Now that there's a new version of QuickTime and MoviePlayer (which you should get at the QuickTime 3 Preview site Download page), try out these 3 simple things you can do that you've never been able to do before with MoviePlayer:

Recompress and change the frame rate of a movie

To do it:

  1. Choose Export from the File menu.
  2. Choose QuickTime Movie from the pop-up menu in the Save dialog box.
  3. Click Options.
  4. Click Settings, under Video or Sound, to get standard settings dialogs where you can pick new compression settings, frame rate, and key frame rate.
  5. Click OK and then click Save.

When you do this, QuickTime takes all your visual tracks--text, video, 3D, and sprite--and renders them into a single video track. You don't always want to do this because you lose the unique character (e.g. searchability for text tracks) and size advantage of the non-video tracks, but if you've been adding and pasting video tracks together, you'll get better performance with a single track. Multiple sound tracks also get rendered into a single sound track.

Add visual effects to a movie

To do it:

  1. Choose Export from the File menu.
  2. Choose QuickTime Movie from the pop-up menu in the Save dialog box.
  3. Click Options.
  4. Click Filters, and pick any filter in the scrolling list, and then experiment with the settings that appear to the right of the list.
  5. Click OK and then click Save.

As in the steps above, be aware that doing this will render any non-video tracks into a single video track.

Rotate, flip, and skew visual tracks

To do it:

  1. Choose Get Info from the Movie menu.
  2. Choose the track you want to alter from the left pop-up menu.
  3. Choose Size from the right pop-up menu.
  4. Use the Flip and Rotate buttons
    OR
    Click Adjust, and use the various red handles that appear in the movie window to rotate, skew, and other distort the original image. Click Done when the image is the way you want it.

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