Hi

Getting a solution together for completion very soon. I'm in India at present and the internet's very bad - so I can't do too many searches. I've got a lot of movies in my database that are essentially Quicktime files stored in containers. When I want to play a movie, I go to the movie-viewer layout, where I then have to click on the movie field and then hit the play button. I don't really mind - but the solution is to go on public exhibition in a museum where the public will get to play movies - and many of them almost get there.... and then it takes them so long to find out how to play the thing that they get bored and leave! Simple question then. Is there anyway of automating the process so that when I click on a "go to this movie" button it takes me to the movie-viewer layout AND starts playing the movie. I guess that something could be worked up with Apple-script (which I'm not very knowledgeable about - and don't really have time to delve in at present) - but I would hope that there are a couple of commands that Quicktime would accept as part of a script - it's just that I don't know how to go about finding them quickly enough. Another thing I'd like is a command sequence for playing a movie at half-speed - obviously Quicktime itself can do this - but how do I get the FMP Quicktime player to do it for me?

Many thanks to any of you that use Quicktime enough to know these little tips and tricks by heart and can pass them on.

gessie

Take a look here:

http://www.fmforums.com/forum/showtopic.php?tid/185574/post/245091/#245091

--sd

And here:

http://www.fmforums.com/forum/showtopic.php?tid/181836/post/228405/#228405