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Setting QuickTime export options
Use the QuickTime Options dialog box to specify options for exporting a movie as a QuickTime digital video. This
dialog box appears when you click the Options button in the Export dialog box and QuickTime is the specified
format.
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Select File > Export.
Select QuickTime Movie from the Format menu.
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Click Options.
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To set the speed the video will play, select a Frame Rate option:
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Tempo Settings exports the settings in the tempo channel to the QuickTime movie. This setting lets you create
a QuickTime movie at any tempo, even if Director is not capable of playing the movie at that tempo in real time.
The size of an exported QuickTime movie is influenced by the tempo settings, transitions, and palette transitions
in the Director movie. Fast tempos, certain transitions, and palette transitions all increase the size of the
QuickTime movie. The tempo settings determine the number of QuickTime frames per second and the number
of frames per transition. The faster the tempo, the more frames per second.
A movie that would work well with Tempo Settings as the Frame Rate option is one in which the tempos have
been carefully timed. For instance, some frames could be set to a tempo of 10 frames per second, and their
QuickTime frame durations would be exactly one-tenth of a second. Other frames later in the movie could be
set to a tempo of 1 frame per second. When the movie is exported, these slower frames would each last precisely
for 1 second in the QuickTime movie.
Real Time lets you export a QuickTime movie that matches the performance of the Director movie as it plays
on your system. (Always play the entire movie with script disabled before using this feature.)
When you export a movie with Real Time selected, each Director frame becomes a QuickTime frame. Each
frame in the QuickTime movie matches the duration of the same frame in the Director movie.
Director will generate as many frames as required to duplicate each transition, up to 30 frames per second. To
increase the number of frames created for any transition, reduce the smoothness of the transition.
This option causes Director to use the actual durations that were stored the last time you played the entire movie,
regardless of the actual tempo settings of the movie.
To reduce the file size of a QuickTime movie at the expense of quality, select an option from the Compressor
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menu. Different options appear on the Compressor menu depending on the video hardware and software available
in your system. Consult your QuickTime documentation.
Animation compression is for simple animations.
Cinepak compresses 16- and 24-bit video for playback from CD-ROMs.
Component Video is usually used when capturing from a live video feed.
Graphics compression is for exporting single frames of computer graphics.
None exports with no compression.
Photo-JPEG compression is good for scanned or digitized continuous-tone still images.
Video compression is for exporting video clips.
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