Reviews for QuickTime 7 Pro for Windows

I bought the upgrade to Pro despite reading the poor reviews here. I thought that maybe it was a case of only the dissatisfied or inexperienced customers being willing to write a review. I was wrong. This is simply a poor product, as a player it is slow, crashes or freezes when playing any large file and won’t play some AVI’s even when the codecs are available.

As an encoder it is quite simply appalling, it is (unbelievably) slow, uninformative, and the UI is poorly laid out. I really don’t expect to wait 3 hours to encode a 4 minute video clip on a twin processor machine with 4GB of memory. It only takes me that long to encode a 50 minute 9Mbps DVD on two pass VBR!

As for the quality of h.264, to me it’s not noticeably better on a like for like basis than WMV9. But with 3 hours for each encoding I haven’t exactly had much opportunity to test this.

Finally, and this simply sums it all up, there is an upgrade available, however it’s a 35Mb download (because it includes iTunes!) and I can’t even get it to run!

I know £19.99 is not a huge amount of money compared to the cost of Premiere Pro or my editing card, BUT in comparison to BSPlayer (free) and some of the free MPEG encoders this is simply money for old rope.

I strongly suggest Apple looks at these complaints and re-writes the software. If necessary go and buy source from one of the free players.

This software does nothing of what it has been sold for. I needed to edit a movie and it gives you nothing to do it with. For me this was a big wast of money not happy

Downloaded QT7. Then bought Pro license. Edited a .MOV file and exported for Web. Worked great the first time. After that, same steps produced video and audio outputs BUT audio failed to play. Tried everything over the course of two evenings, including uninstall-reinstall. Now, I just want to cry. I guess "Pro" means "just once?" By the way, I can still load in my first successful output file array of desktop, cell, etc. mv4 files,etc and they play just fine... so my PC is not to blame.

What a mess. It really appears QT7 was attacked by a virus or something that disabled audio playback on exported for web files. I want to cry myself to sleep. So close... yet so far.

I read the reviews. Some were good, but most of them were bad. I bought Quick Time Pro based on the good reviews. THIS WAS A TERRIBLE MISTAKE! It doesn't work right and it messes up my videos and sometimes deletes them. All my hard work, GONE. Then when I had an update, Quick Time tried to make me buy it AGAIN! Luckily I was smart not to. I can't believe awesome Apple would make this. Please, don't waste your money or your time. Do NOT base your decision on the good reviews like I did, because I regret it.

I bought the previous version, used it about 3 times and now must buy again to keep up with version changes. I wish I could say something to Apple, but I'm reduced to venting my anger in a subdued review which will be read by people with no interest in my petty problem. All I can do is not buy Pro again. "Ouch!!" says Apple. "Who threw that pinto bean at me?"

I paid for the upgrade anyway... opened a simple flash animation in QT7Pro, I made this flash specifically for video, exported from flash as a .mov, then exported from QT7Pro as a movie, in settings I unchecked the 'prep for internet streaming' and left the rest of the settings at default.

About 16% of the way into the export, I get the dreaded 'Buffer Underrun' error message, this is PRO software?

Unless they mean this program will professionally let you generate error messages like never before... then it would make sense. As far as simple video creation functionality goes, then it falls quite short.

My system is a twin Xeon 3.06 Ghz each, 1Gb RAM, Accelerated video card... thats not enough machine to run this program?

There is a reason this has so many negative reviews! I read 'em didn't believe it, bought it....shouldn't have.

its super hard to use and makes its slow. but when u get it down its really good but its not a $30 product.

Although only £20 to "upgrade" its hardly worth it. The interface is poor, file conversion is very limited, especially cropping which does not offer any real options.

So I don't have a problem with QT Pro itself. But I had to re-do my hard drive, now my registration number won't re-take. When I input it in preferences, it looks like it takes it, but then when you close and re-open, it's not registered as pro. Can not find any help on the website, nor can I find a way to contact for help. Booo Apple. This shouldn't be this hard.