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Using a text track in a movie
A. Text links B. Scrolling text
To add a text track and text to a movie
Drag a Text Track icon from the QuickTime set
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Editor.
Select the text sample in the track content area of the Timeline Editor, and then display the Text tab of the Text
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Sample Inspector. (If necessary, expand the text track to display the text samples.)
3 In the large text box in the middle of the Text tab, type the text you want to display in the movie, and then click
Apply.
To align the text in the movie, choose an alignment option from the Align menu.
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5 To add text that appears at different times in the movie, use the Create Sample tool
with different text content.
See also
"To edit a sample" on page 530
To add text links with actions
You can link the text in a movie to a web page, file, or any item that has a URL. You can also specify the mouse event
that triggers the text link to activate. For example, you can specify that whenever a viewer clicks on a text link, a
particular web page opens. You can have multiple text links in a movie.
In the Text tab of the Text Sample Inspector, select the text that you want to link to.
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Click the Link icon. GoLive underlines the selected text and changes its color to blue.
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3 From the Events list, select the mouse event that you want to trigger an action:
Mouse Down Triggers an action when the viewer presses the mouse button down (without releasing it) while the
pointer is on top of the text link.
Triggers an action when the viewer releases the mouse button while the pointer is on top of the text link.
Mouse Up
Triggers an action when the viewer clicks the text link.
Mouse Click
Mouse Enter Triggers an action when the viewer moves the mouse pointer over the text link.
Mouse Exit Triggers an action when the viewer moves the mouse pointer away from the text link.
Click the New Item button
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event to indicate that it is active.
of the objects toolbox to the track list area of the Timeline
to attach an action to the event. A dot symbol ("•") appears to the right of the
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