Jump to specific spot in Quicktime?

[mc3]

Hi!,

I just finished authoring my first DVD in DVD SP, and am needing to produce a trimmed down version on CD using Director (I am aware of need to compress the files etc.).

There is a feature in DVD Studio Pro that I wish to find an equivelent feature in Director.

In DVD SP you can easily position "markers" in your QuickTime movie, and assign specific menu buttons to jump to that particlar "marker" in the movie.

I wish to do the same thing in Director. I am familiar with creating buttons and interactivity in Director, but I need to know how to jump to specific locations on one big Quicktime movie. I have a 40 minute movie with 8 chapter settings. I want to create buttons and links that will automatically jump to the specified location when clicking specific buttons.

There has got to be any easy way to do this.

CaN you help me out here?

 

[archerofloaf]

Well there is a way to do this that does not actually use the cuepoints. You go to the Message window. write in:

put member("myvideo&quot.CuePointTimes press enter

You should get a result like this:
--[a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h]
a through h are the times in milliseconds for each cuepoint.

you could then put this on your button script for the first chapter cuepoint.

on mouseDown
sprite(x).movieTime=a
end
x being the sprite that is the video file of course.

and of course just change the times for each other button using the millisecond times.

Like I said, this does not actually use the cuepoints, but uses the time of the cuepoints instead. But just should be easy enough to work out.

Hope this works well for you. And maybe I will look in on this cuepoint deal.