Apple QuickTime 7 - Manual (Page 16)

16 Chapter 1 Using QuickTime Player
Viewing QuickTime Virtual Reality (QTVR) Movies
QTVR movies display three-dimensional places (panoramas) and objects with which the
user can interact. With a QTVR panorama, it’s as if you’re standing in the scene and you
can look around you up to 360 degrees in any direction. In a QTVR movie of an object,
you can rotate the object in any direction.
To pan through a QTVR movie, drag the cursor through the scene. To zoom in or out,
click the + or – button. (If the buttons are not showing, zoom in by pressing Shift; zoom
out by pressing Control.)
Some QTVR movies have hot spots that take you from one scene (or node) to another.
As you move the mouse over a hot spot, the cursor changes to an arrow. To see all the
places where you can jump from one node in a scene to another, click the Show Hot
Spot button (an arrow with a question mark in it). A translucent blue outline of any hot
spots within the currently visible VR scene appears. (If there are no hot spots, clicking
this button has no effect.) Click a hot spot to jump to a new scene.
To step backward scene by scene, click the Back button. (The Back button appears only
on QTVR movie windows, not in all QuickTime movie windows.)
Viewing Still Images
You can view still images in QuickTime Player. Choose File > Open File and select the
file, or drag the file to the QuickTime Player icon in the Dock (Mac OS X only).
Mac OS X: You can use Preview to convert a still image to other formats (Preview is in
the Applications folder on your hard disk). You can also convert many kinds of files
using QuickTime Pro. For more information, see “Converting Files Into QuickTime
Movies” on page 28.
Click to zoom in (+)
or out (–).
Click to show the
movie’s hot spots.
Drag to resize
the window.