"Kafka's Daytime" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > > Your best bet may be to include text and graphics in the QuickTime movie > itself... > then use Lingo to control the QuickTime movie as required. For more on this > try > Apple's "Quick Time for Developer's" series (try Apple's web site for > purchse info). > QuickTime for Developers includes a licensed copy of QuickTime Pro which you > can use > to author/do the above. Just FYI, the book is called 'Quicktime for the Web', and you might have some trouble finding it because a new edition it being written right now. The author said that the first edition was being withdrawn because the QT Pro serial numbers it is bundled with are not good for QT 5. If you bought the book after October 12th 2000, you can send your receipt into the publishers who will send you a grace QT5 pro serial number. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote > > Friends: > > I have a long quicktime movie. I need to put text and graphics at different > > duration on the Director's timeline. I need to put some text of a person's > > speech and related graphics. It must synchoranize with the quicktime movie. > > Would you please tell me how easily I can do this. What about having three Quicktime movies, one with text, one with stills and one with video, and running them simultaneously? The data rate needed for the non video movies would be negligible. It's certainly more reliable to synchronise more than one Quicktime movie than it is to synchronise a Quicktime movie with the Director timeline. You could even assemble the three movies together in a SMIL document, so Director only sees a single Quicktime movie, but this would restrict layout possibilities. You can make a synchronised text track using Quicktime Pro and any text editor, as described at http://www.apple.com/quicktime/products/tutorials/texttracks.html ...and... http://www.apple.com/quicktime/products/tutorials/textdescriptors.html http://www.apple.com/quicktime/products/tutorials/ For the 'picture movie', Quicktime player can create a slideshow from a folder of numbered still images. The 'slides' would all be the same duration, but using 'Add Scaled' intelligently you can increase the duration of individual frames. Making use of additional player windows as 'scratch pads' and working with dependencies until the last minute, you can construct a sophisticated slide show where each frame is a different duration using only the clipboard. Finally, save self contained and your file will be no bigger than the individual stills that make it up. Another way to do it would be to bring your video into Flash, and put in the stills and text there, then delete the video layer and export as Quicktime. The resulting movie should then synchronise perfectly with the video if played at the same time. -- _____________ Brennan [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!]
