Apple 7.2 manual

Quick Time 7 .2 User ’ s Guide Includes instructions for using QuickTime P ro F or Mac OS X version 1 0.3. 9 or later , and Windo ws XP[...]

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3 3 C ont en ts Prefac e 6 W elcome to Quick Time 6 What Is Quick Time? 6 What Is Quick Time Pr o? 7 What’ s New in QuickTime 7? 7 New in Quick Time Play er 8 New in Quick Time Pr o 9 System Requiremen ts 9 T ypes of F iles Quick Time Suppor ts 10 Checking for New V ersions of Quick Time 10 Using Onscreen Help 10 Where to Go for A dditional Infor[...]

4 Contents 22 Pr eventing Users from Changing Quick Time Settings 22 Viewing Movies that have F lash Con tent Chapter 2 23 Getting Started with QuickTime Pro 23 Getting Quick Time Pro 23 Using Adv anced Playback Options 23 Playing a Movie on a Sec ond Display 24 Pr esenting a Movie as a Slidesho w 24 Changing the Color Around a Mo vie 25 Loading Mo[...]

Contents 5 Chapter 4 42 Exporting Files with Quick Time Pro 42 About Video and Audio Compre ssion 43 Exporting Files Using P resets 43 Customizing Export Settings 43 Customizing V ideo Export Settings 45 Adding Special Eff ects and Filters to a Quick Time Movie 45 Changing Image (Frame) Siz e 46 Customizing Sound Export Settings 46 Pr eparing Movie[...]

Prefac e 6 W elcome to Quick Time W ant to play mo vies from y our hard disk or the Int ernet? Quick Time Play er makes it easy . What Is Quick Time? Quick Time Play er is a free multimedia player . Y ou can use it to view many kinds of files, including video , audio , still images, graphics, and vir tual reality ( VR) movies. Quick Time supports t[...]

Preface Welcome to QuickTime 7 What’ s New in QuickTime 7? Both the free Quick Time Pla yer and Quick Time P ro provide a host of new f eatures. New in QuickTime Pla yer  H.264 video support. This state-of-the-art, standards-based codec delivers exceptional-quality video at the lowest data rat e possible, across data rates ranging from 3G to HD[...]

8 Preface Welcome to QuickTime New in QuickTime P ro Quick Time 7 Pr o users enjoy not only all the great featur es in Quick Time Play er , but also the following new Quick Time Pro capabilities: Â Floating c ontrols. F ull-screen mode now provide s floating DVD-like controls for easy access to functions like pause , play , fast-forward, and rewin[...]

Preface Welcome to QuickTime 9 Â Automat or integra tion. With M ac OS X v1 0.4 Tiger or later , emplo y the easy-to-use interface of Automator f or streamlining your Quick Time workflow . Quick Time 7 Pro users have ex clusive access t o a set of Quick Time-based Automat or actions for easily automating such tasks as starting and stopping capture[...]

10 Preface Welcome to QuickTime Checking for New V ersions of QuickTime F rom time to time , Apple releases new v ersions of Quick Time. If you’ re connected to the Internet while using Quick Time Player , you ’ll be notified when there ’ s a newer version of Quick Time available. I t’ s a good idea to have the latest v ersion of the softwa[...]

1 11 1 Using Quick Time Play er This chapter explains the basics of using Quick Time Play er . Opening and Playing F iles Y ou can open and play Quick Time movie s in Quick Time Player or in y our web brow ser . Opening and Playing Mo vies in QuickTime Pla yer Y ou can use Quick Time Play er to play media stored on y our computer’ s hard disk, a [...]

12 Chapter 1 Using QuickTime Player Quick Time Play er has onscreen controls similar t o those found on CD play ers and DVD players . Use the contr ols to play , pause , rewind , fast-for ward , jump to the beginning or end, and adjust the volume of a Quick Time movie . Y ou can also use the controls to move f or ward or backward in a movie . T o g[...]

Chapter 1 Using QuickTime Player 13 With Quick Time Pr o , you also hav e the option of saving the movie to y our hard disk (if the author of the movie allows it). T o save a mo vie from the web , click the downwar d- pointing arrow on the right and choose “Save as Quick Time Movie” or “Save as Source ” from the Quick Time P ro menu. If the[...]

14 Chapter 1 Using QuickTime Player Quick Time automatically det ects your Internet connection speed so that you get the highest-quality Quick Time content that y our Internet connection can support. If movies you ’ re watching on the In ternet don ’t play pr operly , ho wever , it ma y help to change the connection speed setting. T o change th[...]

Chapter 1 Using QuickTime Player 15 T o use HT TP streaming (in Mac OS X): 1 In Quick Time Play er , choose Quick Time Play er > Quick Time Pref erences (or open System P refer ences and click Quick Time). 2 Click Adv anced. 3 Choose Custom from the T ransport Setup pop-up menu. 4 Choose HT TP from the Trans port Protocol pop-up menu. T o use HT[...]

16 Chapter 1 Using QuickTime Player Some Q T VR movies have hot s pots that take you from one scene (or node) to another . As you mov e the mouse over a hot s pot, the cursor changes to an arr ow . T o see all the places where y ou can jump from one node in a scene to another , click the Show Hot Spot button (an arrow with a question mark in it). A[...]

Chapter 1 Using QuickTime Player 17 Opening Recently U sed F iles Y ou can easily open recently used files . T o open recently used file s: m Choose File > Open Rec ent > [ option ] T o change the number of items that appear in the Open Recent submenu (in Mac OS X), choose Quick Time Play er > Pref erences , click G eneral, and choose an o[...]

18 Chapter 1 Using QuickTime Player Viewing Information About a F ile Quick Time Play er can display inf ormation about a Quick Time file, such as its compression f ormat, size , and frame rate while pla ying. T o view information about a file: 1 Open the file. 2 Choose Window > Show Mo vie Info . With Quick Time Pr o , you can see additional in[...]

Chapter 1 Using QuickTime Player 19 Â Play sound in fron tmost play er only : Selec t to play the a udio for only one Quick Time Play er window (the active window); deselect to play the sound of all playing movies simultaneously . Â Play sound when application is in backgr ound: Select to play audio even if Quick Time is not the frontmost applica[...]

20 Chapter 1 Using QuickTime Player Y ou can also set options for all movies pla ying at full screen. For example , you can hide the movie contr ols or change the amount of time they ’ re displayed befor e being hidden. T o set these options in Mac OS X, choose QuickTime Pla yer > P referenc es and click F ull Screen. T o set these options in [...]

Chapter 1 Using QuickTime Player 21 Using F rame Number and Time Codes When you ’ re viewing a movie in Quick Time Player , you can dis play the current mo vie time or frame number , or the SMPTE time code if the movie has a time code track. (Some applications, such as Final Cut P ro , automatically add a time code during capture.) Displa ying Fr[...]

22 Chapter 1 Using QuickTime Player F inding T ex t in a T ext T rack Some movies con tain text such as titles, credits, subtitles , or section headings. Y ou can search for te xt in a movie so that, for example , you can find s pecific frames in the movie. T o search for te xt in a QuickTime movie: 1 Choose Edit > F ind > Find . If this comm[...]

2 23 2 Getting Star ted with Quick Time Pr o Learn ho w to use the adv anced playback options in Quick Time Pr o , create movie post cards , and share them via email or the web . Getting QuickTime P ro T o get Quick Time Pro , choose a Quick Time Pro menu item and click Buy Now , or choose Quick Time Play er > Buy Quick Time Pr o. Y ou must be c[...]

24 Chapter 2 Getting Started with QuickTime Pro T o play a movie on a sec ond display: 1 Open a movie in Quick Time Pla yer . 2 Choose View > Presen t Movie. The two dis plays are shown side by side; one contains the menu bar . The letter “Q” appears on the display on which the mo vie will play . T o play the movie on the other display , cli[...]

Chapter 2 Getting Started with QuickTime Pro 25 Loading Mo vies int o RAM for Better Playback Quick Time has two memory (RAM) options you can use to improv e playback per formance . Preload puts the entire movie in to memory before it is played; Cache keeps movie data in memor y after it has play ed. This option is useful for small files y ou want [...]

26 Chapter 2 Getting Started with QuickTime Pro Setting Recording Options When you first use Quick Time Pro to record video or a udio , settings are aut omatically chosen for you . If you want , you can change settings such as which recor ding device and format to use , and where r ecorded movies ar e stored. T o change recording options: 1 Choose [...]

Chapter 2 Getting Started with QuickTime Pro 27 Saving Movie s from the Int ernet With Quick Time Pr o , you can sav e (download) a movie viewed in y our web browser t o your hard disk. ( The movie must be authored to allo w for saving .) If it’ s a streaming movie , Quick Time P ro save s a small “reference mo vie” that points to the stream.[...]

28 Chapter 2 Getting Started with QuickTime Pro Y ou can add music to your slideshow b y adding an audio track to y our movie before saving it. Open an audio file, selec t the portion you want to add to the slideshow , and choose Edit > Copy . Select the slideshow (or a portion of it) and choose Edit > Selec t All, then choose Edit > “ A[...]

Chapter 2 Getting Started with QuickTime Pro 29 Sharing Movie s by Email or the W eb With Quick Time P ro and Mac OS X it’ s easy to creat e movies that are just right f or sharing with others by email or on your .Mac HomeP age. Simply select how you want to share your mo vie, and QuickTime P ro aut omatically creates a file suitable f or that de[...]

3 30 3 Editing and A uthoring with Quick Time Pr o Learn ho w to use Quick Time Pr o to edit movie s, manipulate mo vie tracks, and much more. Simple Editing With Quick Time Pr o , you can perform movie-editing tasks. Selecting and Playing P ar t of a Movie T o per form editing functions such as Copy and Delete , in most cases you need t o first se[...]

Chapter 3 Editing and Authoring with QuickTime Pro 31 Note: By default, the selec tion markers hide when nothing is selected, mak ing it easy to determine whether or not a frame is selected . T o turn off this option so that the selection markers appear even when nothing is selected, change the “Hide selec tion indicators for empty selection” o[...]

32 Chapter 3 Editing and Authoring with QuickTime Pro W ork ing with T racks A Quick Time movie is made up of one or more “tracks.” Each track stores a particular kind of data. For example , a QuickTime movie c ould have a video track, music tracks, and sound effects tracks. With Quick Time Pr o, you can edit tracks individually . Y ou can move[...]

Chapter 3 Editing and Authoring with QuickTime Pro 33 T o extract a track (and add it to another movie): 1 Choose Window > Show Mo vie Properties. 2 Select the desired track or tracks and click Extrac t. Y ou can select more than one track by holding down the Shift key when you click. Quick Time creates a new mo vie containing the extracted trac[...]

34 Chapter 3 Editing and Authoring with QuickTime Pro Note: If your audio and video are creat ed by the same device , such as a DV camera, and are created at the same time , the audio and video will be synchr onized. Changing Sound T rack V olume L evels and Other Audio Settings With Quick Time Pr o , you can change the volume and balance of a udio[...]

Chapter 3 Editing and Authoring with QuickTime Pro 35 P asting Graphics and T ext into a Mo vie With Quick Time Pr o , you can paste graphics and te xt into a Quick Time movie. If a pasted graphic is larger than the movie ’ s dimensions, Quick Time Pr o resizes the movie to fit the dimensions of the graphic. For be st results , size graphics (usi[...]

36 Chapter 3 Editing and Authoring with QuickTime Pro Overlaying a Mo vie with T ext With Quick Time Pr o , you can use Quick Time Player to ov erlay (superimpose) text on a specific part of an existing movie. T o overla y text: 1 In Quick Time Play er , choose File > Open F ile and then select the text file. 2 Choose Edit > Select All and th[...]

Chapter 3 Editing and Authoring with QuickTime Pro 37 The duration for each line of te xt in the text file appears on a separate line before the line of text. The time you type is the length of time af ter the movie has started at which this line of text will appear . Timestamps are specified as hours:minut es:seconds:fractions of a second (the def[...]

38 Chapter 3 Editing and Authoring with QuickTime Pro Changing Movie P roperties The follo wing sections describe how to resize or r otate a movie , set a movie ’ s poster frame, and more. Adding Annotations t o a Movie With Quick Time Pr o , you can add annotations to document inf ormation about the movie , such as its author , director , and co[...]

Chapter 3 Editing and Authoring with QuickTime Pro 39 Changing a Movie ’ s Shape with a Video Mask With Quick Time Pr o , you can change the shape of a movie from r ectangular to other shapes using a video mask. In combination with a media sk in; you can “skin” a movie so that it plays in a non-rectangular region (for example , a movie could [...]

40 Chapter 3 Editing and Authoring with QuickTime Pro 3 Choose File > Export. In the Export pop-up menu, choose “ T ext to T ext.” In the Use pop-up menu, choose “ T ext with Descriptors.” 4 Click Options. In the T ex t Export Settings dialog, select “Show T ex t, D escriptors , and Time”; select “Show time relative to start of Mov[...]

Chapter 3 Editing and Authoring with QuickTime Pro 41 18 Select the text track, then select “Pr eload this track” (to make the chapter track load first). 19 Deselect the new text track so that it doesn’ t display on t op of the video. The new track will still function as a chapter track. 20 Save the mo vie as a self-contained movie . Y ou can[...]

4 42 4 Expor ting F iles with Quick Time Pr o If you want mor e control o ver ho w QuickTime cr eate s a file , use the Expor t feature of Quick Time P ro . With Quick Time Pr o , you can export a movie to a number of differen t file formats, such as Quick Time movie (MOV ), MPEG-4, 3GPP , 3GPP2, A VI, and DV . In addition, you can expor t an audio[...]

Chapter 4 Exporting Files with QuickTime Pro 43 Expor ting F iles U sing Pr esets Quick Time Pr o offers a myriad of settings and options f or compressing video and a udio during export. T o help simplify the process of compressing and exporting, Quick Time Pr o also offers export presets. Different presets are a vailable f or each file for mat . T[...]

44 Chapter 4 Exporting Files with QuickTime Pro 4 In the Video area of the Movie Settings dialog, click Settings, and then choose your settings. Â Compre ssion type: Choose the video compressor (codec) you wan t to use to compress y our video. For the highest quality at the lowe st data rate (or the smallest file), H.264 is recommended . Â Data r[...]

Chapter 4 Exporting Files with QuickTime Pro 45 Movies with higher frame rate s show motion better but hav e larger file sizes . If you choose a frame rate that’ s lower than the movie ’ s current frame rate , frames will be deleted. If you choose a number that’ s higher than the movie’ s current frame rat e, existing frames will be duplica[...]

46 Chapter 4 Exporting Files with QuickTime Pro Customizing Sound Export Settings T o customize sound settings for e xpor t: 1 Choose File > Export. 2 Choose “Movie to Quick Time Movie” from the Expor t pop-up menu. 3 Click Options. 4 In the Sound area of the Movie Settings dialog , click Settings and then choose your options: Â Fo rm a t: [...]

Chapter 4 Exporting Files with QuickTime Pro 47 Preparing a Mo vie for F ast Star t With Quick Time Pr o , you can set up a movie to start playing from a w eb ser ver bef ore the movie has completely do wnloaded to the user ’ s hard disk. This is called a “F ast Star t” movie. Set the F ast Start setting just before you distribute y our movie[...]

48 Chapter 4 Exporting Files with QuickTime Pro If you want to stream a Quick Time movie using Quick Time Streaming Server , you should use a web-optimized video or a udio compressor to compr ess the movie file. All Quick Time compressors ar e compatible with Quick Time Streaming Server , but the compressors listed her e are optimized to giv e the [...]

Chapter 4 Exporting Files with QuickTime Pro 49 Â File F ormat: T o ensure operability with devices made by ISMA members, choose “MP4 (ISMA).” F or more information, go to www .isma.tv/. Â Video Forma t: Choose the video compressor (codec) y ou want to use to compr ess your video . F or the highest quality at the lowest data rate (or the smal[...]

50 Chapter 4 Exporting Files with QuickTime Pro  Audio F ormat: Choose your audio c ompressor (codec) here . If your sourc e movie has only one audio track and it is already compr essed , you can choose “Pass through ” so that the audio doesn ’t get compressed again.  Data Rate: As with video, the more k ilobits per second , the better th[...]

Chapter 4 Exporting Files with QuickTime Pro 51 3G F ile F ormat Export Options After you choose F ile > Export and click Options, the first two items in the F ile F ormat pop-up menu are the standard formats .  3GPP is for GSM networks . With this format, you can use:  MPEG-4, H.263, or H.264 video  AAC or AMR audio  3G timed text  3G[...]

52 Chapter 4 Exporting Files with QuickTime Pro  Image Size: If you’ re sending the file t o a mobile phone, choose one of the standards. Current maintains the sourc e material size; the resulting file may not play on a mobile phone. T o choose a size not listed in the pop-up menu, choose Custom.  Preserve Aspect Ratio Using: If you are chang[...]

Chapter 4 Exporting Files with QuickTime Pro 53 3G T ex t Options When you export a movie to 3G format (by choosing F ile > Export and then choosing “Movie to 3G”), you access the following options b y clicking Options and then click ing Te x t . These options are a vailable if your mo vie has a text track (credits, titles, subtitles , and s[...]

54 Appendix Shor tcuts and Tips Learn keyboar d shor tcuts and other tips f or using Quick Time efficiently . Quick Time Play er Keyboard Shor tcuts Quick Time Play er and Quick Time Pr o provide keyboard shortcuts for most playback options. When a vailable , each of these shortcuts appears to the right of its associated menu item. A few keyboard s[...]

Appendix Shortcuts and Tips 55 Quick Time Pro Keyboar d Shor tcuts Automa ting Quick Time Play er with AppleScript In Mac OS X, you can use AppleScript t o automate Quick Time Player functions. For example, you can open a movie and tell it to pla y for a specific duration; automate the conv ersion of movies from one f ormat to another; adjust track[...]

56 Appendix Shortcuts and Tips Automa ting Quick Time Play er on Windows In Windows , you can use Jav aScript, Visual Basic, or other Active Scripting languages to automate Quick Time Player functions. As with AppleScript on Mac OS X, you can control mo vie playback, convert movies from one format to another , adjust mo vie and track properties, an[...]

57 Glossary Glossar y AIFF (Audio Int erchange F ile Forma t) An audio file format used widely on the w eb . aspect ratio The relationship betw een the height and width of an image. audio channel Audio tracks can c ontain one or more channels of audio data. Each channel represen ts the sound directed to a particular speaker . F or instance , stereo[...]

58 Glossary F ast Start A method of delivering a movie so that it can start playing before it is fully downloaded . frame A single image in a movie . frame rat e The number of frames displa yed per second . GIF (Graphics Int erchange F ormat) A file format for image s. hint track In a str eamed movie, a hint track specifies for the server how the m[...]

Glossary 59 PNG (P ortable Network Graphics) A file format f or images. poster In Quick Time , a still image, usually a single frame from a movie , used to represen t the movie to users. protocol A set of standar ds for sending and receiving inf ormation on a network. Q TSS (QuickTime Streaming Server) A technology used to deliver media o ver the I[...]

60 Index Index 3G files exporting 50–52 A A/V Controls 18 animations 27 annotations 38 AppleScript 55 audio adding an audio track 33 audio controls 18, 34 B balance changing for an audio track 34 balance controls 18 bass level 18, 34 bit rate. See data rate browser playing movies in a 12 C Cache checkbox 25 chapter lists 12, 39 color changing a m[...]

Index 61 locked media files 17 looping 20 M media keys 17 memory options 25 MIDI 16 MIME Settings 15 Mirror Displays 23 monitors. See displays movie controller 41 Movie Download Cache Size slider 13 MPEG-4 files exporting 48–50 Multi-pass mode 52 Mute checkbox 32, 34 N new features in QuickTime 7 7 O Open Image Sequence command 27 opening files 9[...]