The duration for each line of text in the text file appears on a separate line before the line of text. The time you type is the length of time after the movie has started at which this line of text will appear.

Timestamps are specified as hours:minutes:seconds:fractions of a second (the default Text to Text export setting is 1/600th of a second). For example, if you enter the time 00:02:11:00, the text on the following line appears at 2 minutes and 11 seconds into the movie.

For information about the other text track descriptors, see the developer section of the QuickTime website at www.apple.com/quicktime/.

Specifying Languages for Individual Tracks

With 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 a separate audio track for each language. QuickTime automatically plays the correct track, based on the language setting of the user’s computer.

To specify languages:

1Create 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.

2Put a copy of your original movie, self-contained and minus any tracks that are now stored as alternates, in the folder with the alternates.

3Open the movie and choose Window > Show Movie Properties.

4In the Properties window, select a sound or text track and click Other Settings.

5Choose the language of this track from the Language pop-up menu.

6Choose a track to use when a different language is selected from the Alternate pop-up menu.

7Save as a self-contained movie (choose Edit > Save As and make sure “Make movie self- contained” is selected).

8Repeat these steps for additional language tracks; each time, choose the previously selected language from the Alternate pop-up menu.

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Apple 7.2 manual Specifying Languages for Individual Tracks, To specify languages