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AFL HypCrd: Hi folks...we'll be starting in a minute or two. AFL HypCrd: The folks from Claris are on their way. Hanrek M : howdy, ya'll Msaling : Hi this is my first time in this forum. JoyBird : me too Hanrek M : scary, huh? :) :) JoyBird : not too, just don't really quite know what QT is JoyBird : just downloaded info JoyBird : anxious to learn AFL HypCrd: Well, there will be a couple folks from Claris here in a second.... AFL HypCrd: there's one here already :) Msaling : I ordered my copy of HC quicktime tools stack a couple of weeks ago and am wondering when it will ship Claris LC : Hi Everyone!!! AFL HypCrd: What kind of experience level do we have tonite? AFL HypCrd: <--- Scripts in HC 2.1 Claris LC : We're waiting for Neal to sign on... Claris LC : It'll be just a few more minutes. SBSWatson : <-- QuickTime XCMD Development Claris LC : We'll have Neal introduce himself. Hanrek M : <-- technical, scripting Msaling : Fairly extensive scripting, some use of Quicktime(I played around with the beta XCMDs) Biedny1 : So is the HC QT thang here? Hanrek M : The important thing about QT is that EVERYONE can play desktop video at some level, fueling the market FMusic : go figure! Msaling : I am wondering if the HC quicktime externals will ever support recording directly to HC AFL HypCrd: What about the rest of you folks? Are you Hypercard scripters....or C/Pascal programmers? Tom25 : <-- HC 2.1 scripter AFL HypCrd: How many of you folks are planning on making your own Quicktime Movies? Msaling : I am Hanrek M : Me too SBSWatson : <-- Always making movies; have hours on drive. Hanrek M : Want to use for documentation. JoyBird : no experience, all new to me, am happy to listen - just saw it from Smiling in this forum Msaling : Will the compression ratios get better over time SusanGNE : I just received stacks done on hypercard 2.01. How different is it than 2.0? FMusic : I would like to know if this Q-Time will allow the making of annimation form picts scanned or drawn? AFL HypCrd: HC 2.1 has a few extra features...and is System 7 compatible. Claris LC : Okay, we're ready. We should start with "protocal". Claris LC : Before we introce Neal (Claris VIP)... Claris LC : I'd like to talk about the new HyperCard (HC) ACMD that we have announced! Claris LC : (XCMD) Claris LC : It will be a stack upgrade that will be sent tfrom Claris to registered users of HC... Claris LC : There will be an $11.00 fee for the stack with a $4.00 shipping fee... Claris LC : To obtain the stack, ay registered user can call our CR group at... Claris LC : 408-727-8227... Claris LC : We can talk more about this after we talk with Neal... Claris LC : and now now Neal will introduce himself... Claris VIP: As Larry indicated, my name is Neal Robison, a member of the HyperCard Development Team... Claris VIP: ...as far as HyperCard development is concerned, I wrote Compatibility Checker for System 7 and... Claris VIP: am the project lead for the QuickTime Tools stack here at Claris. I'm also pretty heavily involved... Claris VIP: in any multimedia projects concerning HyperCard Claris LC : Lets start with some questions from the "field". Claris LC : anyone??? Hanrek M : ? Msaling : ? Has this product started shipping? Claris LC : ga Hanrek: SusanGNE : ? Hanrek M : Can you say anything which will dispel any fears HC will be left by the wayside? ga SBSWatson : ? Hanrek M : Is QT dvlp a good indicator? ga Msaling : ? Claris VIP: Well, my first reply is that I still have a job...that's a good sign... Claris VIP: And it looks like the QT development indicates that HyperCard is still alive and kicking... AFL HypCrd: Q=Hanrek, Msaling, Susan, Chris Claris VIP: take a look at the Colorizing HyperCard stack as well...we're still passionate about HC Msaling : Will this XCMD support recording right to HC Claris LC : ga Msaling: Msaling : Will this XCMD support recording right to HC Claris VIP: Right now, the XCMD only supports playback of QuickTime movies. However, we're looking at ... Msaling : ? Claris VIP: the possibility of future XCMDs to do editing and recording. Claris LC : ga Susan: Claris LC : ga Chris: SBSWatson : (Coming from me, the obvious question [as others here can attest])... SusanGNE : I use hypercard and multimedia, how do all of the different versions operate from the same home? SBSWatson : Is the XCMD compatible with SuperCard? Claris VIP: What is SuperCard?....just kidding... SBSWatson : ROFL....not! SBSWatson : :) Claris VIP: Actually, our XCMD will not work with SC as there are specific calls to the HC code that ... Claris VIP: wouldn't work in the current SC architecture... Claris VIP: However, I have heard of some 3rd party development going on for SC...don't have any specifics yet Claris LC : ga Chris: SBSWatson : You may have heard that from Dan Bacchus. Thank for the verification. AFL HypCrd: Q=Msaling Msaling : Is this stack shipping yet? I ordered mine a couple of weeks ago I'm wondering when I should expect it CalvinLJr : Whats everybody talking about in HyperCard? Claris LC : Msaling 1st... OKKayKay : ? Claris VIP: The stack has passed testing and has been sent to the factory to begin disk duplication...it will... Claris VIP: probably be 1 to 2 weeks before it makes it through the mail. Msaling : ! Claris LC : ga OKKayKay: OKKayKay : Does my original registration on my purchase of my SI last year include my registration to Claris/HC? AFL HypCrd: Q=OK,Msaling Msaling : Thanks, keep up the good work!!! Claris LC : If you purchased HC from Claris then... CalvinLJr : ? Claris LC : you are reistered... Claris LC : otherwise, you need to either buy the upgrade or Dev Kit... Claris LC : I can tell you more after Neal is done... Claris LC : ga CalvinLJr: CalvinLJr : How do I actually but color into HyperCard? Claris VIP: Other than using the Picture XCMD built-in to HC, you could use the new ColorizeHC XCMD that ... Claris VIP: BungDabba Productions released a couple of months ago...it places color picts and rgb colors ... Claris VIP: directly into the card layer of HC...check out the Colorizing HyperCard stack in the HC Library. Claris LC : Any more questions? Claris LC : (For Neal) AndrewB35 : bye MotionWrks: What about us and color? Claris VIP: Thanks for the reminder...you can also use ADDMotion, from MotionWorks to create color... Claris VIP: images and animations within HyperCard stacks. Their newest version ADDMotion II is also... Claris VIP: QuickTime compatible. MotionWrks: Thank you. Claris LC : Next(???) OKKayKay : No Hypercard (Basic came with 6.07) Which V.is compatible with 7.O?And addit software for audio? Claris VIP: The current version of HC is 2.1, which is totally compatible with 7.0--I would recommend everyone... Claris VIP: use 2.1, especially if you're interested in QuickTime--it's required. Claris LC : Next(???) TJDeasey : When will the nerw version of HC be released? Claris VIP: We haven't made any announcements about new versions of HC...I'm not allowed to talk about... Claris VIP: anything that might or might not be under development. Sorry. Claris LC : Next(???) TJDeasey : That fine. Thanks anyways. TJDeasey : When will Claris release their Quicktime xcmds? Claris VIP: The stack containing the XCMDs has passed testing and has been sent to the factory for... Claris VIP: duplication...it will probably be 1 to 2 weeks before it makes it through the mail. Claris LC : Next (???) VOORSANGER: Are we free to distribute stacks with the QuickTime XCMDs in them? Cmndr Wil : ? TJDeasey : How can Hypercard owners receive them? Or are they just being mailed out? Claris VIP: Absolutely...we wanted to make it as easy as possible for people to distribute their... Claris VIP: QuickTime stacks. The licensing is free, as long as you have a HC serial number... Claris LC : que=Cmndr Wil,Cmndr Wil Claris VIP: There is a licensing form for you inside of the QuickTime Tools stack. Good Luck! Claris LC : ga: Cmndr Wil Cmndr Wil : Did you run a list of which functions are featured? Claris VIP: No, not yet...that would take quite a while...is there something specific you're interested in? SBSWatson : ? Cmndr Wil : can we import pictures... and do "fill in" animation between two pics? Claris VIP: The short answer is no..the XCMD only supports playback of QT movies. You can use other ... Cmndr Wil : (big request) I know :) Claris VIP: applications to create the QT movies...some will ship from Apple in the March timeframe... Cmndr Wil : /end thanks! :D Claris VIP: and others will be appearing soon...like Director, Adobe Premiere and DiVA VideoShop. Claris LC : ga: SBSWatson SBSWatson : Specifics of features: Can you set a movie selection and cut and paste? OKKayKay : ? Claris VIP: You can set a movie selection, but we don't support cut and paste from within the XCMD...you can ... Claris VIP: copy specific frames to the clipboard, but not motion segments. Claris LC : ga: OKKayKay OKKayKay : My understanding at MacWorld was that QT was supposed to be avail OnLine on AOL but I can't find it SBSWatson : ? Claris LC : QT is available here on AOL... OKKayKay : Where? Claris LC : I think its in the Devlopment forum... WMARRIOTT : ! Claris LC : ga: Bill WMARRIOTT : keyword: QUICKFINDER. Search on QuickTime. Claris LC : ga: SBSWatson WMARRIOTT : You'll seethe extension, several movies, and some utilities. SBSWatson : Do you express the "frame" you want to go on the scrap by TimeValue? Claris VIP: You can refer to the "frame" two ways -- one is using standard Hour:Minute:Second:Ticks notation... Claris VIP: and the other is using QuickTime's own built-in time scale [a separate discussion altogether]. Claris LC : Well, I have good news and bad news... Claris LC : Neal can only answer a couple of more questions... Claris LC : but he is so "jazzed" about the forum... Claris LC : he'd like to come back after you all have the stack to play with... SBSWatson : ? Claris LC : I'm sure you'll have lots'o'questions!!! :) Claris LC : ga: SBSWatson SBSWatson : Are you required to maintain a global containing a Movie reference number, for successive calls... SBSWatson : to the XCMD? Claris VIP: Not at all. If you are familiar with the way windows work in HC, you just send a "command"... Claris VIP: to the specific QT window. The command is "CopyFrame". So you would tell the window to ... Claris VIP: go to a particular frame and then send the "CopyFrame" command. You could put a repeat loop... Claris VIP: into your script to grab successive frames. SBSWatson : Ah, yes. I see how you architected it now. Thanks for the info. Very helpful. Claris LC : More good news... Claris LC : We're going to give away 2 free copies of the new QuickTime Tool stack tonight... Claris LC : We're have 2 numbers picked between 0 and 10... Claris LC : (We) Claris LC : the first 2 people that pick these numbers win (on the count of 3)... Claris LC : 1 Claris LC : 2 Claris LC : 3 Gitster : 4 OKKayKay : 5 SBSWatson : 6 Claris LC : go! Gitster : 9 SBSWatson : 6 Gitster : 2 OKKayKay : 5 Gitster : 8 C Kuske : 8 OKKayKay : 9 Gitster : 1 Prof Bart : 7 C Kuske : 8 OKKayKay : 10 Gitster : 10 Claris LC : Done! C Kuske : 8 Claris LC : Gitster Gitster : yes Claris LC : and SBSWatson!!!!! Claris LC : Congrats!!!! Gitster : thank you, thank you! Claris LC : Neal will wrap up... C Kuske : <--I like 8 SBSWatson : This will be very helpful. <smirk> Claris LC : and I'll stick around for any "trickle down..." Gitster : ? Claris VIP: Thanks for the chance to speak to everyone...Sorry for the limited time...I'll be back after ... Claris VIP: the disks have started shipping. I just want to let you know that HC is still ALIVE!! ... Claris VIP: this project is just a sample of what's in store here at Claris.... C Kuske : Thanks Neal. Claris VIP: Keep the faith! Gitster : We hope it stays that way, please. Gitster : ? Claris LC : Well, that was great!!! OKKayKay : Indigo Claris LC : More questions? Claris LC : ga: Gitster Gitster : yes, 2 question, 1) how do I get the stack I won? Gitster : and 2) how do I get the Gitster : rest of the text of this forum and Gitster : the forum from danny goodman Claris LC : EMail me your address... Claris LC : I think that Peter will post the text files. Gitster : great Claris LC : Well... Claris LC : I think that will wrap it up... Claris LC : thanks for coming bye... Gitster : goodnight Claris LC : and most importantly... Claris LC : thanks for your support of a product that we here at Claris DO care about... Claris LC : HYPERCARD!!!!!! OKKayKay : Goodbye Claris LC : (Thanks for putting up with my poor typing :) WMARRIOTT : well, looks like an excellent job, Larry! Claris LC : Thanks, Neal is Awesome. Claris LC : I think the QT XCMD will do well. WMARRIOTT : I've worked with him a couple times and really enjoyed it. Claris LC : We feel that the upcoming conferences will do great... WMARRIOTT : Oh, it's going to do terrific. I can't wait for a series of Claris LC : Neal was reall excited about talking with everyone. WMARRIOTT : QuickTime authoring tools for animation, etc... do you think WMARRIOTT : AddMotion is the tool to watch? Claris LC : They've been doing some cool stuff for some time. WMARRIOTT : good nite!