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Author:  David Luebbert Posted:  3/28/07; 4:01:04 PM Topic:  7-19-02 Colorado Springs (score animation posted to YouTube) Msg#:  5191 (in response to 5190) Prev/Next:  5190/5192 Reads:  855

I'm trying the third or fourth iteration now. The SongTrellis Editor can save scores as QuickTime movies with the soundtrack recorded in MIDI format.

It appears that the code in YouTube that translates QuickTime to Flash format doesn't like the MIDI soundtrack included in the movies I've been trying to upload.

In my lastest test, I saved the video stream out to a separate file, saved the soundtrack into Apple's AIFF format, which expands the sound in size by a factor of a hundred but sounds exactly the same as the MIDI track.

I then imported those two parts into Apple iMovie, manually set the frame size for the movie and saved the whole schmear out again as a QuickTime movie. The result is an 8.4 Mb track, which YouTube seems willing to eat.

We'll know for sure in a few more moments.

If this manual process works, I'm going to see if I can prepare an Apple Script to do the translation in one step, once you feed the script the original MIDI soundtrack movie. If that works, I can put up a part of the site that acts as a factory to build these kinds of movies from folks' Workscores.

• Easy does it, Bernie Chinn, 4/10/07; 6:08:48 AM
  • i, merid, 4/23/07; 2:31:36 AM

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