Anyone know alot about programming?

[MrBen]

At university i've studied C++ and visual studio MFC's. I'm looking at starting up a project needs to be able to manipulate video. Playback, rewind, slow down, that kind of thing. I'm studying music tech so my course only covers programming MIDI and audio not video. I don't even know if these engines are capable of manipulating video or how difficult it will get. Just wondering if anyone has any experience with this kind of thing?

Ben

[Baron]

Sounds like something most easily done in Flash to me.  You can usually get good discounts on it through educational institutions.

[juncmodule]

I don't "know alot about programming", but I will give it a wack.

MFC gives you some kind of basic access to video controls at least. If you need something more advanced than what those libraries offer I imagine the next logical step is DirectX for Windows based multimedia programming. Obviously, there are other C++ libraries that can do the same basic stuff.

Honestly, if you are manipulating audio, I don't imagine video will be a big step away for you.

Since you mention MFC I imagine you also aren't trying to write your own libraries here. I'm not sure if many people even bother with that anymore. Once you create a layer of abstraction for controls like that it really shouldn't matter which library you are leveraging in the end.

good luck,
-junc