Quicktime Player is freeware distributed by Apple software. The player will open or play an amazing variety of digital media formats including almost all video and audio files. The player comes in two parts; a stand alone player you can launch anytime and a web browser plug-in that will launch and play within your web browser when Quicktime movies are integrated on a webpage. Quicktime is a cross platform technology so Windows or Macintosh users can enjoy its power and flexibility. Quicktime Pro is available with a modest paid upgrade and it makes basic editing tools available. If you want to learn more Apple Computer has a great Quicktime website.

While the Quicktime player offers tangible evidence of the softwares popularity it is also often times used transparently by authoring programs in a behind the scenes manner. The wide variety of media it can play becomes even more impressive when Quicktime is used as a common engine to achieve synchronous timing while editing and mixing various media into a finished product. The ability to synchronize the playback of both visual and audio data from a variety of sources without using specialized networks of timing equipment hardware has reduced the cost of production in video and motion picture arts studios enormously. The impact of this new technology is just begining to be seen. Large production houses are exploring new infrastructure possibilities, making tools available to a wider variety of creative employees. Independant artists worldwide now enjoy the possibility to create professional caliber video, sound, and multi media. The concept of an all in one host based solution to audio-video and animation editing is really what Quicktime is all about. Quicktime technology is licensed and used behind the scenes in many video and animating editing programs and you are sure to encounter Quicktime art in web video, Cd-Rom movies, televison, and even major motion pictures.

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