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The Tracks tab also allows you to include an audio or video track from the source movie into your output movie without recompressing it.
You can remove various tracks entirely from your movie with the Tracks tab as well.
The Flatten only option allows you to flatten a movie without processing any of its tracks. Flattening is a final pass applied to a compressed movie, which ensures that there are no edits remaining in the movie and that data is laid out in a completely linear fashion. It is important that movies are properly flattened prior to distribution.
NOTE: You can also flatten a movie by
choosing "Flatten and save..." from the File menu.
Process
By choosing "Process", the track will have all
the adjustments and compression parameters applied to it prior to inclusion in the final output movie.
This is the normal behavior for video and audio tracks.
Burn
Some tracks have a "Burn" option, instead
of "Process." The term "Burn" is commonly used in
reference to sprites and text tracks. Burning a
track processes it and includes it into the video
track, where it will be compressed with the rest of
the image data. A burned track is no longer a text
or sprite track it is now just part of the
video image. See "Dealing with Text and Sprite
Tracks" below for more details on why you might want
to burn a track.
It's not possible to process or burn some track
types, so "Process" or "Burn" is not always an option.
Copy
This option allows you to designate tracks that should be copied without processing and compression into the final output movie. Normally this is used for tracks such as text, sprites, etc. However, "Copy" can also be used if you have a video or audio track that you want in the final movie, but you don't want it processed and compressed.
For example, if you had a movie on which you had already finished the audio track, but still
needed to compress the video track, you could select
"Copy" for the audio, and "Process" for the video.
Chapter List (Text Tracks only)
If you have a movie with a text track, you can make a "Chapter List" for this movie. This feature creates a list of the chapters defined in the text track of your movie. This list then appears as a pop-up in the standard QuickTime control bar. Viewers may use this pop-up to jump to points in the various "chapters" of the movie, as defined by the text track.
To create a chapter list for a movie with an existing text track, check the "Make chapter list" option in the Text section.
NOTE: To omit a track entirely from the
movie, simply deselect the checkbox next to that track.
1. Burn Text and Sprites cross-platform
The most common approach to text and sprite tracks for cross-platform distribution is to
"burn" the track into the video. This means that the
text or sprite is actually included in the video track
of the movie as part of the image instead of as a separate track.
While burning the track negates the space saving nature of text and sprites by making them into a normal video movie, it does allow your movies to be distributed cross-platform. This approach is a short term "work around" until Apple releases full text and sprite support in QuickTime for Windows 3.0.
To "burn" the text and sprite tracks into your movie, select the "Burn" option next to each track.
NOTE: Since the text and sprites are
actually part of the video image when you burn
them, video filters (such as Adaptive Noise
Reduction, blur, etc.) will be applied to them as well as
the rest of the image. It's best to turn off "Stray
Pixel" Adaptive Noise Reduction if you have text, as
this filter tends to eliminate fine details, such as
the dots on "i", etc.
2. Include Text and Sprites Macintosh-only
If you are producing a movie with text and/or sprite tracks for Macintosh-only distribution
prior to QuickTime for Windows 3.0, you may want
to include them as a separate track instead of burning them into the video track.
To include a text or sprite track but not burn
it, choose the "Copy" option next to the
data-types your movie contains.
3. Remove Text and Sprites
If you have tracks that you do not want
included in your movie in any form, uncheck the
checkbox next to each track you want entirely
removed from the output movie.
NOTE: RealMedia will have other tracks in the future, but these tracks are not
currently supported with Media Cleaner Pro 2.0.
VDO doesn't currently have tracks other than video and audio.
NOTE: If you type a code into an "Other"
box, that track will be copied without processing.
If you don't specify an unusual track which is in your source movie, it will automatically
be omitted from the final movie.