Importing Movies?

[wuzzle]

When I import a movie (.mov, .avi, etc) into Director, can I set up play, pause and stop buttons that will control the movie? Or do I have to make the movie a bitmap sequence and import that into Director to make it interactive?

Thanks

 

[Horrid]

you can do most of that depending on format.
quicktimes are easy to control and can give you all the standard quicktime controls if you want them.

avis require you to do things like set the movierate, 1 to play, 0 to pause and -1 to play backwards. You can also set the movietime (or something similar) to jump to different parts of the movie. hence to rewind to start you would do member(x).movietime = 0 (I think you reference the member not the sprite, you will need to check that)

 

[wuzzle]

I'm using Quicktime movies. Do you know of any tutorials on setting up navigation in quicktime movies?

Thank you!

 

[mazdarx7s1sav]

easy,

If you are using quicktime movies all you have to do is click on the movie in the cast then go to properties and then click on show controller? which includes a navigational bar and play/pause etc, but you cannot use this option if you want your movies to be direct to stage, and you want them to loop. Unless you enjoy lots of scripting.

Goodluck.

Mazdarx7s1sav