Filed under: Rumors, Video, Leopard
Videos of Leopard's 'live preview' in action
Musings From Mars has posted some revealing videos of Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard's upcoming 'Quick Look' feature, which allows the OS to preview many different types of media, including audio and video, with unprecedented ease and power. MFM has created a YouTube playlist of three videos, all demonstrating different abilities of this new feature.Note that in the first movie, the Finder has an unmistakably different look to it, and this blogger would go so far as to wonder if it could be an early sign of an update to everyone's favorite file manager to hate. The second video demonstrates something peculiar that isn't quite apparent from simply watching it: once one video was playing in the preview pane, MFM began clicking on different videos in the Finder, which caused the preview pane to instantly start playing each new video, but picking up at the same point in the timeline - not beginning each video from square one. The third video is a basic demonstration of the preview pane's ability to preview movies even at full screen - unshackling Mac OS X users from the cramped chains of the Finder's tiny preview when in Column view.
Now we don't have any way of verifying these videos, but if they are real, they're some appetizing examples of what is hopefully a shiny new Finder in Leopard.
Thanks Kurt
Update: Leland, the author of the movies from Musings From Mars, stopped by to let us know that the interesting look of the Finder in the first video is in fact the work of Uno, and not evidence of a fancy new Leopard Finder.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Jon said 4:12PM on 10-23-2006
It's really difficult to see what's going on in those videos.
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alan Miller said 4:10PM on 10-23-2006
If I am not mistaken the finder has the unified theme in this video because of a system mod/hack and not because of a different Apple finder look in the latest leopard builds.
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Kurt Williams said 4:37PM on 10-23-2006
You're welcome :)
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Leland Scott said 6:22PM on 10-23-2006
As author of the videos, I want to apologize for the quality on YouTube. The version on Musings from Mars are fuzzy, but not so fast and jerky. Mostly, I want to confirm the earlier commenter's suspicion that the Leopard Finder does not natively have this unified, smooth look. What you see in the video is the Uno look/feel, which can be applied to Leopard as well as Tiger. One thing that's nice about Uno is that it doesn't require Application Enhancers, which don't work in Leopard (yet). So no ShapeShifter required. Even if Apple doesn't change the metal theme in Leopard, it's nice to know you can still Uno windows if you like.
FYI, Uno is available from http://gui.interacto.net/ It's one of the applications I've installed on Leopard thus far with no problems. The full list of my ongoing "Building Leopard" project is here: http://www.musingsfrommars.org/building-leopard/?section=timeline
Cheers,
Leland
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DWizzy said 4:13AM on 11-03-2006
The 2nd video seems private, the third removed.
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Brandon Walkin said 5:20PM on 10-23-2006
The theme that the Finder is using is quite obviously UNO:
http://gui.interacto.net/
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Michael May said 7:02PM on 10-23-2006
And they're gone. At least the last two are. Oh well, there goes someone's NDA.
Looks pretty swift though.
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Blair said 6:13PM on 10-23-2006
...The Finder title bar text is left-aligned rather than center. Any way to achieve that in Tiger?
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Rob said 8:12PM on 10-23-2006
I can't watch the videos. For some reason, I keep getting a message that they are private...
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Ed said 7:34PM on 10-23-2006
They're all broken now :(
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Russ said 7:36PM on 10-23-2006
What a tease! Now they're all gone!
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MattJ said 7:10AM on 10-24-2006
Same here.
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Todd said 1:11PM on 10-24-2006
Private video - cool I'm not in the club. Open it up!
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