Geez, this person (Sean) deserves some sort of Nobel prize for paying attention and remembering. This is exactly the sound file I was talking about. I inherited the file when I did the Director 2000BC book (staring Rachel Welch) and it has been bugging me ever since, though I seem to have managed to have forgotten it several times over the intervening 3003 years and updates of the book..
Hats off to you Sean! -Phil Gross Sean Wilson wrote: > >I'm looking at an old Director movie with a sound in it. The sound is > >internal, and I don't have the source file to investigate. This sound > >starts with a rising pitch, reaches some point and stays there (actually, > >think of the sound of a car starting out and then reaching cruising > >speed). When I turn looping on for the sound, it does the starting out, > >gets to the cruising and loops on the cruising - the starting out part is > >not repeated in the looping. > >Can anyone offer a guess what was done to allow/cause this sound to work > >like this? > > I don't know that I can tell you how to reproduce this yourself, only that > I've seen a similar sound file in one of MM's Training from the Source-type > CDs that came with a Peachpit Press book. The movie file involves animating > a mechanical arm to move up and down the left side of the stage and a > series of cast members to swap that shows the arm extending and retracting. > The sound file that comes with this movie does exactly what you describe - > when you turn on looping it does so not from the start of the file but from > some point into the file. I realize that this should be achievable with > (newer) sound lingo, but this file worked in D7, before any of that was > available. > > I've never heard of any explanation of how to achieve this, but looked > around in Sound Forge for possible options and thought I'd found one that > looked promising, but having just had another quick look I can't find what > it was and it was years ago I was trying to recreate this effect. > > Perhaps Buzz has some ideas? > > -Sean. > > [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!] [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!]
