7

462 Chapter 19 Video
Working With Movies
In the QuickTime window, you can enter the SMPTE offset of the film in the Movie Start
row. This is independent of the SMPTE offset for the song. Grabbing and dragging the
position slider at the bottom of the video, or using the forward/rewind buttons to the
right, moves the film to any position, and Logic will “chase” to the corresponding song
position. All QuickTime transport functions interact with those of Logic.
Optimal Image Size
If you click once on the gray bar at the bottom of the video image, the QuickTime
window will expand to fill the whole screen in such a way that the entire video image,
whatever its shape, best fits your monitor. The window borders will also disappear (Best
Size without Borders)
This proportional enlargement does mean that strangely-shaped images may not fill
the entire monitor. There are two advantages to this: the proportions of the image is
retained, and a faster screen refresh rate can be obtained, because the graphics card is
not overloaded with conversion calculations for altering the movie’s proportions.
Clicking on the gray bar at the bottom of the image restores it to its original format and
size.
Options
Clicking and holding on the movie image opens the options menu. You can set various
proportional image formats, from half-size to 8× size here.
The following image sizes are also selectable, allowing a non-proportional enlargement
of the image if it is oddly-shaped for the monitor you’re using:
Pixel 512 × 384
Changes image size to NTSC Underscan format.
Pixel 640 × 480
Changes image size to PAL Underscan or NTSC Overscan format.
Pixel 768 × 576
Changes image size to PAL Overscan format.
Make Proportional
This selects the next-largest proportional setting.
Center
Choosing this option places the video image in the middle of your screen.
Best Size without Borders
This option is equivalent to the click on the gray bar at the bottom of the video screen.