Saving Movie (Apple Trailer) with Quicktime X

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Saving Movie (Apple Trailer) with Quicktime X

Hello everyone,

today I loaded some trailers on apple.com and wanted to save them to disk. Back in 10.5. I did that with Quicktime 7 Pro and because of saving the file (1080P) in the format as is, it has always been just a matter of a few seconds to save that moviefile.

Now in Quicktime X it seems to be different. I let the trailer load until it's finished. Then I go to >file >save as and save the trailer using the standard settings (no re-encoding). And it starts saving - but takes like - long. Minutes long.

Anybody got an idea why Quicktime X is behaving like that?

MacBook Unibody 2.0, Mac OS X (10.6), iPod Touch 1st Gen.

Posted on Aug 31, 2009 1:41 PM

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Larc

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Aug 31, 2009 3:02 PM in response to flex One

flex One

QuickTime X not ready for primetime 🙂
You should have QTP 7 in your Utilities folder if you had it in MacOS 10.5.8.

It will work as QTP 7 Pro if you enter your QTP7 Pro license code.

Then you can have the best of both worlds.
QTP 7 is on the Snow Leopard Install Disk in the "Optional Installs

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flex One Author

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Aug 31, 2009 5:07 PM in response to Larc

Hello Larc,

thanks for your answer.

I got a QT 7 Pro License and it was installed with Snow Leopard. I have to find out how to make it the default player (for that matter).

But I'm still curious: Why does QT X need that much longer to save a file it has already cached.

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Larc

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Aug 31, 2009 5:27 PM in response to flex One

I do like like the Screen Recording.

You will probably find more information in the Digital Life Quicktime thread.

Thanks for the helpful points 😀

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flex One Author

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Aug 31, 2009 5:52 PM in response to Larc

Ahh,

**** it! Should have looked there in the first place. 😉 There's already a thread about that issue.

Thanks a lot Larc!

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2135454&tstart=15

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Sep 5, 2009 5:02 PM in response to flex One

You can't use a direct link any more to download through Safari, seems Apple has changed the way trailers are accessed, when linking to a trailer (such as [Disney's Oceans|http://movies.apple.com/movies/disney/oceans/oceans-tsr1_h1080p.mov] you'll get instead redirected to the main trailers page at apple.com/trailers. And when you paste it in the download window, you'll get the HTML file representing the trailers homepage instead...

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