QuickTime Pro is an important tool for anyone who uses a video camera, creates media for a website, or simply wants to convert video to be viewed on anything from a mobile phone to a widescreen HDTV. It is the most versatile and inexpensive solution on the market for capturing, encoding, editiong, and exporting media. And it's one of the least understood.
This handy guide includes an explanation of encoding and moves on to cover the five things you most want to do with QuickTime Pro: capture video, record audio, edit, encode, and export. Sections on streaming and authoring will help you get the most out of QuickTime Pro. The guide includes an easy look-up table of supported codecs and recipes for successfully encoding H.264 and MPEG-4 Video.
Chapter 1 Getting Started with QuickTime Pro
Chapter 2 Exporting Movies
Chapter 3 Editing Movies
Chapter 4 Creating Interactive Movies
Chapter 5 Delivering Movies
Appendix A Codec Central
Appendix B Internet Resources
Appendix C QuickTime Player Quick Start
Appendix D QuickTime Preferences