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Re: Video narration


From: Laura Lazzati
Subject: Re: Video narration
Date: Sat, 4 May 2019 16:34:21 -0300

Hi Paul!

> I have implemented the repeat procedure and pushed the commit to the
> repository.
>
> > I definitely HAVE TO learn Guile.
>
> This is a good example.
>
> There is some arithmetic needed to convert the sleep durations, in
> milliseconds, to frames, using the frame rate.  If you have seen
> reverse polish notation before you will recognise the way the
> arithmetic expressions are built up.
>
> The function comes first and the arguments afterwards.  So (/ wait
> 1000), for example, means divide the variable 'wait' by one thousand.
>
> The repeat procedure uses a 'named let' for recursion.  This calls the
> snap! procedure the correct number of times to generate the extra
> frames.
>
> The slightly tricky part was making sure that the snap! procedure and
> the repeat procedure are in the same scope.  Otherwise, an 'unbound
> variable' error is generated.  I was able to do this by moving the
> repeat procedure, plus the other procedures that are needed for
> processing the session files, inside the same let construct in the main
> body.

Thanks for your explanation, I did a tutorial and I will be playing
with Guile <3
>
> To test I used the firstCli session file from 02-daily-use1.  I changed
> the last line from '#:sleep 30000' to '#:sleep 40000'.  The time
> durations were:
>
> before:  78.408000
> after:  88.408000
My good news are that I get the 10 secs difference, the bad ones that
the timing is different:
00:01:18.408000000
and
00:01:28.407000000
Any clue?

Regards!
Laura



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