Move back to the new movie you created in step 2. Play the selection again and continue to fine-tune it until it has the exact frames you want to copy into the new movie. Repeat the previous step to fine-tune the location of the other crop marker. Hold down the Shift key and use the right-and left-arrow keys to move the crop marker by single frames in either direction. When you do so, the Playhead 'sticks' to the crop marker. Select Movie, Play Selection Only and then click the Play button (or press -T and press the spacebar) to play only the frames you have selected.įine-tune your selection by placing the Playhead over a crop marker. The shaded area of the Timeline bar shows you the frames that are selected. The shaded area between the crop markers represents the frames of the movie you have selected (see Figure 19.5). Open a movie from which you want to copy a clip to paste into your new movie.ĭrag the left crop marker to where you want the copy to start and the right crop marker to where you want the copy to end. There isn't anything in the viewing area, so it is collapsed?all you see are the QuickTime Player controls. You can create a movie by pasting clips from other movies into it: You need to restart QuickTime Player to get the Pro features.Ĭreating a New QuickTime Movie and Adding Clips to It

If you don't see any Save commands, you are still using the Basic version. If you see any Save commands, you are using QuickTime Player Pro. To check this, open the QuickTime Player and open the File menu. And, after you upgrade, you sometimes need to quit QuickTime Player to make the upgrade effective. You can't edit QuickTime movies unless you upgrade to QuickTime Pro.

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