QuickTime Player 7 will be installed in the Utilities folder in the Applications folder.
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I’m not gonna say it …
interesting that software update app does not see this. manual download needed i guess.
But I thot Apple got rid of the Pro Version of QT with Snow Leopard?
Let me say it. It rhymes with “Happy”.
Quicktime 7 Pro is an optional install with Snow Leopard. Quicktime X is installed by default which does mostly everything people need, but still doesn’t do what QT 7 Pro did so its an optional install if needed. I just hope QT X gets the features back that QT 7 Pro had!!
No one type “snappy”… doh!
I’ll say it, it’s snapalicious!!!!
crappy?
Hmmm greedy springs to mind, didn’t they get rid of the PRO and bundled it in snow leopard now your required to purchase an activation code
This will be the last update for Quicktime 7. At WWDC we should welcome a fully featured Quicktime X which will be the new basis for all future Apple software updates.
Okay, so those of us with QTPro 7 installations that came with FCS, and are now broken – Is Apple going to fix this little brain fart that only effects about 15 people in my company? Without having to buy a separate QTPro license or upgrade to FCP 7 before we want to?
Peace
This update will only come up if you optionally installed QuickTime Player 7.x with Snow Leopard, instead of just QuickTime X. I have not, and have not needed the older features.
I’ve already had QT 7.6.6 on my Snow Leopard since end of March. This article appears to have been posted about 40 days after the update first appeared.
I concur with FutureMedia. I already have QT 7.6.6 as well.
QT 7.6.6 has been on my box for quite some time as well… Installed April 9th.
NOTHING NEW HERE!
If you already have QT Player v7.6.6, then indeed you already have QT Player v7.6.6. There is nothing new here except the date on Apple’s article about it.
QT Player v7.6.6 is dated February 16, 2010, if you look into its package contents, either the copy already on your Mac or the copy you download from Apple using the link MDN supplied.
NOTHING NEW HERE!
*** For those confused about QuickTime X Player and QuickTime Player, you’re not alone. Apple have been extremely bizarre about the entire situation, leading to some outrageously WRONG comments about it from tech journalists.
Here’s what’s going on:
1) Apple wanted a 64 bit QuickTime Player for 10.6 Snow Leopard. Thus the QuickTime X Player project was born. The version of QuickTime X provided with 10.6 is listed at ‘10.0’. It is ONLY a player, but does some new whizzy things as well. It is NOT NOT NOT a replacement for anything.
2) Meanwhile, the 32 bit line of QuickTime Player v7.x.x continues. It is supplied on all 10.6 Snow Leopard DVDs, but is not installed by default. It’s just there. It runs exactly as we are used to for QuickTime. You can pay for a Pro license and register it, giving it all the usual Pro capabilities.
QuickTime Player X has not progressed at all since the release of 10.6. It has BUGS, it has some really strange BUGS. The worst BUG is that it is deadly slow loading videos into memory, which makes manipulating those videos a super PITA. If you run into one of these BUGS in QuickTime Player X, just quit it and use regular old 32 bit QuickTime Player 7 instead. It works as great as it ever has. Another superior player to QuickTime Player X is the freeware Movist, which I use every day.
So NO: QuickTime Player 7 was never killed off in favor of QuickTime Player X. Rather, QuickTime Player X is an UNFINISHED, essentially BETAWARE program that requires some major repairs and completions before it could even remotely compete with QuickTime 7.
Therefore:
Install QuickTime Player 7 on your Snow Leopard Mac. You’ll be glad you did. You’ll use it. You will prefer it over QuickTime Player X for many tasks.
Also:
You can’t make QuickTime Player X into a Pro version. It’s not made for that. Hopefully the QuickTime Player X project will be actually completed and it will replace QT 7 very soon, (HINT HINT APPLE!!!), but not yet.
-phew-
Annoying and inelegant situation at the moment for the file formats previously supported. 2 Quicktime apps running, at it means you go through the ‘You need QuickTime Player 7 to open WHATEVER’ ‘Do you want to open the movie in QuickTime Player 7?’ every time.
wow, so fast! good news!
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QuickTime Player X is a joke, possibly the worst media player I have ever come across. I’d rather use a ten year old version of WinAmp on Windows.
VLC or MPlayer all the way for me. Apple, you’ve not just dropped the ball with this one you’ve run over it with a bus.
what i can’t stand about Player X is that there’s no controls for A/V. on my MacBook, when connected it to my TV the colors get somewhat screwy, and X doesn’t allow any corrections. so i have to dig up Player 7 just so i can get some control over tint/contrast/etc. why would they not include that in the X version??
Final Cut Pro Editors!!!!!…….Ready….Set………CRASH YOUR PROJECTS!!!!!!!!!!!
Okay, I’ll try again: It is with regard to MPEG-2 files specifically that I am/was referring. Something didn’t get updated in the last 7.6.x update, (and I think it’s in the System Folder), but it rendered all of our QT Pro installations useless for playing MPEG-2 files. There is an MPEG-2 component that did not come along in the last update and it broke QT Pro 7.6.x’s ability to playback MPEG-3 files. Even more specifically, MPEG-2 video plays just fine, but no audio. And yes, we’ve checked to be sure that there is actually audio with the video using VLC. I’m just getting ready to upgrade several workstations to 10.6 and I’d like to have some idea of how Snow Leopard is going to react to the broken MPEG-2 components.
…QT Pro 7.6.x’s ability to playback MPEG-3 files. That should read, … MPEG-2 files.