QuickTime Pro 7.7 - Technical Specifications

Mac OS X Requirements

Windows Requirements
  • A Mac computer with an Intel, PowerPC G5, or Power PC G4 (867 MHz or faster) processor
  • At least 512 MB of RAM
  • Mac OS X v10.5 through v10.5.8
  • A PC with at least a 1GHz Intel or AMD processor
  • At least 512MB of RAM
  • Windows XP Service Pack 2 or later
  • Windows Vista
  • Windows 7

Recommended Hardware for H.264 High-Definition (HD) Playback
  • 1.8 GHz PowerMac G5 or 1.83 GHz Intel Core Duo or faster Mac computer
  • At least 256MB of RAM
  • 64 MB or greater video card
  • 2.0 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo or faster processor
  • At least 1GB of RAM
  • Screen resolution of 1024x768 or greater
  • DirectX9.0-compatible video card with 32MB of video RAM; 64MB or greater recommended

Import formats
  • 3GPP
  • 3GPP2
  • AIFF
  • AMC
  • AMR
  • Animated GIF
  • AU
  • Audio CD Data (Mac OS X)
  • AVI
  • BMP
  • CAF (Mac OS X)
  • Cubic VR
  • DLS (Mac OS X)
  • DV
  • FLC
  • GIF
  • GSM
  • JPEG 2000
  • JPEG/JFIF
  • Karaoke
  • MacPaint
  • MIDI
  • MPEG-1
  • MP3(MPEG-1, Layer 3)
  • MPEG-2**
  • MPEG-4
  • MQV
  • M4A, M4B, M4P (iTunes 4 audio), M4V (iTunes video)
  • PDF (Mac OS X)
  • Photoshop*
  • PICS
  • PICT
  • PLS
  • PNG
  • Quartz Composer Composition (Mac OS X)
  • QCP
  • QuickTime Image File
  • QuickTime Movie
  • SDP
  • SDV
  • SGI
  • SMIL
  • Targa
  • Text
  • TIFF*
  • TIFF Fax
  • Virtual Reality (VR)
  • Wave

Export formats
  • 3GPP
  • 3GPP2
  • AIFF
  • AMC
  • AU
  • AVI
  • BMP
  • DV Stream
  • FLC
  • Image Sequence movie exporters
  • JPEG/JFIF
  • JPEG 2000
  • MacPaint
  • MIDI
  • MPEG-4
  • Photoshop
  • PICT
  • PNG
  • QuickTime Image File
  • QuickTime Movie
  • SGI
  • Targa
  • Text
  • TIFF
  • WAV

Video Codecs
  • Animation
  • Apple BMP
  • Apple Pixlet (Mac OS X)
  • Apple Video
  • Cinepak
  • Component video
  • DV and DVC Pro NTSC
  • DV PAL
  • DVC Pro PAL
  • Graphics
  • H.261
  • H.263
  • H.264
  • JPEG 2000
  • Microsoft Video 1 (decode only)
  • Motion JPEG A
  • Motion JPEG B
  • MPEG-4 (Part 2)
  • Photo JPEG
  • Planar RGB
  • PNG
  • Sorenson Video 2
  • Sorenson Video 3
  • TGA
  • TIFF

Audio Codecs
  • 24-bit integer (Mac OS X)
  • 32-bit floating point
  • 32-bit integer
  • 64-bit floating point
  • AAC (MPEG-4 Audio)
  • ALaw 2:1
  • AMR Narrowband (decode only)
  • Apple Lossless Encoder
  • IMA 4:1
  • MACE 3:1 (decode only)
  • MACE 6:1 (decode only)
  • MS ADPCM (decode only)
  • QDesign Music 2 (decode only)
  • Qualcomm PureVoice (QCELP)
  • ULaw 2:1

*QuickTime also supports import of multiple images and layers in TIFF and Photoshop files.

**Playback of program and elementary streams available via QuickTime MPEG-2 Playbck Component, sold separately in the Apple Store online.