Graham, What you should do is:
1) Start with a card (in a new stack if you're just testing things out). 2) Grab the player object tool (the one in the lower-right corner of the tool palette), and drag out a rectangle. 3) Double-click on the player object to open the Properties palette. Click on the "Player" tab. 4) Click the "Browse" button and find the quicktime movie you want to play. Select it and click OK in the file picker. What will happen is that the player object will resize itself to fit the dimensions of the movie. The contents will still be blank (white), however, but that's OK. 5) Determine whether you want to turn the buffer on - if you want to overlap objects on top of the movie, or you want to be able to transition seamlessly from one card to another at the end of the playback of a movie, turn the buffer ON. Otherwise, leave it off. (Leaving it off means that QT will play the movie directly to the screen in the rectangle, and Rev won't have any "control" over it to allow it to layer other objects. This provides much better performance (especially with larger movies)). 6) Determine if you want a controller. If you do, turn on the "Show Controller" checkbox. You can manipulate the movies without the controller just as easily, so don't feel you need to turn this on unless you want the user to have control over the movie. Note that you can't use a controller on a movie with the buffer turned on; it will show up, but you can't click on the controller. 7) Choose the browse tool. (If the player object is still white, choose the pointer tool and click the movie again. If the buffer is on, you'll see the movie dispalyed.) In any event, you can open the message box and type "play player 1" and you'll see the movie run (if you have the controller displayed and buffer off, you can now manipulate the movie with the controller). You can use the "stop player <playerDesc>" command to stop (pause) the player, etc. Check out play, stop, currentTime, endTime, stopTime, etc. tokens for more capabilities. If you need any more help, let us know, Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Graham Samuel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Revolution user discussion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, December 09, 2002 5:13 PM Subject: Re: why won't my videoclip play? > At 20:45 +0000 9/12/02, I wrote: > >More newbie blues - > > > >On a Mac (OS 9.2.2) I imported a video clip into a stack - it was a > >little QT movie which plays fine in the QT Player. I then tried to > >play it from the Application Overview and also via the message box. > >In both cases I got a black rectangle on the card of the top stack, > >and then some white nonsense letters flashing in the black rectangle > >for longer than the original movie duration. And no sound. What did > >I do wrong? > > After a tussle with the defaultFolder property (you can't just set it > to the filepath of the folder containing this stack...) I got a > different but equally unsatisfactory phenomenon by trying to run the > original QT movie (not the clip) using the 'play' command in the > Message box. No picture, and the sound was the "holy hellish > scratching" described by Judy Perry. The sampling rate was maybe > 'wrong' (it's 22.255 KHz with a depth of 8 bits), but where was the > picture? > > TIA > > Graham > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > Graham Samuel / The Living Fossil Co. / UK & France > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution > _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
