RE: Cue Points and Shockwave

2001-08-20 Thread Buzz Kettles
One could also put a list of cuepoints into the comment tag of an ID3 tag within a mp3, then use Director 8.5 to extract that and use Timeout objects to trigger events whenever the 'cue points' occur. But using cue points in SWA is a LOT easier ... btw - What kind of audio files (aif, wav, swa

Re: Cue Points and Shockwave

2001-08-18 Thread Bill & Dani's email
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 hu

RE: Cue Points and Shockwave

2001-08-17 Thread Kerry Thompson
>As far as i can see, there is absulutely NO difference between swa and mp3 The audio is compressed the same way, but they have different headers. Cordially, Kerry Thompson [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/lingo-l.cgi To pos

RE: Cue Points and Shockwave

2001-08-17 Thread Yariv Alter Fin
Dear all, This is something i've been wondering about a long time ago, and have forgotten ever since: As far as i can see, there is absulutely NO difference between swa and mp3, and one can even rename one into the other with no great consequence. am i wrong, or are these two indeed the same

RE: Cue Points and Shockwave

2001-08-17 Thread jayp
Sorry I mmay not be able to help much. But Im pretty sure that swa is the only compresed audio format that uses tru cue points... Yhowever u can simulate cuepoints for mp3s You will have to convert the times length into seconds and assign variables at each particaulr cue oint... Long winde

Re: Cue Points and Shockwave

2001-08-17 Thread Terry R. Schussler
At 1:36 PM -0400 8/17/01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I am converting a CD-ROM to the Internet. The CD is driven by audio files >that have cue points. I need to squeeze these files down but no matter how I >try (SWA, mp3, etc.) I lose my cue points. What am I doing wrong? I am in >Director 8.5. Wha

Re: Cue Points and Shockwave

2001-08-17 Thread Yariv Alter Fin
Greg hi, what are you using to squeeze those sounds? exporting swa/mp3 from soundedit should do the job while keeping the cue points in your files. TIE Yariv >I am converting a CD-ROM to the Internet. The CD is driven by audio files >that have cue points. I need to squeeze these files down