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chinese poetry animation

Posted by nunia on May 27, 2007



thanks. Nodebox just opened a whole new world for my fledging Chinese poetry publishing. but still way to go to be able to do something like this elegant 3D animation


 
Posted by nunia on May 27, 2007

Qeustion:
export to QT movie doesn't include sound. I'm using Parade.py plus:

from AppKit import NSSound
class sound:
def __init__(self, file):
self._sound = NSSound.alloc()
self._sound.initWithContentsOfFile_byReference_(file, True)
def play(self): self._sound.play()
def stop(self): self._sound.stop()
def is_playing(self): return self._sound.isPlaying()
tune1 = sound("8.mp3")
tune1.stop()
tune1.play()

but .mov doesn't have any sound included.
?



Posted by nunia on May 27, 2007

guess. i'm asking too much :-)
i can do all singing and dancing poetry animation with iphoto or other Mac apps. but nodebox is awesome in poetry frame lay-out and bookcover design etc...



Posted by anonymous on May 31, 2007

nodebox was only designed for 2d vector graphics, like yours, but not sound. if you want to add sound to your qt-rendered anims, you'll need to manually add the soundtrack in imovie, qt pro (my preferred, but expensive), final cut pro, or some other editing program. if you use a dv-based editor like imovie or fcp, you should render your animation to 640 by 480.



Posted by nunia on Jun 01, 2007

thanks for the tips. i'd like to have reading of poetry accompany the words and pictures. I just bought visualhub. It's most affordable for what it can... I'll play around.