Apple Final Cut Pro 7 - Manual (Page 1643)

Once you’ve established a video iChat session, you’re ready to use Final Cut Pro to
broadcast your video to remote viewers.
Note: You can actually choose any of the commands in the iChat Theater Preview menu
to initiate an iChat Theater Preview session.
When both computers have cameras connected, you can also begin by first starting a
video chat session using standard iChat procedures. You open iChat and send a video
chat invitation to an iChat buddy and, when you’re ready, switch to using Final Cut Pro.
When you start the iChat Theater Preview session in Final Cut Pro, the content in the
active Canvas or Viewer window appears in the remote iChat user’s window. For
information about initiating a video iChat session and sending invitations, see iChat Help.
iChat Help provides instructions for monitoring video connections, controlling video
playback, muting video, and starting up and ending video chat sessions.
Using iChat Theater Preview
Commands for using iChat Theater Preview are located in the View menu. In addition to
choosing iChat Theater Preview commands from the View menu, you can also place iChat
Theater Preview buttons in the Canvas, Viewer, or Timeline button bars for convenient
access to the commands. If you frequently use the iChat Theater Preview feature, you’ll
find that adding the iChat Theater Preview buttons to your button bar is an easy way to
initiate and control an iChat Theater session. You can also look at the state of the buttons
in the button bar to quickly determine which features are turned on.
You can temporarily pause and resume the sharing of your video during an iChat Theater
Preview session.
To pause the iChat Theater Preview session
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Choose View > iChat Theater Preview > Pause Audio/Video.
When the host has paused an iChat Theater Preview session and the video chat session
is still in progress, the host audio is still being sent to the remote iChat user. To stop the
audio from being sent, choose Video > Mute from the iChat menu.
To resume an iChat Theater Preview session
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Choose View > iChat Theater Preview > Resume Audio/Video.
During an iChat Theater Preview session, you can turn on the display of the current
timecode on both iChat users’ screens.
To turn on the display of the current timecode during an iChat Theater Preview session
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Choose View > iChat Theater Preview > Show Timecode.
To turn off the display of the current timecode during an iChat Theater Preview session
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Choose View > iChat Theater Preview > Hide Timecode.
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