Alternative Software that replaced Quicktime 7 Pro Registration License Options

Not to mention the more advanced QT7 "Pro" editing features like...

1. Built-in "Annotation" editor
2. Built-in Audio channel "Assignment" editor
3. Built-in "Mask" editing options (None-no dithering, None-allow dithering, Blend, Straight Alpha, Straight Alpha Blend, Premultiplied White Alpha, Premultiplied Black Alpha, Composition) in "Clear" or "Invert" mode
4. Built-in scaled layer "Composite" editing of up to 99 tracks
5. Playback of composited content without having to "flatten" track data as required for QTX
6. Built-in "Adjustments" filter (Alpha Gain, Brightness, Color Sync, HSL Balance, RGB Balance)
7. Built-in "Blur" filter
8. Built-in "Sharpen" filter
9. Built-in "Special Effects" filter (Color Style, Color Tint, Film Noise, Lens Flare)
10. Built-in Audio and/or Video alternative track playback switch editor based on Language selection
11. Non-anamorphic and limited Anamorphic encoding options with or without letterboxing/pillaring
12. "Open" playback codec user configuration
13. "Open" export codec user configuration

And this represents just a "Baker's Dozen" of my favorite advanced options not available in QTX and not mentioned above.

I work in the film/TV industry and we still try to use Quicktime 7 Pro over Quicktime X. Here's why:

You can't quickly, like with hot keys, mark the in and out or toggle the play range from full to in/out and back.

You can't view the timecode while playing. You can't have it show frame numbers instead and show them while playing.

You can't play certain formats (like DNxHD) natively forcing you to wait through a time consuming conversion before even knowing it it's the right movie.

You can't access the properties to correct for aspect ratio issues.

You can't export to any of the wide variety of codecs available easily (not even the various flavors of ProRes).

Neither application allows for viewer color space conversion (like from Cineon to rec.709 or sRGB) or to account for atom Gamma bits or other under the hood color modifications for display. But on the other hand very few alternatives allow for multiple windows to be open at the same time so it continues to be the goto for us.

The loss of QuickTime 7 Pro has been devastating to the film and TV industry and nothing has really risen to replace it, especially not QuickTime X.

Dan

I wish a dev would step-up to the plate and make a QT pro replacement. It is a serious blow to the TV/Live events industry. The only other thing I have seen close is MPEG Streamclip. Which was last updated in 2012.

Hi Dan,

I'm very much in the same boat, clinging to my Quicktime Pro for as long as I can. I love the "In" and "Out" hotkey features because I have to frequently loop small sections of video over and over again. And being able to go frame by frame is a must. It sounds like we may use it for similar things. Did you ever find a successful alternative?

Do you know if you still have your registration key, if it will work on Windows 10?

Shot in the dark, I know. But I am floundering.

I'm in the same boat as you guys. Quicktime Player 7 still remains the most useful player in our industry, but I can see it being broken by a major OS update at some point soon.

I've only come across one decent alternative. Its very pricey though and not something I could justify on multiple systems. To playback DNxHD and view metadata is $200. Its a shame as it seems a fantastic piece of software and has proper color primaries support unlike QT7.

https://www.telestream.net/switch/overview.htm

I was also going to mention MPEGStreamClip. Whilst it is increasingly fiddly to get MPEG2 working for MPEGStreamClip under newer versions of OS X it also can edit MPEG4 files with no problems and can as requested mark in and out cuts. I use it myself for trimming MPEG4 videos.

I use QT 7 Pro everyday. Lots of ways but the most crucial is opening an existing ProRes file setting i o points / command c /command n / command v to create a new ProRes clip of that section and retain the timecode of the original in a matter of seconds. No transcoding. Can't see if Telestream app does that from their demo video.

Until I find an alternative to QT 7 Pro I will not upgrade to any new OS that knocks it out - which I believe will could be High Sierra or the one after.

No, not solved. There is so much that Quicktime Pro did that wasn't replaced. Can Quicktime X export individual frames, allowing custom time lapse (e.g. every third, 4th, 5th frame) from regular video? Player is a fine player, and downsamples nicely but without much control, but Pro was a simple editor that happened to have everything I needed easily available. Off to search elsewhere.

I have tested the Telestream Switch app mentioned above and it certainly does a lot of the pro functions of QT7 Pro - perhaps not as easily or elegantly as QT but it's definitely a good option - but $$$. Also CineTools X for replacing audio tracks etc.

Also worth knowing that QT7 will probably not work on any OS post High Sierra.

QT X was seen as a downgrade by pros (and prosumers) from the get-go. I just tried out 4 or 5 apps in the App Store and can't find any that can do a very simple cut, crop, rotate, trim functions quickly and easily. Basically, I need to take widescreen videos and do a quick vertical promo. I don't see anything out there. In the $20-$25 range, I'm finding the editors slow an ineffective. This should be a simple tool.

The process I just used: Trim in QT7Pro (faster than I would have in QTX), transfer to iPhone, Open the video in "Video Crop" on the iPhone (which is free - yup, that's the name of the app)...crop to 9:16 and expand in one simple step, then post via Instagram Stories. Great. It works. Why can't I do this in one simple app on the Mac. I should be able to do the Video Crop app functions right in Quicktime X. I should also be able to take advantage of the speech to text capabilities in Clips on a widescreen or vertical video...but that would be another thread.

iMovie and FCP is just overload for a simple edit. I don't want to deal with libraries, caches, etc for an edit that should take about 2 minutes total.

I know I am late to this party but I think it may be a great idea to ask Apple for a 64 bit Updated Version of Quicktime 7 Pro. Quicktime X is a completely dumbed down version of Pro. I work in the Industry and it is essential to my workflow. Until my hand is forced I am doing just fine with El Capitan 10.11.6.

iMac Late 2013

3.4 GHZ Intel Core i5

1TB SATA

16 GB RAM 1600 MHz DDR3

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 775M 2048 MB

Gumparker, I'm glad this discussion is being kept alive because I think there's a (nearly) imminent threat to QT7 Pro. If I'm reading recent reports correctly, macOS 10.13 High Sierra will be the last version of macOS to support 32-bit applications, which means that with the presumed release of 10.14 in 2018, those of us who use QT7 will have to either stay on 10.13 or find an alternative program.

I don't use QT7 very often, but as far as I can tell, I can't easily replicate in QTX all the features I do use. For example, this weekend I took some short videos of a ham radio I'm selling. In each video, I needed to cut out extraneous parts of the conversation, with the edits having to come at precise points. I would play a video and pause it at the desired point, then use the "I" or "O" key to set the start or end of the cut. I repeated that as needed to quickly edit the video. I guess if you split a video into separate clips in QTX, you can then trim out segments between other segments, but that seems like a hassle. And as others have mentioned, there are no hotkeys, so you have to drag the trim points while viewing the audio or video track, right?

I'm already considering keeping one of my Macs on Sierra or High Sierra because of some other 32-bit programs I use; the prospect of losing the functionality of QT7P may finalize that decision.

I can't believe some of you are saying that QuickTime X is just as good! Fortunately several others have pointed out that it's simply not as good. Please read some of the other responses before stating that its just as good as QuickTime Pro.

Please, Apple. Upgrade QT7 Pro to 64 bit, or add in the editing and export features that many of your loyal customers have used for YEARS! And please stop dumbing down our core apps!

The playback bar spans the entire screen in QT7. In QT10 it's only a third of the screen. 7 has I and O shortcut keys allowing precise editing. 10 doesn't. 7 has A/V controls. 10 doesn't. Movie Inspector gives more information in 7 than in 10. Export settings in 10 are quite limited. 7 offers a comprehensive set of options and settings. 7 has loop and play selection (play just the selection); 10 doesn't. 7 has poster frame; 10 doesn't. 7 is really good; 10 isn't. 10 does have variable speed by pressing Cmd-L or Cmd-R repeatedly. 7 doesn't. 7 still wins hands down. Can you please keep a functioning QT7Pro around in future OS releases? Thanks!

There's no Pro licence for QuickTime X Player because it includes virually all functions for free.

Is there a specific function that you can't perform in QT X?