The Pros and Cons of QuickTime X (MacMost Now 287)

http://macmost.com/ Snow Leopard introduces QuickTime X, a new version of the QuickTime Player. While it adds trimming and exporting functionality, it lacks many of the advanced features of QuickTime 7, and is no comparison to QuickTime 7 Pro.

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[zubieta]

Is there any way to just record a PART of the screen, not it all?

Or what software do you suggest me to use for this? Thanks.

[macmostvideo]

@zubieta Yes. Most (all?) 3rd-party screen recoding apps let you do this. Or, you could record the whole screen and then crop to the area you want in iMovie.

[seamuswarren]

Hello, :)

Can I export more than one .MOV at a time to whatever it is (.264?) that plays on AppleTV? to an AppleTV format?

I've got all these .MOVs that I can't just drag into iTunes because they don't play.

Thanks heaps. :)

[macmostvideo]

@seamuswarren There is no batch processing feature, if that is what you mean. But you can do more than one at a time. Just select a bunch of files, then open them all. Then one-by-one do the export. You don't have to wait for one to finish before the other starts.

[Th33M33]

Thanks man. this helped me alot. but i want to know will the share to youtube save it as youtube size? i want to capture my full screen to post to youtube but im afraide it will be mush bigger than youtube size thus people not seeing my screen well??

[macmostvideo]

@Th33M33 If you have a large dimension video, it will need to scale it down, yes. Just a fact of life. But you can get much more creative in how you make screen capture video if you use something like ScreenFlow.

[zubieta]

@macmostvideo I found a weird way around it, zooming with trackpad+option key... though it still records as 1280x800, but the zoomed part. anyway, thanks for the reply!

[seamuswarren]

@seamuswarren

I just appended the ten clips comprising chapter two into one forty eight minute clip and have started exporting it as a .m4v for AppleTV.

Not so painful now I hope.

A better viewing experience too I reckon.

Thank you. :)

[seamuswarren]

@macmostvideo

Many thanks for the information. :)

Yes, I was hoping to batch process multiple .MOV files. I have several "chapters" to convert to MP4 with each made up of ten or so .MOV files.

One way to lessen the pain may be to join the files that comprise each chapter into one long .MOV.

Hmmm… :)

Thank you once again,

Seamus. :)

[rosenz]

@illsen12345 QuickTime X is part of Mac OS, so you can't uninstall it. But upgrading to Snow Leopard shouldn't have removed the old QuickTime 7 "Player" application. It should still be there. If not, it should be on the Snow Leopard disks. QT 7 didn't let you combine videos either -- it was QT 7 Pro that did.