Web Design in a Nutshell, 3rd Edition

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.