moviemaker(1)moviemaker(1)NAMEmoviemaker - interactive editor for movie files
SYNOPSISmoviemaker [-nofork] [ file ]
DESCRIPTIONmoviemaker is a multi-track interactive editor for QuickTime format
movies. Help is available on-line through the help menu.
OPTIONS-nofork
Forces moviemaker to run in the foreground. Moviemaker backgrounds
itself upon startup as the default. This option is provided for
consistency with the rest of the media tools.
KEYBOARD COMMANDS
Movieplayer and moviemaker support left-arrow and right-arrow keyboard
equivalents for "step forward" and "step backward" when viewing a movie
file. These commands are also available in moviemaker in the transport
control area, and are labeled with standard icons: |< and >|.
EDIT SUPPORTmoviemaker supports editing, both within the opened movie, and with other
applications which support X-Clipboard Cut-Copy-Paste operations
(including movieplayer, imgworks, soundeditor, etc).
When the user makes a selection using the timeline, moviemaker will
activate the entries on the "Edit" menu for editing, although, on read-
only movies, only "Copy" will be made available. The operations available
are:
Cut Put the current selection on the Clipboard, and remove it from the
movie.
Copy Put the current selection on the Clipboard, without removing it from
the movie.
Clear
Replace the current selection with "nothing" - i.e., silence in the
case of an audio track or black frames in the case of an image
track.
Delete
Remove the current selection from the movie, without saving it
anywhere.
Trim Remove everything except the current selection from the movie.
moviemaker also supports Pasting of data into the current movie (assuming
that the current movie is editable - i.e., read-write)
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Paste
Insert data from the Clipboard into the current movie.
Moviemaker can import a number of X cut-and-paste targets, including
movies, still images, audio, etc. Note that some applications may be slow
in providing clipboard data to moviemaker, in which case moviemaker may
timeout (and give an error message saying that no data was available on
the clipboard). If this is a problem, you can increase moviemaker's
timeout duration by using the X Resource "*cutPasteTimeoutDuration". It
defaults to 30, and is measured in seconds.
IMPORT
Moviemaker can import a large number of file formats, including
Quicktime, SGI, AVI, DV-DIF/DVCPro-DIF files, and MPEG movies, audio
formats supported by the SGI audio file library (see afInitFileFormat),
and image file formats supported by the SGI image library (see
imgformats).
In order to import a collection of files, such as those from an animation
rendering program, simply select the directory containing the numbered
image files, and the image files will be imported sequentially. (After
having done this, you may wish to use the "Join" command to combine the
multiple still images into a single image track.)
EXPORT AS
Moviemaker supports exporting the current movie to one of a number of
popular formats on the web, including QuickTime (tm), MPEG, AVI, etc. To
generate a flattened movie for final distribution/publication, select
``Export As'' from the file menu, choose a file format and file name, and
use the options button to specify details applicable to the file format
you selected. When you begin the conversion, the resulting file will have
at most one image track and one audio track, and will be optimized for
playback and distribution.
EXTERNAL CONTROL
If Midi is configured on the system, Moviemaker responds to "Stop" "Play"
and "Jog Wheel" controls on certain external midi-based control devices.
Currently, only the JL Cooper Electronics "Media Control Station" is
supported.
TRADEMARKS
Apple is a registered trademark and QuickTime is a trademark of Apple
Computer, Inc.
SEE ALSOmovieplayer(1), soundplayer(1), imgview(1), imgformats(1),
mediaconvert(1)movieconvert(1), dmconvert(1),
makemovie(1), soundeditor(1), imgworks(1), afInitFileFormat(3dm),
dminfo(1), sfinfo(1), startmidi(1)
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