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New Sequence Grabber User Interface

QuickTime 6 provides a new, improved sequence grabber User Interface (UI), which includes new settings that make the UI more resizable on all platforms, thus taking better advantage of available screen space. The new UI also provides better support for multiple camera devices.

The basic change from previous versions of QuickTime is that now the sequence grabber dialog is allowed to grow, and you can switch using tabs instead of drop down for picking the panel, as shown in Figure 1-13.

There are also improved source selections in the new UI, as well as other improvements. Among these are

• tab-based Audio and Video Settings panels

• twist-down, list-based Audio and Video Source tabs

• a Video preview panel that now provides preview options, including compressed view, vectorscope, and waveform

• growable windows, with split bars

• an Image Panel now built dynamically, based on the capabilities of the VDIG

• a Preview panel that now idles using the new event loop mechanism (refer to “New Carbon Movie Control” for more information). This improves performance on Mac OS X.

In addition, a new sequence grabber sound dialog is provided in QuickTime 6, as shown in Figure 1-14.

You can now record audio with the number of channels, 8 bit and 16 bit, different from the source. A summary of this information is provided in the lower left corner of the dialog box.

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