Apple 7.2 manual About Saving Movies, Setting Recording Options, To change recording options

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Setting Recording Options

When you first use QuickTime Pro to record video or audio, settings are automatically chosen for you. If you want, you can change settings such as which recording device and format to use, and where recorded movies are stored.

To change recording options:

1Choose QuickTime Player > Preferences.

2Click Recording (or Audio Recording in Windows).

3Choose the desired options for your video source, microphone, and quality, and then choose a default location to store recorded files.

About Saving Movies

With QuickTime Pro, you can create and edit movies, and then save them. When you choose File > Save As, you can save the movie as one of the following:

ÂA self-contained movie includes all the data (video, audio, and so on) you used to create the movie within a single file.

ÂA reference movie contains pointers to other movies (or parts of movies) stored elsewhere, such as in different folders on your hard disk or even on a web server. Pointers to other movies are created when, for example, you copy and paste part of a movie from one movie into another.

If you are concerned about free space on your hard disk and can be sure your source movies won’t change location, you can save your movie as a reference movie; the media you copy and paste is stored as a space-saving pointer to that media, rather than being stored entirely inside your new movie file.

When you play a reference movie, QuickTime follows the pointers to access and play the other movies (or parts of movies). To determine whether a movie contains pointers to other data, choose Window > Show Movie Properties, select the movie at the top of the window, and click Resources. If the file containing the movie does not appear in the list, then the movie has pointers and is not self-contained. In Mac OS X, you can Command-clickthe icon to see the name and location of the file that contains the movie.

The term “reference movie” is also used for the files you can create to intelligently deliver different-sized streams to different users depending on their connection speeds. For more information, see “Creating Reference Movies to Optimize Web Playback” on page 48.

Chapter 2 Getting Started with QuickTime Pro