Apple Motion 4 - Manual (Page 200)

The Export Options dialog contains the following settings:
Information Fields
The Name and Description fields display information about the selected preset.
Name: This editable field contains the name for the preset.
Description: Contains descriptive text to identify the preset. This text appears in the
Summary box in the Preset Preferences pane. You can enter your own descriptive text in
this field.
The Video/Audio and Output tabs appear beneath the Name and Description fields. To
the right of the tabs, a summary box displays the details of settings from the two tabs.
Video/Audio Tab
The Video/Audio tab contains two groups of controls: Video and Audio.
Video Controls
This group of controls allows you to set your video output options.
Kind: Choose from QuickTime Movie, Still Image, or Image Sequence.
Note: Audio options are only available for QuickTime movies.
Compressor: Depending on the Kind setting, different compressor types are available.
Quality: For some compressors, you can set a quality setting. If the control is dimmed,
that compressor type does not offer variable quality.
Start number: For image sequences, you can set a starting frame number. Each file
generated in the image sequence has an incrementing number.
Add spaces: When generating image sequences, clicking the Add Spaces checkbox
causes extra spaces to be added to the filenames to ensure that the sequence of files is
read in proper order by some other applications.
Advanced: The Advanced button is only active for QuickTime movies. Clicking this button
opens the standard compression settings dialog. In most cases, you should not need to
make any changes in this dialog.
Audio controls
This group of controls allows you to set your audio output options.
Sample rate: Sets the audio sample rate for your exported movie. For best results, set
this to be the same sample rate as the source audio in your project.
Mix: Sets the audio output mix for your project. Use the default Stereo setting or choose
5.1 Surround.
Advanced: The Advanced button opens the standard Sound Settings dialog. In most
cases, you should not need to make any changes in this dialog.
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