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Finding text in a text track, Preventing users from changing quicktime settings, Viewing movies that have flash content – Apple QuickTime 7.2 User Manual

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Chapter 1

Using QuickTime Player

Finding Text in a Text Track

Some movies contain text such as titles, credits, subtitles, or section headings. You can
search for text in a movie so that, for example, you can find specific frames in the
movie.

To search for text in a QuickTime movie:

1

Choose Edit > Find > Find.

If this command is unavailable, the movie does not have a text track.

2

In the Find dialog, type the text you are looking for and click Next.

Preventing Users from Changing QuickTime Settings

If you’re using a computer in a public setting (at a kiosk, for example), you can prevent
users from changing QuickTime settings and saving movies from the Internet.

To set up QuickTime for use on a public computer (in Mac OS X):

1

Open System Preferences, click QuickTime, and click Advanced.

2

Select “Enable kiosk mode.”

To set up QuickTime for use on a public computer (in Windows):

1

Choose Edit > Preferences > QuickTime Preferences.

2

Choose Browser Plug-in.

3

Select “Enable kiosk mode.”

Viewing Movies that have Flash Content

Some QuickTime movies contain a Flash track . To enable these movies to play properly,
you must turn on support for Flash within QuickTime.

To enable Flash playback in QuickTime movies (in Mac OS X):

1

Open System Preferences, click QuickTime, and click Advanced.

2

Select “Enable Flash.”

To enable Flash playback in QuickTime movies (in Windows):

1

Choose Edit > Preferences > QuickTime Preferences.

2

Choose Advanced.

3

Select “Enable Flash.”