Quicktime (Pro) Player, no Export?

[Tom Wolsky]

QuickTime is not part of FCP. It’s part of the operating system. What’s the OS? 10.6? QuickTime 7 should be in the Utilities folder if you installed correctly. If not, it’s in the optional installs on the system installer disc.

All the best,

Tom

Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP6,” “Basic Training for FCS2” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 4 Editing Workshop”

[William Carr]

OS is 10.6.1, a clean install on a brand new machine with nothing else on it but how it came from Apple 2 weeks ago.

In the past when I install FCS it upgrades the QT player into Pro “releasing” its full capabilities. I was told way back that FC turns on the Pro stuff in QT as part of its installation, and that’s how it always appeared to me.

I don’t see now nor have I ever seen QT in the Utilities folder, but rather it’s in the App folder.

The issue is, why did the standard version of QT already sitting on this machine not get turned into the Pro version upon FCS install?
And BTW, the QT interface now looks very different in Snow Leopard, kind of like a cross between iTunes and iMovie.

[Alan Okey]

Snow Leopard includes Quicktime X, which is a whole new ballgame. Quicktime X represents the future of Quicktime, and it is a 64-bit application. It’s also a work in progress. Rewriting Quicktime from the ground up to be a modern 64-bit application and framework is a monumental task, and it’s not yet completed. As a result, Quicktime X does not yet have all of the features that you’ve come to expect from Quicktime Pro (7). Quicktime X is installed by default in Snow Leopard, but Quicktime 7 player is not.

In order to get back the functionality you have come to expect form Quicktime Pro, you’ll need to choose the option to install Quicktime 7 in the Customize box when installing Snow Leopard. This will install Quicktime 7 in the Applications>Utilities folder of your system drive. There is no longer any need to “unlock” Quicktime Pro. The Pro features are now included as standard when installing Quicktime 7.

For a more detailed explanation of the hows and whys of this, read here:

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

[Alan Okey]

More background on the Quicktime X transition:

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

Relevant excerpt:

“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.”

[William Carr]

Thank you! I will dig it out and plant it back!

[Michael Sacci]

[Alan Okey] “As for other video codecs, well, you can forget about handling them with plug-ins because QuickTime X doesn’t support those either.
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That is not true, if the codec is on the system QT X plays them, that includes ProRes and DVCProHD, which are installed with FCP.