can i download QuickTime Player for free?

QuickTime Player 7 for Mac OS X v10.6.3 or later

Note, although this downloads as afile indicating it is for Snow Leopard, according to this article it should be OK for Lion as well.

If you want Quicktime 7 Pro edition, then that is not free ($29.99) and you buy that from the apple online store.

If your talking about Quicktime 7, yes it is free. You download it from Apples web site. If you want Quicktime 7 Pro you need to download the Pro key from Apple's online store, you need both...

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3678?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US

http://support.apple.com/kb/DL923

http://store.apple.com/us/product/D3380Z/A

If your talking about Quicktime 10, no. Quicktime 10 comes with Lion. And there isn't a pro version for Quicktime 10.