“The latest major release of QuickTime, named QuickTime Player X, was installed by default on Snow Leopard. It lost a lot of advanced features from the previous release, QuickTime 7,” Josh Sunshine reports for GigaOM. “With Lion, a new version of QuickTime Player drops the ‘X’ and gains a few more advanced features.”
“There are three new features in QuickTime for Lion when it comes to editing videos [merge clips, rotate, and audio-only export],” Sunshine reports. “QuickTime has gained a couple of new abilities when creating a screen recording. The first of these is the ability to capture video from a chosen area of the screen, rather than having to record the entire screen and crop afterwards… The other new feature is the ability to have mouse clicks show up in the recorded video.”
Read more in the full article here.
Advanced features? This shows what Mac users are…
If you’ve got something to say then spit it out, boy.
Yeah boy. Spit it out.
i’d prefer him to swallow.
Fowda!!!
The QT Player is the worst feature in Lion, by far. Fortunately, QT Player 7 still works just fine. I really hope Apple eventually matches the features of the old player.
Agreed. In fact, I’ve given up on it mostly, and now use MPlayerX as my default media player.
Advanced I would say no… but I will say it is a, “Great added feature to Quicktime – Bonus – and thx!”
Will the new version drop the retarded “feature” of having the playback controls pop-up over the video content, obscuring it?
——RM
Just move the mouse cursor away from the controls and it will disappear in a few seconds (and don’t move the mouse).
QT in Lion is broken for me. If I trim a file and try to save it I get the error “Cannot Open This media may be damaged”. I’m not alone, others on Apple’s support forum are experiencing the same thing. So I’m not too impressed at the moment.
WTF it still won’t play my 500GB of porn.
It would work if you used both hands.
You Americans are horrible people
It’s called humor. Ever heard of it?
For those concerned: There have been many of us who have ranted to Apple to FINISH QuickTime v10 for nearly TWO YEARS. And this is what we get. Unsatisfactory. Apparently Apple has more urgent things to do than get there 64-bit freeware up to date, and that sucks. That EMBARRASSING sucks. What more is there to say except thank goodness 32-bit QuickTime 7 Pro still works.
Quicktime is a container. For nearly two years we’ve been ranting at you to understand the difference between Quicktime and the app that plays Quicktime files. That embarrassing sucks.
@ Poindexter: it’s both a container and an application. Derek Currie is correct. Aren’t you the nitpicker…
QT 7 Pro remains the best Apple has done for inexpensive lightweight video editing — and that is NOT a compliment. Every freebie video player since then has been one step closer to useless.
@Mike
No, Quicktime is the container. “Quicktime Player” is an application that plays media encapsulated in Quicktime. That’s like saying that because there is a DVD Player that “DVD” is therefore both a format and an application.
Editing is so much more precise with QT 7 Pro. The first Lion release of QT X removes its ability to play back QT text tracks, which has been used for creating captions for a number of years now.
I removed QT X after giving it a spin, and still see no reason to install it again. QT Player 7 Pro is far far more capable and doesn’t piss you off nearly as much.
(Example: Playing an mpg video that I encoded on my Mac years ago no longer plays correctly in that if I click the play slider anywhere beyond 50% through the movie, it stops playing. Slider keeps moving but no video. Been like this in QT (7 AND X) for over 2 years.)
Hey – Wait a minute here.
Quicktime 4, 5, 6 and 7 – were all merely a free Apple video player. You had to paid $30 to obtain those extra features – hence obtaining QTPro7. Without payment the application did not edit or save in any way what so ever.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quicktime
Now – compare fair and see QT7 vs QTX and QTLion and you shall see and agree that todays present QT has features that are a good step forward. Saving and Editing and Recording are all there.
IF APPLE plans to sell a QTXPro then perhaps everyone will rejoice… but that is why you buy FINAL CUT and COMPRESSOR. To add far more features that you are not included.
“Merge clips” is a God-send.
Consolidated porn, here I come!!!
I hear ya’ brother.
Suddenly, those five minute clips don’t seem to be so much a waste.
but you have to pay for the advanced features
Update to Lion includes saving and editing and recording features that are ideal for the basic (every day) user. Consider that none of those features were there before. 30 bucks for Lion or 30 bucks for QTPro – your choice.
God sent you the ability to better manage your porn stash? Wow, He really is benevolent!
QuicTtimeX or QuickTimeLion – save videos in .m4v format. If you choose export to web and pick all three levels broadband, wifi, cellular; a folder with all the assets is provided. It does a very nice job. Plus, these files do play well into the i-Pad/Pod/Phone perfectly. Furthermore, doing some developing with HTML5 – you shall see – QuickTime Lion is more then it’s origins as basic player.