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QuickTime

QuickTime

- [Instructor] QuickTime is an application 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're just going to focus on the QuickTime application itself here. Now, I'm in a folder where I have some video files and one way to use QuickTime is to just double-click on an audio or video file. In most cases it will open in QuickTime. But there are different video files out there. If a file ends with this extension, .mov, then you're probably good. QuickTime 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 will open in QuickTime. Or another option is to start by launching QuickTime. Now, I don't have it here in the doc, so I'll need to go to the applications folder, find it there, then double click to launch it. When you launch QuickTime, it…

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