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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:
1
Select File > Export.
2
Select QuickTime Movie from the Format pop-up menu.
3
Click Options.
4
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.
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 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. (You should always play the entire movie with Lingo 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 will match 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.