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QuickTime For Macintosh and Windows
Copyright 1993, Apple Computer, Inc.
QuickTime, Apple’s cross-platform multimedia software technology, lets you
integrate sound, video, graphics, and animation on your Macintosh personal
computer or on personal computers running Windows. QuickTime provides standards
to integrate and play media-rich data, all without the need for any additional
hardware—everything is managed with the QuickTime architecture. Whether you’re
a business professional, a researcher, student, or home user, if you can copy
and paste, QuickTime can make multimedia computing easy.
The system software handles the editing, cutting, copying, pasting, and
playback of movies. With a QuickTime movie editor, such as Adobe Premiere or
DiVA VideoShop, you can create special custom effects, select visual
transitions, and precisely control when a soundtrack begins and ends.
Multiple, built-in compression schemes help minimize the size and maximize the
playback quality of your QuickTime movies. Compress high-resolution,
photographic-quality images with little or no loss of detail. The modular
architecture of QuickTime also supports future hardware and software
compression schemes so you won’t need to upgrade your software every time a new
compression technology is announced.
QuickTime provides a standard file format — the Movie format — for sharing
dynamic information, such as video, sound, or animation. And because the Movie
format is available to all Macintosh and Windows software developers, you can
integrate movies in any application that supports QuickTime as easily as you
work with text and graphics today. All QuickTime products have the same look
and feel that you’ve come to expect from Apple. Starting a movie is as easy as
clicking the Play button on the movie window that appears on your Macintosh or
Windows display.
With more than one million copies sold, and more than 300 software products
that support QuickTime for Macintosh — and Windows developers rapidly adopting
it as well — QuickTime is fast becoming the world leader in multimedia
technology.
QuickTime Features:
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QuickTime for Macintosh
• Lets you integrate video, animation, high-quality still images, and high
quality sound into reports, letters, spreadsheets, presentations, and other
projects
• Allows you to develop and integrate materials for multiple platform use via
the Movie file format
• Lets you cut, copy, and paste movies from one document to another using
intuitive commands
• Requires no additional hardware
• Works with hundreds of Macintosh applications, including the latest versions
of popular word processing, database, spreadsheet, visualization, and
presentation applications
QuickTime for Windows
• Integrates video, animation, high-quality still images, and high-quality
sound with Windows applications—boosting the impact of all types of
communications
• Requires no additional software for playback of QuickTime movies
• Lets you integrate media from multiple platforms via the Movie file format
• Integrates with Macromedia’s Action 2.5 and Authorware Pro 2.0; and supports
other applications through Windows 3.1 MCI (Media Control Interface) and OLE
1.0 (Object Linking & Embedding)
• Supports Visual Basic 2.0 for custom multimedia application development
Technical Specifications:
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QuickTime provides:
• Synchronization, editing, and playback of QuickTime movies
• Built-in compression schemes (Video, Animation, Graphics, Compact Video, and
Photo) for compressing video, animation, and still image files to a fraction
of their original size
• Scalable architecture supports hardware as well as software compression
schemes
• Support for additional compression schemes like Intel’s new Indeo software
compression technology
QuickTime for Macintosh (Version 1.6):
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Audio CD import option
• Includes Movie Import component that allows you to open Audio CD tracks from
QuickTime’s Standard File Preview dialog—similar to opening PICS and AIFF
files
• Converts tracks of your audio clip CDs to QuickTime movies with an AppleCD
300, AppleCD 300i drive, or PowerCD-ROM drive
Sound Manager 3.0 enhancement option
(available to developers through APDA)
• Allows you to mix multiple sound tracks onto one sound resource
• Plays sound more efficiently (10%-20% increase in performance when playing
back QuickTime movies)
• Supports alternate sound output devices (must install a third-party sound
hardware product for CD-quality, 16-bit, 44 kHz stereo sound output)
• Provides better control over multiple sound channels (sound overdriving
possible)
• Supports true balance control
• Includes new sound control panel that gives you more control over sound
resources
PowerBook Support
• Supports fast dithering on all PowerBook computers that use 4-bit gray scale
(PowerBook 160, 180, Duo 210, Duo 230)
Memory footprint
• Segmented code can be unloaded when not in use; further reducing memory
requirements for such applications as movie playback
• Uses less than 20K of memory when installed but not in use
Macintosh Easy Open Support
• Provides document and clipboard translation for all applications
• Enables all non-QuickTime-aware applications to work automatically with
QuickTime movies
Color Matching Technology
• Supports ColorSync (Apple’s color matching technology)
• Provides consistent color reproduction between various output devices
Macintosh System requirements
• A color-capable Macintosh computer with a 68020, 68030, or 68040
microprocessor
• At least 4 megabytes of RAM, a hard disk, and an Apple SuperDrive or
SuperDrive-compatible floppy disk drive
• System software version 6.0.7 or later
QuickTime for Windows (Version 1.1):
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Playback
• A suite of Dynamic Link Libraries (DLLs) that enable Windows 3.1
applications to play digital video, audio, and graphics on a PC
File Formats
• Cross platform QuickTime Movie file format
• PICT and JPEG images
Integration with Windows applications
• Windows 3.1 MCI (Media Control Interface) for playback of QuickTime movies
• OLE 1.0 (Object Linking & Embedding) to embed QuickTime movies in
applications such as WordPerfect 5.2, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word,
Microsoft Windows Media Player, and Microsoft Windows Write
• Visual Basic 2.0 supported with a .vbx file for creation of customer Windows
multimedia applications
Codecs
• Support the standard decompressors such as Apple video, graphics, and
animation
• Supports Compact Video, which plays movies either four times as large (up
to 320 x 240 screen size) or twice the frame rate (up to 30 frames per
second) compared with using Apple Video codec in QuickTime 1.0
• Add-in decompressors, such as Intel Indeo
Windows System requirements
• A 386SX at 20 MHz to the latest 486 and Pentium computer
• At least 4 megabytes of RAM and an 80 megabyte hard disk, minimum of a VGA
display card, and sound card (Sound Blaster or Windows compatible)
• Windows 3.1
• DOS 5.0
• Recommended: CD-ROM drive and graphic adapter displaying at least 256 colors
Ordering Information:
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QuickTime for Macintosh Developer Kit v.1.6
• APDA, Order No. R0147LL/C
QuickTime for Windows Developer Kit v.1.1
• APDA, Order No. R0453LL/B
• For development kit information or the Movie File Exchange Toolkit, call
1-800-282-2732 in the U.S. and 1-800-637-0029 in Canada
• For more information on QuickTime for Macintosh or QuickTime for Windows,
call 1-800-776-2333.
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