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Table Of Contents
- User’s Guide
- Contents
- Welcome to QuickTime
- Getting Started With QuickTime
- Using QuickTime Player Controls
- Playing Movies in QuickTime Player
- Playing Movies in a Web Browser
- Viewing QuickTime Virtual Reality (VR) Movies
- Adjusting QuickTime Settings
- Viewing and Modifying Still Images
- Using QuickTime to Play MIDI Files
- Finding Movies Quickly Using QuickTime Favorites
- Viewing Information About a File
- QuickTime on the Internet
- Making and Editing QuickTime Movies With QuickTime Pro
- Opening and Converting Files With QuickTime
- Working With Movie Tracks
- Viewing QuickTime Movie Tracks
- Copying a Track From Another QuickTime Movie
- Extracting Individual Tracks
- Disabling Individual Tracks
- Working With Audio Tracks
- Working With Text Tracks
- QuickTime Sprite and Tween Tracks
- Specifying Languages for Individual Tracks
- Changing a Movie’s Appearance With Transparent Tracks
- Editing QuickTime Movies
- Selecting Part of a Movie
- Cutting, Copying, or Deleting a Section of a Movie
- Replacing a Section of a Movie
- Combining Two QuickTime Movies Into One
- Presenting Multiple Movies in the Same Frame
- Adding Special Effects to a QuickTime Movie
- Pasting Graphics and Text Into a Movie
- Resizing, Skewing, or Rotating a Movie
- Changing a Movie’s Shape With a Video Mask
- Adjusting Individual Movie Options
- Advanced Concepts
- Keyboard Combinations forPlayingQuickTimeMovies
- Glossary
- Index
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3 Making and Editing QuickTime
Movies With QuickTime Pro
Most of the activities in this chapter apply only to
QuickTime Pro. You can upgrade to QuickTime Pro by
purchasing a registration key at www.apple.com/
quicktime/buy.
Opening and Converting Files With QuickTime
You can open (import) dozens of types of media with QuickTime. To determine if
QuickTime Player can open a file, choose File > Import and select the file you want to
open. You will be able to select only files that can be imported.
If you have QuickTime Pro, you can use QuickTime Player to convert many types of
video, audio, graphics, and animation files (including Flash files) into QuickTime movies.
To convert a file into a QuickTime movie, import it and then choose File > Save.
File Formats QuickTime Can Import
File formats you can import include the following:
Video formats: AVI, DV, Motion JPEG, MPEG-1, MPEG-2,
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MPEG-4, 3GPP
Audio formats: AIFF/AIFC, Audio CD, MP3, Sound Designer II, System 7 Sound, uLaw
(AU), WAV, MPEG-4
Still-image formats: BMP, GIF, JPEG/JFIF, MacPaint, PICT, PNG, Photoshop (with layers),
SGI, Targa, FlashPix, TIFF
Animation formats: 3DMF, Animated GIF, FLC/FLI, Flash, PICS
Other formats: KAR (Karaoke), MIDI, QuickDraw GX, QuickTime Image File, Text
For more information about supported formats, see the Products area of the QuickTime
website.
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MPEG-2 playback is available via the QuickTime 6 MPEG-2 Playback Component, sold separately at the
Apple Store online.
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