live text

[samsc]

you can create a movie with text in it-

its called a quicktime text track-

documentation is at

http://www.apple.com/quicktime/tutor...exttracks.html

formats are something like:

{QTtext} {font:Geneva} {plain} {anti-aliasn} {size:12} {textColor: 65535, 65535, 65535} {backColor: 0, 0, 0} {justify:center} {timeScale:1000} {width:160} {height:48} {timeStamps:absolute} {language:0} {textEncoding:0}
[00:00:00.000]
Text Slide 1
[00:00:02.000]
Text Slide 2
[00:00:04.000]
Text Slide 3

[Jey]

you can create a movie with text in it-

its called a quicktime text track-

documentation is at

http://www.apple.com/quicktime/tutor...exttracks.html

formats are something like:

The Quicktime Text Track is pretty cool. Got to check that out!

Jey

[SourceChild]

Incidentally, QT Text Track is one of the foundations that Live Type uses. If you have Final Cut Studio with Live Type, you can do much the same thing.

[samsc]

Incidentally, QT Text Track is one of the foundations that Live Type uses. If you have Final Cut Studio with Live Type, you can do much the same thing.

live type is a proper text creation animation program. not related to quicktime text tracks.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiveType


quicktime text tracks are an ancient way of doing small numbers of these things ( and pretty much obsolete )
according to wikipedia they date back to quicktime v1.5 ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QuickTime#QuickTime_1.x

Apple released QuickTime 1.5 for Mac OS in the latter part of 1992. This added the SuperMac-developed Cinepak vector-quantization video codec (initially known as Compact Video), which managed the previously unheard-of feat of playing back video at 320×240 resolution at 30 frames per second on a 25 MHz 68040 CPU. It also added text tracks, which allowed for things like captioning, lyrics, etc., at very little addition to the size of a movie.

you cant do much with quicktime text tracks, and it hasnt been changed for a decade or more - but for some things it might work.