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 13), 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, OS X El Capitan 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, ...
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Playing movies and music with QuickTime Player