Peter Reid asks:
>> Has anyone absolutely created a standalone cross platform app that
>> incorporates QT? I'm sort of asking since ... a) it needs to work (this is a
>> client after all, not just me, a former HC developer, messing around), and
>> b) the guys will be digitizing the video for me within a few days and they
>> need to know what format to save it in soon.
Hey Peter --
Good to see you here. I'm working on the cross-platform version of Brian
Thomas' "If Monks Had Macs" CD-ROM, and I've been developing a qualitative
analysis package named HyperRESEARCH for the last few years in partnership
with its publisher, Researchware Inc in Boston.
The Monks CD uses a lot of audio clips, sometimes running simultaneously,
lots of background music clips, and a few animated movie files as well.
Some of the things we're doing pushed QT's event loop a little hard, but
with help from Scott Raney and Kevin Miller we got those down pat. For
those we used native QT format for the anim (with the animation codec), and
most longer audio clips are AIFF movies.
For HyperRESEARCH, the program lets researchers use a variety of media
sources (mostly interviews), including text, images, sound, and video files.
As a workflow application, HyperRESARCH doesn't restrict the user to any
specific format, but we've found that most of our users are using QT-format
DV, a lot of AVI, and more recently some MPEG. Of the three, we've found
the smoothest playback with QT using the Sorensen codec for live action, and
the Graphics codec for screen capture.
--
Richard Gaskin
Fourth World Media Corporation
Multimedia Design and Development for Mac, Windows, UNIX, and the Web
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