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• Using the commands in the Edit menu, you can view, turn on and off, add, or

delete the individual tracks in a particular movie. (Most movies have nothing but

a video track and a soundtrack. But a few specialized movies may also contain a

text track, an animation track, alternate soundtracks, and so on.)

By far the most powerful feature you gain in the Pro version, however, is its ability

to edit QuickTime movies. You can rearrange scenes, eliminate others, and save the

result as a new movie with its own name. (Even QuickTime Player Pro doesn’t let

you create live-action QuickTime movies with your camcorder. For that, you need

iMovie or a more complex editing program like Final Cut Express. QuickTime Player

Pro simply lets you edit existing movies.)

Sherlock

Sherlock is one of Mac OS X’s Web-information mini-browsers, as described in

Chapter 11.

Stickies

Stickies lets you create virtual Post-it notes that you can stick anywhere on your

screen—a triumphant software answer to the thousands of people who stick notes

on the edges of their actual monitors. If you’re a fan of the Windows Notepad, you

might find yourself getting heavily into Stickies instead.

Figure 14-29:

Thanks to full-text formatting features and

support for graphics and multimedia, even

the humble to-do item can display a certain

graphic sophistication in Mac OS X. You’ve ...