lachers
Posts: 27
Location: Canberra, Australia
Registered: 22 Nov 2004
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Interactive DVD Virtual Tour
Posted: 17 Aug 2005 at 7:44 GMT
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Hey there guys,
I know there are some of you who know just about all, so here is one that i havent found in previous forums, if i am wrong, feel free to point me!
I am wanting to make an interactive DVD which can control a virtual tour only using the standard DVD buttons. I dont know how easaily this could be done, but thought i would get peoples suggestions.
I am thinking this could be useful for the real estate company i am working for.
If you guys say its not possible, that all i need to hear  Keep up the good work everyone, your work is excellent.
Cheers
Lac
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stu360Precision
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Location: Cambridge, United Kingdom
Registered: 25 Mar 2005
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Re: Interactive DVD Virtual Tour
Posted: 17 Aug 2005 at 8:53 GMT
updated: 17 Aug 2005 at 8:54 GMT
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Hi Lac,
It has been done before, but its not easy.
The immersive effect is mimicked by playing short video clips (0-10 degs.) (10-20 degs) etc... and also (20-10)(10-0) - the DVD arrows can then be used to play the next 'forward' sequence, or the next 'backwards' sequence.
So it can be done, its quite clunky, but possible. I remember reading that one of the first harry potter DVD's has one of these DVDVR's on it, I can't guarantee that, but it may be a place to start a search.
Yours,
Stu@360precision
PS. If you do get anywhere with this, I'd love to see your output - would be really cool to do 
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lachers
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Location: Canberra, Australia
Registered: 22 Nov 2004
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Re: Interactive DVD Virtual Tour
Posted: 17 Aug 2005 at 9:10 GMT
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I understand the concept, but to play only certain segments of a movie, wouldnt i have to reload a page, and start next short movie.
hmmm - i shall look into it tho, might even have to hire a harry potter dvd and check that out.
Cheers
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stu360Precision
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Re: Interactive DVD Virtual Tour
Posted: 17 Aug 2005 at 9:17 GMT
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yeah, you dont play segments of a movie, you play the whole clip, but the clip is only like 0.5 seconds or something - so you end up with about 72 small seperate films, that you navigate through.
Obviously this only works for left-right, not up down.
Stu
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James Rigg
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Location: London, United Kingdom
Registered: 1 Jun 2003
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Re: Interactive DVD Virtual Tour
Posted: 17 Aug 2005 at 21:05 GMT
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Earlier this year I put together a DVD with panoramas shot in Thailand. I used GoCubic to convert panoramas to QuickTime VRs, then QTVR2MOV to convert the QuickTime VR into a series of JPEG movie frames. The QuickTime Pro to take the JPEG frames and reassmble them into a conventional movie. Finally I imported the movie sequence into Photodex ProShow Gold and assembled a video sequence with other non panoramic images, created a DVD menu, added music etc.
The end result is quite fun, but the animation is far from smooth. So despite experimenting a lot with frame rates, resolution, motion blur and the like I never got the finished DVD to be professional quality. And the video I created isn't interactive (although I guess you could use fast-forward/rewind etc.
Obviously this isn't quite what you want to do, but I thought I'd describe my experience in case it helps!
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lachers
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Location: Canberra, Australia
Registered: 22 Nov 2004
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Re: Interactive DVD Virtual Tour
Posted: 18 Aug 2005 at 7:43 GMT
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You had my hopes up on that last post - Good idea, i might do some research in to the movie control, thanks for the input tho
Cheers guys
Lac
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