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Topic: creating a database (Read 424 times) |
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inadaze
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creating a database
« on: Nov 7th, 2004, 3:50am » |
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If I had a few dozen movie clips (quicktimes) in a folder and I wanted processing to select only a few of them and put them together depending on what the user selects, how would I do this? I would prefer the result to be showed as a quicktime movie and not in the processing environment. i just want it to edit them together depending on the users choices. Any idea's?
Thanks
Jay
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Re: creating a database
« Reply #1 on: Nov 7th, 2004, 6:59pm » |
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Try SMIL.
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fjen
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Re: creating a database
« Reply #2 on: Nov 8th, 2004, 2:32am » |
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i had good results using a playlist on os-x ...
it's just a text-file in which you write the files in a certain manner/order and then pass it on to quicktime-player to run that. check google for ".pls" (i think that was the ending i used on mac) to learn how to write such a playlist. it's actually the same as an mp3-playlist, quicktime-player treats mp3's just as movies ...
if you're on os-x i can send you an applescript to run a movie in fullscreen-mode in quicktime-player from processing ...
/F
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inadaze
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Re: creating a database
« Reply #3 on: Nov 8th, 2004, 3:59am » |
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Please do send me the applescript! that would be great.
inadaze at mac dot com
I looked into SMIL and that looks good also. But how would I communicate with SMIL from processing?
Thanks guys!
Jay
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fjen
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Re: creating a database
« Reply #4 on: Nov 8th, 2004, 5:00pm » |
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smil works like html/xml, just write the code into a text-file, name it with .smi ending and pass it to quicktime, realplayer ... no need for communication.
might be helpfull to someone else ...
applescript to run movie fullscreen-mode in quicktime:
Code:
-- hfg offenbach rundgang 2004 / digital design II, david linderman
-- florian jenett, juni 2004, www.florianjenett.de
tell application "QuickTime Player"
activate
if (the (count of windows) ? 1) then
repeat with the_window in windows
close the_window
end repeat
end if
enter full screen display 1
set the_movie to open file ":Developer:Examples:Java:QTJava:QTJavaDemos:media:jumps.mov"
present the_movie scale normal display 1
repeat while (playing of the_movie is true)
-- waiting for movie to finish --
end repeat
close the_movie
exit full screen display 1
end tell
tell application "Processing"
activate
end tell
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Code:
// run script from processing:
try{
String script_location = "/path/to/script.app"
Process p = Runtime.getRuntime().exec(script_location);
println(p.waitFor()); // will halt processing 'til finished
} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
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you need to edit the script with "scipt editor" to have it run the movie you want .. and then save it as application.
/F
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inadaze
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Re: creating a database
« Reply #5 on: Nov 9th, 2004, 6:25pm » |
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Thanks for the code! I will use it.
What I wanted to know about communication between Processing and SMIL was this: How would I output names of movie from processing so that my SMIL file accepts them as the scenes in a sequence so that it shows them all one after another? The SMIL portion I can figure out, but how do I send a message out of Processing so that my SMIL file can be updated with whichever scenes the user chose for the movie?
Thanks
Jay
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fjen
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Re: creating a database
« Reply #6 on: Nov 9th, 2004, 6:36pm » |
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it's saveStrings() in the reference. let's you save a text-file to from where your sketch is currently running.
put the smil-code in a string-variable, then save it using savestrings into a text-file with smil-ending and then use the code & applescript from above to run it in quicktime-player.
/F
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| « Last Edit: Nov 9th, 2004, 6:38pm by fjen » |
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inadaze
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Re: creating a database
« Reply #7 on: Nov 27th, 2004, 11:28pm » |
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Hi,
I have just been trying to use the saveString(); function in a method i created for one of my objects. It gives me this error.
"no method named "saveStrings" was found in type "Temporary_7238_2755$RunComparison".
Here's my code:
class RunComparison {
//Properties
String a;
String Output;
//Constructor
RunComparison() {
}
//Methods
void testLinePlacement() {
this.a = "TEST THIS";
this.Output = this.a;
this.saveStrings("Test.txt",this.Output);
}
}
I am not to sure how this function is used in an object. i tried to initialize it first, but that did not work. Anybody know?
Thanks
Jay
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inadaze
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Re: creating a database
« Reply #8 on: Nov 28th, 2004, 9:35pm » |
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....eh... That would probably because I'm a dumbass and put "this.saveStrings()" instead of just "saveStrings()", right.
Got it.
Jay
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