QT movies are driving me crazy

Richard Gaskin ambassador at fourthworld.com
Thu Feb 27 06:32:01 EST 2003


Graham Samuel wrote:

> I've got a couple of tiny QT movies, both of which are masked. When I
> put them into RR player objects, one of the movies gets masked
> properly (i.e. the shape of the movie on the screen is the shape of
> the mask rather than a rectangle) and the other one appears in a
> white rectangle which blots out the background objects. The only
> difference I can see between the movies is that the one that doesn't
> work has two video tracks (both separately masked) and the one that
> does work has only one video track. AFAICS from the Quicktime Player
> (5.0.2 for the Mac), the masking is OK outside Revolution.
> 
> I can't guess what's wrong and I can't think of a way of finding out.
> I don't have any other tools dedicated to editing or examining QT
> movies.
> 
> Any suggestions?

Does the second player have its alwaysBuffer property set to true?

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