


Or, use the app to create a simple slide show-mixing text slides, photos, and a soundtrack-and e-mail it to colleagues across the country. For example, you can use QuickTime 6.0 to stitch together digital video of all your kids' birthday parties and put a streaming version on your site. QuickTime Pro isn't a full-fledged video editor like Apple iMovie or Pinnacle Studio DV, but it offers rudimentary tools for patching together streaming clips. Buy the full version only if you're serious about creating streaming Web content everyone else should just download the free player. (Full-screen video playback, anyone?) QuickTime 6.0 also supports the new MPEG-4 compression scheme, but QuickTime newbies will find the program's many tools baffling, and the Windows version suffers notable flaws, such as no phone tech support. With the $30 QuickTime 6.0 Pro, Apple lets you create and play streaming video and audio and offers nifty features you won't find in RealNetworks' RealVideo or Microsoft's Windows Media Player.
