Quick Time Pro gone after installing Snow Leopard

[Jaap Van hoewijk]

Quick Time Pro (7) still there, but it’s located in Applications>Utilities. remember to change the preferred programma to open quicktime files. (info panel). So in future quicktime pro opens instead of the new player

[Mike Chenoweth (cheno)]

QTX writes over it. You have to reinstall QT7 from the Snow Leopard install disc utilities folder.

[Jason Brown]

What are the reasons you’d want to use QT7 over QTX?

[Jeremy Garchow]

For Quicktime Pro (exporting) and certain programs like to use QT7 and it’s full feature set while QTX is still in the lab.

Jeremy

[Steve Eisen]

I’m surprised you didn’t find anything doing a search. This is very well documented.

Steve Eisen
Eisen Video Productions
Board of Directors
Chicago Final Cut Pro Users Group

[Alan Okey]

For background, read:

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

“If QuickTime X is so much better, why doesn’t QTKit use it for everything? The answer is that QuickTime X, like its Mac OS X namesake, has very limited capabilities in its initial release. While QuickTime X supports playback, capture, and exporting, it does not support general-purpose video editing. It also supports only “modern” video formats—basically, anything that can be played by an iPod, iPhone, or Apple TV. As for other video codecs, well, you can forget about handling them with plug-ins because QuickTime X doesn’t support those either.

For every one of the cases where QuickTime X is not up to the job, QuickTime 7 will fill in. Cutting, copying, and pasting portions of a video? QuickTime 7. Extracting individual tracks from a movie? QuickTime 7. Playing any movie not natively supported by an existing Apple handheld device? QuickTime 7. Augmenting QuickTime’s codec support using a plug-in of any kind? You guessed it: QuickTime 7.”

Also read:

https://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2009/08/mac-os-x-10-6.ars/16

[Jason Brown]

Great response and link!

I’m bookmarking this…I have several people who will run into this issue and come asking me whats up!

Thanks Alan!

-Jason

[Itamar Kool]

Thanks for all te input. I installed Quick Time 7 from the Snow Leopard disk. Strange thing is now that the player no longer says it is Quick Time Pro, but I do have all the export possibilities that I used to have including my Flip4Mac plug in. So I can live with this….

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[Itamar Kool]

And the great thing is now that I can Log and Transfer in FCP from my DSLR with AVCHD files, which didn’t work under my ‘old’ Leopard

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[Jason Brown]

I’ve finally upgraded to snow leopard…but my IT guy is taking a long time to install QT7. Can I just pull the download from apple’s site? Or is it different from the Snow Leopard install disc utilities folder?

-Jason