Pasting Graphics and Text into a Movie

With QuickTime Pro, you can paste graphics and text into a QuickTime movie.

If a pasted graphic is larger than the movie’s dimensions, QuickTime Pro resizes the movie to fit the dimensions of the graphic. For best results, size graphics (using a graphics program) to match the movie size before you insert them. You can export a single frame from the movie to use as a guide for text placement. (See “Creating a Still Image from a Movie” on page 28.)

To find a movie’s dimensions, choose Window > Show Movie Properties, select the video track, and click Visual Settings.

To add graphics or text:

1Copy the text or graphic to the Clipboard.

2In QuickTime Player, move the playhead to the point at which you want the copied item to appear.

3Choose Edit > Paste.

This procedure inserts the graphic into the movie at the Paste location, in its own frame. To paste the graphic onto the frame at the Paste location, choose Edit >”Add to Movie.”

To make a graphic show up in more than one frame, select the portion of the movie you want to add it to and choose Edit > “Add to Selection and Scale.”You can use this technique to add a company logo throughout a movie. (Also see “Changing a Track’s Transparency” on page 39.)

Working with Text Tracks

You can add text to a QuickTime movie to create titles, credits, and subtitles. With QuickTime Pro, text tracks are searchable, so you can use keywords to find precise frames in the movie. The following topics provide details about adding text tracks.

Adding a Text Track to a QuickTime Movie

With QuickTime Pro, you can import a text file into a QuickTime movie.

To add a text track:

1Create a text file containing the text you want in the movie, and save the file as text only (.txt).

Separate each paragraph with a return character. Each paragraph appears in a separate frame of the movie. By default, each text frame is displayed for 2 seconds.

2In QuickTime Player, choose File > Open File and select the text file.

3Click Open.

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