# Flash Digital Application DVD, advice please

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**Created:** [April 4, 2011, 10:21am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-digital-application-dvd-advice-please/320865 "2011-04-04T10:21:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![tris3d](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4da419/32.png) [@tris3d](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/tris3d)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2011, 10:21am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-digital-application-dvd-advice-please/320865/1 "2011-04-04T10:21:48Z")

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Hello

I’m in the process of creating a digital training aid for a client. It demonstrates the use of a particular piece of equipment which I have rendered in 3ds max and rendered in ( mental ray ) It need’s to be interactive, so each step you have the option to watch the previous movie or continue onto the next step. Although the title says DVD, this will run on computers and not a DVD player.

At the moment, i’ve set it up so that the flash movie is calling on the external flv rendered movies. I thought this would be best in terms of playback and file size?

Each step isn’t massive… between 100-400 frames long.

Anyway, I was just wondering whether anyone else has created something similar and if I’m going about it in the correct way. One thing I have noticed is the pause between each step when loading the external movie. It’s only about 2 seconds but I haven’t tested this on an actual DVD yet so it could be worse.

I’m using Flash CS5, Actionscript 2.0, 3ds Max 2011 (Mental Ray)

I have thought about using swift3d plugin but unfortunately the client has seen examples of the mental ray render and from the trial I used, Swift couldn’t get close to the quality.

Would really appreciate it if anyone could give any type of advice as to whether I’m on the right track.

Many thanks

Tris