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From: SoulJedi on 2 Jul 2008 15:27
:cool;

Hello. I'm creating a reading program that highlights the text as it is being
read to the viewers. Another developer said that he has done something very
similar by importing the XML code. He stated that it was not easy to do...but
didn't go into details. Could anyone here give me further insight?

Thanks!!

SoulJedi!!!

From: Dave C on 2 Jul 2008 16:03
XML is not code, it is a markup language. It is used to share structured
data between different systems. From the brief description of your
project, it seem unlikely that XML would be of any use to you.

That said, Director is well suited by itself to synchronize graphic
displays (such as highlighted text) to audio.


SoulJedi wrote:
> :cool;
>
> Hello. I'm creating a reading program that highlights the text as
it is being
> read to the viewers. Another developer said that he has done
something very
> similar by importing the XML code. He stated that it was not easy to
do...but
> didn't go into details. Could anyone here give me further insight?
>
> Thanks!!
>
> SoulJedi!!!
>
From: SoulJedi on 3 Jul 2008 08:48
Hey, Dave.

Thanks for the XML review! I typed "code" because I was being lazy.
The reason I stated XML was because another developer made it work for him and
I was asking if anyone else had the same success to do so, but if there's a
more efficient way to solve this, let me know.

A general gist of my project: I want to use Director to display text that's
being highlighted while it's being read aloud to the viewers. After a section
of text is being read, a video documentary clip follows giving the readers the
in-depth summary of what was just read.

I would like to find more specific information on how to synch displays to
audio.

Thx!

From: Mike Blaustein on 3 Jul 2008 09:22
The most straightforward way is to simply make a list of the times that
the various words appear in the audio, then compare the current time of
the playing audio member to that list and highlight the appropriate word.

The list would just have the word number and the time that it is
displayed (and if you want, the time that the highlighting should stop).
The list could look something like this:

[#word1:[#start:0,#end:150],#word2:[#start:180,#end:250],#word3:[#start:280,#end:350]]



This can all be done using the default commands that come with Director,
but it can be made easier with some xtras. The MpegAdvanced xtra, for
example, makes cuepoints very easy to create and work with.
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