Apple QuickTime 7 - Manual (Page 37)

Chapter 3 Editing and Authoring With QuickTime Pro 37
To annotate a movie:
1 In QuickTime Player, choose Window > Show Movie Properties.
2 Select an item from the list and click Annotations.
3 Choose an annotation to add from the Add Annotation pop-up menu.
4 Double-click the annotation (where it says “Empty”) to edit it.
Users who don’t have QuickTime Pro see only three of the annotations the movie
contains. (Which three appear depends on which annotations the movie contains.)
Resizing, Flipping, or Rotating a Movie
With QuickTime Pro, you can change the size and orientation of a video track of a
movie.
To resize or rotate a QuickTime movie:
1 In QuickTime Player, choose Window > Show Movie Properties.
2 In the Properties window, select a video track and click Visual Settings.
3 To resize the movie, type new numbers in the Current Size fields.
To keep the same height-to-width proportions, select Preserve Aspect Ratio.
4 To rotate the movie, click one of the rotate buttons.
To restore the movie to its original appearance, click Reset.
Changing a Movie’s Shape With a Video Mask
With QuickTime Pro, you can change the shape of a movie from rectangular to other
shapes using a video mask. In combination with a media skin; you can “skin” a movie so
that it plays in a non-rectangular region (for example, a movie could play from within a
ship porthole), and then use a mask to restrict the movie’s shape to the desired
playback region.
Use a graphics program to create the mask and save it as a QuickTime-compatible file
(for example, BMP, GIF, JPEG, or PICT). The mask should be a black shape on a white
background. The movie appears through the black shape.
To add a video mask:
1 In QuickTime Player, choose Window > Show Movie Properties.
2 Select the video track you want to assign the mask to, then click Visual Settings.
Flip horizontal
or vertical
Rotate right or left