Here's another 2 cents worth -- I've also had SoundEdit drop out my cuepoints when converting AIFF's to SWA's. I ended up coming up with the alternative Terry suggested -- make QT movies & copy over the cuepoint data as a text track. It worked, but it was a huge production hassle, & prone to human error, even though we QuickKey'd most of it. On the differences between SWA's and MP3's, as near as I can figure, it is as Kerry says - they just have different header info. SWA's used to be like the old MP3's, where all the track info had to fit into a fixed-sized footer. In 8.5, they seem to be upgraded to the new MP3 type. I think you could add cuepoints to this more recent brand of MP3's, as they allow user-defined tags in the header. It'd just be a matter of writing a cuepoint tag type and then filling up the (variable-sized) header with as many as you need. Haven't done it, but I'd guess you could set it up with the Binary IO Xtra. -- Or, of course, just use an MP3-generating program that lets you define tags -- an AppleScriptable one, I guess, if you're on a Mac. If you don't need your sound files to live separately from castmembers, then you can just do the compression from w/in Director, as you get to keep cuepoints in sound castmembers that get compressed down to swa members. HTH. Bill Garr "I gave my tax refund to the Committee to Re-elect Al Gore." (Okay, not really). [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
