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This essay utilises Apple's QuickTime technology to provide video examples. This requires the QuickTime plugin, which is available for Macintosh and Windows, and can be downloaded from http://www.apple.com/quicktime. Extensive online support can be found at http://www.info.apple.com/support/quicktime/.

Each video sequence is provided in three different, user selectable versions. In compressing this material the emphasis has been placed on image legibility rather than frame rate.

It is normal to be confronted by an invitation to purchase the Professional version of QuickTime when it is first used. Dismissing this dialog box once should prevent its reappearance. The Professional edition of QuickTime is not required to view QuickTime content. To view QuickTime content via the Web browser, QuickTime must be installed on your system, including the QuickTime plugin. Simply installing the plugin, without installing the rest of QuickTime, will not work.

QuickTime 4.1 or better is recommended.

Author's note on QuickTime audio levels

Some users may find the audio volume too low on QuickTime clips. A trick in QuickTime is to hold down the shift key on the volume slider. This will let you increase the volume by 300%. Also, make sure you're looking at the clips with the QuickTime plugin. Windows Media Player (WMP) regularly hijacks .mov files and plays them. WMP can usually show the video and perhaps audio, but the audio is using a compression algorithm that Windows doesn't support. Another problem is that the user control features won't work in WMP.

Adrian Miles: Hypertext syntagmas: cinematic narration with links
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