Aldus Persuasion for the Macintosh, version 2.1, supports the new Apple QuickTime technology. With the new "movie" data type, QuickTime makes it easy to incorporate time-based data (such as video clips, animated charts, and presentations) into Persuasion. You can add existing movies to presentations by using the "Import..." command on the Persuasion File menu. You can also paste movies that were cut or copied from Persuasion or another application. (See the section on cut/copy/paste later in this document for more information.) Once you place a movie in a presentation, you can manipulate the movie in the same way as any other graphic (for example, resize it, move it, and duplicate it). You can also play movies during a slide show.
In Persuasion, you can import a movie in any graphics mode (slide, note page, or master).
To import a movie:
1. Choose "Import..." from the File menu.
2. Select a movie, and then click "OK" in the "Import" dialog box.
The number of movies you can import is limited only by your computer memory. We recommend that you set the memory size for the application to at least 2 MB while running QuickTime. (To set memory, quit Persuasion, click the Persuasion application icon, and then choose “Get info” from the Finder File menu. In the “Persuasion 2.1 Info” dialog box, enter a new number in the “Current size” edit box.)
In Persuasion, you can also play movies in any graphics mode (slide, note page, or master).
To play a movie:
• Double-click the mouse anywhere on the movie.
To pause a movie:
• Click the mouse once.
To specify playing a movie with a slide show running:
• Check the "Play Movies" option in the "Slide show" dialog box. (To open the "Slide show" dialog box, choose "Slide show..." from the File menu.)
When a movie is not playing, it appears as a static PICT and a badge icon appears at the lower-left corner of the movie frame. Select the movie, and then click the badge-icon arrow to open the drop-down menu. Or, hold down the Option key and click anywhere on the movie.
The commands on the badge-icon menu allow you to control the movie when the standard movie playbar is hidden.
Select: To do this:
"Play" Play the movie from the current frame. If the current
frame is the last frame, the movie will play from the
beginning.
"Sound On" Toggle the audio tracks on or off. If the sound is on,
the command is "Sound Off."
"Show Play Bar" Display the standard movie playbar. If the movie
playbar is on the screen already, the command is
"Hide Play Bar."
"Set Poster Frame" Designate the current frame as the poster frame.
"Show Poster Frame" Display the poster frame.
"Restore Original Size" Scale the movie frame to the original size.
You can also control the movie with the playbar:
• Clicking the speaker icon displays the volume popup menu. Moving the volume indicator all the way to the bottom plays the movie without the sound.
• Clicking the right triangle to the right of the speaker icon plays or pauses the movie.
• Clicking the scroll bar allows you to scroll forward and backward through the movie.
• Clicking the two icons on the right permits frame-stepping backward and forward.
• Option-clicking the two icons takes you to the first or last frame of the movie. You can create a selection of one or several frames by pressing the Shift key while clicking the two icons.
• Dragging the frame indicator in the scroll area of the playbar allows you to browse through the movie. You can also create an extended selection by holding down the Shift key and dragging the mouse in the playbar.
Once you have a selection, you can cut or copy it so you can paste part of a movie back into Persuasion or another application. (Note: You cannot cut or copy a movie while the playbar is showing.)
When no movie is selected, you'll see the current frame.
To select a movie in Persuasion:
• Click anywhere on the movie. Handles appear on the outside edge of the movie.
To relocate a movie:
• Drag it to the desired location.
To resize a movie:
• Select it, and then drag one of the handles. Hold down the Shift key to retain proportions.
(Note: We do not recommend resizing movies because they generally do not scale well.)
QuickTime automatically compensates for the particular hardware on which it is running. Therefore, you may experience loss of frames or audio under certain conditions.
When a movie has been stretched to a much larger size then the original, there is more screen to update so performance may be affected.
To restore a movie to the original size:
• Select the movie and then choose "Restore Original Size" from the badge-icon menu. (Press the badge-icon arrow to open the drop-down menu.)
In Persuasion, you can cut, copy, paste and clear movies in any graphics mode (slide, note page, or master). When you cut or copy a movie from a Persuasion document, Persuasion preserves the current frame of the movie. A PICT matching the current frame of the movie is also transferred to the Clipboard, so that applications that do not support movies can retrieve an image. When you paste the movie into Scrapbook or into another document, it will be cued to the frame open at the time you cut or copied the movie.
When you print a Persuasion document containing a movie, the current frame will be printed.
When you export a Persuasion document containing a movie, the current frame is exported in the selected format.
QuickTime is an extension to System 7.0 and an INIT (startup document) for System 6.0.7. QuickTime 1.0 runs on all 68020-based and higher Macintosh color-capable computers with at least 2 MB of RAM.
The QuickTime INIT and documentation are available through your local Apple dealer, user group, or online service.
