User`s guide

Chapter 25: Working with QuickTime Movies 371
About the Movie Track
Once a movie is imported into Pro Tools it
appears in the Edit Window in its own
Movie Track. This picon (picture-icon)
track displays a “thumbnail” overview of
the frames of the movie it represents. The
Movie track will show greater or lesser de-
tail depending on your current zoom level
in the Edit window — 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 appears only in the
Edit window.
The Movie track behaves much as a
Pro Tools audio or MIDI track in that you
can move the Movie region with the Grab-
ber or other editing tools. This allows you
to offset the movie to any start point. How-
ever, you cannot edit the Movie track by
trimming it or capturing regions from
within it.
Only one QuickTime movie can be associ-
ated with a session at a time. If you wish to
import a different movie into a session, re-
peat the previous steps. The new movie will
replace the original in the session.
A Movie Track takes its name from its asso-
ciated Movie file and cannot be indepen-
dently renamed.
Scrubbing the Movie Track
You can use the Audio Scrubber tool to
scrub the Movie track with full frame accu-
racy. If you scrub directly on the Movie
track, only the movie will scrub (no audio
will play). If you scrub on an audio track,
audio and the movie will scrub simulta-
neously.
To scrub the movie track:
1 Select the Audio Scrubber.
2 Click the movie track at the desired point
and drag the Scrubber.
3 To scrub with finer precision, hold down
the Command key while scrubbing.
About the Movie Window
The Movie window displays the movie
playback or the current frame if playback is
paused or stopped. You can drag the Movie
window anywhere on your computer
screen.
To display the Movie window:
Choose Movie > Show Movie Window. If a
movie has already been imported, the
Movie window will appear.
Scrubbing a movie
Movie window