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- QuickTime For Macintosh and Windows
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- Copyright 1993, Apple Computer, Inc.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- PowerBook Support
- • Supports fast dithering on all PowerBook computers that use 4-bit gray scale
- (PowerBook 160, 180, Duo 210, Duo 230)
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- 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
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- Macintosh Easy Open Support
- • Provides document and clipboard translation for all applications
- • Enables all non-QuickTime-aware applications to work automatically with
- QuickTime movies
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- Color Matching Technology
- • Supports ColorSync (Apple’s color matching technology)
- • Provides consistent color reproduction between various output devices
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- 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
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- 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
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- File Formats
- • Cross platform QuickTime Movie file format
- • PICT and JPEG images
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- Ordering Information:
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- QuickTime for Macintosh Developer Kit v.1.6
- • APDA, Order No. R0147LL/C
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- QuickTime for Windows Developer Kit v.1.1
- • APDA, Order No. R0453LL/B
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- • 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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- Posted to:
- Apple Products
- New Apple Products
- May-93 New Product Announcements
- 26-May-93
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