□]MoviEffects OverviewMoviEffects provides a suite of powerful utilities designed for adding effects and creating transitions in QuickTime movies.Some of MoviEffectsﾕ functions work with a single source movie file, while others work with two source movie files that are open simultaneously.MoviEffects does not open its main window until at least one movie file has been opened.MoviEffects is based on the concept of ﾒbackgroundﾓ and ﾒforegroundﾓ movies. Background movies are always opened first, using the Open item in the File menu.Once a background movie has been opened, a foreground movie can then be opened, using the Open Foreground Movie item in the File menu.Having a foreground movie open will change the availability and meaning of some of the main windowﾕs function buttons and menu items, again based on the characteristics of both movies.For instance, with only a background movie open, the first four control buttons ﾑ Effects, Orientation, Time and Recompress and their related menu items ﾑ will be enabled. Because it isnﾕt applicable with a single movie, the bottom button ﾑ Superimpose, and its related menu items ﾑ will be disabled.When a foreground movie is opened, the first three buttons and related menu items will be disabled, and the bottom two ﾑ Transitions and Superimpose ﾑ will be enabled.Note that the fourth button will change its meaning in these two different circumstances.Selecting FunctionsMoviEffectsﾕ functions can be selected either using the control button in the main window, or by selecting the corresponding item from one of the five submenus under the File menu.MoviEffects provides five groups of functions: Effects, Orientation, Time, Transitions and Superimpose.In addition, when a PICT file is opened, MoviEffects offers an addition function: PICT Roll/Crawl. This lets you convert a series of PICT files into a rolling or scrolling movie.MoviEffects also provides a Recompress function when only a background movie is open that performs no effects, but simply recompresses a movie file.When a file (or files) are first opened, the control buttons will be enabled as appropriate. Clicking one of the function group buttons will result in the display of buttons for selecting functions within that group.From within a function group display, click the Choices button to return to a display of the groups. If this sounds complicated, itﾕs not; click a few buttons and the logic will quickly become apparent.File ProcessingIn all cases, MoviEffects does not alter either the background or foreground movies. Instead, it creates a new movie containing the results of processing.When displaying the file save dialog for an output movie, MoviEffects will append a suffix to the name of the background movie in single-movie operations, or the foreground movie in two-movie operations. The suffix will range from three to six characters in length. Before doing so, MoviEffects checks the length of the original file name, and will truncate it as necessary before appending the suffix. You can of course rename the file as you wish before clicking the Save button.During processing, the cursor will change to a ﾒCﾓ during file compression. With some compressors, such as Cinepak, the compression cycle will comprise much of the processing time. ___________________________________General Information & System RequirementsMovieTools supports frame dimensions up to 768 x 576, and all QuickTime movie frame rates.When one or more movies are open but no processing is in progress, you can advance the movie(s) in the preview window a frame at a time with the right arrow key on the keyboard, or go back a frame at a time with the left arrow key.If you open a background movie, advance a distance into it, and then open a foreground movie, the background movie will be ﾒrewoundﾓ back to its start so that both movies are in sync.If you have advanced into opened movie(s) and then start a process, the movie(s) will be rewound to their beginning before processing starts.When a foreground movie is loaded after a background movie, the preview display will show a diagonal split, with the background movie in the upper left and the foreground movie in the lower right. This is a visual cue that two movies are currently loaded.When you start the process of creating an output movie, MoviEffects will first display a standard file save dialog, and will then display a compression dialog.The compression dialog will display default values based on the background movie, but you can make any changes youﾕd like. This allows you to recompress the output movie.Output Movie DurationsThe duration of output movies is based on the duration of the background movie, except when creating transitions and when converting PICT files to movies.With transitions, the output movie duration is determined by the options selected in the transition dialog. (For more information, see the specific transitions dialog help topic.)With superimpositions, if the foreground movie is shorter, then at its end it will ﾒdisappearﾓ from any compositing. If the foreground movie is longer, then it will be truncated in the output movie.While movies are being processed, two progress bars will be displayed to either side of the preview image: The right progress bar will show the progress of the overall movie processing. The left progress bar will show the progress on each frame as it is being processed.In some functions, such as most transitions, processing is done on a full frame basis, rather than line-by-line. In these instances the left progress bar will not appear.When PICT files are being converted, no progress bars will be displayed.MoviEffects is shipped with its memory segment set to 8 MB, and has run well under extensive testing at that setting. If you have lots of RAM, you might want to bump the setting up to 10 or 12 MB, especially if youﾕre processing PAL or digital video. Large frame sizes require more memory; the length of movies being processed has little bearing on memory requirements.MoviEffects requires System 7 or later, and QuickTime 1.5 or later. It will run on virtually any model Mac, but its windows and controls are designed for color or greyscale displays. No support is provided for 1-bit monochrome displays as found on the Plus or SE. ___________________________________Special NoteWe love challenges. Many of the features youﾕll find in this version of MoviEffects were suggested by beta testers and users of earlier versions.If thereﾕs an effects or transition feature that youﾕd like to see incorporated in MoviEffects, please let us know; thereﾕs a good chance weﾕll add it to the program. 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