DVD Studio Pro 3: In the Studio

Hyperlinks

The other key feature DVDs carry when in a computer is the ability to access hyperlinks. It's not quite what you'd expect. For instance, you can't specify a URL as the target for a menu button. But you can have the computer's default browser pop open a web page when a menu is accessed.

DVD@ccess

DVD@ccess is the spiffy marketing name attached to this hyperlink access feature. Enabling DVD@ccess on your disc enables you to include hyperlinks to web sites, local files included on the disc, and email. The software to support DVD@ccess is built right into DVD Player on Macs, and DVDSP includes an installer for adding support to most Windows-based machines.

If you burn your project directly from DVDSP, you don't have to worry about that installer. If you make a project for production by an outside firm, you'll need to make sure you grab the file shown in Figure 9-9 from your DVDSP Applications folder.

Figure 9-9. Path to the [e-mail] installation program on Windows-based machines

To get there, you have to "open up" your DVDSP application. Figure 9-10 shows you how to do this through the Finder.

Figure 9-10. Opening up the DVDSP Applications folder in the Finder

Once that's open, you navigate that window just as you would any other Finder window. Grab the .exe file and drag ...