Multimedia Authoring - Quicktime Dead?

[Thomas McGrath III]

Greg,

No I have not and the Qscript does look very much like javascript so  
I can see what you mean.

Tom

On Oct 21, 2006, at 11:10 AM, GregSmith wrote:

>
> Thomas:
>
> LiveStage would be the "premiere" QuickTime authoring environment,  
> but have
> you tried authoring in it?  I find it extremely confusing, at  
> best.  As far
> as I can tell, even the simplest interactivity must be scripted in  
> Qscript,
> which looks to me, like another javascript clone.  This is great for
> programmers, but not for me.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Greg Smith
>
>
>
> Thomas McGrath III wrote:
>>
>> Dear Greg,
>>
>> Live Stage from Totally Hip Software is supposed to do Rollover's in
>> Quicktime.
>>
>>
>>
>> Tom
>>
>>
>> On Oct 21, 2006, at 10:22 AM, GregSmith wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> As far as the simplest solution for authoring in "standalone"
>>> QuickTime
>>> format, whether for web presentation or anything else, given the
>>> available
>>> interactivity built into QuickTime, itself - Cleaner 6.5, (for
>>> Mac), and, I
>>> believe Cleaner XL, (for Windows) seems to be the ticket.
>>> Outrageously
>>> priced if you were buying this product for the limited
>>> interactivity it
>>> offers, but you would also get all of those wonderful compression
>>> routines
>>> and batch processing along with it.
>>>
>>> Now, here is an example of a small fish being swallowed by a bigger
>>> fish who
>>> was, in turn, swallowed by an even bigger fish.  Terran Interactive
>>> was
>>> gobbled up by Discreet who was utterly consumed by AutoDesk, the
>>> Atlantic
>>> cod of software distributors.
>>>
>>> The interactive features that Cleaner quickly makes authorable are:
>>> Hotspots that allow jumping to a given time or simply to play from
>>> the time
>>> of the Hotspot to the next pause, (pause is also a feature), or to
>>> substitute one movie in place of the one playing, or open a URL.  It
>>> supports "Chapter" markers with accompanying text blurb, text  
>>> tracks,
>>> markers and keyframes.
>>>
>>> But even with all of this functionality, QuickTime, and the  
>>> authoring
>>> packages that support it, just doesn't compare with the kind of
>>> interactivity possible with Flash and its associated authoring
>>> tools.  Just
>>> as an example, for the life of me, I can't find any way to author a
>>> simple
>>> "rollover" button within an interactive QuickTime movie.  This just
>>> wipes me
>>> out.  Or, keeping the movie looping within a certain series of
>>> frames until
>>> an event happens - what gives?
>>>
>>> I like QuickTime better, since it really is a kind of operating
>>> system, in
>>> itself.  You can put almost any kind of media in a QuickTime movie,
>>> and it
>>> plays on iPods, for crying out loud.  Somebody, somewhere is  
>>> missing a
>>> couple of golden opportunities, if you ask me.
>>>
>>> Greg Smith
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