Quicktime effects

Mark Smith mark at maseurope.net
Thu Jan 24 12:52:57 EST 2008


The value returned from 'answer effect' is base64encoded.

answer effect
put base64Decode(it)

will put the decoded string in the message box. How you decipher it,  
I don't know. I expect there's some explanation of it on Apples's  
developer site.

On 24 Jan 2008, at 17:44, Peter Brigham wrote:

> I have just discovered the Quicktime effects obtainable from using  
> "answer effect" and storing the coded result as a custom property.  
> Pretty nifty! It gives a lot more options for visual transitions,  
> etc. A question -- anyone know what the encoding scheme is and how  
> to replicate it on the fly without going through the Quicktime  
> effects dialog box (which is apparently done through Quicktime and  
> not as a native Rev resource)? I am using a QT zoom effect that I  
> like but I would like to zoom from the clickloc, which would  
> involve coding the visual after the mouseclick rather than  
> preselecting a zoom start point in the Quicktime dialog box. Any  
> ideas on whether this is possible?
>
> -- Peter
>
> Peter M. Brigham
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>
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