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USING QUICKTIME PRO
Q: I want to combine two movies to play side-by-side in a single movie. How do I do that?
A: To combine two movies to play simultaneously side-by-side in a single Quicktime movie, follow these steps:
1)Open one of your movies 2)Move the sliders to highlight the portion of the movie you want played (copied)
3)EDIT>>COPY 4)Open one of your other movies 5)EDIT>> ADD TO MOVIE
Now we want to slide the movie layers around so that they are both visible at the same time 6)WINDOWS>>SHOW MOVIE PROPERTIES 7)Select a video track 8)Click the "Visual Settings" Tab 9) Offset the movie untiil they are side by side 10)Play your movie and continue editing until satisfed. Save
An example of a combined movie can be found in the seismic wave propagation movies found here
Another tutorial can be found here : http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=QuickTime%20Player/7.0/en/c3qt9.html
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Q: How do create a slideshow or animation from still images?
A: Use Sequence Images:
1)Place all sequence images into one folder 2)Make sure all images are labeled in sequence i.e. "image1, image2, image3" 3)FILE>>OPEN IMAGE SEQUENCE>>Select the first file of your image set 4)Choose the frame rate (2 to 3 seconds per frame is best for slide shows) 5)Play to check and Save
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Q: How do convert a very large Quicktime Movie file to a smaller one?
A: You can export it:
1)Open you movie in Quicktime 2)FILE>>EXPORT>>OPTIONS 3)In "Movie Settings" you can modify the Settings to shrink a file down 4)Modify the Compression Quality and the Compression Type to H.264 5)Save
Google Earth Pro
Q: How do I make a Google Earth Movie?
A: Use the Movie Maker Tool
1)Enter the locations/coordinates of the locations you wish to fly to (Make sure the location boxes are checked) 2)TOOLS>>MOVIE MAKER 3)Select your options 4)Google Earth Pro will then fly and record your movie
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Q: How do I make a point file (KML/KMZ) for Google Earth?
A: KML and KMZ files can be used for much more that just pointing out destinations
in Google Earth. Have a look at this tutorial:
http://code.google.com/apis/kml/documentation/kml_tut.html#basic_kml
Photoshop Tips
Using the Magic Wand Tool:
To select a consistently colored area, you can use the magic wand tool. By setting the tolerance level, you can determine the similarity level of the color you wish to select. The higher the tolerance value, the broader the range of color that will be selected. Use the contiguous check box to select a continuous color area, or uncheck the box to select all of the same color.
Image Adjustments:
Photoshop has very useful "Auto Adjustment tools." These tools can be found under Image>> Adjustment. Using these tools is an option to manually adjusting your image settings. These tools will try to make your images clearer and cleaner.
Making Transparencies for Fledermaus:
You want to use the magic wand tool to select portions of your image to make transparent. Then you must save your image as a "tiff" file. When you open Fledermaus, you will import the image as a "Vertical Image." Set your bounds to your preference and check the "Mask Out Transparent Areas" box.
Dreamweaver
Creating Hyperlinks on Images
Dreamweaver has a very user friendly interface to create hyperlinks in images. First you will want to open/create a webpage in Dreamweaver. You can then import an image into the page. Keep in mind the location of your image and the link paths when you create the page. Select the image and in the image toolbox, select one of the "Hotspot tools" of your choice. Then you will highlight the region within the image that you wish to link. Enter the URL you wish to link and save.
Flash
Flash Scroll Bar
If you want to use the flash scroll bar found on the main page of siovizcenter then all you have to do is download the needed zip file. You can get this by clicking the image below. All you have to do is replace the default images with your own keeping the size of the images to 200x140 and changing the URL's in the text file. Keep the numerical ordering i.e. image0, image1, etc. The order of links will correspond to the order of the images. In the URL text file, the links are separated by " | ". You can insert this into your webpage using Dreamweaver. In Dreamweaver, just go to Insert>>Media>>Flash.
