Quick Editor

QuickEditor 3.6 Manual - Introduction - How to do Basic Editing - How to add Sound to a Movie - How to do Transitions - How to do Video Effects - Comments & Tips - Registration Form - Legal Stuff - Credits ©1994-95 New Development Software & Mathias Tschopp Introduction QuickEditor allows you to fully edit QuickTime movies. Some of its basic features are: -All-in-one-Window User Interface, for greater ease of use. -More than 20 Transitions and 19 Video Effects included. -Possibility to add many more Transitions and Video Effects thanks to QuickEditor plug-in technology. -Add stereo sound to your movies, with control on volume and panning. -See the result immediatly, no need to go into complicated preview modes. All that for only 20 $ (US). So register now. This section explains the meaning of QuickEditor main controls: (Note that Balloon Help is available too) As you can see QuickEditor's interface is very much VCR-like. The Time display follows the SMPTE TimeCode guidelines. The time is represented in Hours:Minutes:Seconds.Frames. In the NTSC standard there is 30 frames per second. So one second will be displayed like that: 0:00:01.00 . (0 hour, 0 minutes, 1 second and 0 frame) Two and a half seconds would be 0:00:02:15 . (2 second and 15 frames) In Pal and Secam, there is only 25 frames per second. so two and a half seconds would be : 0:00:02.12 . (2 second and 12 frames) place marks. Many operations in QuickEditor are performed on "Selected Sequences". A Selected Sequence is a sequence you define with Start and End points, like the one in this example: Just go to the Beginning of the interesting sequence and press the 'Start' Button.Go to the end of that sequence and press the 'End' button. You should get something like the picture above. The Sequence between the S and E marks is your Selected Sequence. Keyboard Shortcuts Keyboard shortcuts have been added to speed up the editing. The picture to the right describes the keypad and the corresponding function of each key. The action will take place on the panel the cursor is on. Example: if you type '3' on the keypad (which means play ) and the cursor of the mouse in over the MOVIE Panel, the Movie will start playing (if one is open, of course). If the cursor had been over the AUDIO CLIP panel, the Audio Clip would have started playing. How To Do Basic Editing QuickEditor uses traditional video-editing techniques. You edit a Movie by adding different sequences taken from several Clips. You select the beginning and the end of the sequence you want to insert and choose when in the Movie you want to insert it. Let's see the steps you should take to do the following editing: Let's call this movie "Numbers": And this one "Letters": What you want to do is insert a part of "Letters" between the frames 1 and 2 of "Numbers". This will give the following result: Now let's see how to proceed to do this simple editing with QuickEditor: 1) Fi…