ScreenMovie 1.1.2 README

Screen Moviel.1.2 941012 Copyright©1994 Paul C.H. Ho and Pink Elephant Technologies. All rights reserved. This is shareware. This is part four of MovieTrilogy. [ This document is created by DesktopText part of MovieTrilogy, you can view it with SimpleText.] ¢ ScreenMovie record your monitor screen into a QuickTime Movie. ¢ Record audio up to 16bit 48KHz stereo. ¢ If you have QuickTime 2.0 and QuickTime Musical Instruments, you can also record MIDI track. ¢ Make QuickTime movie with commentary for training purposes. ¢ Record MIDI sequence while sing into the microphone. ¢ Include PPC and 68K versions. What's new in 1.1.2? ¢ Change default compression setting to enable temporal compression. What's new in 1.1.1? ¢ Fixed a bug in the PPC version, was crashing when video component fail to register. System Requirements System 7 or later. * QuickTime 1.6.1 or later. Some features required QuickTime 2.0. ¢ MIDI Manager is required for MIDI recording. ¢ ScreenMovie68K work on both 68K and PPC Mac. ¢ ScreenMoviePPC is PowerMac Native. Quick Start: 1) Choose Record VidegRecord Sound /Record MIDI to indicate what you want to record. You can chose more than one. Choose Record Sound and choose mic in Sound Control Pannel will record your voice. 2) Set the related settings to whatever you want. Just don’t expect to capture 24bit full screen while running another CPU intensive program. ;-) Be reasonable! 3) Choose New Movie to specify the movie file to record to. (This also put ScreenMovie in standby mode. You cannot change any setting.) 4) When you are ready. Choose Start Recording. 5) Switch to another program and do whatever you want to be recorded. [Tips : You can record your screen saver into a movie. Set your screen saver to move slow. Speed up the movie with DesktopMovie later.] 6) Choose Stop Recording. 7) Choose Close Movie. 8) You can now use any movie player to play the movie. Register User only feature: A much faster splash screen with a thank you note! Special Thanks to: Tracy Valleau for beta testing the PPC version and encouragement. What is MovieTrilogy ? MovieTrilogy is a trilogy in 5 parts consist of 5 QuickTime applications. DeskTopTV is a QuickTime Video monitor/ digitizer / subtitle maker for AV class Macintosh. DeskTopMovie is a MultiSpeed QuickTime Movie player /converter. DeskTopText is a multi-window, styled colored text editor that create text movie track. ScreenMovie is a QuickTime monitor screen recorder. Can record MIDI and audio at the same time. QuickMovie is a MIDI aware Quicktime movie Editor / Player. Together you can do video subtitling on AV class Macintosh. Add title/ subtitle to your QuickTime Movie. Make QuickTime scrolling text movie. Play Text to Speech on text movie. Record Video, Monitor screen, Audio and MIDI. Add full screen background picture to your QT movie. A lot more... MovieTrilogy support any Macintosh that support QuickTime. DesktopTV required video digitizer (vdig). You can get the rest of MovieTrilogy from sumex or umich. The latest version of DesktopTV is 1.2 The latest version of DesktopMovie is 1.1.1 The latest version of DesktopText is 1.1.1 The latest version of ScreenMovie is 1.1.1 The latest version of QuickMovie is 1.0b2 ftp:/ /sumex-aim.stanford.edu /info-mac/ grf/ utilmovie-trilogy-111.hqx ftp:/ /sumex-aim.stanford.edu /info-mac/grf/utitdesktop-tv-120.hqx ftp:/ /sumex-aim.stanford.edu/info-mac/ grf/utitscreen-movie-110.hqx ftp:/ /sumex-aim.stanford.edu /info-mac/ grf / utitquick-movie-10b2.hqx QuickTime 2.0 user might be interested in my freeware: All Midi convert general MIDI files to QuickTime music movies. ¢ Batch processing: Drag and drop files or folder to the All Midi Icon for automatic convert. ¢ Identify Midi file by content: You can drop a Midi file with any file type/creator/ extension. All Midi will convert Midi files base on its content, and ignore non-midi files. No need to change file type. ¢ Hold down option key before each convert to access the Rearranget MIDI instruments dialog. ftp:/ /sumex-aim.stanford.edu/info-mac/ snd /utilall-midi-10.hqx FAQ Q: How can I subtitle video? A: To do subtitling: 1) Prepare your script in DeskTopText. Make a text movie subtitle track. 2) Connect your VCR/LD to the video in. Play something! 3) Run DeskTopTV, and chose white as transparent color. 4) Play the text movie in DeskTopMovie in front of DeskTopTV. 5) For recording, connect a TV monitor and VCR to the video out. You can also subtitle a QuickTime movie by adding the text track to any movie with the “Add Movie in parallel” function in DeskTopMovie. Shareware You can register to all 5 parts of MovieTrilogy for one low shareware price! If you are registered user of MovieTrilogy. You already register to Screen Movie. MovieTrilogy is released as shareware. You are encouraged to make copies of MovieTrilogy and distribute to anybody through electronic services or on disks less than 2MB, provided you also copy the associated documentation. Distribution of MovieTrilogy on CD-ROM and all other high capacity (over 2MB) media is strictly prohibited. You can try it out for 30 days. If you like it, The single user registration fee for international users is US$30.00. Canadian residents only pay Cdn$30.00 by cash or cheque. For $10 extra I will send you a disk with the latest version of MovieTrilogy. All register user will receive a small ‘Key file’ by email (or on disk) and update notice by email. The ‘Key file’ will enable you to have access to varies Register user only features. Registration confirmation will be given by email only unless explicitly requested. Site licenses and CD-ROM distribution licenses are also available. Please contact me for more information. Payments should be payable to Pink Elephant Technologies, checks should be drawn on an US bank and should be in US dollars (Canadian may pay in Canadian dollars drawn on an Canadian bank), and should be sent to: Pink Elephant Technologies P.O. Box 87042 Village Square Postal Outlet 2942 Finch Ave. East Scarborough, Ontario, CANADA MI1W 270 User Support Please support the shareware idea and give me some motivation for further work on this program. Ineed your feed back. This is your chance to have a function custom-made to your need! If you have any questions, suggestions or bug reports. Please contact me at the following e-mail addresses: Internet: paulcho@io.org Paul_C.H._Ho@magic.ca CompuServe: 74020,772 Copyright©1993-94 Paul C.H. Ho and Pink Elephant Technologies. All rights reserved. ScreenMovie is written in Metrowerks CodeWarrior Gold CW4.5 Portions Copyright©1994 Metrowerks Inc. Legal Stuff MovieTrilogy is released as is. No guarantee is made about the safety or competence of the software to perform as claimed. No responsibility or liability is taken for any damage, destruction or loss of data caused by using this software.