Confused about Quicktime animations 2004-02-05 - By Eric Christensen
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Hi Mark,
I agree with you. Quicktime, in my opinion, is the best multimedia
player out there. It has the most flexibility and complies with more
standards than the other two options (Window media player and Real
Player). It also has the best quality.
Quicktime supports multiple types of codecs (which is short for
"compression and de-compression"). This means that with quicktime you
can play back movies encoded in the Cinepak, Sorenson, MPEG-4 (See http://PEG-4.ora-code.com), (and
many more) codecs.
And as David Bell said, quicktime pro supports additional codecs and
gives you basic editing functions as well as export functions, which
allows you to create an uncompressed video for example, then export it
using any compression codec you choose. When you choose to export a
file that Quicktime understands into a .mov file or Quicktime movie,
click on "options" in the dialog box and in the next dialog, at the
bottom, you'll see a check-box that says: Prepare for Internet
Streaming. In the Fly-out menu select "Fast Start". Fast Start does
exactly what you described. As soon as a small part of the movie has
downloaded, it will begin to play on the end-user's computer. That way
the end user doesn't have to sit and wait for the whole thing to
download before they get the "instant gratification" we all love. : )
And as far as I know, wether or not you use "Fast Start" the quality is
the same.
I hope this helps. I would highly recommend getting quicktime pro!
Have fun.
Eric
On Feb 5, 2004, at 12:06 PM, Mark wrote:
> Hello Everyone,
>
> I've been looking at web animations and I've determined that
> Quicktime is the best format for this sort of thing. The other
> streaming formats have crappy sound quality and variable
> picture quality (especially on slow modems).
>
> Whats strange though is that some quicktime movies stream
> right away and other times it waits till the whole thing is
> downloaded to your hard drive before it plays. I like the latter of
> the two because it seems to be a better quality. Which brings
> me to my first question is: How is this implemented? Is this
> something that is written in the HTML code or is something that
> programmed into the Quicktime file?
>
> Also another question, my video editor outputs to the quicktime
> file format but I noticed that the program 'Quicktime Pro' is only
> $30 bucks and it seems to do more. Had anyone here used
> 'Quicktime Pro'? What do you think about it?
>
> Thanks in Advance,
> Mark (A Carrara oldbie, a Video editing newbie)
>
>
>
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