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QuickTime

QuickTime - macOS Tutorial

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QuickTime

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- [Instructor] QuickTime is an application that comes with macOS that can play audio and video files. And it's also an element of the operating system that makes it possible for other applications to play media. But we'll focus on the QuickTime application itself. You see I have some video files in this folder and one way to use QuickTime is to double click on an audio or video file like this and in most cases, it will open in QuickTime. For now, I'm going to quit QuickTime but there are different video files out there. If a file ends with .mov, then it will probably open in QuickTime. It will also generally play MP4, M4V and AVI files. Some files will open directly and some files will take some time to convert before they'll open in QuickTime. Or another option is to start by launching QuickTime. So I can go to the launchpad and QuickTime will actually be in this folder labeled other. So I can open that and then click on QuickTime to launch it. And when you launch it, you'll probably…

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