Re: QT Effects
Hi Jaqueline, Mark Talluto wrote: ... Use the answer effect command to bring up the dialog. Create the transition you want in this window. When you hit the OK button, the effect will be stored in the it variable. The string will be quite long so do not be surprised. That was the first thing I tried, but when I copied the string into the script editor and ran the script, MC crashed (well, I'm using the latest beta, so maybe that was the problem.) Then I tried to put the string into a custom property instead and whenever I accessed it, the property returned empty. So instead of the string that is returned in it I was thinking to try the 4-character code that is mentioned in the docs. But the docs say to find the codes at Apple's web site, and I couldn't. I'd like to see a list of these codes somewhere, or else find out how others are using the it string in scripts. I don't want any user interaction, I just want to permanently store and use the effect. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay |[EMAIL PROTECTED] HyperActive Software |http://www.hyperactivesw.com I also looked at the Apple-website and did not find any hint to the famous 4-char code :-( One has to check all the available effects, choose one or more, store it/them (see below) and use it later in a script... So one can store the long string returned in it into a customprop. The long way goes here (thank you Scott ;-) 1. check answer effect 2. store set the nice_trans_coming_from_left of this stack to it ## that's the trick ## and one has to give a descriptive name to that prop !!! ## at least that helps later... ;-) 3. use visual the nice_trans_coming_from_left of this stack go next cd ##or whatever That is the long way, but it works ;-) Hope this helps. Regards Klaus Major [EMAIL PROTECTED] P.S. Anything to translate, Jaque ? :-) ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: QT Effects
Klaus Major wrote: One has to check all the available effects, choose one or more, store it/them (see below) and use it later in a script... Hm. That's what I did yesterday and it didn't work. I did it again today and it does work. So I must have done something stupid late at night. Wouldn't be the first time. P.S. Anything to translate, Jaque ? :-) Translate? Besides my fuzzy thinking, you mean? -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | [EMAIL PROTECTED] HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: QT Effects
This one is a lot less fun, but I found this as well: (If you dig in the Quicktime docs, you can probably even find the parameters for all of these- parameters each have their own 4-char code, for example wpID for the type of wipe. Just base64Encode() the 4-char code and look for it in the description you get back from the dialog- its actually rather easy in the realm of reverse-engineering =)) // Two-source effects kAlphaCompositorTransitionType = 'blnd' kCrossFadeTransitionType = 'dslv' kChromaKeyTransitionType = 'ckey' kImplodeTransitionType = 'mplo' kExplodeTransitionType = 'xplo' kGradientTransitionType = 'matt' kPushTransitionType = 'push' kSlideTransitionType = 'slid' kWipeTransitionType = 'smpt' kIrisTransitionType = 'smp2' kRadialTransitionType = 'smp3' kMatrixTransitionType = 'smp4' kZoomTransitionType = 'zoom' ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: QT Effects
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try this (which knowledge of one or two already helped me find): answer effect answer (base64Decode(char 82 to 89 of it)) You 'bout one smart cookie. :) I can see a couple of hundred people pasting this into their script libraries -- it works great. In the two examples I tried, I get 5 characters returned, and the last character is something odd -- a bullet in one case, a percent sign in another. I had to delete those to make it work. What is that? -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | [EMAIL PROTECTED] HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: QT Effects
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This one will find the difference areas between two effect descriptions- this nails down about where you can find the actual parameter values. This is useful if you choose the same effect twice with the same parameters, but choose two different values. Presumably you could swap the changing values into this area of the description. on mouseUp answer effect put it into effect1 answer effect put it into effect2 put 0 into startChar repeat with i=1 to max(length(effect1), length(effect2)) if (char i of effect1 char i of effect2) then if (startChar = 0) then put i into startChar end if else if (startChar 0) then answer (charstartCharto(i-1)) put 0 into startChar end if end if end repeat answer effect1crcreffect2 end mouseUp I put this into the last line of the above script: answer base64decode(effect1) crcr base64decode(effect2) which makes it a little easier to see where the differences are. But I'm not sure how to use the info in MetaCard as a 4-character code. So far, saving the full description as a property seems like the only option. It's interesting though; I wonder why the descriptions are in base64 instead of plain text? -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | [EMAIL PROTECTED] HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: QT Effects again
I tried to have a look at the "effects" substack, because there were no responses to the above message so far, but apparently there is no substack for the QT effects. What QT effects substack are you referring to? For a stack with scripted QT effects, it takes several seconds for the first effect to show, after the first effect the others display normally. This indicates that after opening a stack, a part of Quicktime has to be loaded when an effect shall take place. MetaCard is loading and intializing QT (just like it has to do before using player objects). To get around this initial delay, you could put a QT effect in the openstack handler, because here the delay will be more tolerable. Or do: get qteffects() Here is a list of more option numbers for "matrix wipe" extracted from the qtx-file: Or you can go to : http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/quicktime/qtdevdocs/REF/refEffects.3e .htm#pgfId=12627 MetaCard supports the wipeid enum in each of those effects. Anyone have a design for passing an unlimited number of parameters, each of different type to the visual effect command? Saving such effects with changed parameters - under a different name - and then using the name of the saved effect in the visual command results in *no* effect. Maybe this is not yet implemented? Isn't this what the "Save" and "load" buttons of the "answer effect dialog" are for?.- The file format used by Save and Load is undocumented, so you would have to instruct the user to load the file using the dialog if it was supported.. Tuviah 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: QT effects
Monte Goulding wrote/ schreef: Are all the QT effects meant to work? any variation or just the base thing? Implode and Explade only do it one way. There are some cool effects but they don't work. Are they going to? There is another problem, too. If I ask for the qtEffects, I get a Dutch list of effects (e.g. "Implodeer" instead of "Implode"). I didn't try, but can I use "Implode" on a Dutch system too? Or is the effect fixed to the line number in qtEffects? So would this word for Implode: visual effect (line 2 of qtEffects) Regards Monte Regards, Sjoerd BTW Why I didn't try this: On my Performa 5400/160 it quits at startup, and I had a short time to use it on an iMac, where it worked. 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.
