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Q: Will Quick Time Player 7 work under El Capitan?

I still use QT 7 - with Mountain Lion. I had to find an old copy of QT7 to install, but it works. I am considering upgrading to El Capitan, but don't want to lose the QT7 functionality. Does anyone know whether QT7 works under El Capitan?

iMac, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.5)

Posted on Oct 13, 2015 10:25 AM

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Q: Will Quick Time Player 7 work under El Capitan?

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  • by dialabrain,

    dialabrain dialabrain May 20, 2016 7:15 AM in response to Kurt Lang
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    May 20, 2016 7:15 AM in response to Kurt Lang

    Just open the preferences, enable "Show Content Guide Automatically" then restart QuickTime 7.

  • by Kurt Lang,

    Kurt Lang Kurt Lang May 20, 2016 7:29 AM in response to dialabrain
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    May 20, 2016 7:29 AM in response to dialabrain

    Oh! That thing. I always turn that off. I have no interest whatsoever in seeing advertisements every time I launch QT7.

  • by dialabrain,

    dialabrain dialabrain May 20, 2016 7:33 AM in response to Kurt Lang
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    May 20, 2016 7:33 AM in response to Kurt Lang

    mmhmm, me too. I just noticed it the first time I installed it on a new iMac. Anywho it doesn't draw correctly.

  • by Kurt Lang,

    Kurt Lang Kurt Lang May 20, 2016 8:24 AM in response to dialabrain
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    May 20, 2016 8:24 AM in response to dialabrain

    Another, hmmm. I don't see anything abnormal about it on my Mac. Everything appears proportional and without any odd artifacts.

     

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  • by dialabrain,

    dialabrain dialabrain May 20, 2016 8:35 AM in response to Kurt Lang
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    May 20, 2016 8:35 AM in response to Kurt Lang

    Interesting…

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  • by Kurt Lang,

    Kurt Lang Kurt Lang May 20, 2016 8:44 AM in response to dialabrain
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    May 20, 2016 8:44 AM in response to dialabrain

    That's weird. I wonder why it's displaying that way in the center ad? Oh well. It's all just ads I have no interest in seeing.

  • by dialabrain,

    dialabrain dialabrain May 20, 2016 8:51 AM in response to Kurt Lang
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    May 20, 2016 8:51 AM in response to Kurt Lang

    LOL yes I know. The other thing that's weird, if I mouse over the center ad the cursor acts like an eraser but when I try to take a screen shot to show it  I get the above looking shots.

     

    I did however figure out why El Capitan has different behaviors on different users Macs. Apparently it's multi-dimensional and crosses over into various multi-universes.

  • by Kurt Lang,

    Kurt Lang Kurt Lang May 20, 2016 8:56 AM in response to dialabrain
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    May 20, 2016 8:56 AM in response to dialabrain

    I did however figure out why El Capitan has different behaviors on different users Macs. Apparently it's multi-dimensional and crosses over into various multi-universes.

    That's it!

  • by dialabrain,

    dialabrain dialabrain May 20, 2016 9:05 AM in response to Kurt Lang
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    May 20, 2016 9:05 AM in response to Kurt Lang

    This is what I meant. I got my g/f to take a pic with her iPhone…

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  • by kaviski,

    kaviski kaviski May 20, 2016 10:27 AM in response to Kurt Lang
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    May 20, 2016 10:27 AM in response to Kurt Lang

    Under El Capitan it seems like QuickTime 7 can no longer "Preserve aspect ratio by 'crop'" Has anyone else noticed that this doesn't work anymore?

  • by kaviski,

    kaviski kaviski May 20, 2016 10:34 AM in response to kaviski
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    May 20, 2016 10:34 AM in response to kaviski

    Interesting method. I've always cropped in the size setting on output, not in the properties box you show. I'm trying to CROP a file to get rid of picture at the top and bottom. I have done this countless times in QT 7- until I foolishly updated to El Capitan... I have a 1920x1080 file with black matte for 360 lines at the top and 360 lines at the bottom. The picture info is 1920x360 in the middle band. I want to output to a new file that is 1920x360 by cropping the top and bottom mattes. What I am getting is a 1920x360 file with all the image data squeezed into it, not with the mattes chopped off top and bottom. As I said, this worked in QT 7 until El Capitan came along. Wondering if anyone else has tried this and gotten the same result.

  • by Kurt Lang,

    Kurt Lang Kurt Lang May 20, 2016 11:16 AM in response to kaviski
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    May 20, 2016 11:16 AM in response to kaviski
    As I said, this worked in QT 7 until El Capitan came along. Wondering if anyone else has tried this and gotten the same result.

    I tried that method, and you are correct. It doesn't work. You have no control over where the crop occurs. Nor does the exported file even save to the dimensions you plugged in, no matter where you put the other settings.

     

    I did find this, and it does work. I did a test where I sized the video by half, and then made a mask that would clip it to center. If you just hit Command+S to save, it happens immediately because nothing is applied. It's all just attributes. For instance, my test movie was 23 MB to start with, and the same "resized and clipped". QT7 will play it back according to your changes, but the new QT Player will ignore them and display the video at its original size.

     

    In order to actually save it with your changes applied, you have to export it to a new file.

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