Several newbie questions & a documentation request

[Ken Ray]

> 1) I am running an AppleScript to open an image sequence in QT Pro.  
> The applescript is stored in a field, a replace is done on the 
> variables and the "do theScript as AppleScript".  So far, so good.  
> Except that Classic launches as the AppleScript tries to 
> launch the OS 
> 9 version of QT.  Both from Script Editor and as a compiled 
> script the 
> script correctly launches QT in OS X.  Any ideas?

Do you have an OS X version of QT Pro? If so, what's its path?

> 2) The app has three option menu buttons to set video size, 
> frame rate 
> and pan direction (l/r).  Is it just something in my coding 
> (I tried to 
> convert the info in the menu manager tutorial to the button) or are 
> these always so slow to work?  On a PB 1GHz and a P4 1.5GHz 
> it can take 
> up to 15 seconds for each menu button to become active!

That's ridiculously slow... something else must be going on. Rev is
really fast at this kind of stuff. When you say "become active", do you
mean that you initially have them in a disabled state and then it takes
the time to re-enable them? Can you please clarify?

> 3)  The 'New Developers' documentation needs a section on the 
> differences between AppleScript and Transcript, if this has 
> not already 
> been added in 2.1!  All the time wasted until I discovered 
> that 'put 20 
> into variable' was the correct grammar, not 'set variable to 20' got 
> irritating, especially as properties DO work in the 'set to' grammar.

Agreed. 

> 4) I can't see from the website, do the new video 
> capabilities of Rev 2 
> include making video from image sequences?

Sorry, can't help you there (video's not my strong suit).

> 5) Is it possible to export a snapsho directly to file?  I am 
> currently 
> importing the snapshot and then exporting it to JPEG, but of course 
> this results in a huge amount of flicker and general 
> nastiness as I am 
> generating up to 1500 snapshots in a row.

Sure, the "export snapshot" command allows you to do this, but this was
introduced in Rev 2.1, so you'd have to upgrade to get this feature.

Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software
Email: kray at sonsothunder.com
Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/