apple QuickTime 7.3 User's Guide
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Master your media workflow with this comprehensive guide to QuickTime Pro, designed for users needing advanced video handling capabilities on Mac OS X. Learn everything from basic playback in QuickTime Player to powerful professional editing features in QuickTime Pro. The manual covers creating movies, combining multiple tracks, exporting content, generating slideshows from still images, and mastering complex media arrangements. Essential reading for creators who require robust tools for recording, fine-tuning, and authoring high-quality videos.
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Quick Time 7.3 User’s Guide Includes instructions for using Quick Time Pro For Mac OS X version 10.3.9 or later, and Windows
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Quick Time 7.3 User’s Guide Includes instructions for using Quick Time Pro For Mac OS X version 10.3.9 or later, and Windows
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Apple Inc. Apple, the Apple logo, Apple Script, Final Cut Pro, © 2007 Apple Inc. All rights reserved. Fire Wire, i Movie, i Pod, i Tunes, Mac, Mac OS, Macintosh, Quick Draw, and Quick Time are tradema...
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Contents Preface Welcome to Quick Time What Is Quick Time? What Is Quick Time Pro? What’s New in Quick Time 7? New in Quick Time Player New in Quick Time Pro System Requirements Types of Files Quick T...
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Preventing Users from Changing Quick Time Settings Viewing Movies that have Flash Content Chapter 2 Getting Started with Quick Time Pro Getting Quick Time Pro Using Advanced Playback Options Playing a...
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Chapter 4 Exporting Files with Quick Time Pro About Video and Audio Compression Exporting Files Using Presets Customizing Export Settings Customizing Video Export Settings Adding Special Effects and F...
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Welcome to Quick Time Want to play movies from your hard disk or the Internet? Quick Time Player makes it easy. What Is Quick Time? Quick Time Player is a free multimedia player. You can use it to vie...
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What’s New in Quick Time 7? Both the free Quick Time Player and Quick Time Pro provide a host of new features. New in Quick Time Player H.264 video support. This state-of-the-art, standards-based code...
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Easy access to Quick Time Pro. When you use the free Quick Time Player, features available only in Quick Time Pro display “Pro” by their name. If you choose one of these items, you’ll see a definition...
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Movie sharing. Easily create a movie file for sending via email or posting to a website. Automator integration. With Mac OS X v10.4 Tiger or later, employ the easy-to-use interface of Automator for st...
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For a complete list of supported formats, see the Products area of the Quick Time website. To determine if Quick Time Player can open a file, choose File > Open File and select the file you want to...
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Using Quick Time Player This chapter explains the basics of using Quick Time Player. Opening and Playing Files You can open and play Quick Time movies in Quick Time Player or in your web browser. Open...
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Quick Time Player has onscreen controls similar to those found on CD players and DVD players. Use the controls to play, pause, rewind, fast-forward, jump to the beginning or end, and adjust the volume...
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With Quick Time Pro, you also have the option of saving the movie to your hard disk (if the author of the movie allows it). To save a movie from the web, click the downward- pointing arrow on the righ...
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Quick Time automatically detects your Internet connection speed so that you get the highest-quality Quick Time content that your Internet connection can support. If movies you’re watching on the Inter...
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To use HTTP streaming (in Mac OS X): In Quick Time Player, choose Quick Time Player > Quick Time Preferences (or open System Preferences and click Quick Time). Click Advanced. Choose Custom from th...
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Some QTVR movies have hot spots that take you from one scene (or node) to another. As you move the mouse over a hot spot, the cursor changes to an arrow. To see all the places where you can jump from ...
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Opening Recently Used Files You can easily open recently used files. To open recently used files: Choose File > Open Recent > [option] To change the number of items that appear in the Open Recen...
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Viewing Information About a File Quick Time Player can display information about a Quick Time file, such as its compression format, size, and frame rate while playing. To view information about a file...
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Play sound in frontmost player only: Select to play the audio for only one Quick Time Player window (the active window); deselect to play the sound of all playing movies simultaneously. Play sound whe...
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You can also set options for all movies playing at full screen. For example, you can hide the movie controls or change the amount of time they’re displayed before being hidden. To set these options in...
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Using Frame Number and Time Codes When you’re viewing a movie in Quick Time Player, you can display the current movie time or frame number, or the SMPTE time code if the movie has a time code track. (...
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Finding Text in a Text Track Some movies contain text such as titles, credits, subtitles, or section headings. You can search for text in a movie so that, for example, you can find specific frames in ...
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Getting Started with Quick Time Pro Learn how to use the advanced playback options in Quick Time Pro, create movie postcards, and share them via email or the web. Getting Quick Time Pro To get Quick T...
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To play a movie on a second display: Open a movie in Quick Time Player. Choose View > Present Movie. The two displays are shown side by side; one contains the menu bar. The letter “Q” appears on th...
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Loading Movies into RAM for Better Playback Quick Time has two memory (RAM) options you can use to improve playback performance. Preload puts the entire movie into memory before it is played; Cache ke...
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Setting Recording Options When you first use Quick Time Pro to record video or audio, settings are automatically chosen for you. If you want, you can change settings such as which recording device and...
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Saving Movies from the Internet With Quick Time Pro, you can save (download) a movie viewed in your web browser to your hard disk. (The movie must be authored to allow for saving.) If it’s a streaming...
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You can add music to your slideshow by adding an audio track to your movie before saving it. Open an audio file, select the portion you want to add to the slideshow, and choose Edit > Copy. Select ...
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Sharing Movies by Email or the Web With Quick Time Pro and Mac OS X it’s easy to create movies that are just right for sharing with others by email or on your .Mac Home Page. Simply select how you wan...
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Editing and Authoring with Quick Time Pro Learn how to use Quick Time Pro to edit movies, manipulate movie tracks, and much more. Simple Editing With Quick Time Pro, you can perform movie-editing task...
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Note: By default, the selection markers hide when nothing is selected, making it easy to determine whether or not a frame is selected. To turn off this option so that the selection markers appear even...
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Working with Tracks A Quick Time movie is made up of one or more “tracks.” Each track stores a particular kind of data. For example, a Quick Time movie could have a video track, music tracks, and soun...
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To extract a track (and add it to another movie): Choose Window > Show Movie Properties. Select the desired track or tracks and click Extract. You can select more than one track by holding down the...
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Note: If your audio and video are created by the same device, such as a DV camera, and are created at the same time, the audio and video will be synchronized. Changing Sound Track Volume Levels and Ot...
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Pasting Graphics and Text into a Movie With Quick Time Pro, you can paste graphics and text into a Quick Time movie. If a pasted graphic is larger than the movie’s dimensions, Quick Time Pro resizes t...
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Overlaying a Movie with Text With Quick Time Pro, you can use Quick Time Player to overlay (superimpose) text on a specific part of an existing movie. To overlay text: In Quick Time Player, choose Fil...
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The duration for each line of text in the text file appears on a separate line before the line of text. The time you type is the length of time after the movie has started at which this line of text w...
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Changing Movie Properties The following sections describe how to resize or rotate a movie, set a movie’s poster frame, and more. Adding Annotations to a Movie With Quick Time Pro, you can add annotati...
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Changing a Movie’s Shape with a Video Mask With Quick Time Pro, you can change the shape of a movie from rectangular to other shapes using a video mask. In combination with a media skin; you can “skin...
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Choose File > Export. In the Export pop-up menu, choose “Text to Text.” In the Use pop-up menu, choose “Text with Descriptors.” Click Options. In the Text Export Settings dialog, select “Show Text,...
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| Brand | Apple |
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| Pages | 63 |
| File Size | 545.16 KB |
| Published | May 14, 2026 |
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Frequently Asked Questions
How can I combine multiple movie files?
You can manually achieve this by selecting and combining sections of two QuickTime Movies into one.
Can QuickTime display a movie on a second monitor?
Yes, users can utilize advanced playback options to play a movie simultaneously on a second display.
Where is information regarding recording new video or audio available?
The manual contains details in Chapter 2 (Section 26) covering how to record both video and audio simultaneously.
What types of media files are supported by QuickTime?
There is a chapter dedicated to listing the various Types of Files that QuickTime Supports.