Apple Compressor 2 - Manual (Page 163)

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Creating QuickTime Movie
Output Files
Compressor provides the tools you need to create
QuickTime media files.
QuickTime is cross-platform multimedia technology, and allows Mac OS applications to
capture and play back video, audio, and still-image files. QuickTime supports a wide
variety of codecs and can also be extended to accommodate additional codec options
and third-party codecs. See “
Creating QuickTime Export Component Output Files ” on
page 177 for more information about additional QuickTime export options.
This chapter contains the following:
 Creating QuickTime Output Files (p. 164)
 About the QuickTime Movie Encoder Pane (p. 164)
 QuickTime Transcoding Workflow (p. 171)
 Understanding Codecs (p. 174)
 QuickTime Video Codecs (p. 174)
 QuickTime Audio Codecs (p. 175)