moviemaker(1) moviemaker(1) NAME moviemaker - interactive editor for movie files SYNOPSIS moviemaker [-nofork] [ file ] DESCRIPTION moviemaker 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 SUPPORT moviemaker 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) 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 ALSO movieplayer(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) Page 2