Interactive videos.

[Darby Edelen]

AE and Premiere are both tools for producing videos. So they could definitely figure into producing interactive videos, but they would allow you to produce the “video” while the “interactive” portion would have to be handled by some other authoring application.

What you’ve described, for example, sounds a lot like a DVD menu system. You could use a DVD authoring package to create interactive videos, but they’d then need to be played back through some software/hardware that plays DVDs.

You could also add interactivity using Flash.

Ultimately you could even create the rudimentary interactivity you’ve described using Powerpoint.

Darby Edelen

[Todd Kopriva]

As Darby says, DVD authoring programs do this. Encore, which is usually used for DVDs and Blu-Ray discs, also creates content that runs in Flash Player, so you can get the same interactivity on a website.

You make the videos in Premiere Pro and After Effects and assemble them with rules about what plays when in Encore.

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After Effects quality engineering
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[Joseph W. bourke]

You can also do this with the new Adobe Edge package – I believe it’s still free. Some knowledge of the Flash interface will help you, but it’s really made for graphic artists who aren’t programmers:

https://html.adobe.com/edge/animate/

Joe Bourke
Owner/Creative Director
Bourke Media
http://www.bourkemedia.com

[Darby Edelen]

[Todd Kopriva] “Encore, which is usually used for DVDs and Blu-Ray discs, also creates content that runs in Flash Player, so you can get the same interactivity on a website.”

Neat, you learn something new every day 🙂

Darby Edelen