adobe Reader installed on the PC

Start new Project


• File > new project

Project settings pane:
• Project Workspace directory – navigate to the folder created earlier
• Video_TS folder select – navigate to the folder created earlier
• Aspect ratio - select 4:3 or 16:9

DVD visual settings – leave as is
First HTML page – leave as is
Video start up state – in drop down list choose full screen or full windowed

Project Pane:

DVD tab top left
Player screen transport controls
This will display the first play either video track or main menu

Click the play button (a right arrow) this plays the first play item

Transport will play stop pause menu
DVD map shows number of video tracks in TS folder
Buttons list the number of buttons on the DVD Menu ie 1 of 2
( moving the mouse over buttons in player pane will highlight the corresponding button in the Button Description list

Linking the Button to the PDF file

• Select the button to be linked to the PDF file in the Button Description pane
• Behaviours pane click black double arrow button pointing to right
• Select HTML – open Browser Window
• Select – navigate to the PDF file in the Intellidisc Project Workspace folder
• To display the Adobe Reader window full screen;
Use the dimensions of the graphics card on the users machine
if you can, use the res of the on the PC you are working on:

to find out the resolution;
right click on the PC desktop > properties > settings tab

eg:
top position: 0
Left position: 0
Width:1920
Height:1200

if this is left at default Adobe Reader will be displayed at the users default setting in Reader

• File save project enter a name and save in the Intellidisc Project Workspace folder
Preview tab at (top right)
Shows menu if button clicked allocated to PDF Adobe Reader will display the PDF file

The can be manually resized and the document viewed and printed from

When previewing is finished close by top right of viewer pane
• File open select the project
• Compile (top right ) save file in Intellidisc Project Workspace folder



Burning a Blended DVD Disc

Burn a DVD disc using the programme for the burner ie Roxio Easy DVD

Include the following on the DVD disc:

1. Autorun .inf file

2. Blended TS folder containing:
net blender player
auto run file
net blender icon

3. HTML folder containing:
PDF file
gif image

4. Video_TS folder

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Hi Peter

There are a few reasons I have a second menu:

the technical reason:
Intellidisc eavesdrops on the DVD menu button action, its useful to use an active button that opens a menu, that way the link to the PDF file always work.

the convenience factors are:

The change in menu is used as confirmation that a choice was made to view the file, and is now asking the user to decide what to do next - return to the main menu, play the video etc

I always want to include some text that the user has to read, the second menu is used as a text information panel.

Things get confusing for the user in larger projects, leading the user gently by the hand appears to work!


I would be interested to hear how you get on with Intellidisc on your next project.

regards

Peter

Good luck with trying it out.

Intellidisc does work.


If you get stuck let me know by Email its on my profile.

I am certainly not an expert but will give you any help I can.


regards

Gary

Thank you all for the info! Not to hijack, but I am in the same boat as stannard (promising a client a blended DVD), but I have not bought intellidisc yet and wondering given what you all know, what you recommend......
Given the client wants to distribute to 300 donors, community members and town officials who will be using a huge variety of computers..... and, that my client would prefer to include word documents so a viewer can grab the doc and use it...... There are 5 short videos and originally we planned on a few menus linking to pdf's....

Thank you for your help!

Vince