Adding "real" time audio to a streaming QuickTime

[MDV1Bill]

I have a FM database created. I want to be able to (using an USB microphone) record an audio narrating a Quicktime clip. I can bring in my QT clip, but everytime I click the "record" button it shuts off the streaming QT movie. Any suggestions how I can use my mic to record a narration?

[Charles Delfs]

perhaps starting the recorder via a command line to record first then start playing the Quicktime, the trick it to automate getting the recording into the container. Check what command line parameters can be set, because if you can put the wave onto the clipboard them it will be easy to insert into a field.

Charles

This could be done with a vb app fairly easily.

[stanley]

I'm not sure that FileMaker is the tool for this, because in FileMaker the "focus" is always on one field or another. In this case, if you've got something playing in one container field, I'm not sure you'd be able to record in another container at the same time.

Really, you should consider using some kind of video editing application for this. If you're on the Mac, iMovie should do it.

-Stanley

[ernst]

Hi MDV1Bill,

In principle (and in practise, I tried...) you can start movieplayback in QuickTime Player with an AppleScript, and then click record in the Container Window, but -as Stanley suggest- using iMovie has got these features, so why bother?

Regards,

Ernst.