User`s guide

Chapter 25: Working with QuickTime Movies 367
chapter 25
Working with QuickTime Movies
You can use Pro Tools to import Quick-
Time™ movies and audio, perform audio
post-production tasks, and export the fin-
ished product as a new QuickTime movie.
▲ QuickTime™ movie features in Pro Tools are
supported on Macintosh systems only.
About QuickTime
QuickTime is digital video technology de-
signed to produce compact video files for
multimedia use.
Using QuickTime Movies in
Pro Tools
Pro Tools allows you to import Quick-
Time™ movies into your Pro Tools ses-
sions.
Once imported into Pro Tools, a Quick-
Time movie is displayed in its own Movie
track in the Edit window, and in a floating
Movie window. This floating window can
be viewed on a second monitor with appro-
priate video hardware. With a QuickTIme
movie in the session, Pro Tools serves as a
fast, random-access visual reference for
“sweetening” the movie by adding sound
effects, music, Foley, dialog, or other audio.
Pro Tools provides precise, frame-accurate
audio and video synchronization. This
means you can use your Pro Tools system
as an off-line audio editing system, leaving
the video editing suite free for video edit-
ing.
With Pro Tools, you can:
◆ import a QuickTime movie into a ses-
sion.
◆ import audio from a QuickTime movie
(or audio from a CD or a CD-ROM).
Movie Track displayed as picons
Movie Window