QuickTime offers a complete distribution platform for audio on the Internet. The authoring suite is sophisticated and powerful, the compression algorithms are excellent, and the QuickTime file format can faithfully reproduce the high fidelity of a Compact Disc.
Aspiring film scorer composers, jingle writers, and multimedia authors can take advantage of the QuickTime platform to make mock-ups or master demos for distribution over the Internet.
This tutorial will show you how to get the software you need, connect QuickTime to a sequencing program, and then provide an example of how it works. Check the Toolbox
at the bottom of every page for more QuickTime resources.
This tutorial involves the use of MOTU's Digital Peformer and Digidesign's Pro Tools., including the OMF Tool included in the Pro Tools software. With the advent of many digital audio /editing platforms, the OMF tool provides a bridge to the Pro Tools-saturated market -- there's some version of the Pro Tools system in most high-end recording studios today.
The example in this tutorial might take a little downloading time if you do not have better than a 56K modem. At 22k 16 bit, a good compromise between quality and file size, the sound quality is decent though not CD-quality.
Let's get started!
