MOV, the QuickTime movie format, is an audio, video file format developed by Apple to store commonly used digital media types. When QuickTime (*.mov) is selected as the save type, the animation is saved as a. mov file.
QuickTime is used to save audio and video information and is now supported by all major computer platforms, including Apple Mac Os,microsoft Windows 95/98/nt/2003/xp/vista, and even WINDOWS7.
QuickTime Introduction
QuickTime Video file playback program, in addition to playing MP3, QuickTime also support MIDI playback. And can listen to/receive network playback, support HTTP, RTP and RTSP standard. The software also supports the main diagram
MOV video format, such as: JPEG, BMP, PICT, PNG, and GIF. Other features of the software include: supporting digital video files, including: MiniDV, DVCPro, DVcam, AVI, AVR, MPEG-1, OPENDML, and Macromedia Flash. The QuickTime file format supports 25-bit color, supports leading integrated compression technology, provides more than 150 video effects, and is equipped with more than 200 MIDI-compatible audio and equipment sound devices. It is an excellent video coding format whether it is broadcast locally or as a video streaming format.
Characteristics of QuickTime
QuickTime because of cross-platform, storage space requirements of small and other technical features, and the use of lossy compression of the MOV format file, the screen effect is slightly better than the AVI format. So far, it has a total of 4 versions, with a 4.0 version of the best compression rate. This encoding supports intra and intra compression of 16-bit image depths, with frame rates above 10 frames per second. This format is now available in some non-woven software, including Adobe's professional-level multimedia video processing software aftereffect and premiere.