Apple 7.2 Saving Movies from the Internet, Creating a Slideshow or Animation from Still Images

Saving Movies from the Internet

With QuickTime Pro, you can save (download) a movie viewed in your web browser to your hard disk. (The movie must be authored to allow for saving.) If it’s a streaming movie, QuickTime Pro saves a small “reference movie” that points to the stream.

To save an Internet movie on your hard disk:

1When the movie finishes loading (when the entire progress bar is filled with gray), click the down arrow in the playback controls.

2Choose “Save as QuickTime Movie.”

If this command is not available, the movie is authored so that it cannot be saved.

Creating a Slideshow or Animation from Still Images

With QuickTime Pro, you can combine a series of still images to create a movie that plays like a slideshow. This process is an easy way to share the pictures from your digital camera or mobile phone.

Note: Slideshows look best when all the images are the same size.

To create a slideshow from still images:

1Put all the graphic files you want to include in a folder.

2Name each file with the same name followed by an increasing number; for example, “picture1,”“picture2.”

Most digital cameras number files automatically. The numbers must be increasing but don’t have to be precisely sequential (for example, you could name the files “picture1,” “picture5,”“picture10,” and so on).

3In QuickTime Player, choose File > Open Image Sequence, and then select the first file.

4Choose a frame rate (the number of frames displayed per second) from the Frame Rate pop-up menu.

Slideshows usually work best when slides are shown at 2 to 3 seconds per frame. QuickTime Pro creates the movie, which shows each picture in sequence.

5Choose File > Save to name and save the movie.

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