MatchWare Mediator 9 Documentation

This is really impressive. You are now creating multimedia presentations with pictures, text and sound, and
you've only just started!
How about watching a video now? Just go on to the next step…
Further steps - Playing a video
[The complete Mediator document "Quick Start_Further Steps.md8" used in this example can be found in the Mediator program folder, in
"…\Examples\Quick Start".]
Playing videos in Mediator is very simple. You create a frame for your video, select the video, and that's it.
Well, of course you can do a lot more, but let's get started.
Open the Page list and click Page2.
Right-click and choose New, or just press the Insert key.
Enter a descriptive name for the new page, such as "Video".
Click OK.
A new empty page appears on which we want to place a video.
Click the Insert tab.
Click the Video icon in the Media Clips group.
Drag out a frame for your video on the page.
The Open dialog appears.
Select the video 'Street.mpg' from the Quick Start folder.
Click Open.
The Video Adjust Size dialog appears.
Just click OK to let Mediator adapt the frame size to the video.
You are ready to test the page. Do not choose Run Document this time.
Choose Review | Test | Run Page or press F6.
The video starts automatically, plays once, then stops.
Press Esc to exit test mode.
We would like the video to start on demand, and repeat until paused.
Select the video.
On its Format tab, uncheck Auto Start in the Play group.
This will prevent the video from playing when the page is first opened.
Check Repeat.
Once the video is started, this will repeat it over and over until stopped explicitly.
You will now use two events that you haven't used before, Mouse Down and Mouse Up.
• Mouse Down is triggered when you click the left mouse button.
• Mouse Up is triggered as soon as you let go of the left mouse button.
Right-click the video object and choose Events in its local menu.
The Events dialog for the video object appears.
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