play videoClip "nameOfVideo" does not work, Please help

J. Landman Gay jacque at hyperactivesw.com
Tue Jul 12 15:15:27 EDT 2005


On 7/12/05 1:56 PM, Jeanne A. E. DeVoto wrote:

> At 10:32 AM -0500 7/12/2005, J. Landman Gay wrote:
> 
>> As long as we're talking about videoclips, is there a way to store a 
>> QT movie as an imported file in a stack, but still set a player to use 
>> it? I know I can write the movie to disk temporarily and play it from 
>> there, but it would be cleaner if I could just refer to it in the 
>> stack. Using the "play" command to run it doesn't give enough control, 
>> I need to use a player object.
> 
> 
> Aren't you describing a videoclip? The videoclip object is played 
> through a player, so you can show its controller:
> 
>   set the showController of the templatePlayer to true
>   play videoclip "My Clip"
> 
> Since playing a clip creates a temporary player for display, the 
> settings of the templatePlayer are used when playing the clip.

Oh! Excellent, thank you! This is perfect. I should have known you'd 
know. ;)

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