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466 Chapter 23: Packaging Movies for Distribution
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From the Format pop-up menu at the bottom of the dialog box, select a format.
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Windows: Video for Windows (.AVI), DIB File Sequence (.BMP), or QuickTime Movie
(.MOV)
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Macintosh: PICT or QuickTime Movie
BMP is the standard format for a Windows bitmap series. PICT is the standard format for a
Macintosh bitmap file format.
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If you are exporting video, click the Options button.
The Video for Windows or QuickTime Options dialog box appears.
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Select the options you want to use and then click OK.
For AVI movies, enter a number of frames per second for Frame Rate.
For information about the QuickTime options, see
“Setting QuickTime export options”
on page 466 .
The Export dialog box reappears when you click OK.
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Click Export.
A dialog box appears, prompting you to save the movie.
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Name the file and then click Save.
When you click Export, a dialog box appears allowing you to name the file. If you are saving in
video format, only one file will be created. If you are saving in BMP or PICT format, Director
automatically creates one file for each frame, attaching the corresponding frame number to
each file. For example, if the name of the exported file is Myfile, frame 1 will be exported to a
file named Myfile0001.
Setting QuickTime export options
You 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.
To set QuickTime export options:
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Select File > Export.
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Select QuickTime Movie from the Format pop-up menu.
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Click Options.
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To set the speed the video will play, select a Frame Rate option:
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.