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In article <172oqsINNiq8@fbi-news.Informatik.Uni-Dortmund.DE>,
poswig@jupiter.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (joerg Poswig) says:
>
>I've come across the problem to mix a MM-Director animation with QuickTime
>movies. I'd like to stop the movie while executing to show some explanations
>and then continue it. That works perfectly well. But how do I determine the
>position of a particular frame of the QT movie using lingo-commands ?
>
>Any hints appreciated
>                                        Joerg

    Joerg,

       I haven't found any easy way of determining the exact time of any
    given frame except by plugging in values, playing the movie, and then
    seeing where the QT movie paused.  Heres a script I used to play a Quick
    Time movie in Director 3.1 until it reached a movietime = 950 and
    pauses the movie.

    --- Play Clip
    on playclip
      global qtsprite, qtcastname

      set the movietime of sprite 1 to 0              --rewind movie
      set the movierate of sprite 1 to 1              --play it
      repeat while the movietime of sprite 1 <= 950   --keep checking
         updatestage                                    the frame time
      end repeat
      set the movierate of sprite 1 to 0              --pause movie
    end playclip


  It was only trial and error trying to find a value (ie. 950) which
  corresponded to a point in the movie which I needed a pause.  It wasn't
  too hard, though, just awkward.

  Hope this helps.
                                    Robert Falco
                                    Training & Multimedia Systems
                                    Penn State University
                                    RXF10@PSUVM.PSU.EDU