use-revolution digest, Vol 1 #1569 - 14 msgs

[Damon Luther]

It's a little weird when you get into this area..... One of the best 
ways to make Chapter Tracks in a Quicktime movie is to set cuePoints in 
an audio or video editor then save the file.  This puts a text track 
into the movie with all the start times for each chapter, but does not 
set them as chapter tracks. Then you can open the movie in Quicktime 
Pro and get movie properties and select the text track in the pulldown 
menu then select make Chapter tracks from the properties pulldown. It 
will want you do associate the new chapter tracks with either the video 
or audio tracks... choose either one and then save... BAM now the movie 
has chapter tracks. I've tried some of the Chapter Track editors out 
there, but they don't seem to create the desired results like the above 
method does.

Director works with chapter tracks using cuePoint statements. Director 
automatically reads the text track of the movie whether it's set to be 
chapters or not, and then allows you to navigate the chapters based on 
the cuePoints. iShell automatically shows chapter tracks as parameters 
in it's UI.

The cool thing about Chapter Tracks and cuePoints is that you can write 
scripts that are universal to any movie, allowing you to navigate 
forward and backwards and even stop without knowing exact times. Very 
handy and reusable. And way better than trying to read the text file 
into an array.... and then use them.

I'm new to Rev so i don't know much about callBacks... is there a good 
resource for this? do you think callbacks can be used in a similar 
manner????

any help would be great

-d


On Saturday, July 5, 2003, at 09:01  AM, 
use-revolution-request at lists.runrev.com wrote:

>> How do I navigate Quicktime Chapter tracks with Revolution.
>>
>> Is there a native way of navigating Quicktime Chapter Tracks with
>> revolution? or cuePoints? AppleScript, QTscript, Director, iShell,
>> and others all have way to navigate Chapter Tracks.  I'm looking
>> at Revolution as a cross-platform solution for current and future
>> projects that relies on the ability to navigate Chapter Tracks.....
>
> Chapter tracks and cuePoits are very different things.  Revolution 
> supports
> a wide variety of QT notifications, messages, and structures, so while 
> it
> doesn't currently support chapter tracks if going as far away from 
> that as
> cuePoints would work for you then maybe going just a little farther to 
> Rev's
> support for callbacks will provide what you need.
>
> Thinking this might make a good feature suggestion to submit, I was 
> hoping
> to find the documentation for Director and iShell with regard to 
> chapter
> track support to serve as a guide, but alas came up empty.  Where 
> should I
> look for that in those products?