Comments on: Snow Leopard In Depth: QuickTime X

By: shreddi

shreddi — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 05:30:45 +0000

Thank you, will try it now. You think the dumb mfers giving you their easy instructions on how to upgrade to pro would mention that.

By: Mac Daddy

Mac Daddy — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 21:59:17 +0000

you heard wrong

By: ajstrobus

ajstrobus — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 15:16:01 +0000

just to let you know, if your having trouble installing quicktime 7 on SnowLeopard use the version on the Snow Leopard DvD not the retail install package which won’t let you install. I forget which folder on the dvd but use a “show all files” script to show the hidden folders on the dvd & go to the optional installs & install the quicktime7 package. Worked for me.

By: oyun oyna

oyun oyna — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 18:02:09 +0000

NicePlayer just got Sherlocked.

By: John Branch

John Branch — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 18:48:38 +0000

It'd help if you were more specific: what exactly happens, or what error message, do you see? And for exactly what filetype? Be aware that the video in an AVI file can be encoded in any of numerous ways, so you may simply be lacking the proper codec to play a particular file. (E.g., if you're trying to play a DivX-encoded movie, you'll definitely need to install a DivX codec. Same may be true for other formats.) Note that when you've got a file open in QuickTime Player, Apple-I will bring up an inspector that'll give you encoding info on the file.

By: Scott Haile

Scott Haile — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 18:36:25 +0000

I had trouble with some mpegs in iMovie, but do you mean your movies from your PC won't open at all with QuickTime Player 10?

By: M Lenz

M Lenz — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 18:10:17 +0000

Just recently changed from PC and bought a Macbook Pro. My MPG-2 and AVI's won't work. Also just purchased a QuickTime Pro registration key. Can't seem to figure out how to un-install QuickTime X. Any advice... Please !!!

By: L@rGeY

L@rGeY — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 23:55:05 +0000

Absolutely unbelievable. Just bought a new MacBook Pro and got Final Cut Studio up and running. Despite having that software I often want to change aspect ratios of my work quickly and easily.

Now… where is that option in Quicktime X… hmmm…. must be somewhere. No? Surely. NO!

OK, Apple made a big mistake with that version, given I’m a TV prodfessional and now I don’t consider Quicktime X professional. So I’ll install Quicktime 7 and bash in my serial number. Oh… no, won’t let me do that because it proudly boasts I have ‘Quicktime X’ installed.

UN…BE…LIEVE…ABLE!

Maybe Apple should take a leaf out of Windows book and ask its users to design the next OS!

Love Apple but the bigger and more consumer edged they go, the more rotten the decisions they seem to make.

By: machead

machead — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 22:33:36 +0000

Another Apple half a-rse production. Quicktime X should do everything quicktime pro does but it does not. Start video automatically, start and size location saved, audio track control (kill audio if you want), Applescript control. Simple is nice, graphics is nice like a sports car but you still need access to engine. I had to install quicktime 7 and then use serial to make it do what I wanted but still cannot get rid of file title bar with coloured buttons.

By: John Branch

John Branch — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 16:55:23 +0000

@Jeff: You should be able to rename it the same way you rename other files: Select the application in a Finder window (so the name is highlighted); hit the Return key; type a new name; hit the Return key again. If that’s not allowed either, you are probably not logged in with admin privileges. In a Finder window, go to the Applications folder. If a struck-through pencil appears at the lower left corner of the Finder window, you’re not allowed to write to this folder, meaning you can’t alter filenames.

By: Jesse

Jesse — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 16:31:14 +0000

Can you tell me how to change the application’s name? If I go to the Application folder and click “Get Info,” the Name & Extension field is greyed out. (Just recently switched from PC.)

By: beneluxe

beneluxe — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 03:33:18 +0000

“2. QuickTime X has the control panel over the video. WTF, this is the worst design decision ever. ”

OTM
At work we evaluate motion tests and scrub a lot – this bad UI over video makes QT basically unusable.

By: Scott

Scott — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 00:39:31 +0000

iMovie (at least version 7.1.4, which I use) is all style and no substance. If you want to make a slide show from your iPhoto library using ken-burns-effect panning, it’s great. For everything else, it’s awkward and limiting. As far as I can tell, even something as simple as cutting a clip requires you to scroll to the beginning of that clip and select the first half of it like it’s a text block or something. Very frustrating–seems to me just a lame attempt to trick people into buying Final Cut.

By: Scott

Scott — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 00:32:54 +0000

*This* is the key point. Same way with iMovie 7, which deliberately prevents the user from adjusting audio frame-by-frame (a downgrade from iMovie 4), and which won’t let you export .dv files without losing quality.

It’s nothing but an attempt to give us intentionally crappy software so we’ll upgrade to Final Cut. I’ve used Apple since the mid-80′s (when I was in grade school), but I’m really ashamed of what I see on this point.

By: joe

joe — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 23:58:15 +0000

Agreed.

Really bad idea indeed. In fact if you would ask me I would say that Apple is becoming more and more of a iPhone, iPod oriented company and less and less of a Pro level software company.

Mactards will never realize that because all they do is sync their iSomethings, do cheap YouTube videos and check their e-mails.

OSX Snow Leopard, crashes way more than a correctly configured Windows 7 running on a Octa core and Apple still overlooks basic things like a address bar for the finder so you can easily browse hidden folders, copy paths, etc without having to click at least three places to get a approximate answer, just plain stupid.

The lack of the “open image sequence” in QTX is just too stupid to even allow you to consider QTX as a full featured QuickTime version. This version is a major downgrade for anyone that really knows what QuickTime used to be able to do. Not to mention that QTX core is still 32bit and not 64bit as Apple leads people to believe.

Being forced to run two versions of the same app is just a cherry on the top of the cake.

By: John Branch

John Branch — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 13:36:21 +0000

I installed Snow Leopard yesterday and found that, along with getting QuickTime Player X, the installer saw my QT Pro registration and put a 10.6-compatible version of the old player in the Utils folder. I can still use that to get all the QT Pro functionality (as some of the commenters here have observed). The new player is annoying, though. My guess is that Apple decided to regard the player as (almost) purely a player; people who want to do editing, alter playback speed, or otherwise alter the video and audio are expected to do that in iMovie or something else. Since I’ve hardly used iMovie, I don’t know how many of those functions it includes. I especially don’t know about exporting options. For now, I’m just going to keep using QT Player 7 with the QT Pro features.