[muglo] Re: HyperCard Stack Problem When Burned on CD-R
- From: Gerhard Kuhn <gerhardk@xxxxxxx>
- To: muglo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2004 07:55:38 -0500
I think the QT movie relies on dependencies and when you copy the movie
to CD-R it cannot find these files were it expects them. What you want
to do is save the movie as "Self Contained" to your hard-drive and then
burn that movie to your CD-R. After having done that your movies
should play from the CD-R. In order to do this you will require QT
PRO.
Gerhard
P.S. The default setting seems to be Save Normally (allowing
dependencies) so make sure you select the self contained save option.
The advantage of using reference movies is that you only require the
media once for several versions of a movie therefore saving space.
Disadvantage is when the movie does not find the files were it expects
them it can't play.
On Nov 2, 2004, at 1:24 AM, Bob McDaniel wrote:
> A frustrating problem has emerged after burning several HyperCard
> stacks
> on a CD-R. The movie clips installed using WindowScript (an HC
> enhancement) won't play. However, they play fine when I run the stack
> from an Iomega Zip100 disk where I've had it stored for some time.
>
> The stacks were initially placed on the Zip using a Performa 6400 with
> MacOS 9.0.4. Their creation took place many moons ago on an upgraded
> "fat Mac" and an LC with MacOS 7.5.5 (?). I don't know how this may be
> relevant!
>
> I have a number of HC and SuperCard stacks that I wish to archive on a
> CD-R.
>
> One of the things I've learned is that I can't burn a Zip disk to a
> CD-R
> (I'm using Toast Titanium 6, BTW). Not only that, but I can't drag the
> folder containing the HC etc stacks from the Zip to the Toast window
> and
> expect it to burn. It's accepted in the window OK, but burning in both
> cases results in some overrun error (and of course ruined CD-Rs).
>
> So I have to save the HC folder to my eMac (MacOS 10.2.8, 512 RAM
> w/SuperDrive), then drag it into Toast and the burn is successful.
>
> Now the interesting part:
>
> As stated at the beginning the problem emerges when I run the stack
> from
> the CD-R and open a card which should launch a movie clip. Now, if the
> original Zip is still in the Zip drive, then it does run OK! And, of
> course, it will run as mentioned from the Zip itself. But remove the
> Zip
> disk from its drive, launch the stack from the CD-R and no dice. Once,
> while running HyperCard from the CD-R, I attempted to eject the Zip
> disk, but got an error message reporting that the move couldn't be
> completed because the disk was in use. So it does seem that HyperCard
> on
> the CD-R was connected to something on the Zip, but what?
>
> It seems that there is something on the Zip that it requires, but I'm
> damned if I know what it is. I have copied everything (visible) from
> the
> Zip to a folder on the eMac, then copied that folder to the Toast
> window
> for burning.
>
> While the movie clips are a minuscule part of my total project, it is a
> puzzle to me why it's happening. And having to have both the Zip disk
> and the CD-R present in order to run the movie clips on the CD-R really
> defeats the purpose of the exercise.
>
> What am I missing here?
>
> Bob
>
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