LL1158.Book Page 1 Thursday, September 25, 2003 1:26 PM QuickTime 6.4 User’s Guide Includes instructions for using QuickTime Pro For Mac OS X version 10.
LL1158.Book Page 2 Thursday, September 25, 2003 1:26 PM K Apple Computer, Inc. © 2003 Apple Computer, Inc. All rights reserved. Under the copyright laws, this manual may not be copied, in whole or in part, without the written consent of Apple. Your rights to the software are governed by the accompanying software license agreement. The Apple logo is a trademark of Apple Computer, Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries.
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Welcome to QuickTime Preface LL1158.Book Page 7 Thursday, September 25, 2003 1:26 PM If you want to play movies from your hard disk or the Internet, you’ve come to the right place. QuickTime supports the most popular formats on the Internet for news, entertainment, movie trailers, and virtual reality (VR). What Is QuickTime? With the free version of QuickTime, you can play many kinds of files, including video, audio, graphics, and virtual reality (VR) movies.
LL1158.Book Page 8 Thursday, October 9, 2003 10:18 AM Upgrading to QuickTime Pro Once QuickTime is on your computer, you can purchase the registration key to use QuickTime Pro features (go to www.apple.com/quicktime/buy/). You will be sent an email with your user name and registration number. After you enter your registration number for QuickTime Pro, new menu options appear in QuickTime Player. To enter your registration number: 1 Open System Preferences, click QuickTime, and click Registration.
LL1158.Book Page 9 Thursday, September 25, 2003 1:26 PM 1 Getting Started With QuickTime 1 This chapter explains the basics of using QuickTime. Find out how to use QuickTime Player to play movies or view still images. Using QuickTime Player Controls QuickTime Player has onscreen controls similar to those found on CD players and DVD players. Use the controls to play, pause, and adjust the volume of a QuickTime movie, to move forward or backward, and to jump to the beginning or end of a movie.
LL1158.Book Page 10 Thursday, September 25, 2003 1:26 PM Playing Movies in QuickTime Player You can use QuickTime Player to play media located on your computer’s hard disk, a CD, or the Internet. Later on, you may want to fine-tune the way QuickTime is set up, but you can get started playing movies right now. To play a movie using QuickTime Player: 1 If the movie is on your hard disk or a CD, find the file and double-click it.
LL1158.Book Page 11 Thursday, September 25, 2003 1:26 PM Viewing QuickTime Virtual Reality (VR) Movies QuickTime Virtual Reality (QTVR) movies display three-dimensional places (panoramas) and objects with which the user can interact. With a QTVR panorama, it’s as if you’re standing in the scene and you can look around you 360 degrees. In a QTVR movie of an object, you can rotate the object in any direction. To pan through a QTVR movie, drag the pointer through the scene.
LL1158.Book Page 12 Thursday, September 25, 2003 1:26 PM Changing the Brightness, Color, and Tint of a Movie If you have QuickTime Pro, you can change the brightness, contrast, color, and tint of a movie. To set video controls: 1 Choose Movie > Show Video Controls. 2 Press the Up or Down Arrow key to display the setting you want to change, then press the Right or Left Arrow key to adjust the video setting.
LL1158.Book Page 13 Thursday, September 25, 2003 1:26 PM Finding Movies Quickly Using QuickTime Favorites You can easily find and open movies by putting pointers to them in your QuickTime Favorites window. To view your list of favorites, choose Favorites > Show Favorites. You can rearrange movies in the list by dragging them. To add a movie to the Favorites list, open the movie in QuickTime Player and choose Favorites > Add Movie As Favorite.
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LL1158.Book Page 15 Thursday, October 9, 2003 10:02 AM 2 QuickTime on the Internet 2 This chapter describes how to use QuickTime to play movies in your web browser and prepare movies for QuickTime streaming. Playing Movies on the Internet With the QuickTime plug-in (part of the free QuickTime software), you can play most multimedia you encounter on the Internet within your web browser. For more information, see “Playing Movies in a Web Browser” on page 10.
LL1158.Book Page 16 Thursday, September 25, 2003 1:26 PM To save an Internet movie on your hard disk: 1 When the movie finishes loading, click the down arrow in the playback controls. 2 Choose Save > Save As QuickTime Movie. If this command is not available, the movie is authored so that it cannot be saved. Working With Streamed Files You can use QuickTime Player to view movies streamed from the Internet. To view Internet streams: 1 In QuickTime Player, choose File > Open URL.
LL1158.Book Page 17 Thursday, September 25, 2003 1:26 PM Delivering Movies on the Internet You can deliver QuickTime movies and live presentations over a network in real time. Preparing a Movie for Fast Start If you have QuickTime Pro, you can set up a movie to start playing from a web server before the movie has completely downloaded to the user’s hard disk. This is called a “Fast Start” movie.
LL1158.Book Page 18 Thursday, September 25, 2003 1:26 PM For more information about preparing a movie for streaming, go to www.apple.com/ quicktime/tools_tips/tutorials/. Creating Reference Movies to Optimize Web Playback A reference movie is a movie that references other movies stored on a web server. When a user plays the reference movie, one or more of the other movies on the server downloads or streams to the user as the movie plays.
LL1158.Book Page 19 Thursday, September 25, 2003 1:26 PM 3 Making and Editing QuickTime Movies With QuickTime Pro 3 Most of the activities in this chapter apply only to QuickTime Pro. You can upgrade to QuickTime Pro by purchasing a registration key at www.apple.com/ quicktime/buy. Opening and Converting Files With QuickTime You can open (import) dozens of types of media with QuickTime. To determine if QuickTime Player can open a file, choose File > Import and select the file you want to open.
LL1158.Book Page 20 Thursday, September 25, 2003 1:26 PM Importing and Exporting 3GPP Files QuickTime Player can import and play back 3GPP files. To import a file, choose File > Import. If you have both the QuickTime 3GPP Component and QuickTime Pro, you can export video, audio, and text to the 3GPP file format. To export a file to the 3GPP format: 1 Open the movie you wish to export in QuickTime Player, then choose File > Export. 2 Choose “Movie to 3GPP” from the Export pop-up menu.
LL1158.Book Page 21 Thursday, September 25, 2003 1:26 PM Saving a Still Image From a Movie If you have QuickTime Pro, you can export a single frame from a movie as an image file. To save a still image from a movie: 1 Move the playback head to the frame you want to export. 2 Choose File > Export. 3 In the Export pop-up menu, choose “Movie to Picture” to save the image as a PICT file. To export every frame from the movie as a series of images, choose “Movie to Image Sequence.
LL1158.Book Page 22 Thursday, September 25, 2003 1:26 PM Copying a Track From Another QuickTime Movie With QuickTime Pro, you can copy tracks from one QuickTime movie to another. When you add a track, its duration is unaltered. For example, if you add a 10-second sound track to a 1-minute movie, the sound track plays for 10 seconds starting at the position in the movie where you added the track. Or you can “scale” a track so that it stretches or compresses to a particular length.
LL1158.Book Page 23 Thursday, September 25, 2003 1:26 PM Working With Audio Tracks QuickTime audio includes music tracks, which contain MIDI files or other data, and sound tracks, which contain digitized audio. Adding an Audio Track to a QuickTime Movie You can easily add audio and other tracks to a QuickTime movie. Usually the audio track is laid down parallel to the video track. To add an audio track to a movie: 1 In QuickTime Player, choose File > Import and select the audio file you want to import.
LL1158.Book Page 24 Thursday, September 25, 2003 1:26 PM Changing Instruments Used in a MIDI Track Some QuickTime movies have a music track that contains Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI) information. This information tells the built-in QuickTime synthesizer how to play the music in the track. If you have QuickTime Pro, you can change the instruments used to play back the music in the movie. For example, you could change an acoustic grand piano to an electric piano.
LL1158.Book Page 25 Thursday, September 25, 2003 1:26 PM Specifying Font Styles for Text Tracks To change font attributes of a text track already in a movie, you export the track, make changes, then reimport the track. Note: You must have QuickTime Pro to edit individual tracks. To change font styles for the text track: 1 In QuickTime Player, choose File > Export. 2 In the Export dialog, choose “Text to Text” from the Export pop-up menu. 3 Click Options and select “Show Text, Descriptors, and Time.
LL1158.Book Page 26 Thursday, September 25, 2003 1:26 PM The duration for each line of text in the text file appears on a separate line before the line of text. The time you type is the length of time after the movie has started at which this line of text will appear. Timestamps are specified as hours:minutes:seconds:fractions of a second (the default Text to Text export setting is 1/600th of a second).
LL1158.Book Page 27 Thursday, September 25, 2003 1:26 PM The video track is now a modifier track. Instead of displaying its output, the video track sends its images to the sprite track, which uses them as the image source for a sprite. Specifying Languages for Individual Tracks If you have QuickTime Pro, you can create a movie with support for multiple languages by specifying a language for an individual track.
LL1158.Book Page 28 Thursday, September 25, 2003 1:26 PM To change a track’s layering order, choose the track from the left pop-up menu, choose Layering from the right pop-up menu, and specify a different layer number by clicking the up or down arrow. Layers with lower numbers are farther forward. Editing QuickTime Movies If you have QuickTime Pro, you can use QuickTime Player for basic movie editing.
LL1158.Book Page 29 Thursday, September 25, 2003 1:26 PM Combining Two QuickTime Movies Into One With QuickTime Pro, you can easily merge one movie into another to make one longer movie. To combine two movies: 1 In QuickTime Player, choose Edit > Select All to select the entire contents of the first movie. 2 Choose Edit > Copy, then open the second movie.
LL1158.Book Page 30 Thursday, September 25, 2003 1:26 PM Pasting Graphics and Text Into a Movie If you have QuickTime Pro, you can paste graphics and text into a QuickTime movie. QuickTime Pro resizes graphics to fit the dimensions of the movie. For best results, you should use a graphics program to resize the graphics to match the movie’s dimensions before you insert them. To find a movie’s dimensions, choose Window > Show Movie Info.
LL1158.Book Page 31 Thursday, September 25, 2003 1:26 PM To add a video mask: 1 In QuickTime Player, choose Movie > Get Movie Properties. 2 From the left pop-up menu, choose the track to which you want to assign the mask, then choose Mask from the right pop-up menu. 3 Click Set. 4 Select the graphics file and click Open. Adjusting Individual Movie Options If you have QuickTime Pro, you can use QuickTime Player to modify different movie options, such as the display size, bit rate, and volume.
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LL1158.Book Page 33 Thursday, September 25, 2003 1:26 PM 4 Advanced Concepts 4 The activities in this chapter apply only to QuickTime Pro. You can upgrade to QuickTime Pro by purchasing a registration key at www.apple.com/quicktime/buy. Making a Movie Self-Contained When you save a movie the usual way, the movie file contains only pointers to data in your movie folder.
LL1158.Book Page 34 Thursday, September 25, 2003 1:26 PM To change a movie’s size, choose Movie > [a size], or drag the resize control in the lower-right corner of the window. To stretch the movie in any direction, hold down the Shift key when you drag (holding down the Shift key doesn’t preserve the aspect ratio). To return the movie to its default size and aspect ratio, double-click the resize control.
LL1158.Book Page 35 Thursday, September 25, 2003 1:26 PM Loading Movies Into RAM for Better Playback QuickTime has two memory (RAM) options you can use to improve playback performance. “Preload” puts the entire movie into memory before it is played. “Cache hint” keeps movie data in memory after it has played. This option is useful for small files you want to loop. If you have QuickTime Pro, you can adjust memory options for a QuickTime movie track.
LL1158.Book Page 36 Thursday, September 25, 2003 1:26 PM Compressing Movies for Streaming (Hinting) If you want to stream a QuickTime movie using QuickTime Streaming Server, you should use a web-optimized video or audio compressor to compress the movie file. “Hinting” creates a hint track for every streamable track in a movie; the streaming server uses the hint tracks to turn the media into real-time streams.
LL1158.Book Page 37 Thursday, September 25, 2003 1:26 PM Choosing Frame Rate Options for Video Compression When you export a QuickTime movie, you can set video compression options such as the frame rate. Frame rate is the number of individual images shown every second. A standard (NTSC) video has a frame rate of 29.97 frames per second (fps), and the standard for film is 24 fps. The European standard (PAL) is 25 fps.
LL1158.Book Page 38 Thursday, September 25, 2003 1:26 PM 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.
LL1158.Book Page 39 Thursday, September 25, 2003 1:26 PM Adding Annotations to a Movie If you have QuickTime Pro, you can add annotations to a movie to document information about the movie, such as its author, director, and copyright information. You can annotate the entire movie and any of its individual tracks. To annotate a movie: 1 In QuickTime Player, choose Movie > Get Movie Properties. 2 Choose Annotations from the right pop-up menu. The Annotations window shows the current annotations.
LL1158.Book Page 40 Thursday, September 25, 2003 1:26 PM 8 Choose Movie > Get Movie Properties. In the Properties window, then choose Movie from the left pop-up menu and Time from the right pop-up menu. 9 In QuickTime Player, drag the inverted triangle on the timeline to find the first point in the movie where you want to begin a new chapter. Use the right and left arrow keys to step forward or backward a frame at a time as needed. 10 Note the current time in the Properties window.
LL1158.Book Page 41 Thursday, September 25, 2003 1:26 PM Copy-Protecting QuickTime Movies QuickTime movies can be encrypted so that only authorized people can view them. Such movies are known as “secured media files.” To use such a file, you must enter a “media key,” which is usually available from the media file provider. To enter a media key so you can open a secured QuickTime file: Mac OS X: Open System Preferences, click QuickTime, click Media Keys, and enter the key provided by the author or vendor.
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Keyboard Combinations for Playing QuickTime Movies Appendix LL1158.Book Page 43 Thursday, September 25, 2003 1:26 PM QuickTime Player and QuickTime Pro provide keyboard shortcuts for most playback options. When available, each of these shortcuts appears to the right of its associated menu item. A few keyboard shortcuts have no menu equivalents.
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Glossary Glossary LL1158.Book Page 45 Thursday, September 25, 2003 1:26 PM AIFF (Audio Interchange File Format) An audio file format used widely on the web. aspect ratio The relationship between the height and width of an image. bandwidth The capacity of a network connection, measured in bits or bytes per second, for carrying data. BMP A bitmapped graphics format used for still images in the Windows environment. bitmapped Represented by pixels.
LL1158.Book Page 46 Thursday, September 25, 2003 1:26 PM hot spot A place in a virtual reality movie where the user can interact with the movie using the mouse. Instant-On A technology that dramatically speeds up access to streaming content for broadband users. JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group) A standard for compressing still images. layer In QuickTime movies, how an image is displayed depends on its layer; images with lower layer numbers are displayed on top.
LL1158.Book Page 47 Thursday, September 25, 2003 1:26 PM QTSS (QuickTime Streaming Server) A technology used to deliver media over the Internet in real time. QuickTime Player An application that plays QuickTime movies. QuickTime Pro A version of QuickTime Player with advanced features, primarily the addition of editing capabilities. QuickTime VR A QuickTime media type with which users can interact with threedimensional places and objects.
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