Very Computer

I need to know if the sounds on Apple's Quicktime Musical Instruments
extension is General MIDI compatible and where I might find a list of
what the sounds are if it is not GM compatible.  Thanks.

Chris

having trouble geting my qt movie on
a web site.  8bit audio, cinepak compression,
made on a mac 840av - tried ftp'ing (fetch)
up to server using 'raw data', 'binary'; neither
is playable on pc.  what am i doing wrong?
e-mail any ideers...  thanx in advance.

You need to do what is called "flatten" the movie.  Adobe Premiere
will do this as well an many other programs.

Irv

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Charles.

% Standard MIDI Files on the Net
% http://www.aitech.ac.jp/~ckelly/SMF.html

You probably have MoviePlayer.  When you save a movie there, the dialogue
box has three options:  save normally, make movie self-contained, and
playable on non-Apple computers.

The first one saves a reference copy that takes up hardly any file space.
This is good on your computer only.

The second one saves a full copy any other Mac can play.

The third does exactly what it says it does.  Specifically it takes out
any resource forks in the file.  PCs can't handle them.

As for actually flattening a non-flattened movie, you need another
program.  However, if you are simply producing a movie in Premiere or
something similar, it has an option to flatten the movie.

Flattening, by the way, is taking a movie that has multiple video and/or
audio tracks and making them into just one of each.  PCs can't handle
multiples.  More than one shot doesn't mean you have multiple tracks.
Again, if you render a movie in a program like Premiere, it's probably
already flat.

--Niel

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Turner Broadcasting Company is not Turner Broadcasting Corporation.

Is there a way to include new instruments into the Quicktime MIDI
Synthesizer? Is there also a complete General MIDI Synthesizer for
Quicktime available? The one which is included is only a subset of the GM
specification.

Thanks,
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Dr. Karlheinz Essl
SAMT - Studio for Advanced Music & Media Technology
Bruckner-Konservatorium Linz / Austria

www:   http://www.ping.at/users/essl/index.html
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