The Apple QuickTime Starter Kit is the easiest way for you to begin working with sound, video, and animation on your Macintosh personal computer. With the QuickTime Starter Kit and the latest version of your favorite software applications, you can cut, copy, and paste QuickTime movies; everything from video footage and animation to sound, as well as still images into your letters, reports, spreadsheets, presentations, and other projects. And you can do all this as easily as you work with text and graphics today.
The QuickTime Starter Kit includes a set of four easy-to-use utilities that allow you to play your own QuickTime movies, compress still images to a fraction of their original size, convert existing content to movies and with the addition of a video digitizer card capture video sequences as movies. You╒ll especially appreciate QuickTime╒s efficient handling of high-quality graphics and scanned-in photographs. Its built-in compression/decompression capability saves valuable disk space by reducing image files to as little as five percent of their original size without noticeable loss of resolution.
The QuickTime Starter Kit also comes with a QuickClips CD-ROM disc that contains a wide selection of clip video, animation, and still images suitable for business or classroom presentations. You can copy and paste this clip content into QuickTime-capable applications the same way you would traditional clip art. All material on the disk which includes a catalog of hundreds of products that support QuickTime is indexed for easy browsing.
QuickTime Starter Kit Features Capability
Ñ Boosts the impact of all forms of communication by allowing you to include video, animation, high-quality still images, and sound in Macintosh applications Ease of use
Ñ Fast, easy installation
Ñ Use familiar commands to cut, copy, and paste movies from one document to another
Ñ Comes with a collection of clip movies to get you started right away
Ñ Extensive on-line help system
Ñ Easy-to-use catalog for browsing through clip content Compatibility
Ñ Requires no additional hardware with most Macintosh computers
Ñ Works with hundreds of Macintosh applications, including the latest versions of popular word processing, database, and presentation applications
Ñ Converts PICS, AIFF, Scrapbook, and PICT or popular DOS image file formats to the QuickTime Movie file format using the Movie Converter utility
Technical Specifications QuickTime system extension QuickTime extends Macintosh system software capabilities by providing:
Ñ Synchronization, editing, and playback of QuickTime movies
Ñ Built-in compression schemes (video, animation, graphics, and photo) for compressing still images, video, and animation files to a fraction of their original size
Ñ Support for additional compression schemes and digitizer cards QuickTime utilities
Ñ MoviePlayer
╩View a QuickTime movie and control it (play/pause, step forward, step backward, resize, adjust volume) using a standard controller
╩Cut and paste QuickTime segments together
╩Save a new movie either as a reference (small file) to the original data, or as a self-contained file (larger file)
Ñ Movie Converter
╩Convert existing content to QuickTime movies
╩Select compression, color depth, resizing, and dithering parameters
╩Macintosh file formats currently supported: PICS, AIFF, QuickTime Movies, Scrapbook, and any series of numbered PICT images (such as Picture1, Picture2, Picture3) or popular DOS still image files (for example, TIFF 5.0, PC Paintbrush, CompuServe GIF, Targa, Windows 3.0 bitmap)
Ñ Movie Recorder
╩Capture QuickTime movies live to hard disk or RAM using standard video digitizer cards
╩Compatible with any digitizer that has a standard QuickTime component written for it
Ñ Picture Compressor
╩Compress a still image using any compressor that is registered with the system
╩Save a compressed still image as a standard PICT file for use in existing applications
╩Compression ratio: 10:1 to 20:1 without any visible quality loss when using the photo compressor (JPEG) QuickTime Scrapbook QuickTime includes an enhanced version of the Scrapbook that lets you:
Ñ Resize to fit still images and QuickTime movies
Ñ Play back QuickTime movies within the Scrapbook QuickClips CD-ROM
Ñ Over 400 megabytes of clip video, animation, and still images
Ñ Index to CD contents accessible by name or category
Ñ QuickTime Product Catalog, a HyperCard stack containing product and ordering information on over 100 products that support QuickTime System requirements
Ñ 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
