“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.”
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