Apple QuickTime 6.4 - Manual (Page 30)

30 Chapter 3 Making and Editing QuickTime Movies With QuickTime Pro
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. You can export a single frame from the movie to use as a guide for text placement.
To add graphics or text:
1 Copy the text or graphic to the Clipboard.
2 Move the playback head to the point at which you want to insert the copied item.
3 Choose Edit > Paste.
Resizing, Skewing, or Rotating a Movie
If you have QuickTime Pro, you can change the size and orientation of a video track of a
movie.
To resize or skew a QuickTime movie:
1 In QuickTime Player, choose Movie > Get Movie Properties.
2 In the Properties window, choose Video Track from the left pop-up menu and Size from
the right pop-up menu.
3 Click Adjust.
4 To resize the movie, drag the red marks in the corners. To skew the movie, drag the red
marks on the sides. To rotate the movie, drag the red circle in the middle.
You can rotate and flip a movie using additional buttons in the Size window. To restore
the original appearance, click Normal.
Changing a Movie’s Shape With a Video Mask
If you have QuickTime Pro, you can change the shape of a movie from rectangular to
other shapes using a video mask. This feature is great in combination with media skins;
you can “skin” a movie so that it plays in a non-rectangular region (for example, a movie
could play from within a ship porthole), and then use a mask to restrict the movie’s
shape to the desired playback region.
Use a graphics program to create the mask and save it as a QuickTime-compatible file
(for example, BMP, GIF, JPEG, or PICT). The mask should be a black shape on a white
background. The movie appears through the black shape.
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