Second Edition
First Edition
Second Edition
Updates
Mac OS X Now Standard
All Apple computers now come with Mac OS X as the default system.
You do not need to install QuickTime from the CD that came with your book if you are running OS X.
You do need to register QuickTime Pro, however. The registration numbers are the same for OS 9 and OS X.
See the Corrections page for details.
QuickTime 5.03 with ActiveX
The second edition shipped with QuickTime 5.02. This did not include the QuickTime ActiveX control for Windows. You should update to version 5.03 to obtain the ActiveX control and some important bug fixes.
Second Edition Released
The second edition of QuickTime for the Web is available
as of October 22, 2001. You can order it from several online vendors,
including Amazon.com
and Barnes and Noble.
The second edition includes QuickTime 5 Pro for Windows and Macintosh.
QuickTime 5 uses new serial numbers to unlock the Pro features of QuickTime Player. If you purchased QuickTime Pro prior to Oct. 12, 2000, your serial number will not work with QuickTime 5.
Updates to the First Edition
The first edition included serial numbers for QuickTime 4, issued
before October 12, 2000--these will not work with QuickTime 5.
The first edition included QuickTime 4.1.2, so you need to download a new version from
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/.
QuickTime Player has a new user interface. This directly affects many of the examples in the first edition. Two items are of particular importance:
- Wherever the first edition refers to "Get Info" or the "Info" window, you must now use "Get Movie Properties," to open the "Properties" window. In QuickTime 5 the "Get Info" command opens a non-editable Info window.
- You no longer need to use modifier keys (option, or ctrl-alt) to access any of the editing functions, such as Add Scaled. They are now available from the Edit menu in the usual way.
In addition, QuickTime 5 includes the following features or enhancements not discussed in the first edition:
- An ActiveX control for the QuickTime plug-in
- Sorenson 3 video codec
- Media Skins, a way to customize the QuickTime Player window and controls
- Skip protection for streaming movies
- MPEG-1 playback for Windows
- Enhanced VR authoring and playback, including cubic VR
- Improved quality and performance of DV codecs, making them suitable for broadcasting
- QuickTime Player has more AppleScript-accessable features, including fullscreen and close when done
- Flash 4 support
- Enhanced SMIL support, with bug fixes and new features, including fullscreen movies
- QuickTime Player now supports relative URLs and pop-up menus for chapter lists
- Ability to launch a movie in QuickTime Player from a text link (no poster movie)
- Extensions to the URL handler that allow you to specify the plugin parameters of HREF, Hotspot, and QTNEXT movies as part of your HTML