Are your qt movies in the internal cast? If they are in an external shared
cast, we have experienced similar problems.
>From: "R. Bhakti Klein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>Subject: Re: <lingo-l> order of handlers execution
>Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001 17:36:44 -0700
>
>yikes.
>do you know where the movies are, relatively? the relative pathnames?
>you could always set the filename of member property for the qt movies
>at the beginning of the movie.
>i don't know how slow it would be for 300 movies, but it's a way around
>the problem.
>-bhakti
>
>
>debi wrote:
> >
> > I need help!
> >
> > I have a massive project that seems to be loosing its links to
>externally
> > linked QuickTime movies.
> >
> > One minute they are there in the cast... I can click and open them...
>play
> > them... run the director file and all is well.
> >
> > Another time I can double-click the thumbnail image of the same cast
>member
> > and all I get is a gray box with a control strip. And in that case
> > naturally the file will not play in the director movie. The file seems
>to
> > be no longer linked to the cast. I can re-link the cast member and it
>will
> > play, but I am not guaranteed that it will save that way and play when
>the
> > project is opened another day.
> >
> > I have talked extensively with technical support at Macromedia. It
>doesn't
> > help to know that "I am the only person that has reported this problem."
> >
> > The only suggestion I have from them is that this might possibly be an
>issue
> > with Media Cleaner and the way it processes QuickTime files.
> >
> > I processed over 300 video clips that seemed to work fine during the
>initial
> > testing. And most continue to work now. But there are those that will
> > loose the link in the cast. At least when I double-click the thumbnail
>I
> > get nothing.
> >
> > They were processed through Media Cleaner version 4.0.3 using the
> > professional version of Sorenson version 2. To create QuickTime movies
> > included in a Director 8.0 project on Windows 98 and Windows NT
>computers.
> >
> > The problem has appeared in edit mode and as a projector. It is
>sporadic..
> > I cannot predict which movies will play and which will not. Today, ones
> > that were great for months failed to open.
> >
> > I have had the problem on various windows machines and with different
> > projects. So it seems to be more on the side of director having trouble
> > with reading the file as opposed to an operating or system problem.
> >
> > Like I said, one minute the file is linked, the next it is not, or may
>not
> > be. And sometimes if I close director and start over all is well...
> > sometimes not.
> >
> > But one thing is for sure, it is Director 8.0. QuickTime 4.1.2,
>QuickTime
> > files compressed with Sorenson 2, with an average of 80kps.
> >
> > If any of you can shed some light, please let me know.
> >
> > Debi
> >
> > (I really do miss mTropolis)
> >
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