
Saving a Movie with Specific Playback Settings
You can specify how a movie should open and play, what happens when the movie finishes, and the method QuickTime uses to resize the video.
To specify playback options:
- Choose Window > Show Movie Properties.
- Select the movie name, and then click Presentation.
- Select the desired options.
The General options allow you to specify if the movie will begin playing automatically, if it will enter full screen playback, and whether the movie remains open or QuickTime Player quits when the movie is finished playing. Use the checkboxes to select these options for your movie.
The Conform Aperture setting allows you to specify how the outside edges of the video are processed during playback. Depending on how the movie was created, and its aspect ratio and resolution, the portion of the image area that has the best quality and is intended for display will vary. During playback, QuickTime adjusts the image using the selected aperture setting to obtain the best visual clarity.
- Classic aperture uses the dimensions as specified by the track.
- Clean aperture crops to the clean aperture area and scales the image according to the pixel aspect ratio of the track. The clean aperture area excludes the edges of the video where encoding artifacts might occur.
- Production aperture scales according to the pixel aspect ratio but does not crop the video.
- Encoded Pixels neither crops nor scales the movie.
- Save the movie.