What's New in QuickTime 5

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Enhancements

• Improved QuickTime Player application User Interface (UI); new audio and video controls, as well as a new scrollable Channel window and Get Movie Properties dialog (among other enhancements). In the Pro (registered) version, there are now ordinary menu items for commands such as "Add Scaled," that were previously hidden unless you pressed modifier keys, such as Shift, ctrl, alt, or Command.
• The capability to customize the appearance of QuickTime Player by adding a " media skin" to your movie. A media skin specifies the size and shape of the window that the movie is displayed in, while also specifying which part of the window is draggable. A QuickTime movie does not have to be surrounded by a frame. No controls are displayed, except those embedded in the movie using Flash tracks or wired sprites.
• Digital Video (DV) codec optimizations, both compression and decompression, for improved quality and performance on Power Macintosh G3 and Power Mac G4 computers.
• Velocity Engine (AltiVec) and multiprocessor support for DV codecs.
• Inclusion of the QuickTime VR Flattener extension as part of a Full Install of QuickTime, allowing export of VR panoramas in fast-start format with a selectable preview image (or grid), enhanced to support cubic VR as well as cylindrical VR.
• A VR exporter that splits multinode VRs and generates HTML for URL linking, and a VR exporter for object compression.
• Additions to AppleScript, including a new suite of editing features and commands. These features are useful for QuickTime authors who need to automate certain processes, such as batch preparation of QuickTime movies to include copyright information, hypertext links, or full-screen presentation.
• MP3 improvements, including access to ID3v2 metadata.
• Support for new SMIL attributes, such as clip-begin, clip-end, and qt:fullscreen.

What's New in QuickTime 5

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