QuickTime Player will let you compress an image sequence or a movie with perfect fidelity as a PhotoJazz QuickTime movie, a sequence of PhotoJazz images, or a sequence of PhotoJazz PICT or QTIF files.

Movie Files

PICT Files

PhotoJazz Files

QTIF Files

PhotoJazz Files

To convert a movie or slide show to a sequence of PhotoJazz image files:

1. Select Edit > Select All to select the entire movie or slide show.
2. Select File > Export… to open the Save dialog.
3. Select Movie to Image Sequence in the Export pop-up at the bottom of the dialog.
4. Click Options… to open the Export Image Sequence Settings dialog.
5. Select PhotoJazz in the Format pop-up menu.
6. Select best in the Frames per second pop-up menu.
7. Click OK to confirm the settings.
8. Select Most Recent Settings in the Use pop-up menu.
9. Click Save to export the images.

QuickTime Player automatically appends the image file type name to each image in the output image sequence. The file type name for PhotoJazz image files is ".jzz". On Windows, UNIX, and other non-Macintosh operating systems, this file-name extension is what distinguishes the file type for the file system. If you are creating PhotoJazz image files on the Macintosh for exchange with other platforms, be sure to use this type-name suffix.

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PICT Files

To convert a movie or slide show to a sequence of PhotoJazz PICT files:

1. Select Edit > Select All to select the entire movie or slide show.
2. Select File > Export… to open the Save dialog.
3. Select Movie to Image Sequence in the Export pop-up at the bottom of the dialog.
4. Click Options… to open the Export Image Sequence Settings dialog.
5. Select PICT in the Format pop-up menu.
6. Select best in the Frames per second pop-up menu.
7. Click Options… to open the PICT Options dialog.
8. Click Options… to open the Compression Settings dialog¹.
9. Select PhotoJazz in the Compressor pop-up menu.
10. Select Best Depth in the pixel-format pop-up menu to preserve the pixel format of the source image².
11. Click OK to confirm the compression settings.
12. Click OK to confirm the PICT options.
13. Click OK to confirm the Export Image Sequence settings.
14. Select Most Recent Settings in the Use pop-up menu.
15. Click Save to export the images.

¹As of QuickTime Player 4.1.1, the 'Don't recompress' checkbox is never enabled.

²The 256 Colors bit depth is not supported by PhotoJazz. It is listed in the Bit Depth pop-up because QuickTime does not distinguish here between 8-bit grayscale and 8-bit color.

Note that the Quality slider in the Compression Settings has no effect on the compression quality of the PhotoJazz PICT image, which is always perfect.

If you save an image in PhotoJazz format in a QuickDraw Picture ('PICT') file, the image will be openable by any application that can open PICT files, which includes essentially all Macintosh applications that can open any image files at all, including SimpleText! The drawback is that the PhotoJazz PICT file is about 924 bytes bigger than the PhotoJazz image file itself.

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QTIF Files

To convert a movie or slide show to a sequence of PhotoJazz QTIF files:

1. Select Edit > Select All to select the entire movie or slide show.
2. Select File > Export… to open the Save dialog.
3. Select Movie to Image Sequence in the Export pop-up at the bottom of the dialog.
4. Click Options… to open the Export Image Sequence Settings dialog.
5. Select QuickTime Image in the Format pop-up menu.
6. Select best in the Frames per second pop-up menu.
7. Click Options… to open the QuickTime Image Options dialog.
8. Click Options… to open the Compression Settings dialog¹.
9. Select PhotoJazz in the Compressor pop-up menu.
10. Select Best Depth in the pixel-format pop-up menu to preserve the pixel format of the source image².
11. Click OK to confirm the compression settings.
12. Click OK to confirm the QuickTime Image options.
13. Click OK to confirm the Export Image Sequence settings.
14. Select Most Recent Settings in the Use pop-up menu.
15. Click Save to export the images.

¹As of QuickTime Player 4.1.1, the 'Don't recompress' checkbox is never enabled.

²The 256 Colors bit depth is not supported by PhotoJazz. It is listed in the Bit Depth pop-up because QuickTime does not distinguish here between 8-bit grayscale and 8-bit color.

Note that the Quality slider in the Compression Settings has no effect on the compression quality of the PhotoJazz QuickTime image, which is always perfect.

If you save an image in PhotoJazz format in a QuickTime Image File ('qtif'), the image will be openable by any application that can open QuickTime Image files. Ordinarily, an application that can open QuickTime Image files should also be able to open PhotoJazz image files, but some applications only open files from a fixed list of types. A PhotoJazz QuickTime Image file is only about 142 bytes longer than the PhotoJazz image file itself, so it wastes less space than a PhotoJazz PICT file.

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Movie Files

To convert a movie or slide show to a PhotoJazz QuickTime movie for perfect-fidelity archival:

1. Select Edit > Select All to select the entire movie or slide show.
2. Select File > Export… to open the Save dialog.
3. Select Movie to QuickTime Movie in the Export pop-up at the bottom of the dialog.
4. Click Options… to open the Movie Settings dialog.
5. Check the Video box at the top of the dialog.
6. Click Settings… to open the Compression Settings dialog.
7. Select PhotoJazz in the Compressor pop-up menu.
8. Select the appropriate pixel format¹.
9. Select Best in the Frames per second pop-up menu.
10. Click OK to confirm the Compression settings.
11. Click OK to confirm the Movie settings.
12. Select Most Recent Settings in the Use pop-up menu.
13. Click Save to export the movie.

¹The 256 Colors bit depth is not supported by PhotoJazz. It is listed in the Bit Depth pop-up because QuickTime does not distinguish here between 8-bit grayscale and 8-bit color.

For perfect-fidelity compression of the original, you must set the Compression Bit Depth to the same depth as the original, or greater.

The Quality slider in the Compression Settings dialog has no effect on PhotoJazz, which is always perfect (Best).

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