Re: QuickTime movie layering
At 12:49 PM -0500 1/12/01, Robert J. Beichner wrote: >Are there any QuickTime wizards out there? > >I'm trying to put a small graphic object on top of a quicktime movie. The >basic idea is that a person clicks on the movie and a marker appears at the >spot where they clicked. I can grab the mouseUp on the movie and place the >graphic in the correct position, but the movie refreshes itself >instantaneously and covers the graphic. If I click near the edge of the >movie, I can see part of the graphic "sticking out" beyond the edge of the >video that does not get blasted away. I can set the layer of the movie >player, but it seems to be ignored. It is always on top. > >On a related note, I don't suppose there is a direct way to determine which >frame number of the movie happens to be showing? I can get currentTime from >the player, as well as the duration of the clip. But without knowing the >duration of each individual frame, I can't convert the currentTime to a real >time measured in seconds. This kind of thing might better be handled by QuickTime itself, depending on the circumstances. Check out LiveStage, from TotallyHip: http://www.totallyhip.com It's about $600, but it does this sort of thing easily. Electrifier from Lari, price unknown, might also do this. I think their site is http://www.larisoftware.com or maybe just www.lari.com gc Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard@lists.runrev.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please send bug reports to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, not this list.
Re: QuickTime movie layering
At 12:49 PM 1/12/01 -0500, Robert Beichner wrote:
>Are there any QuickTime wizards out there?
I'm not a wizard ... but I'm spending a lot of time with it!
>
>I'm trying to put a small graphic object on top of a quicktime movie. The
>basic idea is that a person clicks on the movie and a marker appears at the
>spot where they clicked. I can grab the mouseUp on the movie and place the
>graphic in the correct position, but the movie refreshes itself
>instantaneously and covers the graphic.
Set the alwaysBuffer of the player to True. It has been my experience so
far that this really degrades performance
>On a related note, I don't suppose there is a direct way to determine which
>frame number of the movie happens to be showing?
The player is constantly pumping out the currenttime of the movie. I have
placed this small script in the player ("yourPlayerName") and created a
field called "currentTime"
on currentTimeChanged
put (the currenttime of player "yourPlayerName"/600 into field "currentTime"
end currentTimeChanged
This will give you a running clock. I divided this number by 600 to get
the exact time in secs.
I hope this helps.
Jack Rarick
Braintree Athletic Systems
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QuickTime movie layering
Are there any QuickTime wizards out there? I'm trying to put a small graphic object on top of a quicktime movie. The basic idea is that a person clicks on the movie and a marker appears at the spot where they clicked. I can grab the mouseUp on the movie and place the graphic in the correct position, but the movie refreshes itself instantaneously and covers the graphic. If I click near the edge of the movie, I can see part of the graphic "sticking out" beyond the edge of the video that does not get blasted away. I can set the layer of the movie player, but it seems to be ignored. It is always on top. On a related note, I don't suppose there is a direct way to determine which frame number of the movie happens to be showing? I can get currentTime from the player, as well as the duration of the clip. But without knowing the duration of each individual frame, I can't convert the currentTime to a real time measured in seconds. Thanks, Bob Beichner NC State Physics Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard@lists.runrev.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please send bug reports to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, not this list.
