I am new to the list, having received Revolution 1.1.1 on a cover Cd and immediately realised that I can now make my AppleScript project into a cross-platform app!
Revolution 1.1.1 on OS X 10.2.1, 1GB RAM.
An application that opens a QTVR cubic pano, takes start and end points then produces a sequence of stills that can then be put together into video. The main market is for putting pans onto DVDs, but i started doing this for a 'timelapse' project of my own.
Anyway, I downloaded the 24K message mbox & have been looking on there, but have problems I cannot find on it...
1) I am running an AppleScript to open an image sequence in QT Pro. The applescript is stored in a field, a replace is done on the variables and the "do theScript as AppleScript". So far, so good. Except that Classic launches as the AppleScript tries to launch the OS 9 version of QT. Both from Script Editor and as a compiled script the script correctly launches QT in OS X. Any ideas?
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put the text of field "applescript 1" into theScript
replace filePath with defaultFolder in theScript
replace frameRate with frame_rate in theScript
replace "/" with ":" in theScript --to get correct filepath breaks in AS
answer theScript
do theScript as AppleScript
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2) The app has three option menu buttons to set video size, frame rate and pan direction (l/r). Is it just something in my coding (I tried to convert the info in the menu manager tutorial to the button) or are these always so slow to work? On a PB 1GHz and a P4 1.5GHz it can take up to 15 seconds for each menu button to become active!
======================================= global gVar_dimensions
on menupick pWhich
switch pWhich
case "768x576-PAL square"
answer "Use this option only when the movie will be seen on a Tv screen, you will need to export the movie at 720x576"
break
case "720x576- DV-PAL"
break
case "720x534-NTSC square"
answer "Use this option only when the movie will be seen on a Tv screen, you will need to export the movie at 720x480"
break
case "720x480- DV-NTSC"
break
case "600x400"
break
case "480x320"
break
case "320x240"
end switch
put pWhich into gVar_dimensions
get gVar_dimensions if it = "768x576-PAL square" then set width of player 1 to 768 set height of player 1 to 576 set the top of player 1 to 0 set the left of player 1 to 150 set the hilitedButtonName of group "frame rate" to "25" set the menuHistory of button "frame rate" to 4
(then come all the other ifs)
end menuPick =======================================
Would it be better to do the if statements in a separate script?
3) The 'New Developers' documentation needs a section on the differences between AppleScript and Transcript, if this has not already been added in 2.1! All the time wasted until I discovered that 'put 20 into variable' was the correct grammar, not 'set variable to 20' got irritating, especially as properties DO work in the 'set to' grammar.
4) I can't see from the website, do the new video capabilities of Rev 2 include making video from image sequences?
5) Is it possible to export a snapsho directly to file? I am currently importing the snapshot and then exporting it to JPEG, but of course this results in a huge amount of flicker and general nastiness as I am generating up to 1500 snapshots in a row.
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put the windowID of this stack into savedID
import snapshot from rectangle 150,0,(width of player 1 + 150),(height of player 1) of window savedID
export JPEG to file file_name & ".jpg"
delete last image
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That's all for now!
Ian Wood Panoramic photography, from web to billboard, sunrise to moonrise http://www.azurevision.co.uk
P.S. An early beta can be found at http:www.azurevision.co.uk/qtvr2mov
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