Enhanced CD creation
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From: Opera Rat on 25 Dec 2006 20:58 Does anyone have any advice on creating an "Enhanced CD". A CD with both audio tracks that will playback on any CD player (so I presume that means it's not MP3s) and the option of playing it in a CD-Rom drive and watching pictures or something like a Director movie that is timed to music? I don't know where to begin with this. I have seen Enhanced CDs. I just don't know how to link a director movie to CD audio files for the sound track. And if you put it in an audio CD player how will it know what files it cannot play (movie files)? Can anyone point me in the right direction? Thank you and Merry Christmas!
From: Richard on 26 Dec 2006 11:55 "Opera Rat" <webforumsuser(a)macromedia.com> schreef in bericht news:empvk1$15a$1(a)forums.macromedia.com... > Does anyone have any advice on creating an "Enhanced CD". A CD with both > audio > tracks that will playback on any CD player (so I presume that means it's > not > MP3s) and the option of playing it in a CD-Rom drive and watching pictures > or > something like a Director movie that is timed to music? > > I don't know where to begin with this. I have seen Enhanced CDs. I just > don't know how to link a director movie to CD audio files for the sound > track. > And if you put it in an audio CD player how will it know what files it > cannot > play (movie files)? Can anyone point me in the right direction? > > Thank you and Merry Christmas! > Hello, you need to have the software that can burn these CD's, but I think most often used programs have this option. I think I did this with Nero, version 5 if I remember correctly, but not sure I believe you make a multisession CD, where the first session is the Audio-CD portion and the second session is the data portion. The audio CD player will only see one session, since it does not look for more than 1 session. The CD-Rom drive will see all sessions, and then use the data session. What I used to do was put all audio tracks in the audio session, and put the same tracks converted to mp3 on the data session. On the data session was a cute audio player to play the mp3 files, and a nice multimedia presentation for extra info, pictures, and movies. I have some examples here in the archive, so if you like I can find them for you and check. Let me know. Good luck, Richard.
From: JB on 26 Dec 2006 23:14 I have created enhanced CDs using Toast on a Mac, I don't think it's possible for a program on the Data side to play the Audio segment, I have created mp3 compressed copies of the audio tracks on the data size, taking up only about 1/10 the space the CD audio tracks take.
From: Earthwarrior on 27 Dec 2006 10:16 I am currently working on an enchanced CD project. The audio and dada portions will be totally seperate. When creating your director project for the data part, you'll have to import the song you want behind your picture show as a cast memeber and drag it to one of your sound channels. Happy New Year Rad
From: Bentmen on 27 Dec 2006 11:39
Well, there USED to be a way to make Enhanced CDs, with the CD Extra from Penworks. Penworks, however, seems to have ceased to exist. The URL is up for sale. I can tell you that it is NOT simply a matter of importing the audio files as regular cast members and linkinng to them. Red Book audio is burned to disk in a completely different manner than a regular data CD. The extra allowed one to reach over the partition and use red book audio tracks as assets. Without the xtra, there's really no way I aware of. You should also know that Windows XP has effectively killed ECD as a viable platform. Thank you, Microsoft! Grr.... Bottom line: make two different CDs -- an audio-only version for CD Players and an interactive version that uses MP3s. Sorry! |