On Sat, 01 Feb 2003 12:11:24 -0500, Carl West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > Unfortunately I think that's the only way you'll be able to > > do it (applescript). I would agree with this, unless Xtras are involved. Problem with the Applescript approach is that it requires QuickTime PRO to be in place. Apart from that, it's very easy to merge media from arbitrary sources into a new .MOV file. > > I've been wanting direct hooks into qt editting for a while - > > ie copying from one video and creating a new one, or taking > > bits and pieces of an mp3 and making a new file with all > > those sequenced bits. Hear hear. > To do it from Director, you'd probably have to use Glen > Picher's BinIO Xtra and bury yourself fairly deeply in the > QuickTime file spec for a long time to pull it off. Glu32 would probably be a lot easier, no? > Neat and fun to do? Yes, in a perversely geekish way. > Commercially worth the time spent? I'm dubious. If it were only a cuepoint creation tool, I would agree with you, but being able to manipulate the entire QT api through Glu32 would be a major big deal for a lot of people. Having tried a couple of times to get my head around Glu32, with Gretchen's blessing and support I can't make head nor tail of it. I'll probably try again some time because it would be so damn useful. (Doesn't help that MacOS is such a moving target). Example; you could create something like 'cleaner', and even improve on it - allowing different ranges of frames to be compressed with different codecs - to best suit the content. (Cleaner doesn't do this, but QT supports it.) > There's a supposedly cross-platform scripting language/tool > like unto AppleScript that might be useful. I've never messed > with it and I've forgotten it's name at the moment, but it is > regularly mentioned on the various AppleScript lists. I can't imagine what this could be. The most commonly mentioned scripting tools on the applescript lists seem to be PERL, PHP and Python. I think there are some hooks in Python for accessing QuickTime. You might be thinking of tcl, which has had a Quicktime interface for a while. I don't know if anyone uses it though. The other possibility is 4D, which has a plugin called Qmedia which allows you to do loads of funny stuff with QuickTime. Again, this is way off my radar. (Not least because it's quite expensive). Note, there's a neat little shareware (freeware?) app called 'Final Chapter' which does chapter tracks quite painlessly. Check it out. Brennan [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!]
