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Chapter 67
Exporting Using QuickTime Conversion
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Still-Image File Formats and Image Sequences
 Still-Image: This choice allows you to select one of many still-image file formats. See
Exporting Still Images and Image Sequences
 Image Sequence: This choice allows you to select a still-image file format and export
each frame of your video as a separate file in the format you choose. See “
Audio File Formats
 AIFF: This is the default audio format used on Macintosh computers. Each data byte
is stored with the most significant byte (MSB) stored first. This is known as big endian.
 WAVE: This is the standard audio format used on Windows computers. Each data
byte is stored with the least significant byte (LSB) first. This is known as little endian.
 μLaw: This is an audio format developed for Sun computers.
 System 7 Sound: This is a sound format used on older Macintosh computers.
About Color Space Conversion
When you use the Export Using QuickTime Conversion command, super-white values
in Y´C
B
C
R
footage are clipped. To avoid clipping, you can use the Export QuickTime
Movie command instead.
Exporting a QuickTime Movie File for Web Distribution
If you need to create a self-contained movie file with the same settings as the original
media file, you should probably use the Export QuickTime Movie command (see
Chapter 66, “
,” on page 1013). However, if you want to
export a compressed QuickTime movie file for the web or some other means of
distribution, you should use the Export Using QuickTime Conversion command.