Specifications

Pro Tools Reference Guide578
Importing a QuickTime Movie
Before you import a movie, you should digitize
your video material and know the correct frame
rate and sample rate when applicable.
To import a QuickTime movie into Pro Tools:
1 Launch Pro Tools and create a new session, or
open an existing one.
2 Check the time code settings of the session to
make sure they match those of the movie you
want to import, and save the session.
3 Choose Movie > Import Movie.
4 Select the movie and click Open. Pro Tools im-
ports the movie and displays it in its own Movie
track in the Edit window as well as in a floating
Movie window. The first frame of the movie is
automatically placed at the start time of your
session.
About the Movie Track
Once a movie is imported into Pro Tools it ap-
pears in the Edit window in its own Movie track.
Depending on the setting of your Movie track
view, the movie displays as blocks, or as a pic-
ture-icon (picon) “thumbnail” overview of the
frames of the movie it represents. The Movie
track will show greater or lesser detail depending
on your current zoom level in the Edit win-
dow—the closer in you zoom, the greater the
number of individual frames that are displayed
in the Movie track; the farther out you zoom,
the fewer the number of individual frames that
are visible.
The Movie track behaves much as a Pro Tools
audio or MIDI track in that you can move the
movie region with the Grabber or other editing
tools. This allows you to offset the movie to any
start point. However, you cannot edit the Movie
track by trimming it or capturing regions from
within it.
If a video card with hardware video com-
pression was used to create the QuickTime
movie, Pro Tools cannot play the movie
without the compression hardware. Make
sure the video card is installed and config-
ured correctly before starting your session.
Import Movie dialog
Movie track above an audio track in the Edit window