Applying QuickTime Effects


Concealed in the Export dialog (File Export, z-E), QuickTime Pro includes a number of filters (special effects) that you can apply to your movie. You find these filters by first setting the Export dialog’s Export pop-up menu to Movie to QuickTime Movie, next clicking the Options button in the Export dialog and then click the Filter button in the Movie Settings dialog that appears. See Figure 20-14 for the Movie Settings dialog and Figure 20-15 for the Choose Video Filter dialog.

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Figure 20-14: The QuickTime Export Movie Settings dialog allows you to apply video special effects to a movie as you export it.

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Figure 20-15: The Filters dialog lets you choose and preview filters for your movie.

QuickTime Pro even enables you to save filter settings for later use via the Save and Load buttons in the Choose Video Filter dialog. Unfortunately, you can only apply one filter to a movie on export. Therefore, if you want to accumulate effects, you need to export with one effect, load that movie, and apply another effect when exporting it, and so on — cumbersome, but possible.

The available filters (13 of them) let you adjust brightness, color, and contrast; apply blurs or sharpen, add film noise (simulating scratches and dust) or a lens flare (similar to what happens when you have the sun in front of the lens).




Mac OS X Bible, Panther Edition
Mac OS X Bible, Panther Edition
ISBN: 0764543997
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2003
Pages: 290

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