Ouch! Not even QT Music, but a s-o QT!
double-ouch. -Buzz 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!] [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!]
