Apple QuickTime 6.4 - Manual (Page 39)

Chapter 4 Advanced Concepts 39
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.
3 Add a new annotation or delete and edit existing annotations using the buttons at the
bottom.
4 To change an annotation, select it in the Properties list and modify it in the Data box.
Users who don’t have QuickTime Pro will see only the first three annotations you enter.
Creating a Chapter List for a Movie
If you have QuickTime Pro, you can create a pop-up chapter list to navigate to specific
points in a movie. First you create a list of topics (or entry points), and then you import
the list into the movie as a text track. When you play the movie in QuickTime Player, the
current chapter displays in the movie controller.
To create a chapter list:
1 In a text editor or word processor, type your list of topics and save the document as
plain text.
Make each item very short (preferably one word but no more than two or three words)
and separate each item with a carriage return.
2 In QuickTime Player, choose File > Import, select the text file, and click Open.
3 Choose File > Export. In the Export pop-up menu, choose “Text to Text.” In the Use
pop-up menu, choose “Text with Descriptors.”
4 Click Options. In the Text Export Settings dialog, select “Show Text, Descriptors, and
Time,”select “Show time relative to start of Movie,” and set fractions of seconds to 1/30
(the default is 1/1000).
5 Click OK, then click Save to create a text file with descriptors.
6 Open the exported list in your text editor or word processor, and open the target
movie in QuickTime Player.
7 If necessary, click the Equalizer icon on the right side of the QuickTime Player window
to make the timeline appear.
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