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- From: neilp@cs.hw.ac.uk (Neil Postlethwaite)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
- Subject: Re: *RE-POST* - How do you Print Quicktime Movies
- Message-ID: <1992Aug19.203805.15264@cs.hw.ac.uk>
- Date: 19 Aug 92 20:38:05 GMT
- References: <14343@mindlink.bc.ca>
- Sender: news@cs.hw.ac.uk (News Administrator)
- Organization: Dept of Computer Science, Heriot-Watt University, Scotland
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- In article <14343@mindlink.bc.ca> John_Miller@mindlink.bc.ca (John Miller) writes:
- >>This isn't exactly what you're looking for, but you could use
- >>the CopyFrame command that comes with the Claris QT xcmd to
- >>copy the current frame into the clipboard. Then you could
- >>paste it onto the card. Of course, since it's HyperCard all you
- >>get is a black and white copy, which may or may not be good enough.
- >
- >Well, if the QuickTime XCMDs have a way to get the current
- >frame onto the clipboard, the latest version of HyperTint,
- >currently being tested, can read a picture from the clipboard
- >and includes a new XCMD to print the colorized picture.
- >
- >There are some drawbacks:
- >
- >1) A goodly amount of extra memory is used for image buffers
- > to colorize the stack.
-
- No to worry. Memory it cheap these days.
-
- >2) Sending colour bitmapped images to a LaserWriter over
- > LocalTalk is painfully slow. Try this with a colour
- > screen dump in a program like MacWrite II to get an
- > idea of the time: we're talking in the 10-15 minute
- > range.
-
- Umm. Guess that's why the Mac prints in the background ??
-
- Still, it isn't as long as Makin Movies in Adobe Premiere.
- Combine the 2 :-)
-
- >3) The elements in the HyperCard image (fields and buttons)
- > get printed at screen resolution (72 dpi), although there
- > is an option to display header text at the printer's
- > resolution.
-
- I don't really see this as a problem as that's what you see anyway ?!
-
- >4) HyperTint is not free.
-
- Bummer ! (to quote xv 2.00)
-
- Don't suppose a Beta-test copy ............... (we are Registered Apple
- Developer Peeps if that would help !!)
-
- Neil
-
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