Alaa
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Have the software but don't know how to !?
Posted: 26 Sep 2008 at 20:42 GMT
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I bought quicktime Pro, have QTVR, and still can't manage linking VR panoramas together ! is there a simple way to just put a file's name for a hotspot to move on from one pano to another? please accept my ignorance regarding Java, and html, what I'm trying to do is have a self contained CD/DVD with panos of houses, moving from one room to another.
I would so much appreciate your help,
Thanks
A.Morabet
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Doug Aurand
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Re: Have the software but don't know how to !?
Posted: 26 Sep 2008 at 21:10 GMT
updated: 26 Sep 2008 at 21:10 GMT
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Alaa
QuickTime Pro is Apple's video editing program.
As I understand it, its useless for QuickTime Cubic VR images. The QT Video and VR share the file extension .mov, but are actually different file types.
You will need to convert them to video (see www.pano2movie.com), or learn Adobe/Macromedia Director or covert them VR images to Flash and learn Flash.
Good luck
Doug Aurand
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Sam Rohn
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Alaa
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Re: Have the software but don't know how to !?
Posted: 26 Sep 2008 at 21:46 GMT
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Thank you so much for your answers, and sorry forgot to add that I'm a PC user, which files did you want me to convert ? at the QTVR is asks for the URL, and no other options, I wished there was a browse for file to add the other .mov VR panos of rest of the homes/house I'm trying to put together.
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Doug Aurand
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Re: Have the software but don't know how to !?
Posted: 26 Sep 2008 at 21:54 GMT
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Alaa
The URL its asking for means its going to link to something on the Internet in a web browser.
I seem to remember reading this doesn't work in the QuickTime Player when playing a QTVR scene locallym like from a hardrive or CD.
Sam, if Alaa pays some one to use CubicConnetor to link the images together will they play from a CD and on both Macs and PCs?
Doug Aurand
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Alaa
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Re: Have the software but don't know how to !?
Posted: 26 Sep 2008 at 21:59 GMT
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Doug,
I remember I was with a friend of mine Andrea, who did a hotspot pano without being connected to any internet, as a matter of fact we were in nowhere close to any civilization, I don't remember what he did, but he managed to link and move to another pano just by pressing to a hotspot.
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Doug Aurand
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Re: Have the software but don't know how to !?
Posted: 26 Sep 2008 at 22:28 GMT
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Alaa
It can be done with QTVR images, I just don't think it can be done with just the images linked to each other and being viewed with the free QuickTime Player.
I think some other software/player/environment is involved with the QTVR images.
The guy who made the .w3d player for me could have used QTVR images, but the QuickTime Player would have had to be installed on the computer the CD was played on. By using the .w3d format, with is "native to Director", the Director Projector/Player could display the cubic images without using any other software installed on the computer the CD was running on.
It cost $500 for the player and even with limited functions, works perfect as a CD demo of my work
You're not the first to look for a CD based solution
Doug Aurand
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Sam Rohn
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Re: Have the software but don't know how to !?
Posted: 27 Sep 2008 at 7:07 GMT
updated: 27 Sep 2008 at 7:09 GMT
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Doug Aurand said: Sam, if Alaa pays some one to use CubicConnetor to link the images together will they play from a CD and on both Macs and PCs?
i believe so, i think it will export the kind of single file multi node qtvr movie that should play fine from a CD -
what about just making a web presentation and putting it on a CD ?
i would think that if one used relative urls it would work ok ?
or just putting the panos on a proper website ? seems more logical anyway, panos on CD seems very 1996....
pano2vr does qtvr hotspots too, see this tutorial - gardengnomesoftware.com/tutorial.php?kid=hs_01
macophile that i am, i've kind of given up on any real future for qtvr, i would recomend looking at flash panorama options like flash panorama player, pano2vr, panosalado, etc
sam
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Doug Aurand
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Re: Have the software but don't know how to !?
Posted: 27 Sep 2008 at 14:30 GMT
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Sam
When webpages are opened from a CD, Windows XP Service Pack 2 thows up all sorts of warnings. I think its because there "website" on the CD has no Certificate or something
If Alaa helps it open, accepting all the warnings, then moving past them, the hotspots should work, like you say with "relative urls".
I've found some of the non-Internet generation are more comfortable with CDs. Sometimes its easier to get them to put a CD in a drive than follow a link in an e-mail becasue they think every website on the 'Net is going to load a virus into their computer.
Unfortunately, those people are some times the decision maker I'm trying to sell a tour too
So using both methods, the Web and a CD, makes my selling efforts easier
Doug Aurand
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