Kerry, Together we've covered all bases. I wrote her off-list and showed her a demo program that used lingo to play a sound file. The sound fadeout code worked just fine with that. I suggested that she save here QT file as an aif, wav, or swa. But it looks like you showed her how to do what she wanted with the file she wanted to use.
Irv At 4:20 PM -0700 9/29/01, Kerry Thompson wrote: >>I intend to play a piece of midi music (using QT) to end my movie. >>I have used Irv's script. (many thanks to him!) >> >>Yet there's something still not correct. > >Yep, I see the problem. There's a tricky little thing with sound in >Director--there are a couple ways to play sound. > >There are sounds, like AIFF and WAV files, that you can play in the >sound channels. On the score, those sound channels are above the >frame-number bar, marked with little speaker icons. Only two show on >the score, but you can use up to 8 with Lingo. (to see the sound >channels, you might have to click the hide/show effects button--a >double plus sign in the upper right of the score). > >What you have, though, is a QuickTime movie in sprite channel 4. >That's actually a digital video with an audio track, and you can't >control it with the sound commands--those are only for sounds in the >sound channels, not the sprite channels. > >So, to fade the volume on a QuickTime movie, use this as your frame >script on the last frame: > >on exitFrame me > if sprite(4).volume > 0 then > sprite(4).volume = sprite(4).volume - 1 > go the frame > else > halt > end if >end > >Let me know when you're in San Francisco--you owe me a cup of coffee :-) > >Cordially, > >Kerry Thompson > > >[To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to >http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/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!] -- Lingo / Director / Shockwave development for all occasions. (Home-made Lingo cooked up fresh every day just for you.) [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/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!]
