窶 to take best advantage, give Play it Cool a memory allocation of 512K RAM more than the movie窶冱 size (allowing for any dependencies),
ツキ set the main monitor to the best screen depth for this movie
窶 improves movie playback,
ツキ change movie窶冱 icon to that of Play it Cool
窶 double-clicking on the movie from now on will open it in Play it Cool.
Tip: Hold down option while choosing this command to show all files (not only movie files).
Tip: Hold down control while opening a movie from the desktop to let you choose the three options described above.
Close
窶「 Closes the active movie window.
Save
窶「 Writes the active movie file to disk.
Save As窶ヲ
窶「 Writes the active movie file to disk, asking for a new name.
窶「 Leaves the original movie file unchanged.
Options
ツキ save the movie normally (allowing dependencies)
窶 it will occupy much less disk space (竕 4K)
窶 it will rely on other movie(s) from which it was created,
ツキ save the movie as self-contained (flatten the movie)
窶 it may take up several megabytes on disk
窶 all required data is contained in the saved movie file.
If you save the movie as self-contained, you can make it playable on non-Macintosh computers (e.g. Microsoft Windows and Silicon Graphics).
Tip: Hold down option to turn this command into Save A Copy As窶ヲ.
窶 Save A Copy As窶ヲ saves a copy of the current movie, but unlike Save As窶ヲ, does not open the saved movie afterwards.
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Revert
窶「 Removes all changes made to the active movie since it was last saved.
Recompress Movie窶ヲ
窶「 Asks for a movie file to be recompressed.
Options
ツキ The movie compression dialog lets you choose a QuickTime compressor, the number of colours or greys, image quality and motion settings (see diagram)
窶 click and drag the preview image to reveal other parts of it.
Tip: Press option while dragging the Quality slider
窶 the slider bar now changes the movie窶冱 temporal settings (i.e. how much the compressor relies on differences between successive frames).
Tip: Press option while clicking in the preview to zoom in.
Tip: Press option and shift while clicking in the preview to zoom out.
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Compress Picture窶ヲ
窶「 Asks for a PICT file to be recompressed.
Options
ツキ The picture compression dialog lets you choose a QuickTime compressor, the number of colours or greys in the movie and image quality (see diagram)
窶 click and drag the preview image to reveal other parts of it.
Tip: Press option while clicking in the preview to zoom in.
Tip: Press option and shift while clicking in the preview to zoom out.
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Build Application窶ヲ
窶「 Builds a copy of the active movie as a standalone application.
窶「 The application can be run by any Macintosh with QuickTime installed.
窶「 It runs independently of Play it Cool or any other QuickTime movie player.
窶「 Movie-Applications are intended for presentations:
ツキ they have no distracting backgrounds,
ツキ they play at optimal playback rate.
Movie-Applications load into RAM as much of the movie as possible before playing. To load the complete movie into RAM, give the Movie-Application a memory partition of about 200 K more than the movie occupies on disk.
Options
ツキ up to six lines of credits text may be displayed at the start of the movie
窶 to suppress credits text, ensure that all six entries are empty,
ツキ the current movie window size and speed settings can be saved in the Movie-Application. Unfortunately, 窶徘lay selection only窶 settings and loop settings cannot be saved.
Tip: To skip the credits, click the mouse button.
Tip: To quit the movie, click the mouse button.
Page Setup窶ヲ
窶「 Displays the standard page setup dialog box for selecting printer page layouts
窶 paper size, reduction/enlargement, orientation, 窶ヲ
Print窶ヲ
窶「 Displays the standard print dialog box for selecting print settings
窶 number of copies, paper source, 窶ヲ
窶「 If the frontmost window is a movie window, prints the current frame of the active movie, scaled according to the movie窶冱 window size.
窶「 If the frontmost window is a movie info window, prints the movie information.
Preferences窶ヲ
窶「 Displays a dialog allowing preferences to be set:
ツキ click the coloured box to change the background colour used in Stage,
ツキ select the monitor you wish the movie to play on in Stage
窶 the 窶徇ain monitor窶 is the monitor containing the menu bar
窶 if you only have one monitor, this option is disabled.