Quicktime 7

View the IMAX Deep Sea 3D Trailer with Quicktime 7

Spin through the deep with your small screen for now, watching the IMAX Deep Sea Trailer here after downloading the Quicktime 7 player for Mac or Quicktime 7 player for Windows free. Let the ocean's surf sweep onto your screen while your fingers stay dry on your keyboard.

This truly immersive and submersive movie experience was shot with the world's largest camera, weighing in at 1,300 pounds in its underwater housing. Big Bertha, billed by Deep Sea 3D director Howard Hall as " almost totally impractical," needs two people for its operation and costs $60 a second to use.

Quicktime 7 Player

So you thought I had become a movie review site? No way. I actually wrote this post to entice my readers to download the free Quicktime 7 player. In a previous post Christos Gates and Video Encoding, I suggested that you encode video for all players, not just the one that is clearly superior. Not everyone has downloaded the latest-state-of-the-art player or has blazing band width.

In subsequent posts I will demonstrate encoding with the incredible H.264 codec which among many other features, Apple says, delivers the ability to make everyone a movie producer.

Whoah...Nelly....

But does everyone has something to say? Maybe not. But at least they can try. Remember watching your friends' home movies and slideshows? Quicktime and iMovie now make it easier to share your experiences than ever before. Whether somebody else wants to view this content is a story for another post perhaps.

Quicktime 7 for Pros : A Real Steal

You can also fork out an $29.99 to download Quicktime 7 for Pros which is a steal.

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Back to QT.

But just don't forget one thing. If you encode with this new codec only people who have downloaded the free QT7 player can see it in full glory. Earlier QT players won't work. So by encoding for QT7 alone you're forcing people to take time to download yet another plug-in. So maybe you want to think about also encoding for Windows Media Player and Real, as well. You can read my earlier post where I recommend also encoding for other players as well.

Apple says that QT7 is,

The perfect companion for your Windows PC, QuickTime 7 Pro will convert you from a video watcher to a video maker. Harness the power of QuickTime 7 Pro for everything from creating podcasts to transcoding media in more than a dozen formats.

...Surround audio. Create a rich multimedia experience by adding multichannel audio to your movie. QuickTime automatically mixes the audio to work with the speaker setup of each user.

AAC constant-quality and constant-bit rate encoding. Create AAC audio files optimized for constant quality for a consistently high-quality listening experience, or for constant bit rate for bandwidth-constrained scenarios.