Jakob Hede Madsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
> At 11:32 -0500 01_01_31, Colin Holgate wrote:
> >The idea of having extra tracks in the QuickTime movie may work
> >then. Just make a Flash movie that has all the functionality that
> >you need for the whizzy interface (but all on one frame in Flash)
> >and place that as a second track in the video (third track if you
> >count the sound), stretched over the full length of the movie. Have
> >buttons that only appear on rollover, so that most of the time you
> >just see the video. It would probably play well, and would look
> >amazing.
>
> Fascinating idea that!
> And next up is Brennan...
> Jakob
Errm...wha.. (roused from my saturday evening stupor).
I suppose I'm being invited to mention that the additional track could
also be a Quicktime wired sprite track, which would almost certainly be
more flexible than a flash track, and should also offer better
performance. (Transparent Flash tracks have performance hits in
Quicktime as it is, without even embedding the whole lot in Director).
The advantage of the wired sprite approach is that you can actually do
funky stuff with those buttons, ranging from manipulating movierate and
movietime up to quadding the video track, panning the audio, making QT
sprites do fun stuff, firing off Quicktime sounds, whatever, although if
this is just a dummy, it may be overkill.
You can make wired sprites using LiveStage from totallyHip. Which is a
fairly expensive, but essential tool for Quicktime users. Wired
Quicktime movies work perfectly in Director, apart from messaging
between wired actions and lingo, which is not supported by Macromedia.
LiveStage also allows you to embed wired actions in Flash tracks, like
buttons or whatever, which is quite neat, so your little popup control
panel thing could be very powerful.
Super lightweight solution: Just have carefully constructed still images
in seperate tracks and use Lingo to enable/disable those tracks. You
could even emulate wired sprite mouse event handling using inside().
Quicktime movies can have A LOT of tracks. If your lingo is hot enough,
you can build some pretty sophisticated content using a multitrack
Quicktime movie.
You can add tracks to a QT movie, for example stills stretched in
duration to match the timeline, using the Quicktime Player Pro edition.
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