QTTextTrack Edit 1.0.8 User's Guide

Registering Your License Key Changing Text Duration
Opening Files Edit Text and Text Attributes
Adding Text Track, Subtitle Track Gradation Effect
Removing Text Track, Subtitle Track Subtitle Track
Duplicating Text Track, Subtitle Track Setting Audio and Subtitles
Transforming and Rotating Edit Track Name
Adding Text Note When Watching Movies on iPhone or iPod touch
Removing Text Saving Movies

Registering Your License Key
  1. Choose QTTextTrack Edit > Registration...
  2. Enter your License Key.
Opening Files

Choose File > Open and select the file. Or drag the file to the QTTextTrack Edit application icon.

Adding Text Track, Subtitle Track
  1. Choose Text > Add Track...
  2. Choose Text Track or Subtitle Track from track type pop-up menu.
  3. Click OK.
Removing Text Track, Subtitle Track
  1. Select the text/subtitle track in the track list.
  2. Choose Edit > Delete or Text > Remove Track or press Delete key.
Duplicating Text Track, Subtitle Track
  1. Select the text/subtitle track in the track list.
  2. Choose Edit > Duplicate or choose Text > Duplicate Track.
Transforming and Rotating
  • To Transform the selected track rectangle:
    Choose Edit > Transform...
  • To turn the selected track rectangle 90 degrees:
    Choose Edit > Rotate > 90° Clockwise or 90° Counter Clockwise
  • To turn the selected track rectangle other degrees:
    Choose Edit > Rotate > Custom...
Transform, Rotate Windows → →→

The origin of QuickTime coordinate is top-left corner.
Leftward movement:(-) Rightward movement:(+) Upward movement:(-) Downward movement:(+)

Adding Text
  1. Select the text/subtitle track in the track list.
  2. Move the playhead to the point at which you want to add new text.
  3. Choose Add Text > Overwrite or Insert...
Overwrite
Insert
Removing Text
  1. Select the text in the text sample list.
  2. Choose Edit > Delete or press Delete key.
  3. Select Remove selected text sample(s) or Remove selected text sample time range(s).
  4. Click OK.
Remove selected text sample
Remove selected text sample time range
Changing Text Duration

To change the start time of the text: Select the time in the text sample list, and then change the time.

To change the start, duration and end time of the text:

When you select the text in the text sample list, the buttons of the start time and the end time appears under the movie controller bar. Dragging the start/end time button will change the time.

Or use the Edit Text Time Window.

  1. Click the button of the start/end time, the Edit Text Time Window appears.
  2. Specify the start, duration and end time.
  3. Click OK.
Edit Text and Text Attributes

To change the text: Select the text in the text sample list, and then change the text.

If the text sample has 2 or more different attributes, use the Edit Text Sample Attributes Window.

  1. Select the text in the text sample list.
  2. Click the Edit Text... button, the Edit Text Sample Attributes Window appears.
  3. Change attributes (for example, Font, Size, Color, Alignment and Scroll).
  4. Click OK.
Gradation Effect

It makes to change a text color, background color, font size and location-and-size by gradation. You can move a text diagonally.

Select the text in the text sample list, and then choose Text > Gradation Effect....

Gradation Effect
Subtitle Track
  • To change the text location:
    Change the offset in the track list.
  • To change the text size:
    Change the scaled size in the track list. The text size will change to fit the height of the track.
  • On QuickTime Player (10.0), iPhone and iPod touch (iPhone OS 3.1.3), the text size is fixed and the location is fixed at bottom.
  • Subtitle Track with Text Track
    When the subtitle tracks are coexistent with an enabled text track, any QuickTime based movie players displays enlarged subtitle text. If you use a text track for chapter markers, set disabled it.
  • Number of Lines
    Fixed 2 lines on QuickTime based movie players.
Setting Audio and Subtitles

To use Audio and Subtitles

  1. Select the track in the track list.
  2. Select the group button under the track list.


Audio & Subtitles with iTunes

Sample Movies→

Edit Track Name

To change the track name:

  1. Select the track name in the track list.
  2. Change the name.

There is a problem that 2 bytes characters are corrupted depending on system language. On iPhone or iPod touch (iPhone OS 3.1.3), every system language.

Note When Watching Movies on iPhone or iPod touch
  • The text of the text tracks will not be displayed.
  • Sharing text attributes in subtitle tracks.
    If the movie has a subtitle track that has 2 or more different text attributes, iPhone or iPod touch shows following massage.
    "This movie format is not supported."
    You need to set same text attributes in each subtitle track.
This movie format is not supported

Choose Text > Attributes > Share First Attributes at Every Subtitle Track. In each subtitle track, the first character's attributes is shared.

If still shows the massage, there are another causes.

Audio & Subtitles with iPod touch

Saving Movies

When you choose File > Save,

  • If the file is QuickTime movie(.mov), it will be overwritten.
  • If the file is not QuickTime movie (.mov), you have to Flatten and save as a self-contained QuickTime movie.

Last updated: 2010-04-28

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