Starry Night Digital Download FAQ

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QuickTime is a tool for manipulating graphics files and constructing and viewing animation sequences. Starry Night Backyard uses it to allow you to make movies of Starry Night sequences and to save screen images from Starry Night as graphics files. Starry Night will not run at all unless you have version 6 or later of QuickTime.

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QuickTime is on the Starry Night Backyard CD. To install it, insert the Starry Night Backyard CD into the CD-ROM drive (if you have a Macintosh, QuickTime is probably already installed on your computer). Choose "Install QuickTime" from the window that pops up. Follow the instructions that appear onscreen to install QuickTime on your computer. If no window pops up automatically, click the "Start" button on your desktop. Then choose "Run" and click the "Browse" button in the window that appears. This will open a window showing the files on your computer. In the field marked "Look in", make sure that the CD drive (labelled "Starry Night (D:)) is selected. A list of files and folders on the CD should now be shown. Double-click on the folder named "Extras" and then on the folder named QuickTime6. Double-click on the file named "QuickTimeInstaller.exe" and then click the "OK" button. Follow the instructions that appear onscreen to install QuickTime on your computer.

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You should choose the "Recommended Install" option, as the moviemaking and image exporting features in Starry Night Backyard will not work properly if you choose the "Minimum Install" option.

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This usually occurs if the “Temp” folder on your hard drive is full (this is the folder temporarily used by installers, including the QuickTime installer). If there is too much in this folder, the installer may not work properly. You should empty the “Temp” folder (if there are any old files in this folder which you need, move them to another folder) and then run the QuickTime installer again. You should close all other applications, including any anti-virus software utilities, when you run the installer. If you still encounter errors, you may wish to visit Apple’s QuickTime page for support help: http://www.apple.com/quicktime.

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The QuickTime registration screen is only for a more advanced version of QuickTime (QuickTime Pro) that is not included with Starry Night Backyard. Just leave this screen completely blank (no name or number) and press the Next button to install the regular version of QuickTime. Only when you run Starry Night Backyard itself for the first time do you need to enter the registration number found at the front of your User’s Guide.

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