Quick QuickTime Q&A

The title could be changed to "Quick QuickTime Q&A Time".

When I installed Snow Leopard QT 7 pro, which I had was automatically placed in the utilities folder, but I only found it but looking around the new system. There was no notification of it still existing. Just to be safe I had backed up the complete previous system. T

Two things.. First I wish this post had actually covered what is missing from Pro in X. As someone ABOUT to upgrade, I don't want to wait to find out what they got rid of. If there's another post I missed someone please enlighten me.

Two.. You're missing the whole point to this. This is bigger than apple just removing some features and people whining about it. They are trying to hinder the ability to rip and copy movies so that you'll have to buy them from iTunes. They even admit it in their description of the upgrade saying that it 'enhances security.' Why do I need enhanced security of my family videos.

There has to be a business reason behind it. Moves like this from Apple are ALWAYS about controlling their marketplace and making more money. If they make it more difficult (for the non-video professional) to manipulate video and make it super convenient to purchase movies it will convert to more sales.

Q: How do I enable AC3 pass-through?

Also missing are the transport-control shortcuts from QTP7 -- the J, K, and L keys for 2x, 3x, and 4x playback, as well as pause and reverse. I used them daily. Now? Gone.

I don't understand releasing new versions of *anything* in which previous features are *omitted*.

It. Makes. No. Sense.

And the suggestion to "think of it as a completely different app" is pure BS. It's replacing a previous version of an app by the same name. You can't expect users to "look at it differently." That's confusing. Users expect updated apps to have new features.

QTPX replaced QTP7 -- and it's *not* better. Period.

One gripe I have with QT X is its inability to shrink the window smaller than 478 pixels wide, in order to have room for playback controls. Occasionally, I only want a 320x240 window playing something while I'm working.

One nice benefit I found to this scheme, though, is it makes a setup with a secondary small display a bit easier. I have a 7" LCD TV that I can use as a secondary display, and with QTX I don't have to worry about sacrificing strips of space to keep playback controls visible (fullscreen mode won't work since I want to be able to work on my main display at the same time).

A feature that all versions of Quicktime have so far lacked, though, is the ability to keep the player window above other apps. When I really need that, I use VLC now, but the Quicktime player has always performed better for me (no skips/tearing when processor or HD usage spikes due to another app).

terrible article.

"...intended to let you see as much of the picture as possible." you've got to be kidding.

ars technica's incredibly thorough review of snow leopard in august 09 described the exact situation with quicktime x in excruciating detail. maybe the author of this post should have read it.

http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2009/08/mac-os-x-10-6.ars/6

or google ars technica snow leopard.

Troll Alert!!

Just ignore her -- she has nothing positive to say about Apple products.

What makes it stand out so much? Just curious...I've never used Movie Maker before

The real question: When will Quicktime support .AVI - the most common video form on the internet? And when will Quicktime support real audio files? It is amazing that Apple's response to codec licensing (free codecs!) is to download some other program like perian or vlc or whatever. I still don't know how to easily play a real audio file stream from the internet, and there are a lot out there.