Regardless of your intended delivery method—CD, DVD, Web or 3G—QuickTime 7 Pro offers the encoding options you need. QuickTime now supports H.264, the new, industry-standard video codec that delivers stunning quality at remarkably low data rates. H.264 produces excellent results across the broadest range of bandwidths, from 3G for mobile devices to iChat AV for video conferencing and HD for professional broadcast.
QuickTime 7 Pro gives you exceptional flexibility and ease-of-use in creating H.264 video. You can create H.264 video in the time-tested QuickTime movie file format. Or, when you need to produce H.264 content for a third-party device or software application, you can create H.264 content in an MPEG-4 file. For video delivery to the newest mobile phones, you can use QuickTime 7 Pro to create H.264 content in a 3G file.
H.264 compression and export made simple It’s easy to get started using QuickTime 7 Pro for encoding in H.264 format. Simply place your content on your computer and ensure that your source is pristine by using a tool like Compressor for deinterlacing. Before you start encoding, use QuickTime 7 Pro to delete unwanted scenes. Then you can start the compression and export process.
“It’s really easy to create incredible audio and video with QuickTime 7 Pro.”
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Amy Fazio
Senior QuickTime product marketing manager,
Apple Computer, Inc.
H.264 compression and export is easy using QuickTime 7 Pro. In a few steps, you can create a file of stunning quality that is optimized for playback based on your viewers’ or listeners’ bandwidth and devices.
How to achieve the best results
Join Amy Fazio, senior product marketing manager for QuickTime, and learn how to achieve the best results when compressing and exporting files in H.264. She will walk you through the optimal —frame rate, data rate, compression type, keyframes, and more—for broadband, Internet, 3G, and other delivery. She will also show you step by step how to configure and export multichannel audio using QuickTime 7 Pro.
Cinema-quality audio QuickTime 7 Pro also makes it easy to configure and encode multichannel audio. Using the newly redesigned movie properties window, simply assign your channel layout, then encode in the AAC audio format. This audio codec creates efficient, small files of incredible quality. You can also deliver uncompressed PCM audio if file size is not an issue.
QuickTime offers professional multichannel audio, providing up to 48 full-frequency channels—and yielding sampling rates up to 96kHz. And, using QuickTime 7 Pro, you can create surround sound with ease for amazing cinema-quality results.
Professional tools QuickTime 7 Pro is more than just a suite of products—it’s also an architecture. Other QuickTime based applications support H.264 encoding, too. For instance, you can use Compressor in Apple's Final Cut Studio to automate batch H.264 encoding, or distribute encoding across multiple computers to save time. Or, you can use DVD Studio Pro to showcase your content with scalable H.264 encoding that allows you to fit HD content on DVDs using existing drives and media.
Overall, know your audience, including the platforms they are using and their connection speeds. This will help you achieve quality H.264 media delivery.
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