#D2
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Dear Keith; I appreciate you answering my letter on July 4. I am using the
message service this time in case anyone else might have a response.
#1 My halfbrite anim that could not CYCLE did in fact have cycling colors
that were not contiguous. Will there be a patch available that will run
DPaintIV anims without restrictions?
#2 I have not been able to load structured fonts. I can do it with other
programs like DPaint and TV*Text but not D2. Maybe it just a matter of how
you write it. Could you check this out?
#3 I asked last time about activating D2 with SMPTE time code. Other than
the JLCooper PPS-2, do you know about other units from Dr. T (Phantom?) or
Sunrise? My application for synchronization is subtitling where in a half
hour program there could be as many as 400 cues. It would be important to
have both a record and playback mode. You would play the video tape and
click a key activating title changes and recording the midi numbers. When
you would make a mistake you could rewind and play the video tape again
activating title changes on its own until at one point you would slip into
record mode where the program would continue title changes and recording
the new numbers. Is there an existing script that does this or could one be
written without much hassle?
#4 Can D2 activate fades done with the SuperGen SG-10?
#5 Is there any source of example scrits from you or other people?
Thank you for your attention. Regards, Richard Burman.t
Richard, my response is too large for a single message, so I'm posting it
as several followup messages……..
Keith
>#1 My halfbrite anim that could not CYCLE did in fact have cycling colors
>that were not contiguous. Will there be a patch available that will run
>DPaintIV anims without restrictions?
We're looking into adding that. I'm not sure what form it will be released
in at the moment.
>#2 I have not been able to load structured fonts. I can do it with other
>programs like DPaint and TV*Text but not D2. Maybe it just a matter of
>how you write it. Could you check this out?
Yes, I'll see if I can make this work. I think it should, but I haven't
tried it.
>#3 I asked last time about activating D2 with SMPTE time code. Other than
>the JLCooper PPS-2, do you know about other units from Dr. T (Phantom?)
>or Sunrise?
No, but I'm pretty sure others exist, I remember several similar models on
sale at Guitar Center where I bought the PPS-2.
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>My application for synchronization is subtitling where in a >half hour
program there could be as many as 400 cues. It would be >important to have
both a record and playback mode. You would play the >video tape and click a
key activating title changes and recording the >midi numbers. When you
would make a mistake you could rewind and play >the video tape again
activating title changes on its own until at one >point you would slip into
record mode where the program would continue >title changes and recording
the new numbers. Is there an existing script >that does this or could one
be written without much hassle?
Well, you do need some kind of SMPTE reader to sync with video, I bought
the PPS-2 so that I could add MIDI timecode sync to the MIDI module, which
has been added, but hasn't been tested. If I get a little time in the next
couple of weeks I'll beat on it a little bit and see how it works.
Even with a working MIDI-timecode sync, the problem is that somehow you
need to keep a list of the events you are interested in. You'd probably
first want to write a script that just reads the time continuously, and
records an event every time you click the mouse (or something like that) so
that you can build the data you need. It could then write it out to disk
so that the playback program could use the data.
Then, you could number the events in your table 1-400 and provide some sort
of high level loop that waits for the next event, or if you need to
resynchronize because you've rewound the tape, it might have to search
through the table to find the next upcoming event based on the current
timecode. Once an event is detected, it would have to then go to the
script portion that is designed to perform the associated effect.
Could be quite a project, and there are no existing scripts as timecode
hasn't really been used yet. Still, I'll see what I can do about getting
that part going, you could help us determine what other features we might
need to make it all work together, if you find that doesn't take you too
far afield of whatever job you are trying to get done.
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>#4 Can D2 activate fades done with the SuperGen SG-10?
Via AREXX, provided SuperGen has AREXX hooks, which I think I've heard it
does.
>#5 Is there any source of example scrits from you or other people?
Not as many as I'd like, while there's a lot of people doing projects out
there, most of the projects are either proprietary where they don't want
their script and/or associated images released, or their script doesn't
make a good example because the techniques are rather haphazard. We
learned from Director version 1 that SIMPLE scripts are the most important,
as we originally supplied a long demo script that did all kinds of stuff,
and people wanted to know how something in the middle was done, and they
had to wade through all this other stuff that was unrelated. That's why we
went to lots of individual one-effect scripts, as they are more useful as
tutorials. Virtually no projects by our customers are in that category,
and we can't second guess every possible way that things might be used.
Keith