Tinderbox Training Video 13 - Working with media in your TBX files (Part 2)

[Data (Data Architector)]

@mwra

Yikes. Preview stated out as, and still fundamentally is, a way to see what the (HTML) export is without actually exporting. Some users have leveraged this a way to have web-style formatted note 'visible in-app. I see why, but it is always going to come up short as there’s always some new edge case, as above, that whilst it might work in a (web) browser likely can’t/won’t in the browser-like internal preview window.

It’s worth asking why do you need frame-by-frame advance in Tinderbox preview. Given that you can easily do other things as the app window is in preview, the real reason is , I think still hidden. I don’t mean that you don’t need to review the video, but rather it’s not clear why you truly need to do it in the preview window.

In some training videos, the instructor performs the action so quickly that you can only figure out how to do it if you watch it frame by frame

[Data (Data Architector)]

If you use the macOS viewer, you can quickly press and release the Play key (where the F8 key is), and if you use Stamp to start VLC:

runCommand("/Applications/VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/VLC " + $fullPath + $startSec);

you use the E key to move frame by frame

[satikusala (Dr. Michael Becker)]

@Data Here is an answer to your last two questions: Tinderbox Lesson - Embedding and Previewing Video in And Out of Tinderbox.