Changing the Reel Primer Tutorial

Changing the Reel Primer Tutorial

Yesterday’s Image Fits in Gimp and Paintbrush Primer Tutorial as shown below, set me to thinking more about video playing and synchronization of playing (videos). Synchronization of the playing of videos is a bit of a misnomer these days because the days of “autoplay” not meaning you have to hit a button, have taken a big beating since the advent of mobile platforms. In this sense why “kick a dead horse” and why not think of more arrangements for video playing that could be useful.

With that in mind, we made up a “Change the Reel” web application where the user starts the videos, and controls it … maybe they want synchronization (and perhaps they’ll achieve it) or maybe they want to play one after the other (and that is like “Changing the Reel”) … but whatever way, they click/touch buttons to make things happen.

This is the initial draft of the program, and can think of more friendly things to do, with it, for the future, but this will stand for now. Why not try it with some videos you know? We try it, today, with our tutorial, with the videos of yesterday’s tutorial.

PHP software wise we created a new PHP programming source code file called change_the_reel_video.php and an updated video_generic.php that changed for our purposes in this way … and here is our live run link.

Previous relevant Image Fits in Gimp and Paintbrush Primer Tutorial is shown below.

Image Fits in Gimp and Paintbrush Primer Tutorial

Yesterday’s tutorial Xcode Swift Image Assets Primer Tutorial needed lots of image “fitting” to go on man person. On a Mac desktop with a MacBook Pro laptop, we find (Mac) Paintbrush to be that little bit friendlier than Gimp to use for this particular job if you have those two images as per …

• make one image about 1024×768 that you find apt
• make one image about 200×200 that you find apt

… already existant. You’d have to play our videos today to see that extra default panning ability of Paintbrush to see what we mean, but when you can crop and fit all at the same time this is quite advantageous, but am not saying in Gimp you can’t do this, it is just that it is not the default in Gimp, and when you are doing a lot of something, that small difference can have quite an effect.

So the three images involved were …

If you want to read about the video player program today, please consult PHP/Javascript Media Synchronize Cross Browser Tutorial.

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