Importing diffrences in pictures sound and video.....

[Guest_imported]

hi

I have currently created a prototype cdrom application in director. i have created one projector file and five movies each movie loads in a sperate window to the projector file. What i would like to know is why is it director can acces sound and still images files that i have imported in to the movie with out having them sepratly burnt on to the cd?

but it needs to have the video files seprately burt on the cd why are they not self contained like the sound and image files?

do i need to get hold of an "xtra" from macromedia? to be able to import the video files and have them self contained in the movie?

OR could the problem be the video are mpeg-1 and director only imports as QT or AVI and if they were in this format they would be self conatined?

thanks

Joel

 

[archerofloaf]

Image and sound files can be imported into Director and become part of the self-contained dir file, but video files as far as I know can never be brought into programs like Director and become part of the authoring file. I remember a technical explanation for this, but do not remember it exactly. It could be that video files are just too complex for authoring programs. Needless it is impossible as far as i know so i recommend theonly other solution which packaging the video files with your projector on the cdrom.