QuickTime: Creating and Distributing Movies

How do I create and distribute QuickTime movies?
You can create QuickTime animation movies by saving your animation as a QuickTime Movie from a wide variety of upgraded QuickTime-savvy applications. A utility in the QuickTime Starter Kit will also let you convert appropriate Macintosh and DOS file formats to QuickTime movies. Utilities in the Movie Exchange Toolkit will also let you convert content on other platforms to QuickTime movies.

If you want to create a video QuickTime movie, the easiest way is by using one of the new QuickTime digitizer cards, such as VideoSpigot from SuperMac. For higher-quality capture, there are several tools in the QuickTime Developer's Kit, that allow for controlled capture from laserdiscs and professional video equipment.

A QuickTime movie is just a regular Macintosh file -- you can distribute it as you would any ordinary Macintosh file. But because QuickTime movies are typically large, you'll usually use storage media such as CD-ROM, removable mass storage, or networks. You can also record your presentations, including QuickTime movies, to videotape using any number of third-party RGB-to-NTSC/PAL hardware solutions.
Published Date: Feb 18, 2012