3D-Mobster opened this issue on Jun 30, 2015 ยท 14 posts
3D-Mobster posted Fri, 21 August 2015 at 7:51 PM
Since most of the focus so far have been on still images, this one will be about the movie object, subtitles and how movies can interact with other triggers and how itself can work as one.
These are added the same way as images, image counters and audio files. When you add a movie you will get an empty movie holder and by pressing the "Load movie" button you can select one from your computer. All movies files need to be in .webm format to reduce size since they are loaded on the fly. So I found a movie of a bird eating some food which original size is 486 mb 1920x1080 and after converting the file its now 31 mb. The video in the screenshots have been resized, but the original is still 1920x1080 so could be scaled even further if needed. Working with movies are very easy, for instant holding down "T" with the mouse cursor above a movie clip allow you to scroll through it at the "Step" interval chosen in the toolbox by scrolling the mouse wheel.
By default a movie will always be paused and invisible in the player. But can be activated through a trigger such as a "On page start" which will make it start the moment the page is shown, an audio file or as in this example through a "Click" trigger.
To avoid having to move everything around individually, text objects can be linked to other objects such as a movie clip. So when the movie is moved the text will move with it. Which is simply done by clicking the "link to" button and choose the object it should be linked to.
Before a subtitle can be used it need to be activated in the movie object, this is done by clicking the checkbox "Use subtitles" after that a menu will show up. Here its possible to choose which text object should be used as subtitle and is done the same way as everything else. Simply by point and click.
These are added at a given time, so as you scroll through the movie you can see at what time a certain subtitle will show and these will appear until another subtitle overwrites it. So in this example the first subtitle will show 6 seconds into the movie and last until 12 second where the next one takes over and so forth.The background color of the text object only appear to be far wider than the text is in the editor, in the player the background will match the width of the actual text. So this is only so its easier when working with the object in the editor.
How images and movies overlap each other can be control through there Z-order, the higher the Z-order the more dominant the object. This allow for images to be placed on top of movies and vice versa. In this example i have added a window frame around the movie. This also allow for making animated background for menus and mix animation into for example a comic book.
As with a "Click" trigger the movie can also be used as a trigger and will occur when the movie is done playing. Therefore one movie can be used to trigger another one, an audio file or in this example a page change. Which of course is useful if you want to make a introduction, credits or a fighting scene and so on.
