Sprite Studio Content Sprite Studio has been designed to empower you to create three primary types of content: Web Banners, Animations and Movies Interactive Desktop Applications QuickTime Movies All three types of content can be used on Windows, Macintosh OS X and Classic Mac OS. Web content can even be used on additional platforms. Here's how: Web Content All modern web browsers for Windows and Macintosh (plus many other platforms) already support the display of GIF's, JPEG's, Flash & QuickTime Movies, the primary formats both used for graphical web content and output by Sprite Studio. Interactive Desktop Applications Authoring in Sprite Studio is currently available only for Mac OS X. Nonetheless, the interactive desktop applications you create with Sprite Studio run identically on Windows, Macintosh OSX and Classic Mac OS -- with no extra effort. You develop once, and with the click of a button create stand-alone executibles for all three platforms. This is possible because Sprite Studio is actually comprised of two environments: an authoring environment (where you produce interactive content) and a run-time environment (which "runs" the interactive content). It is only the authoring environment that currently runs only on Mac OS X. The run-time environment, however, comes in Windows and Mac OS X and Classic Mac OS versions. This allows the interactive content you produce to be run on all three platforms with identical visual and functional results. QuickTime Movies Windows, Mac OS X and Classic Mac OS already support the playback of QuickTime movies, both in web browers and by desktop-based movie playback applications. Thus, any QuickTime content you produce with Sprite Studio can be immediately played back by the consumers of your content. Note that Windows needs QuickTime to be installed for it to playback QuickTime movies. Fortunately, QuickTime is often already pre-installed and if not, it is freely available from Apple Computer to you and the consumers of your QuickTime content.