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For recording sound, the online version of the Dictionary says

"The record sound command uses QuickTime to record"

Yet I found some posts in various forums that claim you don't need to have QT installed. I'd rather not uninstall QT from my Windows machine just to test this. I need to allow the user of my standalone application to record sound in Mac OSX and Windows even if they don't have QT for Windows.

I would also like to allow the user to:

- select the sound input for the recording
- monitor the recording level
- adjust the recording level
- after the recording has been completed, generate a waveform graphic for it

(I do know about the "record sound" command and related properties.)

I found a lot of forum posts about Mike Smith's waveform plotter from 2007, when it was working only on PPC, but I couldn't find anything current (although I saw other people looking for a waveform generator).

Where can I learn about these things?

Thanks!

sp27

Hi,

I think you'll need QT for all those features.

Which forum post says that you don't need QT for recording?

Kind regards,

Mark

Thanks, Mark. This is sad. I don't feel good about telling the users who don't already have QT installed on their Windows machines that they must install it so just for my application. And RR will have to find a different solution for Android.

I have read all there is in the Dictionary about recording sound,but I still don't know how I would go about monitoring the actual sound level during the recording (how I would show a meter) nor how to plot a waveform graphic after the recording is made.

Can you point me in the right direction? Someone mentioned TM | Tools, but searching for a name like that isn't very productive. I haven't been able to find any info and don't even know if it's part of LC.

The only example of a recording stack that I have (RecordingTest.zip from a forum) was posted by the someone who couldn't get it to work, and I now think that he thought QT wasn't required.

I'm not new to a/v work. I have written applications in Adobe Director that record and play media, and they're used by hundreds of students. But Director is not in good health, and I'm hoping to switch to LC.

Gratefully,

sp27