It's probably still a no, but it might just be possible to control sprites and wired QT movies with Flash tracks in MetaCard, due to the inclusion of some QT "debugStr" whats'it. It is something I have been pestering about for some time, because with this type of QuickTime support you can do everything you can do with Flash and Director from within MetaCard - though you may need to use an authoring package to produce wired movies. > From: Scott Rossi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 22:46:34 -0700 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Rant > > OK, I'm sitting at home working on a proposal for a client that will involve > some multimedia development in MC. It should be a nice little project, a > holiday greeting disc from a winery and an online music company. > > Part of the project will involve superimposing some elegant antialiased > typography on top of suitable holiday images. After contemplating the > methods available to achieve this effect, it occurs to me that the most > efficient way to pull this off would be to overlay masked images of the type > on top of the holiday images, so both type and image could be swapped and > animated at will. > > But once again, reality dawns and I go through the old ritual of banging my > head against the wall because I realize I'm going to have to build all the > imagery as animated GIFs. > > If only MC supported object translucency, I wouldn't have to jump through > hoops every time I do this type of project. > > Meanwhile, the MetaCard slogan, nay, rallying cry, keeps echoing through my > head: "There's a better way to do that." > > I'm still waiting for that better way. > > Regards, > > Scott > > __________________________________________________________________ > Scott Rossi Tactile Media - Multimedia & Design > Creative Director Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Web: www.tactilemedia.com > > > Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard%40lists.best.com/ > Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm > Please send bug reports to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, not this list. Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard%40lists.best.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please send bug reports to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, not this list.
