>If this idea I have works I may well be able to convince the powers that be >to put up the $300 to purchase the Xtra but cash is a bit tight presently. >So, in the event they won't open their pockets, anybody else have other >suggestions (or cheaper Xtras - no offence, Tab).
There are more economical approaches. You can make a mask in Director, which would be a one bit bitmap. You say "set the mask of member qtmember to member bitmapmember". Then you would play with the regpoint of the bitmap to make it line up. You have to set the mask again after each regpoint change. That would give you direct to stage QuickTime in any shape, and you could have a graphic behind the QT sprite, and where the holes were would look like the background picture. If you want to have a static 32 bit picture on top of a video, with an alpha effect on it, you could import the 32 bit PICT (or PNG or PSD) into QuickTime Player, copy it, Add it Scaled across the duration of the video clip, go into the info for that track and set its graphic mode to straight alpha. Save that as a new movie. You should now have a QuickTime movie that looks like you want it to, but will play DTS. It's still not going to play as well as the one bit mask one, but it should play a lot better than if you made Director do the compositing. [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/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!]
