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

[Klaus Major]

Hi Damon,

> 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

take a look at this little stack:

The Mistery of the callbacks v1.0

You can download it at:

http://www.runrev.com/Revolution1/developercentral/ 
usercontributions.html

waaaaaaay doooooown the page :-)

That should get you started with "callbacks"

Drop a line if you need more info/assistance...

> -d

Regards

Klaus Major
klaus at major-k.de
www.major-k.de