Quicktime Player 7 and 10?

I seem to have both on my system. For Pro ugrade, Apple says have Q7 on your system. What is this version 10? Is it later or earlier?

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It’s perfectly normal to have both. QuickTime 7 was superseded by QuickTime X in Leopard or Snow Leopard (forget which) and it was very much in the same vein as the difference between Final Cut 7 and Final Cut X – massive amounts of features left out in a serious and well-intentioned desire to re-architect the system from a blank page. With each subsequent revision, more features have been added back on top of that new and more solid 64-bit foundation, but there’s still not feature parity between the two. Not sure if there ever will be, or if there will just come a time where you really don’t need those older features and so the lack of them doesn’t hurt.

if you are doing anything basic, involving footage from a modern camera destined for a modern playback device, QuickTime X has all the codecs and features you need. For everyone else (legacy device, older browser plug-in versions, more fine-grained control desired in the output controls) you can still install QT7 on any Mac. (I have no idea about Mountain Lion, but it wouldn’t surprise me to see it still there.) QT7 with the Pro pack is still the Swiss Army knife of all media, moving and still.

Walter

On Jun 27, 2012, at 7:36 AM, Kryten wrote:

I seem to have both on my system. For Pro ugrade, Apple says have Q7 on your system. What is this version 10? Is it later or earlier?

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Thank you Walter, eruditely put. Very grateful. Since they are both installed, I shall keep them both. Interestingly you mentioning footage from a modern camera, my JVC Everio saves in .MTS format, so neither Quicktime versions recognise this. My idea was to avoid iMovie first if I could, so I just wasn’t sure if QT7 Pro would be compatible.

Thanks again Walt.

Kryters.


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If you’ve installed the Pro pack (~$30 from the Apple Store online), then see if you can open one of those files. (You probably can, or can get a CODEC to enable you to). From there, you should be able to export in one of the “interchange” formats. These formats are nearly uncompressed, and like a PSD file, are not readable anywhere except in a professional editing environment like your Mac.

It may be slow – QuickTime X, among other great things, like running in 64-bit space, can make use of the DSPs in your video cards to offload the enormous amounts of repetitive math from the main CPU, and I believe that QuickTime 7 can only do basic multi-processor parallelism – but it will eventually finish and then you can use QuickTime X and whatever editing application you like (Final Cut X, say) to do the assembly, or Compressor to do the squeezing.

Walter

On Jun 27, 2012, at 10:44 AM, Kryten wrote:

Thank you Walter, eruditely put. Very grateful. Since they are both installed, I shall keep them both. Interestingly you mentioning footage from a modern camera, my JVC Everio saves in .MTS format, so neither Quicktime versions recognise this. My idea was to avoid iMovie first if I could, so I just wasn’t sure if QT7 Pro would be compatible.

Thanks again Walt.

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Well, I managed to find a plugin for Q7. Q10 pro doesn’t seem to like MTS format but in the end I used Handbrake → an mp4, so that worked quite well.

Thanks Walt.

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