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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
Glossary 47
QTSS (QuickTime Streaming Server) A technology used to deliver media over the
Internet in real time.
QuickTime Player An application that plays QuickTime movies.
QuickTime Pro A version of QuickTime Player with advanced features, primarily the
addition of editing capabilities.
QuickTime VR A QuickTime media type with which users can interact with three-
dimensional places and objects.
reference movie A file that contains the location of one or more streaming media files.
A reference file linked from a webpage, for example, can direct a client player to the
version encoded for a particular connection speed.
RGB Red, green, blue; a way of representing colors onscreen.
RTSP (Real-Time Streaming Protocol) A protocol for controlling a stream of real-time
multimedia content. Sources of data can include both live feeds and stored digital
video.
sprite An image that is defined once and is then animated by commands that change
its position or appearance.
streaming Delivery of video or audio data over a network in real time, in batches
instead of in a single file download.
TIFF (Tagged Image File Format) A format for graphics, commonly used to transfer
bitmapped images between applications.
track A single data stream in a QuickTime movie. A movie may contain one or more
tracks.
tween track A track that modifies the display of other tracks.
virtual reality (VR) The effect achieved by QuickTime VR, where users can manipulate
objects or environments.
wav A Windows format for sound files.
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