Chapter 18

The Multimedia Mac

IN THIS CHAPTER

Bullet Playing movies and music with QuickTime Player

Bullet Watching movies and TV shows with the TV app

Bullet Reading books with Books

Bullet Taking pictures and movies with Photo Booth

Bullet Importing media — photos and videos — to your Mac with Image Capture

Media content is more than just music (the topic of Chapter 17), and your Mac is ready, willing, and able to handle almost any type of media (with almost any type of content) you can throw at it. Which is why, in addition to the aforementioned Music app, macOS includes apps 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 apps you can use to work with such media — namely QuickTime Player, TV, Books, Podcasts, Photo Booth, and Preview — followed by a brief section about importing your own media (photos and videos) into your Mac and the Image Capture app. ...

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