Whether you are creating content for delivery on cell phones, broadcast or the Internet, or a software developer looking to take your application to the next level, QuickTime provides the most comprehensive platform in the industry.
With a rock-solid foundation that you can trust and a host of innovative features that create the most cutting-edge multimedia experiences for your customers, QuickTime is the obvious choice for all of your digital media needs.
Massive Cross-platform Platform
When you distribute your media in QuickTime, you automatically gain access to a massive platform. Available for both Windows and Mac, QuickTime 6 was downloaded more than 350 million times. Moreover 98% of those downloads were from PC users, at a rate of over 10 million per month. QuickTime offers a mature platform with thousands of professional and consumer authoring applications.
Tens of thousands of software titles use QuickTime to deliver media. More than 250 digital devices ship QuickTime with their products as the media player of choice. Thousands of enhanced CDs deliver a multimedia experience beyond music with QuickTime. And more than 25,000 Web sites refer customers to the QuickTime download every day. Every one from auto sites, musicians, the BBC, and the best movie trailer site on the Web uses QuickTime and increases its distribution.
Authoring, Delivery and Playback
QuickTime is the best platform providing the most complete solution. The free QuickTime Broadcaster software lets you produce live events. Create movies with QuickTime Pro for just $29.99. QuickTime Streaming Server delivering live and on-demand content with no per stream license fees.The QuickTime platform provides a cost effective, end-to-end solution for the creation, delivery, and playback of standards-based multimedia, including the incredible new H.264 codec .
QuickTime Player’s simple and clean interface gets out of the way, letting your audience focus on your message, rather than advertisements from other parties. The standalone QuickTime Player is easy for anyone to use and enjoy. You can also easily embed QuickTime movies in a Web site.
Flexibility
Create an immersive, interactive experience for your customers using a variety of media types and formats beyond just audio and video. The QuickTime file format is a track-based, container-like format that enables you to combine almost any media (audio, video, still images, text, VR, Flash animations, chapters and even alternate languages) in a single movie. What’s more, you can automate your digital media workflow on both Mac and Windows with AppleScript and Automator support.
Do It In QuickTime
The QuickTime multimedia architecture contains over 2,500 fully documented, cross platform APIs allowing software developers to leverage QuickTime’s capabilities in authoring, multimedia and entertainment applications. Easily make your application multimedia enabled with QuickTime. Let QuickTime do the heavy lifting so you can focus on the rest.