Chapter 17
The Multimedia Mac
IN THIS CHAPTER
Playing movies and music with QuickTime Player
Reading books with iBooks
Taking pictures and movies with Photo Booth
Opening, viewing, printing, and converting file formats with Preview
Importing media — photos and videos — to your Mac with Image Capture
Media content is more than just music (the topic of Chapter 16), and your Mac is ready, willing, and able to handle almost any type of media (with any type of content) you can throw at it. Which is why, in addition to the aforementioned iTunes, macOS High Sierra includes applications for viewing and working with media (such as DVD movie discs and QuickTime movie files) as well as graphics in a variety of file formats (including PDF, TIFF, and JPEG).
In this chapter, you look at some bundled applications you can use to work with such media — namely QuickTime Player, iBooks, Photo Booth, and Preview — followed by a brief section about importing your own media (photos and videos) into your ...
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