Re: Play One Movie On Top of Another?
I sent you copy off list. Howard Bornstein wrote: Sorry, I couldn't get this to download from RevOnline. :-( ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Play One Movie On Top of Another?
Sorry, I couldn't get this to download from RevOnline. :-( -- Regards, Howard Bornstein --- www.designeq.com On 8/25/06, Sivakatirswami [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A sample is up on Rev Online: Go to Education or user space Sivakatirswami and check out Two Movies This stack loads two.SMIL files into two player objects , from our server in San Francisco, which then stream two movies, one underneath and the other on top. I would be really interested in testers. It's working on OSX. Does it work on Windows? Sivakatirswami ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Play One Movie On Top of Another?
OK yes! this works: 1) create stack window: set background to black 2) create player object in center of stack window, set player to no control...call it bgMovie Background Movie 3) Create substack topMovie with smaller player1, position stack on top of main stack, over the background movie. 4) set decorations for stack topMovie to none and shrink stack window to fit exactly under the rect of player 1. Then off to the side of the bg movie on the mainstack card put this button: on mouseUp start player bgMovie palette topMovie start player Player1 of stack topMovie end mouseUp OK, works beautifully. background movie is running underneath, top movie is playing, audio tracks from both are coming thru. note, its important to make sure you palette the topmovie stack. It behaves the same as a palette, even though decorations are off, which means if the user clicks on the background card of the mainstack, the topMovie stack sticks on the top layer of the video card.. if you topLevel topMovie then when you click on the main stack, the topMovie drops out to the back. disappears from the user though it's sound track is still running of course... its there, just underneath the mainstack. OK, this has lots of possibilities! (smile) Now, if I can figure out how to mask the top movie so that is is not just an ugly square rect, this actually may begin to look professional...and if we can stream the two movies over the net simultaneously... :-) I think I should post a stack to RevOnline and get some tests done on Windows.. so next question would be, how to mask a movie so it has rounded corners, radius, say 12 pixels, with gaussian blur, feathered edges from full opacity on the inside to transparent on the outer edges... Sivakatirswami Brian Yennie wrote: A couple of suggestions, although I can't confirm how far they will take you: 1) set the alwaysBuffer of the movies to TRUE -- this is generally required for layering movies with any object(s) 2) If you can't get everything running in one window, perhaps you could consider using multiple windows, with one floating borderless on top of the other HTH, Brian Another one of my ask for the moon queries: ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Play One Movie On Top of Another?
A sample is up on Rev Online: Go to Education or user space Sivakatirswami and check out Two Movies This stack loads two.SMIL files into two player objects , from our server in San Francisco, which then stream two movies, one underneath and the other on top. I would be really interested in testers. It's working on OSX. Does it work on Windows? Sivakatirswami Sivakatirswami wrote: OK yes! this works: 1) create stack window: set background to black 2) create player object in center of stack window, set player to no control...call it bgMovie Background Movie 3) Create substack topMovie with smaller player1, position stack on top of main stack, over the background movie. 4) set decorations for stack topMovie to none and shrink stack window to fit exactly under the rect of player 1. Then off to the side of the bg movie on the mainstack card put this button: on mouseUp start player bgMovie palette topMovie start player Player1 of stack topMovie end mouseUp OK, works beautifully. background movie is running underneath, top movie is playing, audio tracks from both are coming thru. note, its important to make sure you palette the topmovie stack. It behaves the same as a palette, even though decorations are off, which means if the user clicks on the background card of the mainstack, the topMovie stack sticks on the top layer of the video card.. if you topLevel topMovie then when you click on the main stack, the topMovie drops out to the back. disappears from the user though it's sound track is still running of course... its there, just underneath the mainstack. OK, this has lots of possibilities! (smile) Now, if I can figure out how to mask the top movie so that is is not just an ugly square rect, this actually may begin to look professional...and if we can stream the two movies over the net simultaneously... :-) I think I should post a stack to RevOnline and get some tests done on Windows.. so next question would be, how to mask a movie so it has rounded corners, radius, say 12 pixels, with gaussian blur, feathered edges from full opacity on the inside to transparent on the outer edges... Sivakatirswami Brian Yennie wrote: A couple of suggestions, although I can't confirm how far they will take you: 1) set the alwaysBuffer of the movies to TRUE -- this is generally required for layering movies with any object(s) 2) If you can't get everything running in one window, perhaps you could consider using multiple windows, with one floating borderless on top of the other HTH, Brian Another one of my ask for the moon queries: ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Play One Movie On Top of Another?
Another one of my ask for the moon queries: Is it possible to have one movie playing as a background object and another movie playing on top of it at the same time? Actually what I would really like is to have a movie running in the background (layer 1) looping with no controller or border; an animated GIF running on top of that (Layer 2:) where frames are presented under script control), and yet another Quicktime moving on top of that (layer three, topmost, ) with a controller that the user can use to stop) I tried, but I don't think it works, but before i give up, I just thought I would ask. User could stop the top most moving, scripted buttons sitting on top of the background movies are active... Context is: Having some branding motion graphics subtly playing in the background and then present a specific movies on top. The player on top might change out to other movies, with user interaction from a pull down menu or static side bar of links which dynamically reset the topmost player's URL to a remote.SMIL file. i.e. different user events are happening... underneath it all the motion graphics movie is running continuously on a loop. I'd rather not have to go into Final Cut Pro and Shake to composite all this if there's a way in Rev to just have movies running on top of each other... Alternate strategies, possible directions to go with, etc., welcome. This is in the brainstorming stages...or maybe it's a matter of video cards just can't do that! There's ways to do this with SMIL where we could leave a blank region in the center and run motion graphics in other /seq 's round it in the areas outside a central blank region, and of course QT renders this in a single video layer, but, it would be a lot easier in Rev if such layering of animated objects is doable. TIA Sivakatirswami ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Play One Movie On Top of Another?
A couple of suggestions, although I can't confirm how far they will take you: 1) set the alwaysBuffer of the movies to TRUE -- this is generally required for layering movies with any object(s) 2) If you can't get everything running in one window, perhaps you could consider using multiple windows, with one floating borderless on top of the other HTH, Brian Another one of my ask for the moon queries: ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Play One Movie On Top of Another?
Just a guess, but I don't think you can do what you want because of transparency issues. You can't put buttons on top of QT movies (or at least you couldn't in the last version of Rev I tried it on). You have to create the QT interraction outside Rev and then play the move in Rev with the famous QTExternals. At least that's what I think is still the state of the art. On 8/24/06, Brian Yennie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A couple of suggestions, although I can't confirm how far they will take you: 1) set the alwaysBuffer of the movies to TRUE -- this is generally required for layering movies with any object(s) 2) If you can't get everything running in one window, perhaps you could consider using multiple windows, with one floating borderless on top of the other HTH, Brian Another one of my ask for the moon queries: ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution -- ~~ Dan Shafer, Information Product Consultant and Author http://www.shafermedia.com Get my book, Revolution: Software at the Speed of Thought From http://www.shafermediastore.com/tech_main.html ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Play One Movie On Top of Another?
My instinct in this situation would be to create a series of graphics for the background layer and the one in front, then put a QT movie on top of both. Then you can swap out the icon properties of the background images as you wish. In my experience QT movies don't like having anything in front of them, they might play jerky and make the app unstable (although if the objects were different stacks layered over each other this might work better than having all layers on the same card - just a guess) On Aug 24, 2006, at 3:47 PM, Sivakatirswami wrote: Another one of my ask for the moon queries: Is it possible to have one movie playing as a background object and another movie playing on top of it at the same time? Actually what I would really like is to have a movie running in the background (layer 1) looping with no controller or border; an animated GIF running on top of that (Layer 2:) where frames are presented under script control), and yet another Quicktime moving on top of that (layer three, topmost, ) with a controller that the user can use to stop) I tried, but I don't think it works, but before i give up, I just thought I would ask. User could stop the top most moving, scripted buttons sitting on top of the background movies are active... Context is: Having some branding motion graphics subtly playing in the background and then present a specific movies on top. The player on top might change out to other movies, with user interaction from a pull down menu or static side bar of links which dynamically reset the topmost player's URL to a remote.SMIL file. i.e. different user events are happening... underneath it all the motion graphics movie is running continuously on a loop. I'd rather not have to go into Final Cut Pro and Shake to composite all this if there's a way in Rev to just have movies running on top of each other... Alternate strategies, possible directions to go with, etc., welcome. This is in the brainstorming stages...or maybe it's a matter of video cards just can't do that! There's ways to do this with SMIL where we could leave a blank region in the center and run motion graphics in other /seq 's round it in the areas outside a central blank region, and of course QT renders this in a single video layer, but, it would be a lot easier in Rev if such layering of animated objects is doable. TIA Sivakatirswami ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
