File New (⌘N) • Creates a new empty movie. Open Movie… (⌘O) • Opens an existing movie file. Options · load movie into RAM — improves movie playback, — to take best advantage, give Play it Cool a memory allocation of 512K RAM more than the movie’s size (allowing for any dependencies), · change movie’s icon to the Play it Cool movie icon — double-clicking on the movie from now on will open it in Play it Cool. Tip: Hold down option while choosing this command to show all files (not just movie files). — This is useful if a movie file is not shown in the file list because it has been transferred from a non-Mac OS system. Tip: Hold down command while opening a movie from the desktop to let you choose the two options described above (load movie and change icon).   Open Location… • Opens a movie file from the Internet. • A dialog is displayed to let you enter the Internet location (URL) of the movie to be played. Close (⌘W) • Closes the active movie window. Save (⌘S) • Writes the active movie file to disk. Save As… • Writes the active movie file to disk, asking for a new name. • Leaves the original movie file unchanged. Options · save the movie normally (allowing dependencies) — it will occupy much less disk space (≈ 4K) — it will rely on other movie(s) from which it was created, · save the movie as self-contained (flatten the movie) — it may take up several megabytes on disk — all required data is contained in the saved movie file. If you save the movie as self-contained, you can make it playable on non-Mac OS computers (e.g. Windows, BeOS and Linux).   Save A Copy As… • Saves a copy of the current movie, but unlike Save As…, does not open the saved movie afterwards. Revert (⌘R) • Removes all changes made to the active movie since it was last saved. Recompress Movie… • Asks for a movie file to be compressed or recompressed. Options · The movie compression dialog lets you choose a QuickTime compressor, the number of colours or greys, image quality and motion settings (see diagram) — click and drag the preview image to reveal other parts of it. Tip: Press option while dragging the Quality slider — the slider bar now changes the movie’s temporal settings (i.e. how much the compressor relies on differences between successive frames). Tip: Press option while clicking in the preview to zoom in. Tip: Press option and shift while clicking in the preview to zoom out.   Compress Picture… • Asks for a PICT file to be compressed or recompressed. Options · The picture compression dialog lets you choose a QuickTime compressor, the number of colours or greys in the movie and image quality (see diagram) — click and drag the preview image to reveal other parts of it. Tip: Press option while clicking in the preview to zoom in. Tip: Press option and shift while clicking in the preview to zoom out.   Build Application… • Builds a copy of the active movie as a standalone application. • The application can be run by any Macintosh with QuickTime installed. • It runs independently of Play it Cool or any other QuickTime movie player. • Movie-Applications are intended for presentations: · they have no distracting backgrounds, · they play at optimal playback rate, · they change the screen’s resolution to the most appropriate size. Movie-Applications load into RAM as much of the movie as possible before playing. To load the complete movie into RAM, give the Movie-Application a memory partition of about 200K more than the movie occupies on disk. Options · up to six lines of credits text may be displayed at the start of the movie — to suppress credits text, ensure that all six entries are empty, · the current movie window size and speed settings can be applied, · the credit text colour can be chosen, · the background colour can be chosen, · the Movie-Application can quit automatically after the movie finishes playing, or it may wait for the user to click the mouse before quitting — note that if you have chosen to quit automatically, you can still click the mouse (or use one of the key combinations below) during the movie to quit. · select whether the mouse can be clicked without quitting the Movie-Application — this is useful for interactive movies — (in this case one of the key combinations below must be used to quit), · select whether the monitor should be set to the best screen depth for this movie (this improves movie playback and image quality), · select whether the monitor should be set to the best screen resolution for this movie (the movie looks its best at this resolution), Tip: If you want the movie to loop or loop back and forth, choose the appropriate loop setting from the Movie menu before creating the Movie-Application. Tip: To skip the credits, click the mouse button. Tip: To quit the movie, click the mouse button, or press the escape key, or type ⌘-. (the ⌘ key and the period key) or ⌘-Q. Unbuild Application… • Asks for a Movie-Application to be converted into a normal QuickTime movie. Note: This removes credit text and loop settings. Page Setup… • Displays the standard page setup dialog box for selecting printer page layouts — paper size, reduction/enlargement, orientation, … Print… (⌘P) • Displays the standard print dialog box for selecting print settings — number of copies, paper source, … • If the frontmost window is a movie window, prints the current frame of the active movie, scaled according to the movie’s window size. • If the frontmost window is a movie info window, prints the movie information. Quit (⌘Q) • Quits Play it Cool and returns to the desktop.