CompuServe Thread

Hi Pete, I use three different types of sounds. I use the PC speaker for special effects, I use a GRASP digitized (VOC or WAV) player for voice and effects and a MIDI player for CMF or MIDI sounds. In the example I talked about I used the PC speaker for a "cranking sound" that was in sink with the video clip (which shows a crank turning). If the clip was longer, I might add a Sound Blaster song by using GRASP's interrupt call to kick the Sound Blaster TSR (SBFMDRV.COM) into play. If I wanted to add voice, I might use GRASP's Realsound player to play digitized sound and video simultaneously. Finally, if I wanted a rich, orchestrated sound, I would use a MIDI TSR called PLAY/D that has a built-in interface to GRASP. Complicated, yes, but highly flexible. GRASP can play back each frame of the video in a loop…so I can speed up or slow down the video in relation to the sound. A format like AVI (Window's Audio-Video_Interleave) drops frames as the system struggles to keep up with the data rate. This is not possible with GRASP…although you could fake it. Understand that what I am interested in doing is bringing full motion video into the ANI/3D Studio/GRASP environment…not create a full motion 10 minute presentation…not enough hard drive space for that! Philip