What "Components" of After Effects require QuickTime?

I get the message "quicktime is not installed on this system some components will not work correctly" whenever I startup After Effects. It is true that I do not have QuickTime installed on this system, but I do have several questions. (This isn't any type of error, I just want to know what QuickTime does):
What "Components" of After Effects require QuickTime?
What version of QuickTime do you recommend that I should install for the best performance? I've heard that there are a bunch of different kinds and I don't know what Adobe After Effects uses specifically.

After Effects uses QuickTime for importing and exporting several kinds of QuickTime movies (.mov files).
Install the most recent version of QuickTime 7.

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