Apple QuickTime 6.4 - Manual (Page 11)

Chapter 1 Getting Started With QuickTime 11
Viewing QuickTime Virtual Reality (VR) Movies
QuickTime Virtual Reality (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 360 degrees. In a QTVR movie of an
object, you can rotate the object in any direction.
To pan through a QTVR movie, drag the pointer through the scene. To zoom in on the
movie, click the + or – button. (If the buttons are not showing, zoom in by pressing
Shift and zoom out by pressing Control.)
Some VR 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 jump from
one node in a scene to another, click the Show Hot Spot button (question mark). 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.
To step backward scene by scene, click the Back button. (The Back button appears only
on a QTVR movie window, not all QuickTime movies.)
Adjusting QuickTime Settings
You can adjust QuickTime playback options and other settings, such as whether new
movies open in a new window. Make sure the setting for your Internet connection
speed is correct so that you get the highest-quality QuickTime content that your
Internet connection can support.
Mac OS X: To adjust preferences for QuickTime Player, choose QuickTime Player >
Preferences > Player Preferences. To set Internet connection speed and various
advanced options, choose QuickTime Player > Preferences > QuickTime Preferences.
Windows: To adjust preferences for QuickTime Player, choose Edit > Preferences >
Player Preferences. To set Internet connection speed and other options, choose Edit >
Preferences > QuickTime Preferences.
Adjusting QuickTime Player Audio Options
You can adjust the right/left balance and the bass and treble levels of the audio portion
of your QuickTime movie. To show the audio controls, choose Movie > Show Sound
Controls. The audio controls appear in the QuickTime Player window, just below the
movie.
You can also set sound options for playing several movies at once, or for playing a
movie while using another application. To do so, choose QuickTime Player >
Preferences > Player Preferences.
If you have QuickTime Pro, you can save your settings with the movie.
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