6.4
Table Of Contents
- User’s Guide
- Contents
- Welcome to QuickTime
- Getting Started With QuickTime
- Using QuickTime Player Controls
- Playing Movies in QuickTime Player
- Playing Movies in a Web Browser
- Viewing QuickTime Virtual Reality (VR) Movies
- Adjusting QuickTime Settings
- Viewing and Modifying Still Images
- Using QuickTime to Play MIDI Files
- Finding Movies Quickly Using QuickTime Favorites
- Viewing Information About a File
- QuickTime on the Internet
- Making and Editing QuickTime Movies With QuickTime Pro
- Opening and Converting Files With QuickTime
- Working With Movie Tracks
- Viewing QuickTime Movie Tracks
- Copying a Track From Another QuickTime Movie
- Extracting Individual Tracks
- Disabling Individual Tracks
- Working With Audio Tracks
- Working With Text Tracks
- QuickTime Sprite and Tween Tracks
- Specifying Languages for Individual Tracks
- Changing a Movie’s Appearance With Transparent Tracks
- Editing QuickTime Movies
- Selecting Part of a Movie
- Cutting, Copying, or Deleting a Section of a Movie
- Replacing a Section of a Movie
- Combining Two QuickTime Movies Into One
- Presenting Multiple Movies in the Same Frame
- Adding Special Effects to a QuickTime Movie
- Pasting Graphics and Text Into a Movie
- Resizing, Skewing, or Rotating a Movie
- Changing a Movie’s Shape With a Video Mask
- Adjusting Individual Movie Options
- Advanced Concepts
- Keyboard Combinations forPlayingQuickTimeMovies
- Glossary
- Index
38 Chapter 4 Advanced Concepts
To export a movie:
1 In QuickTime Player, open the movie you wish to export.
2 Choose File > Export.
3 Choose a format from the Export pop-up menu.
4 To adjust compression settings, click Options.
Setting the Frame Rate for Export
With QuickTime Pro, you can set the frame rate when you export a movie. Movies
with higher frame rates show motion better but have larger file sizes.
To set the frame rate for export:
1 In QuickTime Player, choose File > Export.
2 Choose “Movie to QuickTime Movie” from the Export pop-up menu.
3 Click Options and then click the Settings button in the Video box.
4 Enter a number in the “Frames per second” box or choose a rate from the pop-up
menu.
Typical frame rates are 29.97 for NTSC video, 25 for PAL video, and 24 for film. When
exporting low-bandwidth versions, select a frame rate that is 1/2, 1/3, or 1/4 of the
original frame rate. Setting a frame rate higher than the original frame rate makes
the file larger but does not improve the quality.
To see the current frame rate for a movie while it is playing, choose Window > Show
Movie Info and click the More Info triangle.
Changing a Movie’s Preview and Poster Frame
When you open a movie file from within a QuickTime-aware application such as
QuickTime Player, a preview of the movie appears in the Open dialog. The preview,
by default, shows the first 10 seconds of the movie.
To specify a new preview:
1 Select the portion of the movie that you want to use as a preview, then choose
Movie > Get Movie Properties.
2 Choose Preview from the right pop-up menu, then click “Set Preview to Selection.”
A “poster frame” is a still image of a movie that appears, for example, in the QuickTime
Player Favorites window. The default poster frame is the first frame in the movie. If you
have QuickTime Pro, you can change the poster frame by moving to the desired frame
and choosing Movie > Set Poster Frame.
For audio-only movies, changing the poster frame has no visible effect on the preview
displayed.
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