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.
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.
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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