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Changing Movie Properties

The following sections describe how to resize or rotate a movie, set a movie’s poster frame, and more.

Adding Annotations to a Movie

With QuickTime Pro, you can add annotations to document information about the movie, such as its author, director, and copyright information. You can annotate the entire movie and any of its individual tracks.

To annotate a movie:

1In QuickTime Player, choose Window > Show Movie Properties.

2Select an item from the list and click Annotations.

3Choose an annotation to add from the Add Annotation pop-up menu.

4Enter the annotation in the Value column of the list.

Users who don’t have QuickTime Pro see only three of the annotations the movie contains. (Which three appear depends on which annotations the movie contains.)

Resizing, Flipping, or Rotating a Movie

With QuickTime Pro, you can change the size and orientation of a video track of a movie.

To resize or rotate a QuickTime movie:

1In QuickTime Player, choose Window > Show Movie Properties.

2In the Properties window, select a video track and click Visual Settings.

3To resize the movie, type new numbers in the Current Size fields.

To keep the same height-to-width proportions, select Preserve Aspect Ratio.

4To rotate the movie, click one of the rotate buttons.

Flip horizontal or vertical

Rotate right or left

To restore the movie to its original appearance, click Reset.

Chapter 3 Editing and Authoring with QuickTime Pro

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Apple 7.2 manual Changing Movie Properties, Adding Annotations to a Movie, Resizing, Flipping, or Rotating a Movie