Synchronizing QTMovieLayers

2009-01-06 Thread Seth Willits
Howdy guys, I have a need to make sure multiple QTMovieLayers are in perfect sync. In other words, I need them to start at exactly the same time. If you just do a few [movieN play] in a row, they're slightly off from each other. Has anyone done this? Any suggestions? (I'd really rather

Re: Synchronizing QTMovieLayers

2009-01-06 Thread E. Wing
On 1/2/09, Seth Willits sli...@araelium.com wrote: Howdy guys, I have a need to make sure multiple QTMovieLayers are in perfect sync. In other words, I need them to start at exactly the same time. If you just do a few [movieN play] in a row, they're slightly off from each other. Has

Re: Synchronizing QTMovieLayers

2009-01-06 Thread Matt Long
Seth, Synchronization is done at a lower level. You need to get the movie time base of the movie you want to be the master and then set the master time base for the movie you want to be the slave. Since this is done at the Movie primitive level it doesn't matter that you are using

Re: Synchronizing QTMovieLayers

2009-01-06 Thread Seth Willits
Thank you very much, Matt. I'll look at this today. The movies aren't too large and are only being played on a top end Mac Pro, so the performance so far is fine. Though I did think about the potential of having to do something myself in GL. Your post will help, if I do. Thanks again,