Best way to make a game that's an interactive video?

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I want to make a short game demo in the form of an interactive police training tape, like Maple County. But I’m pretty stumped on how to do it. I guess I could make the tapes into mp4s in a video editing software and play them, but I feel like there’s a lot that could go wrong trying to add buttons onto the playing video, plus, I want to add a VHS filter to the entire project, not just the premade clips. Does anyone know a better way to go about this?

Thanks in advance!

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what could go wrong trying to add buttons onto the player video?

here is a youtube link about how to make a VHS video effect.

I suggest you dont pre-apply vhs effects to your edited videos. Just apply the effect to everything (buttons included) inside unreal to even everything under the same effect.

Playing Mp4 files in unreal is not hard. Just need a video player, a media texture texture, a material, file media sources and a widget to put all together.

here I did a video some days ago showing the process of playing a video.

Good luck!
Dany