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Specifying Languages for Individual Tracks

You can create a movie with support for multiple languages by specifying a language for an individual track. For example, you can create a movie that contains a separate audio track for each language. QuickTime automatically plays the correct track, based on the language setting of the user's computer.

To specify languages:

  1. Create or assemble the alternate tracks.

    Record voiceovers in each desired language or create text tracks to use as subtitles. Save each alternate track as a self-contained movie, and put all the alternates together in a single folder.

  2. Put a copy of your original movie, self-contained and minus any tracks that are now stored as alternates, in the folder with the alternates.
  3. Open the movie and choose Window > Show Movie Properties.
  4. In the Properties window, select a sound or text track and click Other Settings.
  5. Choose the language of this track from the Language pop-up menu.
  6. Choose a track to use when a different language is selected from the Alternate pop-up menu.
  7. Save as a self-contained movie (choose File > Save As and make sure "Make movie self-contained" is selected).
  8. Repeat these steps for additional language tracks; each time, choose the previously selected language from the Alternate pop-up menu.