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Saving Quicktime Trailers from Apple



Saving any QuickTime movie is a breeze if you have QuickTime Pro. I downloaded this Fantastic Four trailer (in HD), let it finish loading, and then selected File > Save As... and I was done. What if you don't want to shell out the dough for a QT Pro license? Well, Krunk4Ever (who isn't a fan of QT) has a tip that'll let you download the trailers from Apple just by delving into the HTML of the trailer webpage and using a little command line trickery to download the file.

Pretty cool, I suppose, but it is much easier to just visit the iTunes Store Movie Trailer section and download the videos that way. iTunes will happily download any trailer that is available and scot free at that, no DRM in sight. Oddly, though, it does place the trailers in the 'Podcast' section of your iTunes library.

Each of these three options will get the job done though one isn't free, one isn't easy, and one is both free and easy. Choose wisely.

Saving any QuickTime movie is a breeze if you have QuickTime Pro. I downloaded this Fantastic Four trailer (in HD), let it finish loading,...
 

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James Burns

"how do i get rid of the quicktime icon in my taskbar?"

Seriously? By task bar, I do you mean Dock? If so, just drag the icon off the dock and release. Poof! it disappears (literally...).

December 31 2006 at 1:42 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Shareware

how do i get rid of the quicktime icon in my taskbar?

December 31 2006 at 4:15 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Admin

Why do you need to save the Trailers from Apple anyways? It's just a Trailer.

PS. If anyone wants to see the resent Mac OS X 10.5 screen shots visit www.imaciforums.com/ileopard/

December 31 2006 at 1:19 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
tv online

Just make the url into an html link, place in a text file- save as test.html - and open in your browser, right click on the link and goto save as or save target as. Easy said and done!

December 30 2006 at 11:03 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Nuno Gomes

Instead of waiting for the file to be downloaded on Quicktime, you can get the url from the file info (apple+i), then use the command "curl" to download the trailer. Just type "curl -o " on the terminal and voilá, a faster way to get the trailer.

December 30 2006 at 6:05 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Darrell

Nathan,
You are awesome. You deserve a star! Thanks!

December 30 2006 at 1:59 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Thomas Malley

a side question...

how does one copy a quicktime stream... let's say the latest apple event?

December 30 2006 at 7:22 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Gareth Burleigh

Manyhighways thank you for the tip, Ive always hated the way Apple crippled QT, your lil tip worked a treat.

Thanks again

Gareth

December 29 2006 at 11:20 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Ed

I use Adblock Plus in firefox, so I just click the "Adblock" icon next the the video and drag the URL to the download box.

December 29 2006 at 9:04 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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