— 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 (‚åòW)
• Closes the active movie window.
Save (‚åòS)
• 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 (‚åòR)
• 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 ‚åò-. (the ‚åò key and the period key) or ‚åò-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 (‚åòQ)
• Quits Play it Cool and returns to the desktop.
