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How do I move a soundtrack?

Posted: Wed Sep 13, 2006 7:56 pm
by Jbot
Every soundtrack seems to begin at frame 1. I tried the script made available in this forum, but it does not seem to work in the latest version of Mac OS X. I cannot select any .WAV files.
Thanks for any suggestions.

John

Posted: Wed Sep 13, 2006 8:02 pm
by relik
.Wav is a windows format. The Mac version supports AIFF sound files. Not sure if the script will work, or if editing it to replace .WAV with .AIFF will resolve the problem, but you might try contacting the script's author about that.-R

Posted: Wed Sep 13, 2006 9:10 pm
by 7feet
Taking a quick look at it, the .WAV (RIFF) and .AIFF are both based on the framework of Electronic Arts (I)nterchange (F)ile (F)ormat, so it may not be much a a hassle at all to set up the script to work with them for Mac users. I've got a pretty good working mixer script worked out, but I haven't posted the latest version as it's using huge amounts of RAM for reasons I haven't figured out yet. But I'll look at making the Padsound script work with .AIFF files tonight.

Posted: Wed Sep 13, 2006 10:43 pm
by Jbot
Great if you can, but I have no problem with .wav on Mac, it works fine in Quicktime. But when I try to select a wav file in your script's open window, nothing is selectable.

Regards
John

Posted: Wed Sep 13, 2006 11:48 pm
by 7feet
You don't have a problem selecting the wav file as a soundtrack? For the actual "pick a file" window, the script uses a basic part of the script interface for that, so that shouldn't be a problem. If the script itself had a problem with the file, it would tell you. If it's not letting you select a file at all, then I'm not sure what it might be.

Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2006 8:53 am
by Jbot
I cannot select any file in the script's open window, incl. wav's, which must mean it does not recognise the files. They have the correct suffix. Can any mac user use your script?
Anyway, I think the great programmer of Anime Studio should fix this so you can move a sound track around. Both Toonboom and the Tab do this with no problem and AS is being marketed as a great tool for lip synching.

Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2006 3:02 pm
by 7feet
I've never had any complaints from any Mac users, so it may be something has gone screwy when they set up the Mac port for the release. There are new localization functions, so maybe thats it. I made up a little script just to test the file opening:
http://www.sharemation.com/Moho/MenuScr ... enTest.lua

See if that helps clear up anything.

Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2006 6:00 pm
by Jbot
No, sorry, all files are greyed out, I cannot select .jpg, .anme or .wav and any other file.

Hope you can fix it.
Thanks for your help so far.

John

Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2006 6:17 pm
by 7feet
If that's the case, try using another script like the Credits script (Scripts>Other>Credits) and see if that works, but if you tried that test file and it's not working, then I'm pretty sure it's something broken in the script interface on Macs. Could be a problem for a number of scripts, and just being a user not one I can do anything about. If the Credits script does the same thing, you should post it in the Bug Reports forum.

Scripts not working properly on Mac OS X

Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2006 8:42 pm
by Jbot
I finally had time to try the credits script and as you suspect, it doesn't work on my Mac OS X computer.
Where do you file a bug report?
John

Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2006 8:52 pm
by relik
If you go to the forum index and scroll down you'll see a bug report forum under the Support subheading. I think this is probably the best place at this point because I'm not sure e-frontier has set up a bug forum or e-mail as yet.-R