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258 Chapter 11: Using Digital Video
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Go to the Stage and drag any of the handles that appear on the selection rectangle that surrounds
the video image.
Director displays only as much of the movie image as can fit in the area that is defined by the
selection rectangle.
If you would rather scale the movie than resize it, select Scale instead of Crop on the
QuickTime tab in the Property inspector. Director scales the movie if you resize the
bounding rectangle.
To use Lingo or JavaScript syntax to move the image of a QuickTime video around within
the sprite’s bounding rectangle:
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Set the digital video’s
translation
QuickTime sprite or cast member property. For more
information, see the Scripting Reference topics in the Director Help Panel.
About using digital video on the Internet
In both stand-alone projectors and movies playing in web browsers, Director can handle digital
video the same way it handles all other media, or it can stream the digital video using
QuickTime 4 or later. You can link the digital video to a URL, and the movie begins to download
and play the digital video when its sprite first appears on the Stage.
In order for the digital video cast member to stream, you must set its
streaming
property to
TRUE
. QuickTime 4 or later must be installed to enable streaming.
If a streaming QuickTime file contains cue points you want to use, you must set the text track to
be preloaded (use a QuickTime editor such as MoviePlayerPro to do this). If you do not preload
the text track, Director disables the cue points so it can stream the file without entirely
downloading it first.
You can also import a Real Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP) stream as a QuickTime cast
member. The rtsp:// URL must end with the filename extension
. mov so that Director knows it
should be treated as a QuickTime stream.