Hello and Welcome……to the QuickTime 2.0 Beta CDThis CD was created to help both software developers and content providers get started using the new technologies in QuickTime 2.0. The CD contains movies designed to show the capabilities of QuickTime 2.0. In most cases, there are several different versions of each movie provided, so that you can explore the tradeoffs that must be made to create a movie that plays back well on a particular machine.Some movies may not play back well on your Macintosh. The video movies vary from 240x180 pixels at 12fps, to 320x240 pixels at 30fps. The data rates of the movies vary from around 130k/sec to 300k/sec. A separate document included in the “Movies” folder discusses the details of determining what will play back on your Macintosh.MoviePlayer 2.0 is provided on this CD. It provides a good starting point for exploring the many features of QuickTime 2.0.While using QuickTime 2.0, please keep in mind that you are working with a Beta version, not the final product. Therefore, it may not always work correctly, and it may crash. Please report any problems you encounter. Do not assume that Apple is already aware of the problem. Your feedback is essential. Also remember that this software is covered under a non-disclosure agreement. You cannot show QuickTime 2.0 to others, you can’t talk about it, and you can’t redistribute it.Nearly all of the movies on the CD are copyrighted. That means that you CANNOT redistribute, or reuse them. They are provided to help you evaluate and learn about QuickTime 2.0. After QuickTime 2.0 is final, please show the movies to all your friends.QuickTime 2.0 introduces many new features to QuickTime. These are enumerated briefly below. More details on all areas can be found by exploring this CD.QuickTime DataPipeThe QuickTime DataPipe allows QuickTime to better manage the processor load during the play back of a QuickTime movie. This allows bigger, faster, smoother movies to be played.QuickTime 2.0 contains many internal changes which allow it to display video and animation at substantially higher frame rates, frame sizes, and data rates than ever before. In the past, movies were made at about 100k/sec for play back on a single speed CD (150k/sec). With QuickTime 2.0, it is possible to get the full 150k/sec from a single speed CD in most cases. Similarly, it is possible to get a sustained 300k/sec from a double speed drive (300k/sec), whereas in the past movies could be made at no more than 200k/sec.QuickTime’s ability to display frames at the correct time is much improved. Because of this, play back of existing movies is typically much smoother with QuickTime 2.0, eliminating much of the jerkiness often associated with computer based video. Many movies on this CD are provided at 12, 15, and 30fps so you can determine what will play back on a variety of machines. It is also interesting to compare the visual appearance. Movies without a large amount of motion look nearly as good at 15fps as they do at 30fps, only require half the storage space, and play back on many more machines.To achieve full screen video, the movies on this CD should be played at exactly double size. MoviePlayer 2.0’s new “Print To Video” feature is an easy way to do this.Using hardware support, we have successfully played back 60 field per second movies at over 3.0 megabytes per second using MoviePlayer. If you have a Radius VideoVision Studio card, you can try this out yourself. An updated version of the VideoVision software is in the extensions folder of this CD. Some changes are necessary to decompressor software to take full advantage of the QuickTime DataPipe. Users of other hardware decompression boards should contact the manufacturer for information on QuickTime 2.0 support.MusicMovies may now contain one or more music tracks. Music tracks store their data as a series of note commands, much like MIDI (the pitch, velocity, and duration of each note is stored). This allows music to be stored in an extremely compact manner when compared to traditional sampled sound.The QuickTime extension on this CD contains about a dozen instrument samples for use with music tracks. By default, the music movies on this CD use these samples for play back. If you have MIDI gear attached to your Macintosh, you can also play back the music movies on your MIDI equipment. You must use the “Music Configuration” program supplied to set this up.Music movies can be easily created by importing standard MIDI files. The importer for converting standard MIDI files to movies is built into QuickTime. To access it, simply use the “Open…” or “Import…” menu items in MoviePlayer 2.0.You can also create music movies using the Sequence Grabber. A music capture channel is built into QuickTime 2.0. You can use the Grab Exerciser program to try it out.The instruments used for each part of a music movie may be changed without altering the movie data itself. MoviePlayer provides a panel in its information dialog to allow you to do this.The instrument samples contained in QuickTime are licensed from the Roland™ Corporation. The instruments contained in the QuickTime extension are not necessarily the instruments that will be contained in the final version of QuickTime 2.0.MPEGQuickTime movies may now contain MPEG data. MPEG is an emerging standard for digital video. MPEG requires a special hardware board for play back. A document explaining how to write a software component to allow an MPEG board to work with QuickTime is provided on this disk. Several MPEG movies are also provided. Note that some of the MPEG movies contain additional QuickTime data types, such as music or text. Normally MPEG does not support these types of data, but because of the flexibility of QuickTime, it is a simple matter to combine these data types.MPEG data can either be embedded in a QuickTime movie, or stored in standard MPEG file (a standard MPEG file is — get this — a text file with the extension “.MPG”). If you open a standard MPEG file, QuickTime will create the movie automatically.QuickTime can also play MPEG movies stored on CDi discs. Several dozen movies are available in this format. Check it out at your local electronics dealer. Just put the disc in your CD-ROM drive, and open up the files in MoviePlayer. For some CDi discs it may be necessary to use the most recent Apple CD-ROM software, which is provided on this CD in the extensions folder.TimecodeQuickTime 2.0 allows you to store timecode in a QuickTime movie. The timecode is stored in a format which is a super set of all known timecode formats, so SMPTE timecode is supported. The timecode that is stored contains a source tape reference in addition to the timecode. A simple AddTimeCode application is provided to allow you to add timecode to a movie. You can install the sample CMX3600 EDL Export Component to extract the timecode from a movie. If you edit a movie with timecode, QuickTime automatically maintains the correct timecode references. You can easily see this using MoviePlayer 2.0 and the Timecode panel in the Information dialog.Burnt TextQuickTime 1.6 introduced support for anti-aliased text in the text media handler. While the text looked very good, it took too long to draw, and so was of limited usefulness. In QuickTime 2.0 you have the option to pre-render the text and store a compressed image of it in the text track. This allows you to have very good looking text in a movie, while maintaining the ability to search. You can check out the searching of text (burnt and otherwise) using MoviePlayer 2.0, which features a “Find…” command. Another advantage is that the user of the movie isn’t required to have the font you created the movie with in order to correctly see the text. This is very important to graphic designers who don’t like to see their carefully chosen font incorrectly displayed. You can use the TextMovieConverter program to convert movies with existing text tracks to the new format. The new format is backwards compatible with previous versions of QuickTime.Drag and Drop“Macintosh Drag and Drop” is a cool new technology from Apple’s human interface group. It first appeared with System 7.1 Pro. It is included in the “extensions” folder on this CD. Drag and Drop lets you drag data between windows in an application, just like you drag files and folders between Finder windows today. In addition, Drag and Drop lets you drag data between applications.QuickTime’s standard movie controller has been modified to support Drag and Drop. This means you can drag one movie to another to perform paste operations directly. And because Drag and Drop supports dragging between applications, while in MoviePlayer you can actually “reach through” to the Finder to pull in a movie sitting on your desktop.QuickTime’s support for Drag and Drop also allows you to do other cool things, like drag a text movie into a SimpleText document to extract the text. Check it out.Note that QuickTime’s support for Drag and Drop is built into the movie controller itself. That means that nearly any application that supports the movie controller will automatically be Drag and Drop aware for movies. Yet another reason to use the movie controller for all your movie play back needs.Power MacintoshAll of the QuickTime compressors and decompressors have been converted to run native on the Power Macintosh. The performance increases have been significant. Cinepak compression is 2.5 to 3 times faster than on a Quadra 950. To use the native compressors you must install the “QuickTime PowerPlug” extension in addition to the QuickTime extension.Custom Color TablesRecognizing that the vast majority of users out in the real world have computers that can only display 256 color (8 bit displays), QuickTime 2.0 allows you to associate a custom color table with any movie. In the past, it was possible (though difficult) to associate a color table with a movie. With QuickTime 2.0, this situation is much improved.You can use the simple MakeMovieColorTable program to create a reasonable color table for a movie. You can use the SetMovieColorTable application to associate an existing color table with a movie (for example, a color table made with Debabelizer).When making movies using Cinepak (or the Video Compressor), you should still compress the movies at millions (or thousands) of colors. The conversion to 256 colors takes place transparently at display time, using the color table you attach to the movie. This approach allows you to achieve optimal results at all display depths.ToolsMany classic QuickTime tools have been updated for this CD. Some new tools have been provided as well.The QuickTime XCMD’s have been updated to include many new features, including improved movie capture support.ConvertToMovie has been updated to handle stereo and 16 bit sound better. It also contains a nifty crop and scale feature, along with a few other new features.Dumpster has been updated for the new types of media (even text) and the new movie atoms.Side-By-Side is a simple utility that lets you easily compare two different versions of the same movie. This is very useful if you are trying to evaluate the results of compressing a movie with several different sets of settings.As mentioned above, MoviePlayer has been updated for this CD. The new capabilities are substantial enough that MoviePlayer can now truly be considered a tool, and not just a simple application for playing back movies. Documentation on MoviePlayer’s new features is provided. Copyright DialogIn response to an overwhelming number of requests, QuickTime 2.0 contains a standard dialog for displaying copyright information. The dialog displays the movie’s poster frame along with the full movie name (up to 255 characters), a copyright statement, and a brief description of the clip. You can check this out using the “Show Copyright…” item in MoviePlayer 2.0. All of the movies on this CD contain copyright information.You can use the “Set Movie Information” tool to add copyright information to your own movies. You can do the same, using MoviePlayer 2.0 in “authoring” mode together with Macintosh Drag and Drop. Data HandlersQuickTime 2.0 makes public the specification for how to write a data handler. The data handler interface provides a simple mechanism for developers of network software (or really cool hard disks) to plug into QuickTime’s real-time input/output mechanism.As an extra added bonus, QuickTime 2.0 contains a memory based data handler. This allows you to create and play back movies without ever having to create a file. Previously, all movies had to be stored on disk before being played. The memory based data handler has interesting uses in tools. It may also prove useful for some CD-ROM based titles.Preloading TracksIt is sometimes necessary (or at least useful) to be able to load one or more tracks of a movie completely into memory. This has always been possible with QuickTime, but required the application to explicitly make some calls each time a movie was loaded. QuickTime 2.0 allows you to specify one or more tracks to be “preloaded”. These tracks will be automatically loaded into memory when the movie is initially opened. The track data will not be released until the movie is closed.On this CD the preload feature is used with some text tracks. This allows the relatively small (10k) track to be loaded into memory, while all 40 megabytes of video and sound remains on the CD. The movie’s text can be quickly searched in memory this way. Another, similar use, is to preload any music tracks. These are also typically quite small (only a few thousand bytes) and can be kept in memory to avoid having to read the disc at inopportune times.You can specify the preload settings for a track using MoviePlayer 2.0. Read the documentation on MoviePlayer 2.0 before trying this.Random Cool ThingsAIFF sound files can now be directly opened as QuickTime movies. There is no user visible import operation, and no temporary file is created. This effectively lets applications treat AIFF files as movies for play back purposes.The Audio CD Importer no longer bounces the stereo channels around. As an added bonus it also imports the file into an AIFF file, instead of a movie file. This should be helpful to people who want to process the sound in a program such as SoundEdit.Not only does QuickTime 2.0 provide a standard export dialog, (which you can check out in MoviePlayer 2.0), but it provides a dialog for specifying the format of exported sound. You can export the sound tracks from a movie into an AIFF file. QuickTime will use the features of the Sound Manager 3.0 (in the extensions folder on this CD) to mix down the sound tracks, and convert them to your specified sample rate, and sample size.The slider control used in many QuickTime dialogs has a new look. The control bar itself is rendered in gray scale, and the slider has a numeric value on it. The number runs from 0 to 100 in most cases, though there are a few exceptions (most notably the sound gain slider, in the sound capture dialog). The intent in providing the numeric display is to enable users to get back to known values, time after time. The underlying functionality has not changed in any way. [Note: in the Standard Compression dialog you can use the Command left and right arrow keys bump the slider value by 1.]The QuickTime icon is now displayed correctly on the second (or third) row at boot time. Previously it would always display on the first row. 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d, Palatino.°dONLNd=`Q*+~kHello and Welcome…°dONLNdQ¶e»+F …to the QuickTime 2.0 Beta CD °dONLNd1Å<è·(™ZJThis CD was created to help both software developers and content providers°dONLNd|è<ù‘*Hget started using the new technologies in QuickTime 2.0. The CD contains°dONLNd≈ù<´“*Imovies designed to show the capabilities of QuickTime 2.0. In most cases,°dONLNd´<πfl*Lthere are several different versions of each movie provided, so that you can°dONLNd\π<«Á*Nexplore the tradeoffs that must be made to create a movie that plays back well°dONLNd´«<’ƒ*on a particular machine.°dONLNdƒ„<Ò„* FSome movies may not play back well on your Macintosh. The video movies°dONLNd Ò<ˇfi*Pvary from 240x180 pixels at 12fps, to 320x240 pixels at 30fps. The data rates of°dONLNd\ˇ<–*Ethe movies vary from around 130k/sec to 300k/sec. A separate document°dONLNd¢<’*Iincluded in the “Movies” folder discusses the details of determining what°dONLNdÏ<)˜*!will play back on your Macintosh.°dONLNd7<Efl* MMoviePlayer 2.0 is provided on this CD. It provides a good starting point for°dONLNd\E<S=*-exploring the many features of QuickTime 2.0.°dONLNdäa<oÈ* JWhile using QuickTime 2.0, please keep in mind that you are working with a°dONLNd’o<}ø*FBeta version, not the final product. Therefore, it may not always work°dONLNd }<ãÁ*Mcorrectly, and it may crash. Please report any problems you encounter. Do not°dONLNdjã<ôÍ*Nassume that Apple is already aware of the problem. Your feedback is essential.°dONLNdπô<ßµ*BAlso remember that this software is covered under a non-disclosure°dONLNd¸ß<µÊ*Lagreement. You cannot show QuickTime 2.0 to others, you can’t talk about it,°dONLNdIµ<√◊* and you can’t redistribute it.°dONLNdh—<flœ* GNearly all of the movies on the CD are copyrighted. That means that you°dONLNd∞fl<Ì∫*ACANNOT redistribute, or reuse them. They are provided to help you°dONLNdÚÌ<˚‚*Levaluate and learn about QuickTime 2.0. After QuickTime 2.0 is final, please°dONLNd?˚< *$show the movies to all your friends.°dONLNdd<%√* BQuickTime 2.0 introduces many new features to QuickTime. These are°dONLNdß%<3Ë*Menumerated briefly below. More details on all areas can be found by exploring°dONLNdı3<Ah*this CD.°dONLNd˛S<c¿*"QuickTime DataPipe °dONLNdg<u‹*FThe QuickTime DataPipe allows QuickTime to better manage the processor°dONLNdXu<ÉŸ*Kload during the play back of a QuickTime movie. This allows bigger, faster,°dONLNd§É<ëÊ* smoother movies to be played.+uD"QuickTime 2.0 Beta Introduction - )¿1ˇÓ◊#ˇ ˇˇˇˇ#◊
d, Palatino .°dONLNd)<7Ã+ZRFQuickTime 2.0 contains many internal changes which allow it to display°dONLNdG7<EÍ*Nvideo and animation at substantially higher frame rates, frame sizes, and data°dONLNdñE<Sÿ*Krates than ever before. In the past, movies were made at about 100k/sec for°dONLNd‚S<aÏ*Pplay back on a single speed CD (150k/sec). With QuickTime 2.0, it is possible to°dONLNd3a<oÃ*Lget the full 150k/sec from a single speed CD in most cases. Similarly, it is°dONLNdÄo<}Õ*Jpossible to get a sustained 300k/sec from a double speed drive (300k/sec),°dONLNdÀ}<ãπ*Bwhereas in the past movies could be made at no more than 200k/sec.°dONLNdô<ßfi* KQuickTime’s ability to display frames at the correct time is much improved.°dONLNdZß<µÊ*MBecause of this, play back of existing movies is typically much smoother with°dONLNd®µ<√»*FQuickTime 2.0, eliminating much of the jerkiness often associated with°dONLNdÔ√<—π*computer based video.°dONLNdfl<Ì∂* CMany movies on this CD are provided at 12, 15, and 30fps so you can°dONLNdJÌ<˚·*Ndetermine what will play back on a variety of machines. It is also interesting°dONLNdô˚< Î*Jto compare the visual appearance. Movies without a large amount of motion°dONLNd‰ <€*Olook nearly as good at 15fps as they do at 30fps, only require half the storage°dONLNd4<%;*+space, and play back on many more machines.°dONLNd`3<A…* GTo achieve full screen video, the movies on this CD should be played at°dONLNd®A<OÁ*Nexactly double size. MoviePlayer 2.0’s new “Print To Video” feature is an easy°dONLNd˜O<]å*way to do this.°dONLNdk<yÁ* LUsing hardware support, we have successfully played back 60 field per second°dONLNdTy<á÷*Hmovies at over 3.0 megabytes per second using MoviePlayer. If you have a°dONLNdùá<ïŸ*IRadius VideoVision Studio card, you can try this out yourself. An updated°dONLNdÁï<£÷*Kversion of the VideoVision software is in the extensions folder of this CD.°dONLNd3£<±·*JSome changes are necessary to decompressor software to take full advantage°dONLNd~±<ø‹*Gof the QuickTime DataPipe. Users of other hardware decompression boards°dONLNdΔø<Õ‰*Ishould contact the manufacturer for information on QuickTime 2.0 support.°dONLNd€<Îc* Music °dONLNdÔ<˝·*IMovies may now contain one or more music tracks. Music tracks store their°dONLNd`˝< €*Kdata as a series of note commands, much like MIDI (the pitch, velocity, and°dONLNd¨ <µ*Fduration of each note is stored). This allows music to be stored in an°dONLNdÛ<'ÿ*Dextremely compact manner when compared to traditional sampled sound.°dONLNd85<C–* DThe QuickTime extension on this CD contains about a dozen instrument°dONLNd}C<Q›*Jsamples for use with music tracks. By default, the music movies on this CD°dONLNd»Q<_¬*Guse these samples for play back. If you have MIDI gear attached to your°dONLNd _<m¨*?Macintosh, you can also play back the music movies on your MIDI°dONLNd Pm<{Í*Iequipment. You must use the “Music Configuration” program supplied to set°dONLNd ö{<âf*this up.+uL"QuickTime 2.0 Beta Introduction - )¿2ˇn◊#ˇ ˇˇˇˇ#◊
d, Palatino .°dONLNd7<EÍ+Z`IA simple AddTimeCode application is provided to allow you to add timecode°dONLNdJE<S›*Fto a movie. You can install the sample CMX3600 EDL Export Component to°dONLNdëS<a˛*"extract the timecode from a movie.°dONLNdµo<}›* HIf you edit a movie with timecode, QuickTime automatically maintains the°dONLNd˛}<ãÈ*Ncorrect timecode references. You can easily see this using MoviePlayer 2.0 and°dONLNdMã<ô>*-the Timecode panel in the Information dialog.°dONLNd{ß<∑Ä*
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displayed.°dONLNdác<qΔ* AYou can use the TextMovieConverter program to convert movies with°dONLNd…q<∞*Cexisting text tracks to the new format. The new format is backwards°dONLNd<çQ*/compatible with previous versions of QuickTime.°dONLNd=õ<´û* Drag and Drop °dONLNdKØ<Ω⁄*E“Macintosh Drag and Drop” is a cool new technology from Apple’s human°dONLNdëΩ<ÀŒ*Minterface group. It first appeared with System 7.1 Pro. It is included in the°dONLNdflÀ<Ÿ–*H“extensions” folder on this CD. Drag and Drop lets you drag data between°dONLNd(Ÿ<ÁÍ*Nwindows in an application, just like you drag files and folders between Finder°dONLNdwÁ<ıø*Dwindows today. In addition, Drag and Drop lets you drag data between°dONLNdºı<Ç*applications.°dONLNd < ⁄* GQuickTime’s standard movie controller has been modified to support Drag°dONLNd <-€*Gand Drop. This means you can drag one movie to another to perform paste°dONLNdZ-<;⁄*Hoperations directly. And because Drag and Drop supports dragging between°dONLNd£;<I€*Japplications, while in MoviePlayer you can actually “reach through” to the°dONLNdÓI<WO*2Finder to pull in a movie sitting on your desktop.°dONLNd!e<s * FQuickTime’s support for Drag and Drop also allows you to do other cool°dONLNdhs<Å„*Nthings, like drag a text movie into a SimpleText document to extract the text.°dONLNd∑Å<èÇ*Check it out.+uF"QuickTime 2.0 Beta Introduction - )¿4ˇ r◊#ˇ ˇˇˇˇ#◊
d, Palatino .°dONLNd)<7–+ZRGNote that QuickTime’s support for Drag and Drop is built into the movie°dONLNdH7<E—*Kcontroller itself. That means that nearly any application that supports the°dONLNdîE<S‚*Jmovie controller will automatically be Drag and Drop aware for movies. Yet°dONLNdflS<a…*Ganother reason to use the movie controller for all your movie play back°dONLNd'a<o_*needs.°dONLNd.}<ç¨* Power Macintosh °dONLNd>ë<üfl*FAll of the QuickTime compressors and decompressors have been converted°dONLNdÖü<≠Ë*Ito run native on the Power Macintosh. The performance increases have been°dONLNdœ≠<ªË*Osignificant. Cinepak compression is 2.5 to 3 times faster than on a Quadra 950.°dONLNd ª<…Â*HTo use the native compressors you must install the “QuickTime PowerPlug”°dONLNdh…<◊T*1extension in addition to the QuickTime extension.°dONLNdöÂ<ı¬* Custom Color Tables °dONLNdÆ˘<ø*FRecognizing that the vast majority of users out in the real world have°dONLNdı<»*Icomputers that can only display 256 color (8 bit displays), QuickTime 2.0°dONLNd?<#Ï*Pallows you to associate a custom color table with any movie. In the past, it was°dONLNdê#<1√*Ipossible (though difficult) to associate a color table with a movie. With°dONLNd⁄1<?K*/QuickTime 2.0, this situation is much improved.°dONLNd
M<[Ï* IYou can use the simple MakeMovieColorTable program to create a reasonable°dONLNdT[<i‹*Jcolor table for a movie. You can use the SetMovieColorTable application to°dONLNdüi<wË*Oassociate an existing color table with a movie (for example, a color table made°dONLNdÔw<Ö†*with Debabelizer).°dONLNdì<°Í* FWhen making movies using Cinepak (or the Video Compressor), you should°dONLNdI°<ب*Cstill compress the movies at millions (or thousands) of colors. The°dONLNdçØ<Ω€*Mconversion to 256 colors takes place transparently at display time, using the°dONLNd€Ω<ÀÃ*Hcolor table you attach to the movie. This approach allows you to achieve°dONLNd$À<Ÿ*&optimal results at all display depths.°dONLNdKÁ<˜_* Tools °dONLNdQ˚< Î*JMany classic QuickTime tools have been updated for this CD. Some new tools°dONLNdú <◊*have been provided as well.°dONLNd∏%<3€* DThe QuickTime XCMD’s have been updated to include many new features,°dONLNd˝3<A2*)including improved movie capture support.°dONLNd'O<]Î* LConvertToMovie has been updated to handle stereo and 16 bit sound better. It°dONLNdt]<k¬*Halso contains a nifty crop and scale feature, along with a few other new°dONLNdΩk<yk* features.°dONLNd«á<ïÿ* HDumpster has been updated for the new types of media (even text) and the°dONLNdï<£§*new movie atoms.+u2"QuickTime 2.0 Beta Introduction - )¿5ˇ2◊#ˇ ˇˇˇˇ#◊
d, Palatino .°dONLNd)<7Ã+ZRKSide-By-Side is a simple utility that lets you easily compare two different°dONLNdL7<E‡*Mversions of the same movie. This is very useful if you are trying to evaluate°dONLNdöE<SŒ*Kthe results of compressing a movie with several different sets of settings.°dONLNdÊa<o÷* EAs mentioned above, MoviePlayer has been updated for this CD. The new°dONLNd,o<}º*Ecapabilities are substantial enough that MoviePlayer can now truly be°dONLNdr}<ã‡*Mconsidered a tool, and not just a simple application for playing back movies.°dONLNd¿ã<ôá*8Documentation on MoviePlayer’s new features is provided.°dONLNd˚ß<∑¨* Copyright Dialog °dONLNd ª<…È*IIn response to an overwhelming number of requests, QuickTime 2.0 contains°dONLNdV…<◊ÿ*Ka standard dialog for displaying copyright information. The dialog displays°dONLNd¢◊<Â∂*Bthe movie’s poster frame along with the full movie name (up to 255°dONLNdÂÂ<Û‚*Pcharacters), a copyright statement, and a brief description of the clip. You can°dONLNd6Û<‡*Jcheck this out using the “Show Copyright…” item in MoviePlayer 2.0. All of°dONLNdÅ<h*4the movies on this CD contain copyright information.°dONLNd∂ <+·* IYou can use the “Set Movie Information” tool to add copyright information°dONLNd+<9∂*Ato your own movies. You can do the same, using MoviePlayer 2.0 in°dONLNdB9<GÜ*7“authoring” mode together with Macintosh Drag and Drop.°dONLNd{U<eõ* Data Handlers °dONLNdâi<wË*MQuickTime 2.0 makes public the specification for how to write a data handler.°dONLNd◊w<Ö⁄*HThe data handler interface provides a simple mechanism for developers of°dONLNd Ö<ì“*Jnetwork software (or really cool hard disks) to plug into QuickTime’s real°dONLNdjÖ“ì÷(Æ-°dONLNdkì<°Ï(ºZ time input/output mechanism.°dONLNdàØ<Ω√* CAs an extra added bonus, QuickTime 2.0 contains a memory based data°dONLNdÃΩ<ÀË*Khandler. This allows you to create and play back movies without ever having°dONLNdÀ<Ÿ◊*Nto create a file. Previously, all movies had to be stored on disk before being°dONLNdgŸ<Áfl*Kplayed. The memory based data handler has interesting uses in tools. It may°dONLNd≥Á<ıH*/also prove useful for some CD-ROM based titles.°dONLNd„<Æ* Preloading Tracks °dONLNdı<%‘*MIt is sometimes necessary (or at least useful) to be able to load one or more°dONLNdC%<3—*Gtracks of a movie completely into memory. This has always been possible°dONLNdã3<AŸ*Jwith QuickTime, but required the application to explicitly make some calls°dONLNd÷A<O÷*Heach time a movie was loaded. QuickTime 2.0 allows you to specify one or°dONLNd O<]„*Mmore tracks to be “preloaded”. These tracks will be automatically loaded into°dONLNdm]<k≈*Ememory when the movie is initially opened. The track data will not be°dONLNd≥k<y˘*#released until the movie is closed.+u\"QuickTime 2.0 Beta Introduction - )¿6ˇ∫◊#ˇ ˇˇˇˇ#◊
