Quicktime text track editing

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Quicktime text track editing

QuicktimePro 7.6.9

I'm adding some titles to a quicktime movie.
How can I edit the text file without having to delete the text track and add it to the movie every time I make a change to it?

I have read some instruccions about importing the modified text track, but I have no import menu in Quicktime>File menu.

Macbook 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, Mac OS X (10.5.8)

Posted on Jan 18, 2011 1:51 AM

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Answer 1

Jan 18, 2011 2:23 PM in response to David Casillas

To add a bit more info.
In Quicktime 7 User Manual you can read:

+"With QuickTime Pro you can change the font attributes of a text track already in a+
+movie. To do so, you export the track, make changes, then reimport the track.+
+To change font styles for the text track:+
+1 In QuickTime Player, choose File > Export.+
+2 Choose “Text to Text” from the Export pop-up menu.+
+3 Click Options and select “Show Text, Descriptors, and Time.”+
+4 Use a text editor to alter the values after the {QTtext} tag.+
+5 Import the text track back into your movie.+
+In Windows, click Convert. To import the text with the default settings, click Save. To+
+select different settings (such as font attributes), click Options.+
+You can also insert tags throughout the text to change values while the movie plays. "+

How do you reimport the text track into the movie? Where is the missing menu I can't find? I have to delete the old text track, open the modified track ( it opens in a new window), copy it and then paste in the movie again.

What does the last sentence of the manual? How can you insert tags in real time and have the result be display in the movie as it plays?

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Answer 2

Jan 18, 2011 6:02 PM in response to David Casillas

File menu / Open
If you wish to edit the text track you need to export it and use the steps 1 through 5 in your post.

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Answer 3

Jan 18, 2011 11:34 PM in response to QuickTimeKirk

Ok, I know that. What it makes me feel like I miss something is:

Does "import the text track back" really mean doing all this steps?
- Delete the old text track
- Open the new edited text track in a new QuickTime Window
- Select all
- Copy to the clipboard
- Select the original Movie
- Add the new text track through "add to the movie menu"

If this is true, I think the manual ( and you ) should be more clear. Import usually means in every other application select Import from File Menu.

Unfortunately I have discovered text tracks and the power they have, but with an easy tool to use them they are a bit useless.

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Answer 4

Jon Walker

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Jan 19, 2011 5:48 AM in response to David Casillas

If this is true, I think the manual ( and you ) should be more clear. Import usually means in every other application select Import from File Menu.

Unfortunately, it appears Apple may be in the process of updating manuals/web pages dealing with QuickTime Text tracks. I see that many of the URLs I'd saved containing the various tags and values, as well as, general articles on how to apply them are no longer valid. As to the term "Import," It was dropped from the from the File menu list many versions ago in favor of the more generic term "Open."

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