Fig. 4: Each of these track types were automatically created by dragging an asset from LSP's Library panel onto the Stage. [an error occurred while processing this directive] Of course, you can use this technique to quickly author simple projects like slideshows or a series of movies that play in a row, but frankly, you can do simple stuff like that with Apple's QuickTime Pro player itself, so to get the most out of LSP it really pays to know your tracks. Lucky for us, LSP's documentation is very thorough in explaining what types of tracks are available, what each does, and examples of when to use a particular track or not. The documentation is also chock-stinking-full with tips and hints on how to avoid QuickTime's shortcomings (the lack of font embedding leaps immediately to mind) (fig. 5).


Fig. 5: Handy hints like this are peppered all throughout LSP's documentation.

OK, so with all this talk about the different track types, it might make sense to run through what some of the less obvious ones are and what you can use them for:

Video Tracks. Well, maybe the video track doesn't exactly fall into the "less obvious" track category, but it's worth a mention that LSP is a full QuickTime 6 production environment, meaning you're now free to use MPEG-4 videos in your projects (fig. 6), along with all the other video codecs QuickTime supports.


Fig. 6: With LSP 4, MPEG-4 files are now welcomed into the QuickTime fold.



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