QuickTime Movie

Extensions: .mov

Owner: Apple Computer

Support

BSD-licensed: Yes

Export: Yes

Officially Supported Versions:

Readers:

Writer: QTWriter (Source Code)

Freely Available Software:

We currently have:

We would like to have:

  • more QuickTime datasets, including:

    • files compressed with a common, unsupported codec

    • files with audio tracks and/or multiple video tracks

Ratings

Pixels: 3 - Good

Metadata: 2 - Fair

Openness: 2 - Fair

Presence: 5 - Outstanding

Utility: 1 - Poor

Additional Information

Bio-Formats has two modes of operation for QuickTime:

  • The legacy QTJava mode requires QuickTime for Java which will only run with a 32-bit JVM and is no longer available from Apple.

  • Native mode works on systems with no QuickTime (e.g. Linux).

Bio-Formats can save image stacks as QuickTime movies. The following table shows supported codecs:

Codec

Description

Native

LegacyQTJava

raw

Full Frames (Uncompressed)

read & write

read & write

iraw

Intel YUV Uncompressed

read only

read & write

rle

Animation (run length encoded RGB)

read only

read & write

jpeg

Still Image JPEG DIB

read only

read only

rpza

Apple Video 16 bit “road pizza”

read only (partial)

read only

mjpb

Motion JPEG codec

read only

read only

cvid

Cinepak

read & write

svq1

Sorenson Video

read & write

svq3

Sorenson Video 3

read & write

mp4v

MPEG-4

read & write

h263

H.263

read & write