Rivergate Software Inc. - makers of DVDAfterEdit

Hi All,

I was wondering if any of you might have experience of using Director MX 2004 to create enhanced DVD-ROM projects and even web-enabled DVDs?

Together with an agency my company has been asked to develop a title with both DVD-Video (our task) and ROM content (their task) in a couple of months time, and I'm doing a bit of research.

I like the idea of the ROM portion accessing the DVD-Video content and it would seem that it should be possible using Director MX 2004, but I've never done it before. In the past I have developed CD ROMs using MPEG-1 and the Tabuleiro extra, but this seems very different. Currently the proposition is simply to use an auto-run which would give the user the option of launching the DVD-Video or ROM section in a CPU, the two sections developed independently. There is enough space on the DVD for this option.

I began my research by reading the enhanced DVD ROM Authoring chapter in DVD Authoring and Production, though interesting it mainly deals with writing custom application software using Windows MCI and DirectShow APIs, and little about third-party applications. (Well the book was printed in 2001).

The adobe website is useful http://www.adobe.com/devnet/director/articles/dvd.html & http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=tn_19151 and it mentions three DVDs that have been enhanced using Director MX 2004: A Beautiful Mind, Matrix Reloaded, and Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. I purchased the first two and unfortunately A Beautiful Mind is DVD-Video only and Matrix Reloaded uses Interactual Player. Perhaps that's just the UK releases and the website was referring to the US releases...

Does anyone know of a DVDs that has Director MX enhanced features?

Has anyone made one?

TIA

Will