Director controlling external quicktime video?

Hi,
I am trying to develop multi-screen (4 screen) director piece that displays quicktime videos and animation. I am wondering if it is possible to have quicktime video playing externally (not inside director but on quicktime player) but using cuepoints, can be controlled using director lingo. This is so both the director movie and the quicktime plays in sync. I heard that doing this will make the video perform better and smoother. Anyone has done it before?
Thanks... Jeff

It sounds like your older Mac can't keep up with the data rate found in the files.
They are probably .dv files and they are never intended to be used (viewed) as a playback format. They are an editing file format with very high data rates.
Your archives will still work when you buy a newer Mac that has more "oomph".

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upgraded to all the latest versions. I unchecked the
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Paned Quicktime Preferences and have set it to safe
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video from video files on my harddrive (not from
internet) while the audio plays just fine. Can
anyone expain this and tell me how to correct it. My
PC system is more than adequate so I do not
understand why this occurs. Flash Player video plays
just fine and only Quicktime video is a problem.
PLEASE HELP! I've paid for the whole first season
of "Heroes" on iTunes and am unable to watch it!
PC Windows XP
2GHz 1024 GB with Radeon 9000 128 MB video
card/driver
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