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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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Preface
Welcome to QuickTime
If you want to play movies from your hard disk or the
Internet, you’ve come to the right place. QuickTime
supports the most popular formats on the Internet
for news, entertainment, movie trailers, and virtual
reality (VR).
What Is QuickTime?
With the free version of QuickTime, you can play many kinds of files, including video,
audio, graphics, and virtual reality (VR) movies.
With the full-featured version, called QuickTime Pro, you can do such things as create
movies, play movies full screen, save files from the Internet, edit audio and video, add
special effects, create slideshows, and convert and save video, audio, and images to
more than a hundred standard file formats. You can purchase a registration key to
upgrade to QuickTime Pro at www.apple.com/quicktime/buy/.
System Requirements
For Mac OS computers:
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A PowerPC processor–based Macintosh computer
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At least 128 MB of RAM
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Mac OS X v10.2 or later
For Windows computers:
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A Pentium processor–based PC or compatible computer
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At least 128 MB of RAM
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Windows 98/Me/2000/XP
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