sk66 Posted June 1, 2008 Share Posted June 1, 2008 Hi All, I need to be able to loop short movies (1-2 sec long) - these are medical images that are meaningful only when playing. I can't see a way to loop these in FMP other than scripting a loop to enter the field, but that 1) plays for a finite number of times, and more importantly 2) freezes the interface, which is a problem as no data entry can be done. Is there another solution to this? Thanks, Stam Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peterc Posted June 2, 2008 Share Posted June 2, 2008 If they are really short movies, you could try and convert them to animated Gifs and use the web viewer. I found this great example, but I am unsure where I got it from so the credit is not mine. The gifs are converted encoded to base64 and simply become a number in a web view. I love this and think its very cool.smiley-laughing smiley-laughing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sk66 Posted June 2, 2008 Author Share Posted June 2, 2008 Thanks for the reply... I'll have a look into it, but was hoping to be able to play these within the native program. I'm not aware of any plugins that may do this, but perhaps some one else is? /stam Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peterc Posted June 2, 2008 Share Posted June 2, 2008 How are you actually playing them in FMP anyway? Oh Really! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sk66 Posted June 2, 2008 Author Share Posted June 2, 2008 erm... in a container field? Is there another way? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peterc Posted June 2, 2008 Share Posted June 2, 2008 When you insert a quicktime movie into a container field it only inserts a reference to the movie. If you move it or delete the movie, FMP cannot play it. I usually keep media in the same folder as the file and use the web viewer to play the movie. I just did a quick web page (in iWeb!!) and inserted a movie with "loop" and "autoplay" set, just to try, but you can just set normal controls. I also wrote a custom function that calculates the correct file path, so I just need the name of the html file and its there. here is an example. (of course some one else on this site will have an easier idea.) Hope it helps Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maarten Witberg Posted June 2, 2008 Share Posted June 2, 2008 you can view qt films in a webviewer. just point the viewer to the location of the film file://volume/folder/folder/folder/file.qt you have the normal qt interface and data entry isn't blocked during playback. However as far as I know looping playback is not possible (at least not with the free version of QT which is all I have). PS EDIT hey peter, missed your post. so looping playback is a feature of the file not the player? cool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sk66 Posted June 2, 2008 Author Share Posted June 2, 2008 so looping playback is a feature of the file not the player? cool. Quicktime only remembers the Loop setting for .mov files, not for example AVIs or MPEGs. Sadly, container fields in FMP do not respect the "Loop" setting in Quicktime. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peterc Posted June 2, 2008 Share Posted June 2, 2008 I have not changed the movie file at all. The looping is achieved through the embedded html tags. I my example, the web viewer is looking at a movie embedded in a web page, not straight at a movie. My html is really bad but I was just trying to show that is possible without much fuss. I am sure the html is different with other media such as AVI etc, but the html should be able to tell it to loop. Hope thats all clear as mud now... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maarten Witberg Posted June 2, 2008 Share Posted June 2, 2008 oh yes, i have studied your sample a bit better now. thanks for clarifying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sk66 Posted June 2, 2008 Author Share Posted June 2, 2008 Finally got round to looking at your example -- that may well be what i needed, thanks! I might need to ask questions about implementation as I've not used HTML inside FMP before, but it looks promising! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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