Hey folks, Just thought I'd mention this so it's in the archives. Been working on a QuickTime editor recently. It's turning out nicely thanks to Trevor's fine Enhanced QT external. I'm creating it for WinXP and Vista.
I decided to go ahead and use SMIL, one of those oft-touted but apparently seldom used XML standards, to do the QT preview compiles. Well sure enough, it began to work as expected, and I was able to quickly view the compilations of movie, image and sound snips in my QT player in Rev. Sadly, I couldn't view the timeline slider, but that's another issue altogether. The trouble continued when I tried to export the movie into one self-contained file. No matter how I tried, I was unable to configure Trevor's external to output the entire movie flattened. At first I figured it was a bug in the external export routine, but then I purchased QT Pro ($29 bucks down the drain- thanks Apple for your support), and found out even Apple's own QT player couldn't accomplish such a simple task of combining a single SMIL video and audio track into 1 exported movie. Some Internet sleuthing and I found out, among other QuickTime shortcomings, is Apple's very limited support for SMIL. And there is virtually no notes on SMIL and the PC platform-- that is left for the developer to find out on their own. Apparently, none of the 'special' tags work in Windows, only Mac. One would think with Apple wanting large adoption of QT on PC's, they would at least bother to spend the time documenting somewhere what it does and doesn't do. In anycase, I would recommend staying away from SMIL use and implementation if you plan on either: 1) Using it on a PC with Apple's special tags (like the one to always show the controller, which doesn't work) or; 2) You ever expect to need to export your SMIL generated movie as a self-contained file on any platform. Hope this prevents others from spending too much time in this particular rabbit hole. best, Chipp _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
