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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
46 Glossary
hot spot A place in a virtual reality movie where the user can interact with the movie
using the mouse.
Instant-On A technology that dramatically speeds up access to streaming content for
broadband users.
JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group) A standard for compressing still images.
layer In QuickTime movies, how an image is displayed depends on its layer; images
with lower layer numbers are displayed on top.
MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) A software and hardware standard set by
the music industry that enables electronic instruments to communicate with one
another and with computers.
MP3 (MPEG layer 3) A format for compressing music.
MPEG-4 An ISO standard based on the QuickTime file format that defines multimedia
file and compression formats.
node In QuickTime VR, a point from which an object or panorama can be viewed.
NTSC (National Television System Committee) The organization that defines North
American broadcast standards. The term NTSC video also refers to the video standard
defined by the committee, which is 29.97 fps, 525 lines per frame, and interlaced.
PAL (Phase Alternation Line) A video format used by many European countries and
other countries outside North America. The PAL standard is 25 fps, 625 lines per frame,
and interlaced.
PICT A Macintosh picture file format that does not apply compression to an image and
therefore maintains the same quality level from copy to copy.
pixel The onscreen dots that form text and graphics. A contraction of the words picture
and element.
plug-in Software that helps a web browser interpret certain types of media files.
PNG (Portable Network Graphics) A file format for images.
poster In QuickTime, a still image, usually a single frame from a movie, used to
represent the movie to users.
protocol A set of standards for sending and receiving information on a network.
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