Comments & Tips

Last minute additions and commands that nobody knows about are discussed in this chapter.

- The Application is now multi-threaded, that means that if you run System 7.5 or greater, or 7.1 with the Thread Manager Extension installed, QuickEditor can do a lot of things in the Background.
For example you can launch the processing of a long Transition or Video Effect and still use the application (open and listen to an Audio Clip, play with the About the Authors, switch to another application, ...).

- You can now view the Clip and the Movie in  
Apple's Standard QuickTime Viewer. This allows
you to play the movie at it's real size, not just
the small 160x120 screen.
To make the resizeable viewer appear simply
click on the Movie's or Clip's screen. Then close
the viewer to resume normal operations.
Big movies (larger than 160x120) play a lot
faster when they are not scaled down.

- A 'Get Movie's SoundTrack' command is now available in the 'Open Audio Clip' field.
This is helpful when you want to keep the Movie's original sound track.
1. Use this function before you begin to edit the Movie to store the original soundtrack as the Audio Clip.
2. Make whatever change you want in the Movie.
3. Delete the Movie's soundtrack.
4. Add the Audio Clip to the Movie.
Provided your editing doesn't change the Movie's duration (using insert editing for example), these 4 steps allow you to leave the Movie's sountrack untouched.