The QuickTime system software extension adds capabilities that let your application programs integrate graphics, sound, video, text, music and animation into documents. By providing a standard way for all Macintosh programs to control these multimedia elements, QuickTime makes them easier to use.
The QuickTime™ Musical Instruments file contains over thirty different musical instrument samples which can be used in QuickTime movies.
The QuickTime PowerPlug extension provides native Power Macintosh versions of some portions of QuickTime. Using the QuickTime PowerPlug will dramatically improve movie play back.
In the new Scrapbook, you can cut, copy, paste, and play QuickTime movies. Larger images will shrink to fit so that you can see the entire image in the Scrapbook window. This Scrapbook is otherwise identical to the standard Macintosh Scrapbook.
If you obtained QuickTime by purchasing it separately, by ordering it over the phone, or by downloading it from an electronic mail system, follow the instructions below to install the QuickTime extension and the new Scrapbook.
INSTALLING QUICKTIME
To install QuickTime:
1. If you received a floppy disk labeled "QuickTime", insert it into your computer and open it. If you downloaded QuickTime electronically, make sure the QuickTime files you downloaded are visible.
2. Open your System Folder. Double click the Extensions folder icon inside the System Folder. Drag the existing QuickTime™ extension to the Trash. Close the Extensions folder and close the System Folder.
3. Drag the QuickTime™, QuickTime™ Musical Instruments, and Scrapbook icons from the QuickTime disk to your System Folder icon (not into the open folder).
4. Click OK in the dialog box that appears.
5. If you are using a Power Macintosh, drag the QuickTime PowerPlug file from the QuickTime disk to your System Folder icon (not into the open folder).
6. Restart your Macintosh.
INSTALLING THE SCRAPBOOK
Before you install the new Scrapbook file:
Installing the new Scrapbook File in your System Folder will delete your current Scrapbook File. If you have stored any items in your current Scrapbook that you want to keep, drag the Scrapbook File from your System Folder to any other folder. This prevents the file from being deleted when you install the new Scrapbook File. (To open the old Scrapbook File in the future, you’ll need to move the new one out of your System Folder and move the old one back in.)
To install the new Scrapbook File:
1. Find the folder called Replacement Scrapbook File. (If QuickTime was already installed on your computer, this folder is on your computer's hard disk. If you obtained QuickTime separately, this folder is on the QuickTime disk.)
2. Drag the contents of the Replacement Scrapbook File folder to your System Folder icon.
3. If you haven’t moved your old Scrapbook File out of the System Folder, a message asks you whether you want to replace it. Click OK to replace your old Scrapbook File.
To use the new Scrapbook File:
1. Choose Scrapbook from the Apple menu.
2. When a picture appears in the Scrapbook window, use the buttons in the movie control bar to play the movie.
You can use standard Cut, Copy, and Paste commands to copy movies to and from the Scrapbook. To copy a movie from the Scrapbook to a document, you need to use a program that supports QuickTime movies. If the program doesn’t support movies, only a single PICT image is pasted into the document (the first frame of the movie segment in the Scrapbook).
USING THE QUICKTIME EXTENSION
You do not interact directly with the QuickTime extension. It works behind the scenes as part of your system software, providing new features to the application programs that support QuickTime. The specific features of QuickTime that you use and how they are presented depend on the programs you use.
TO LEARN EVEN MORE
The best way to get started with QuickTime is to purchase the QuickTime Starter Kit from Apple Computer. This kit contains four programs with which you can play and edit QuickTime movies, convert existing files to movies, record video or audio movies (with digitizing hardware), and compress still photos. The kit also includes a CD-ROM filled with examples of QuickTime video, animation, and photos, and a catalog of products that work with QuickTime. Also included with the kit is PixelPlay which allows you to use QuickTime movies as a screen saver.
The QuickTime Starter Kit is available from your local hardware or software dealer.
