Creating QuickTime movies
You can take care of rudimentary video editing, such as deleting and rearranging, right in Apple’s free QuickTime Player. The QuickTime Pro version ($29.95) offers more features and is sufficient for most basic tasks.
For advanced video editing, use a professional video editing tool such as Apple Final Cut Pro, Adobe Premiere or Adobe After Effects (most video editors support QuickTime). You may also use a file converter, such as Cleaner from Autodesk (http://www.autodesk.com) or Sorenson Squeeze from Sorenson Communications (http://www.sorenson.com), to convert existing files to QuickTime format.
An important step to remember when saving a movie is to make it self-contained. This process resolves all data references and prepares the file to go out on the Internet on its own. You will also be asked to pick a codec. QuickTime supports several codecs including the advanced H.264 codec (see earlier description) introduced in QuickTime 7.
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