![]() QuickTime can read and write to many different file formats, in large part because QuickTime was introduced in 1991 and the folks at Apple have never removed a file format or codec from the application - making it the perfect media vault for long-term storage for most media files. For $29.95, a customer can unlock the free player and use QuickTime Pro, a significantly more robust application that offers basic editing features, full-screen display and the ability to save media files to a variety of file formats. The player is standard and free to end users, providing them with access to movies, music and other forms of digitized content. Wow! Yes, QuickTime is often thought of as the standard QuickTime Player installed on millions of PCs and Macs worldwide. ![]() That output is the second, and perhaps more familiar, instance of QuickTime: It is a media player, editor and file format. Using the QuickTime development environment allows an application creator to output to many platforms and environments. ![]() Developers who choose to use QuickTime can simplify their code and focus on the unique functionality of their applications rather than worrying about various methods of media I/O on multiple platforms. In the first instance, QuickTime is an enabling technology, a development layer/object that can be used in Macintosh and Windows programs to handle the work associated with graphic, sound and motion input and output.
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