August 1st, 2008 by Gary Rosenzweig
Gary Rosenzweig takes a look at the simple but powerful tool QuickTime Pro and how it can be used to edit and compile video.
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Hi. This is Gary with MacMost Now. Today I’m going to show you how to use QuickTime Pro to edit your own video.
So iMovie’s a great tool for making videos but QuickTime Pro actually has some really interesting features that can be a little easier to use at times. Let’s go and take a look at how to make a really simple video with a title and some music at the beginning and then a few video clips put together after that.
So let’s gather the media first. Say I’ve got three video clips. Clip one, two and three. You could have gotten these from anywhere. Maybe you used your regular camera in movie mode to record them. You’ll end up with three movie files. It can handle formats of just about any kind; mp4, h264, anything. These came out as dot mob’s. So I’ve got three movie clips. I also want to have a little intro so I’ve created a graphic called Title. You can create this is any kind of image editing program; you can even just type some text into text edit and then do a screen capture of it.
So you have a graphic that you want to use in your title and also your piece of music. I grabbed this piece of music out of my garage band library where it’s got lots of short little jingles and things like that. So I’ve got a piece of music, title graphic and three video clips and I want to put that together in a simple video using QuickTime Pro.So I’m going to go ahead and run QuickTime Pro and I want to go and just basically say New Player and I get this blank timeline called Untitled, there’s nothing in it right now.
So first thing I want to do is I’m going to go ahead and open the music and I’m going to do that in QuickTime Player. So I’m going to Control click on it and open with so it doesn’t open in iTunes. So now I’ve got two QuickTime Player windows; this one here with the music in it and this untitled one. Do Command A to select all, Copy. Then I’m going to go over here and I’m going to paste and what I get is the music pasted into this blank document. I also get the entire area selected automatically, you can see the start and the end and you can also see that the playback head is right at the end now and the entire thing is a kind of a little darker meaning it’s selected. I’m going to leave that selected and I want to go and get the next thing so I want to close this video here, the audio only video, and I’m going to right click on the picture and I’m going to open that also with QuickTime Player and I end up with just basically it’s a single frame movie with this image in it. I’m going to go ahead and I’m going to Select All, Copy again. I’m going to go back into this window, which is the document I’m trying to create, and I’m going to paste it in. But not just a regular paste. I’m going to select actually Add Selection and Scale. What that’ll do is it’ll paste this in and scale it to the size of the area selected; so we have this piece of music that’s so long and it’s actually going to actually paste this in and stretch it to be the same amount of time as the piece of music. Great. So now I’ve got this right here and it’s actually scaled to be thirteen seconds long. And I can play it and see. Great.
So I’m going to move the playback head all the way to the end again so I’m ready to insert the next piece. Now for these video clips it’s very easy. All I’m going to do is I’m going to double click on them which will open them up in QuickTime Player and I’m going to go ahead and Command A for all, Command C for copy, go over here, make sure my playback head is at the end, and paste it in. I can see now I’ve pasted it in and it’s selected it, so it’s this bit at the end, and it’s moved the playback head all the way to the end there. I’m going to do that for the other two clips as well. Paste it in, select it, copy it and paste it in. So now I’ve got a video here that starts off with the music, goes all the way through, starts my first video, goes to the second video and the third video. And if I like I can actually paste the title graphic or a new graphic at the end as well. So I can go ahead here and select the music…
Hi. This is Gary with MacMost Now. Today I’m going to show you how to use QuickTime Pro to edit your own video.
So iMovie’s a great tool for making videos but QuickTime Pro actually has some really interesting features that can be a little easier to use at times. Let’s go and take a look at how to make a really simple video with a title and some music at the beginning and then a few video clips put together after that.
So let’s gather the media first. Say I’ve got three video clips. Clip one, two and three. You could have gotten these from anywhere. Maybe you used your regular camera in movie mode to record them. You’ll end up with three movie files. It can handle formats of just about any kind; mp4, h264, anything. These came out as dot mob’s. So I’ve got three movie clips. I also want to have a little intro so I’ve created a graphic called Title. You can create this is any kind of image editing program; you can even just type some text into text edit and then do a screen capture of it.
So you have a graphic that you want to use in your title and also your piece of music. I grabbed this piece of music out of my garage band library where it’s got lots of short little jingles and things like that. So I’ve got a piece of music, title graphic and three video clips and I want to put that together in a simple video using QuickTime Pro.So I’m going to go ahead and run QuickTime Pro and I want to go and just basically say New Player and I get this blank timeline called Untitled, there’s nothing in it right now.
So first thing I want to do is I’m going to go ahead and open the music and I’m going to do that in QuickTime Player. So I’m going to Control click on it and open with so it doesn’t open in iTunes. So now I’ve got two QuickTime Player windows; this one here with the music in it and this untitled one. Do Command A to select all, Copy. Then I’m going to go over here and I’m going to paste and what I get is the music pasted into this blank document. I also get the entire area selected automatically, you can see the start and the end and you can also see that the playback head is right at the end now and the entire thing is a kind of a little darker meaning it’s selected. I’m going to leave that selected and I want to go and get the next thing so I want to close this video here, the audio only video, and I’m going to right click on the picture and I’m going to open that also with QuickTime Player and I end up with just basically it’s a single frame movie with this image in it. I’m going to go ahead and I’m going to Select All, Copy again. I’m going to go back into this window, which is the document I’m trying to create, and I’m going to paste it in. But not just a regular paste. I’m going to select actually Add Selection and Scale. What that’ll do is it’ll paste this in and scale it to the size of the area selected; so we have this piece of music that’s so long and it’s actually going to actually paste this in and stretch it to be the same amount of time as the piece of music. Great. So now I’ve got this right here and it’s actually scaled to be thirteen seconds long. And I can play it and see. Great.
So I’m going to move the playback head all the way to the end again so I’m ready to insert the next piece. Now for these video clips it’s very easy. All I’m going to do is I’m going to double click on them which will open them up in QuickTime Player and I’m going to go ahead and Command A for all, Command C for copy, go over here, make sure my playback head is at the end, and paste it in. I can see now I’ve pasted it in and it’s selected it, so it’s this bit at the end, and it’s moved the playback head all the way to the end there. I’m going to do that for the other two clips as well. Paste it in, select it, copy it and paste it in. So now I’ve got a video here that starts off with the music, goes all the way through, starts my first video, goes to the second video and the third video. And if I like I can actually paste the title graphic or a new graphic at the end as well. So I can go ahead here and select the music…
August 1st, 2008 at 7:07 am
Great show, Gary.
I never knew how great my QuickTime Pro was.
I will definitely use it more now.
Thanks