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Preface
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Welcome to QuickTime
Want to play movies from your hard disk or the Internet?
QuickTime Player makes it easy.
What Is QuickTime?
QuickTime Player is a free multimedia player. You can use it to view many kinds of files,
including video, audio, still images, graphics, and virtual reality (VR) movies. QuickTime
supports the most popular formats on the Internet for news, sports, education, movie
trailers, and other entertainment.
QuickTime is also a multimedia architecture that other applications can leverage. Some
of the most popular software—such as iTunes, iMovie, and Final Cut Pro from Apple, as
well as many third-party programs—uses the QuickTime architecture for important
multimedia functions. These applications require QuickTime to be installed in order to
function properly.
What Is QuickTime Pro?
You can easily add a host of useful features to your QuickTime software by purchasing
QuickTime Pro. With QuickTime Pro, you can:
 Save files from the Internet
 Edit audio and video
 Record audio (Mac OS X and Windows) and video (Mac OS X only)
 Add special effects
 Create slideshows
 Convert and save video, audio, and images to more than a hundred standard formats
For information about how to start using QuickTime Pro, see “Getting QuickTime Pro”
on page 23.