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Normally, you start at the Output tab and work your way down until you reach the Summary tab. Choices you make in the various tabs may affect the other tabs. For example, if you choose the "AIFF" audio format in the Output tab, you would be creating an audio-only file, and several tabs would disappear.
Similarly, choices you make within a particular tab may affect other choices within that same tab. To see this, make sure "QuickTime" is selected in the Output tab, then click on the Compress tab. Select "Cinepak" in the "Codec" pop-up. Notice the options available, including keyframe options, spatial and temporal quality sliders, etc.
Next, select "Photo-JPEG" from the "Codec"
pop-up. Note how the options change, such as the temporal slider and keyframe option
disappearing. This is due to the fact that each codec
has certain settings that are meaningful, and
others which don't apply. Media Cleaner
dynamically adjusts the interface to show you only
the features that actually apply to a given setting.
Notice how the movie is full screen (640x480). If you have a small monitor, you may need to shrink the video to be able to see the information on the bottom of the window. You can make the image display half-size by choosing the "Half Size" option in the Windows menu.
NOTE: The source movie will not play
smoothly because it is Photo -JPEG compressed.
In the Settings window, set the parameters as follows:
Output
Format = QuickTime
Flatten and make cross-platform = on
Fast Start = on
Movie information = on (set the name
and information to whatever you like)
Create HTML = off
Tracks
Video = process
Audio = process
Video
Crop = Manual, Constrain Aspect Ratio
Scale = Numeric, Normal, Width: 320, Height: 240
Try clicking and dragging on the Source movie to set your cropping rectangle. Anything outside the rectangle will be removed. Notice how the aspect ratio is constrained to the ratio that you have typed into the Width and Height boxes. Click anywhere on the image without dragging to deselect the cropping rectangle.
Deinterlace = off
Blur = off
Noise Reduction = Flat fields
Static Mask = off
Palette = Create new, 256 colors
Adjust
Gamma = +30 (this is a good setting to compromise for darker PC monitors)Set the other settings as you like use the Dynamic Preview window to see the results of your parameters in real-time. Try moving the A/B slider back and forth to see how the various parts of the image are affected by adjustments like black restore. Press the "Update" button to see the results of your settings.
Compress
Codec = Cinepak
Bit depth = Millions of Colors
Spatial quality = 50
Temporal quality = 50
Frame rate = 15 fps
Keyframes = every 15 frames
Compare uncompressed frames = off
Data rate control = Basic, limit to 180 KBytes per second, if limit exceeded add frame anyway
Audio
Codec = IMA
Frequency = 22.050 kHz
Depth = 16 bits
Channels = mono
Begin/End
Video fade in = from black, 1 second
Video fade out = none
Audio fade in = 1 second
Audio fade out = .5 second
First frame hold = off
Last frame hold = off
High quality first frame = off
High quality last frame = on
Media Cleaner will prompt you to save the batch list make a new folder on the desktop called "Tutorial 3 Results," name the batch file "My Batch", and save it into the "Tutorial 3 Results" folder.
The Batch window will now be open with your three movies listed in it, each with the setting as "default".
This setting will be applied to any movie that
has its setting pop-up set to "default" (which is
all three movies in this case).
Option-double-click on "Tutorial 3 - Source" to open the movie. Click and drag on the Source Movie window to set a new cropping rectangle.
Media Cleaner will ask you to specify the destination for the batch results. Select the "Tutorial 3 Results" folder. Media Cleaner will then start at the top of the batch list and work its way down through the movies one at a time.
You can suspend your compression at any point, and then later resume it. When the compression is finished, a dialog will appear.