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› July 5, 2002
More on Flash and QTVR
After installing the public preview of Quicktime 6, and conducting a myriad of tests, I was successfully able to get a sample QTVR file and some simple flash widgets to co-exist. I'm not 100% certain that quicktime 6 was the missing factor, this might be possible with Quicktime 5 for all I know. Here's what I did: Import flash QTVR as linked movie in Flash MX, place the QTVR resouce in the movie and added some simple buttons, exported as a Quicktime movie with QTVR controls. Unfortunately there is one severe limitation that I can't seem to get around: only one QTVR file can placed in each flash file. When two are placed (in different parts of the timeline) the first one will load and work correctly but the second will not show. I tried placing the files in different scenes, and with different "breaks" between them, but it seems that the "flash layer" that one is alloted when saving to quicktime format prevents this. Perhaps one could figure out a way to trigger the loading of seperate Quicktime movies to use them like scenes, but I think that they would either load in seperate Quicktime player windows, or produce a signifiant wait time (or both).
Tim Murray Posted…
I have a tutorial on this here:
http://www.gmg.com.au/articles/extras/tutorials.html
And a technology demo here:
http://www.gmg.com.au/articles/media/new-media-a-0003.html