Apple Final Cut Express 4 - Manual (Page 1001)

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Learning About QuickTime
Final Cut Express uses QuickTime technology as a foundation
for media file storage and as an import and export engine
for opening multiple video, audio, and graphics file formats.
This chapter covers the following:
 What Is QuickTime? (p. 1001)
 How Final Cut Express Uses QuickTime for Import, Export, and Capture (p. 1005)
What Is QuickTime?
QuickTime is Apple’s multiplatform, multimedia technology for handling video, sound,
animation, graphics, text, interactivity, and music. As a cross-platform technology,
QuickTime can deliver content on Mac OS and Windows computers. Many applications,
including Final Cut Express, use the powerful architecture of QuickTime to view, create,
import, and export media.
QuickTime supports most major video, audio, and graphics file formats. It works with
local disk-based media, media accessed over a network, and streams of real-time data.
QuickTime supports a wide variety of video and audio codecs and can be extended
with third-party codecs.
QuickTime technology comprises:
 A suite of applications (most notably, QuickTime Player)
 An environment for media authoring
 A movie file format