I have upgraded to Mac OS Catalina. Now, I find that a frequently used and very useful application, Quicktime 7 Pro, will no longer function on my computer. What can I use in its place? Is there an upgrade available for Quicktime Player to give it the "pro" capabilities?
MacBook Pro 13", macOS 10.13
Apple never updated QuickTime 7 for modern use and after it was released in 2005 Apple knew they were not be going to update it.
They did with QuickTime X and it's what we have on Mac. Notice, too, that there are not any iPad or iOS updates to QuickTime and it is "baked in" to iOS.
You didn't lose any Adobe apps by updating to Mojave so I suspect your meant Catalina 10.15.
I don't think Apple or many people understand how much many of us lean on Quicktime 7 Pro for quick edits and playback and all sorts of things. There is no product before or since with the same level of functionality for quickly editing / trimming / looping / cropping / exporting / inserting bits of audio or video without having to jump in or out of an actual monolithic video editing program.
At this point I won't be upgrading to Catalina just to hang onto the old Quicktime 7 Pro for dear life and I'd be willing to crowdfund and pay for a replacement of it that worked exactly the same as the existing app.
QuickTime 7 was released in 2005 and will never see another version.
No version 8 or 9 was ever released and when Snow Leopard came out it included QuickTime 10.
The worst part of losing QT7 is to no longer have the possibility to open a MIDI file for playing and listening only (if you don't have QT Pro you would end with the file being opened in Garageband or Logic Pro X). That's why I'm using High Sierra!
Another use! It was like the Swiss Army knife of codecs!
I'm considering re-installing Mojave. I also lost my Adobe apps, and they will be expensive to replace.
Correct re Adobe; I lost the Adobe apps when I installed Catalina Beta. I had Mojave previously, and they worked, but with "warnings" from the OS.
Yes, but now with 64 bit OS, my Mac can't run V.7 pro which is 32 bit and no longer supported. It is (was) a handy video converter/editor, and I am trying to find something that will work equally well on 64 bit.
Not many users need the conversion to Windows Media player format unless they are using Windows 7.
MPEG-4 is a more universal format that almost any device can play.
Don't waste your time searching for any "converter app" as they are all a dead end.
QuickTime X has many of the features and is free.
Will Apple upgrade QuickTime 7 automatically with the Catalina Upgrade?
One function I used frequently in QT 7 Pro was to convert video formats to WMV for sharing with people using old Windows machines. I don't see that in the QT 10.
Thanks. I was thinking the same thing, altho I didn't realize that Windows 7 was the last OS that supported WMV. Time to move on....
What app can be used to replace Quicktime 7 Pro?
