Apple QuickTime 6.4 - Manual (Page 27)

Chapter 3 Making and Editing QuickTime Movies With QuickTime Pro 27
The video track is now a modifier track. Instead of displaying its output, the video track
sends its images to the sprite track, which uses them as the image source for a sprite.
Specifying Languages for Individual Tracks
If you have QuickTime Pro, you can create a movie with support for multiple languages
by specifying a language for an individual track. For example, you can create a movie
that contains different audio tracks for different languages. QuickTime automatically
plays the correct track, based on the language setting of the user’s computer.
To specify languages:
1 Create or assemble the alternate tracks.
Record voiceovers in each desired language or create text tracks to use as subtitles.
Save each alternate track as a self-contained movie, and put all the alternates together
in a single folder.
2 Put a copy of your original movie, self-contained and minus any tracks that are now
stored as alternates, in the folder with the alternates.
3 Open the movie and choose Movie > Get Movie Properties.
4 Choose a sound or text track from the left pop-up menu, then choose Alternate from
the right pop-up menu.
5 Click the Set button for Languages, and choose the language of this track from the list.
6 Choose an alternate track to use when a different language is selected.
7 Save as a self-contained movie by choosing “Make movie self-contained” in the
Save As dialog.
8 Repeat these steps for additional language tracks, each time choosing the previously
selected alternate from the left pop-up menu.
Changing a Movie’s Appearance With Transparent Tracks
With QuickTime Pro, if you have more than one video track, you can specify how the
different tracks appear in relation to each other. You can make one color in any video
track transparent so that tracks below show through the transparent sections. To get
the desired results, you may need to change the layering order of the tracks.
To specify the transparent color:
1 Choose Movie > Get Movie Properties.
2 In the Properties window, use the left pop-up menu to choose the video track to which
you want to add transparency.
3 Choose Graphics Mode from the right pop-up menu and choose Transparent from the
scrolling list.
4 Click the Color button and use the Color panel to specify the color that you want to
be transparent.
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