Creating quicktime movie output files, Creating quicktime output files – Apple Compressor 3 User Manual
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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
for more
information about additional QuickTime export options.
This chapter covers the following:
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Creating QuickTime Output Files
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About the QuickTime Movie Encoder Pane
(p. 236)
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QuickTime Transcoding Workflow
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Creating QuickTime Output Files
QuickTime is an open standard with many built-in codecs and is both a multimedia and
streaming media architecture. It is widely used for both authoring and delivery. For
example, many video editing and compositing applications use QuickTime as their base
format. QuickTime contains a wide range of video and audio codecs suitable for everything
from streaming video to DVD. The QuickTime architecture can also handle file formats
other than QuickTime movies, such as AVI files and 3G streams. For more information on
creating those kinds of formats, see
Creating QuickTime Export Component Files
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