Quicktime Pro Add to Selection & Scale

Question

OK,
So I'm new to this Quicktime Pro yet again.
I've followed the help doc for adding a selection and scale, but nothing seems to happen or it adds a text path that is enabled. it does not add the extracted video into the moviewhere I select with the markers. I feel like I am missing something somewhere in my transfer of the help to the actual mouse and key strokes I am doing. Anyone want to walk me trough this cakewalk
Thanks

Answer 1

I would like to take a movie and shorten the time so that it is sped up. I know its got to be simple and I must be missing a step somewhere.
1) Open a new QT 7 player window.
2) Add a data track you wish to use for the reference duration. (I would normally recommend somthing simple like an audio data track with a duration equal to or longer than you want the final video to be.)
3) If the new player with the added data track is longer than you want the final video to be, then trim it to the duration you want. (E.g., if you have a 10 minute video you want to play at twice normal speed, then trim the target player track to 5 minutes. For 5x normal speed, trim the target player track to 2 munutes. So on and so on depending on how fast you want the end file to play.)
4) Once your timing reference track is set to the target duration, open the video file containing the data you wish scaled to the target reference duration.
5) To scale the entire video, press "Command-A" followed by "Command-C" to select all data in your source file and copy it to memory. (If only copying a segment of the source file, select the segment you want before copying it to memory with the "Command-C" keyboard shortcut.
6) Activate your target player containing the timing reference track by clicking on it, press "Command-A" to select the entire traget file, and use the "Add to Selection & Scale" menu option to copand scale the data in memory to the target player file.
7) Lastly, delete the timing reference track used to scale your source data content and save the resulting file.
If needed, here is a link to a "quickie" tutorial I made several years ago. In this case, however, I used a copy of the original file to create the reference track. The above instructions are more generalized but refer to the same basic strategy:
http://quicknotes.walker4.me/QuickNotes/QT_Pro/Entries/2008/4/15_T002__Fast_Moti on_Effect.html