Welcome to QuickTime 6

Welcome to QuickTime 6

QuickTime is Apple's award-winning, industry-standard, software architecture for creating, playing and streaming digital media for Mac OS and Windows. QuickTime 6 adds several exciting new capabilities to the QuickTime feature set.

New in QuickTime 6

A true all-in-one, standards-based, cross-platform media tool, QuickTime 6 delivers a host of new features that include:
- MPEG-4 ISO compliant file creation
- MPEG-4 video codec
- AAC audio codec
- Instant-On streaming
- Macromedia Flash 5
- An enhanced QuickTime Player interface
- QuickTime Picks, bringing you the best, up-to-date QuickTime content
- Improved compression and capture UI
- JPEG 2000 (Mac OS X Only)
- Enhanced AppleScript support (Macintosh Only)

For details on these and even more features of QuickTime 6, please visit the QuickTime web site at . The QuickTime web site also provides many links to cool QuickTime content and to other Internet sites that showcase QuickTime.

Macintosh System Requirements:
QuickTime 6 requires a PowerPC, G3, or G4 CPU running Mac OS version 8.6 or higher, and Open Transport version 1.2 or higher. In addition, the computer must have at least 32 MB of RAM.

Windows System Requirements:
QuickTime 6 runs on Windows 98, Windows Millennium Edition (aka Windows Me), Windows NT, Windows 2000 and Windows XP. It requires an Intel Pentium or compatible processor, 32 MB of RAM, SoundBlaster or compatible sound card and speakers. DirectX version 3.0 or later is recommended.

Note to QuickTime Pro Users
Because QuickTime 6 includes new royalty bearing technologies, a new QuickTime Pro key is required to unlock pro functionality in QuickTime 6. In addition to the abundance of media authoring capabilities in prior versions, QuickTime 6 Pro also provides the ability to create ISO compliant MPEG-4 files and encode MPEG-4 video and AAC audio. Visit the Apple Store to purchase a QuickTime 6 Pro key.

About Roland's Sound Set for General MIDI and GS Format

This release of QuickTime includes an instrument sound set licensed from Roland Corporation that makes a complete General MIDI compatible sound set. It also includes additional sounds necessary to make a complete GS Format compatible sound set.

What is the GS Format?
The GS Format is a standardized set of specifications for sound sources that defines the manner in which multitimbral sound generating devices will respond to the MIDI messages. The GS Format complies with the General MIDI System Level - 1. The GS Format also defines a number of other details over and above the features of General MIDI. These include unique specifications for sound and functions available for tone editing, effects, and other specifications concerning the manner in which sound sources will respond to MIDI messages. Any device that is equipped with GS Format sound sources can faithfully reproduce both General MIDI sound recordings and GS Format MIDI sound recordings.

How to contact Roland:
Roland Corporation
4-16, Dojimahama 1-chome,
Kita-ku, Osaka 530-0004, Japan

For more information about Roland and its line of products, visit their website at .

Limitations
Roland reserves all rights to the Sound Set not expressly granted by Roland Corporation U.S. or by Apple under the terms of Apple's Software Distribution Agreement.

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