User`s guide

154 Starry Night User’s Guide
Tip: After you have set your compression
settings once, the Compression Settings
window will not open automatically when
you make subsequent movies. To change
your movie preferences, you can select
Preferences from the File menu
(Windows) or the Starry Night menu
(Macintosh) and press the QuickTime
Movie Preferences button in the
QuickTime section.
Making QuickTime Virtual Reality
Files
You can make amazing interactive scenes
using Starry Night. Unlike a flat 2D
image, QuickTime VR (QTVR)
transforms your view into an immervise
experience. For example, you can save a
QTVR panorama of how the constellations
appear from your location. You can then
share this file with your friends. And
unlike receiving a 2-dimensional flat
image that only shows a static portion of
the sky, your friends will be able to move
all around the horizon and zoom in with
the interactive controls. You can even save
360 degree views of solar system objects!
Making panoramas: To make a panorama
of your horizon view, select File->Export
As QuickTime VR. Starry Night will
prompt you to name your VR file and will
then take a series of exposures to create
the panorama. After the exposures are
completed, a QuickTime movie window
will appear showing your new panorama.
To move around the panorama, click-and-
drag your mouse cursor inside the window.
Tip: You can make panoramas from the
surface of any solar system object.
Making object movies: You can also create
interactive 360 degree QuickTime VR
files for objects in our solar system. These
files allow you to rotate and view an object
from every angle.
Example: Creating a QuickTime VR
object movie for Saturn
1Open the Find pane and clear the text-
box to reveal the list of solar system
objects.
2 Type in a search for Saturn. Open the
contextual menu for Saturn and select
Go
There.
You should now be hovering above
Saturn.
3 Open the contextual menu for Saturn
again by right-clicking (Ctrl-click on the
Mac) on it and then select
Save As
QuickTime VR.