Apple 030-8681-A, 95014-2084 user manual Capturing Video Images

6Click Record.

Recording begins and the Record button changes to a Stop button.

7Click Stop when you’ve recorded as much as you want.

Important If you don’t click the Stop button, recording continues until the hard disk is full.

A dialog box appears, in which you can specify a name and location for your movie.

You can also preview the QuickTime movie before you save it.

Use as small a size as you can: The amount of disk storage that a movie takes is directly related to the size of the video window—the larger the window, the more disk space you use. By choosing Smallest Size from the Windows menu before you record, you may be able to save more than 50% in storage space. (A movie that uses about 75 megabytes per minute at the normal video window size will use only about 35 megabytes per minute at the smallest video window size.) See “Changing the Video Window Size” in Chapter 2.

You can open the movie from inside any application that supports QuickTime, such as SimpleText. If you open the movie through SimpleText, for example, the SimpleText document plays the movie using QuickTime technology.

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