Macs have been capable of displaying sound and graphics from Day One, years before the word multimedia was even coined. Mac OS X’s QuickTime technology plays digital movies and live “streaming” broadcasts from the Internet; its speech features let you command your Mac by voice, or make your Mac talk back; and VoiceOver is a beefed-up talking-Mac feature for blind people.

This chapter covers all of it: how to record sound and video, edit it, play it back—and how to make your Mac talkative.