External Cue points

Hi,
I was hoping that someone could help me out with this. I have
a SWF that plays a FLV with actionscript cue points that when the
cue point is reached the timeline plays. I need the cue points
variables (the timecode) to be loaded from a text file because non
Flash users will be adding content. The problem is that I can get
it to work with putting the variables in the actionScript. But if I
load the variables from the text file the playhead will not play
with the cue point is reached. Below is the code that I am using.
Thanks in advance.

I'm sure there is more than one way to skin this cat, but here is what I use with NetStream video to load other .swfs (could be photos or other videos) at certain points in the main video:
ns.onCuePoint = function(evt:Object){
    trace(evt.name);
    trace(evt.time);
    if(evt.name == "play_vid1") {
        trace("YO!Loading wide_holder!");
        wide_holder.loadMovie("rm/images/black_bear.swf");
    if(evt.name == "play_vid2") {
trace("YO!Loading standard_holder!");
        standard_holder.loadMovie("rm/images/sqis.swf");
in this case using an "event" cue point object embedding at certain times in the video.
Lots of info on the Web, here is just one:
http://www.communitymx.com/content/article.cfm?cid=124DB
Best wishes,
Adninjastrator

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I'm sure there is more than one way to skin this cat, but here is what I use with NetStream video to load other .swfs (could be photos or other videos) at certain points in the main video:
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It seems you're adding the MP3 as a legacy media object, which is strongly discouraged (and impossible as of Acrobat X).
MP3 files don't support genuine "cue points", but with Acrobat 9+ Rich Media annotations you can easily set a button to play a file from a specified offset time (in seconds) - by choosing a button action of "Multimedia Operation (Acrobat 9 and later)", then "Seek to time", and entering the offset in seconds from the start of the track in the bottom field of the dialog.
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Thanks Rob, will do.
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Cue points - listener vs event?

I'm a little over my head here...
I have a movie that loads an external flv. In the flv I have
a cue point at
the very end to mark the end of the movie. Once the flv is
done playing,
I'd like to advance to the next frame.
There are a few posts here and there and I'm not sure if I'd
be better
testing for the end cue point with a listener or if it could
be an event.
Any help would be appreciated.
I'm using Flash 8 Pro/PC

David,
>> There are a few posts here and there and I'm not
sure
>> if I'd be better testing for the end cue point with
a
>> listener or if it could be an event.
Cue points are events, no matter how you handle them. There
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basic categeories of object functionality: properties
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methods (things the object can do), and events (things the
object can react
to). An "end" cuepoint is something your video object reacts
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event. How you *handle* (that is, manage) this event depends
on how the
object was written. Some objects, such as Button, TextField,
and MovieClip
instances require event handlers. Some require event
listeners.
I blogged on this just the other day, so for what it's
worth, take a
look here ...
http://www.quip.net/blog/2006/flash/event-handlers-listeners
Hope that helps.
David
stiller (at) quip (dot) net
Dev essays:
http://www.quip.net/blog/
"Luck is the residue of good design."

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Flash junkies out there are up for sitting down with me through
email or IM and helping me get to the point where I have a template
FLA doing what I want to do, I'd be willing to pay you. It wouldn't
be much, but it would be something. Here's what I'm trying to do:
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My advice... start with a very simple "proof of concept" project before you attempt the entire package.
It will be much easier to scale up if you first have a very good understanding of what's going on.
So one simple video with just one cuepoint and only one button and additional display. You'll also have to work out the interaction of pausing the video when a cuepoint is reached or button pushed to display the graph, giving the viewer time to read the graph... then when the viewer closes the graph, the video should "resume".
Start very simple and build on that only after you understand the fundamentals.
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"Flash and XML"
"XML Video Playlist"
"ActionScript 3 XML Basics"
"ActionScript 3 Advanced XML"
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http://www.drheimer.com/video/
Yours is a rather ambitious project and will take awhile to gain the skill and assemble the pieces. So when you come to a new part... first create a real simple "proof of concept" model so you can learn how that section works. Don't expect to be able to assemble the entire project all at once.
Best wishes,
Adninjastrator

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Hi Folks I would like to have a video clip control the advance of an external slideshow by using cue points set in the video.
The videos do not need to be live streamed and can be prepared with keyframes at the key positions for slide advance
So is it keyframes or cuepoints? I didn`t say sth. of Livestream either.
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steps sugested. I used Flash Video Encoder, created the cue points,
worte down the location of those cue points, which I wrote exactly
in the Settings.XML file for each chapter....etc. I guarantee you
that I did it all as sugested...In fact several months ago, it
worked for another project and another videos that I had.
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screen all right but when I select a chapter for the section of
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<title>Fire Department 2</title>
<time>00:01:39.686</time>
<image>img/Poison Center.png</image>
<caption>How to escape from a fire at
home</caption>
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<cuepoint>
<title>Crime Stoppers</title>
<time>00:01:51.869</time>
<image>img/TxDepTra.png</image>
<caption>Buckle up...</caption>
</cuepoint>
<cuepoint>
<title>Texas Dep of Transportation</title>
<time>00:01:51.869</time>
<image>img/Poison Center.png</image>
<caption>Assistance by phone in case of
emergency...</caption>
</cuepoint>
<cuepoint>
<title>Poison Center</title>
<time>00:02:02.946</time>
<image>img/Gathering3.png</image>
<caption>Mops Gathering at the FLC Picnic
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<image>img/Kids-with-Jenny.png</image>
<caption>Nice visit and gathering w/our
children</caption>
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I have my file structure right as well in each folder IMG and
VIDEO.
What does this error means and how can I correct the
problem.....I have been expending hours trying different ways and
still can't get it to work.
Thanks,
Edna

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Hi there,
I'm a total newb to this forum, so hello adobe premiere community! I'm perplexed by Adobes documentation on Premiere (and I'm sure I'm not the first ) anyway on the live documents page below:
http://livedocs.adobe.com/en_US/PremierePro/3.0/help.html?content=WS9390BED7-9466-46ea-A0E A-3240F1AFC36C.html
it states that:
“The cue point data in the Chapter field of a sequence marker in Adobe Premiere Pro will be encoded as Flash XML. For the XML protocol required, see Flash Help.”
Which is great…except this information doesn’t exist seemingly in either the Premiere documentation or Flash either for that matter, but as I’m interested in working with the chapter/marker area in Premiere – should I really be told to go off and search the documentation for another application, probably not! What would have been useful would have been a code snippet saying you do it like this, but of course, that would make things too easy!
Basically, I understand that in After FX you can add Flash marker information specifically for interpretation when exporting to Flash Video (i.e. name, type and parameters etc) and it suggests that you can do the same above in Premiere CS3 using some kind of concatenated string in the chapter area…it just doesn’t tell you how anywhere seemingly – WHY ADOBE!
Currently when I export markers as cue points based on the advice in the page above, anything I put in the chapter section to force Premiere to create a cue point is converted to a string, which becomes the cue point ‘name’.
This cue point name is then automatically appended to the ‘time’ the marker was inserted at and is always encoded as type ‘navigation’, with no obvious means of adding ‘parameters’ into the equation.
So (finally) does anyone know if you can insert this information into the chapter area for correct interpretation by flash (i.e. thus allowing you to choose between either 'navigation' or 'event' types, and pass as many 'parameters' as you wish etc) or are you just limited to supplying a name, and it being automatically set to the navigation type with no parameters?
I’m sorry for this long essay but at least the issue is well defined for you to answer, honestly any help you can provide what so ever would really be most appreciated!
Best regards,
Kat
PS – I have utterly no knowledge of XML either just in case you were wondering – and my only interest in XML is getting this basic information encoded into the FLV file from Premiere Pro CS3! Please help, pretty please with daisy’s!!!

Hi dradeke,
Thanks for your reply, which is indeed useful as clearly Adobe have made this task easier and less obscure in CS4 by adding simple interface functionality, however I'm stuck with using CS3 for the moment. Its not majorly a problem as the video material in question can be exported uncompressed then setup with cue points using the Flash encoder as an alternative (i.e. or even After FX CS3 also) which both provide the same features as Premiere CS4 seemingly. It is just that it would be much easier to be able to drop in simple markers whilst working with Premiere CS3, as this is what we are going to be using primarily, I just wondered if anyone knew how to invoke this in CS3 - its possible you can't, the documentation is vague at best!
However I really appreciate your response and help, thanks

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