ASTARTE MPEG Exporter™ (AME) is an export component for QuickTime 2.5 which exports QuickTime movies as MPEG QuickTime movies. It can be used from within any application which supports QuickTime export components (e.g. MoviePlayer).
IMPORTANT NOTE:
MPEG Exporter is copyright 1996 by Astarte GmbH. It is NOT in the Public Domain. It is available at no charge for individual use, but MAY NOT BE SOLD in any way, shape or form without a license from Astarte.
System requirements:
- Apple PowerMacintosh (sorry no 68k machines)
- System 7.5 or later
- QuickTime 2.5 or later
- Thread Manager
- The application must have at least 2 MB of free RAM for AME to function
– Playback requires the Apple QuickTime™ MPEG Extension or MPEG decoding hardware. (You can obtain the QuickTime playback software from www.quicktime.apple.com
Installation:
Just drag ASTARTE MPEG Exporter onto your System Folder. It will be copied to the Extensions folder. Restart your computer; you should see the AME icon on the screen during startup.
Usage:
- Open MoviePlayer
- Open any QuickTime movie with at least one video track.
- Select "Export…" from the "File" menu
- Select "Movie to MPEG" from the pop-up menu at the bottom of the dialog box, specify a name for the new file and click OK.
- Choose either 30 fps (for NTSC) or 25 fps (for PAL) in the Options dialog that appears.
- Go to sleep or go do something else (encoding takes a while.)
Now you have a QuickTime movie on your hard disk which contains MPEG data. You can play this back with any QuickTime-aware application.
Don't forget to make this movie "Make Movie Self Contained" (within "MoviePlayer") if you want to play it back on a non-Apple computer.
Limitations:
- only 30 fps (for NTSC) and 25 fps (for PAL) are supported
- 384 pixels maximum width; 288 pixels maximum height. Larger movies are scaled to that size.
- width and height will be changed to a multiple of 16 pixels, if they are not already.
- the data rate is always 176400 bytes/s (this corresponds to single-speed CD-ROM playback)
- the "Options…" button in the Export dialog is not yet supported. Consequently, the Options dialog box appears each time you export a movie.
- MIDI tracks will be ignored.
Technical Support:
Support for ASTARTE MPEG Exporter is available by e-mail at:
toast@winternet.com (English) or ame@astarte.de (Deutsch).
Alternately, you may FAX support requests to (612) 483-5448 or
+49-721-85-3862. Telephone support is not provided for this product.
