what is the timescale of a player?

[Klaus Major]

Hi BNig,

> Hi Timo,
>
> the timescale divided by the frames per second gives you the  
> duration of a
> frame
>
> a timescale of 600 in a movie with 25 frames per second makes for a  
> duration
> of 24 of a single frame (600/25), of course this assumes that all  
> frames are
> of equal duration, which is not necessarily so. Especially when you  
> edit a
> movie the first and last frames might be shorter. And you can set the
> duration of a frame to whatever you like (via applescript) so the  
> frames per
> second is an average for all the frames in a movie.
>
> to step from one frame to the next you could do:
>
> on mouseUp
>    put the currenttime of player "xyz" into tcurrentTime
>    add 24 to tcurrentTime
>    set the currenttime of player "xyz" to tcurrentTime
> end mouseUp

Sure, but this leaves a typical "Chicken and Egg" problem!

Tiemo does not yet know the FPS :-D


Regards

Klaus Major
klaus at major-k.de
http://www.major-k.de