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QuickTime 7 Pro for Mac OS X

Its all pro and no cons

Written by AG from Sutton Coldfield

06-Mar-2009

After Reading all of the reviews I was a little worried about spending £20 on software. Especially as I previously had free software on the PC.

QuickTime had been highly recommended by a few friends, so I spent the £20 and went for it. I'm so glad I did !! The output quality was perfect from a avi to iPhone and a 20 min video converts in about 8 mins. Then after clicking on the file, imported it directly Into iTunes. I couldn't have asked for a easier app. Well done apple.

Ps. Although other reviews are saying it doesn't play certain files, do they know about the free addons ? Divx etc

108 of 115 people found this useful

QuickTime 7 Pro for Mac OS X

Awesome!

Written by JS

27-Jul-2006

Quicktime pro is fantastic - it is so cheap compared to many other authoring programs and the optmisation works well.

139 of 183 people found this useful

QuickTime 7 Pro for Mac OS X

Get the best out of QuickTime 7

Written by ML from Westcliff on-sea

02-Nov-2005

With QuickTime Pro, it gives you greater access when you go through the quicktime movies website. Once I purchased the key, I went straight to the quicktime movies website where you can preview films and games.And once you've watch the movie or game preview, you can save it as a quicktime movie and you can watch again with having to go online.Once you've got the key just click on system preferences in the dock then click on quicktime icon make sure the register tab is selected.Type your name and key in, and your away!

100 of 118 people found this useful

QuickTime 7 Pro for Mac OS X

Great for video editing...

Written by MA from Lincoln

15-Apr-2008

I see an awful lot of people getting hot under the collar about this upgrade. The fact is that this is a piece of software designed to work with Apples other Pro App's (ie, Final Cut Studio, etc) and for that it's an indispensable tool. Export files, trim files which have been a left a little long on the time line, compress for upload, separate audio from the video, etc, etc. This offers some great tools which I use almost daily and get driven mad if I don't have them to hand when on another Mac...

217 of 354 people found this useful

QuickTime 7 Pro for Mac OS X

Just what I needed.

Written by IW from Crewe

22-Jan-2009

I needed a program for converting various video files to play on devices like the iPod and Playstation 3. Quicktime Pro works perfectly for this.

All my encoding needs in one package. Perfect.

89 of 102 people found this useful

QuickTime 7 Pro for Mac OS X

Invaluable.

Written by CB from St. Leonards-on-Sea

27-Sep-2007

I, too, am surprised at the negative comments on QuickTime Pro. I use it pretty much every day for resizing video, converting audio. It works for me!

45 of 66 people found this useful

QuickTime 7 Pro for Mac OS X

Great tool!

Written by CZ from Yate

25-Sep-2009

I oh so nearly didn't spend my £20 on quicktime 7 pro, but I'm glad I decided not to listen to all the negativity! I bought it yesterday and have been having so much fun converting my vacation videos and transferring to my IPOD Touch, that I am all behind in my real work....it's magic! Easy to use? Absolutely!(I'm no computer genius by any means)

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QuickTime 7 Pro for Mac OS X

Good, but...

Written by VH from HAYWARDS HEATH

18-Aug-2008

This product is good, and as another reviewer says, it "does what it says on the tin". I find the easy Audio Recording feature particularly useful when I'm just playing with ideas.

But come on, everyone knows this functionality should be built into Mac OS X as standard...

200 of 217 people found this useful

QuickTime 7 Pro for Mac OS X

Be aware

Written by HP from Copenhagen N

17-Aug-2008

I got this product to convert my digital camera videoclips from MPEG1 to MPEG4 to be enable to use the clips in iMovie. The problem is, that the sound is gone once I convert. If you need to convert smal videoclips - then get the MPEG Streamclip.

Otherwise its a fair product.

119 of 126 people found this useful

QuickTime 7 Pro for Mac OS X

Good product, shame about encoding speed

Written by BH from Frome

08-Jan-2006

I have a 1.33 GHz Powerbook and can confirm that encoding speed for ipod video is very slow with Quicktime Pro. However, it does produce good results, noticeably better than, for instance Videora iPod Converter (for windows), and any kind of video encoding will always involve long waits. I would be interested to compare times with a G5 system.

If ripping DVDs for ipod is your thang, then I strongly recommend the freeware utility Handbrake, which can do this in a single step, is relatively straightforward to use, and is I think faster than QT due to using a different encoding engine. I am actually using it right now and it is averaging 14 fps which is an order of magnitude faster than quicktime!

The short and blunt: Quicktime Pro does what it says on the tin with aplomb, I could not do without it, but be prepared to leave your computer for a long time for large encodes.

To those who post negative reviews just through not being able to use it, I suggest a little perseverance might pay off and recommend other users to disregard their input.

Good but not perfect: 4 stars.

116 of 152 people found this useful

QuickTime 7 Pro for Mac OS X

Did what I wanted

Written by DM from NUNEATON

10-Nov-2007

Could not import MPEG1 Muxed video from iphoto into imovies. Downloaded QT pro 7 - exported to iphotos as Quicktime movie - imovie read the files and now part of a movie project/DVD. I read somewhere that mpeg1 muxed format combines audio with video - so after export left with only video (no audio), but no worries as audio on this occasion not required. 20 quid well spent to get the footage I wanted into imovie project. Registration process easy following link from online invoice to website.

193 of 319 people found this useful

QuickTime 7 Pro for Mac OS X

Good encoder

Written by ML from Birmingham

19-Jul-2008

Offering a variety of different options, QuickTime Pro does exactly what I wanted it to do - it converts videos to different formats (including iPhone and iPod friendly formats) easily, however for large files, don't expect the process to be fast, it can take some time to convert.

Also remember the ability to create the files you want is entirely dependant on Quicktime being able to open the files in the first place - and whilst getting the pro upgrade does expand the range of files you can play to a certain extent (including FLV for example), its only as good as the codecs installed on your system.

91 of 119 people found this useful

QuickTime 7 Pro for Mac OS X

Good product easy to use

Written by DW from Huntingdon

31-Dec-2005

Someone wrote that they were not new to macs, yet couldn't work out where to put the code.

I'm brand new to mac, I've had it since xmas day, a little pressie, and had no problem pumping in my code.

It's easy. Go into system preferences>quicktime.

HOW EASY CAN IT BE?

77 of 107 people found this useful

QuickTime 7 Pro for Mac OS X

QuickTime 7 Pro.

Written by GG from WORTHING

11-Oct-2007

Makes movies just about watchable on my old Mac computer. It is still not perfect but good enough for me. I am pleased with the purchase and can recommend it.

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QuickTime 7 Pro for Mac OS X

Quick, easy and simple

Written by TH from Chesham

25-Dec-2005

Quicktime Pro is easy to install, just go into the quicktime menu (inside the application) and click 'Register'. Simple!
The conversions work just as you would expect, and the full screen viewing is pretty cool as well.

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QuickTime 7 Pro for Mac OS X

inadequate support

Written by JP from Stonehouse

20-Jun-2008

Many years ago I bought QuickTime Pro. It has been moderately useful and updated to the current version. Twice now all my bought downloads have disappeared from my computer and from my Apple page, including QuickTime Pro in each case. Over the last two month with the help of AppleCare I have restored everything else (I think) from the last disaster. But although I enter my code into the QuickTime Registration panel, nothing happens except that my code disappears. There is nothing wrong with my code which is written down on my MacBook and on paper. The problem is somewhere else and presumably with either Apple or the QuickTime service.

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QuickTime 7 Pro for Mac OS X

Buyer beware..

Written by JJ from FALMOUTH

28-Dec-2005

Don't by Quicktime Pro unless you really need it in the near future, because every time Apple issue a new free upgrade to Quicktime (eg from Quicktime 6 to 7) your Pro purchase will be invalidated, and you'll have to buy it again. Even if you've only had it a short time.

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QuickTime 7 Pro for Mac OS X

NOT the be all and end all for file conversions

Written by JG from Glasgow

25-Nov-2005

I wish I knew the limitations of QuickTime Pro before I paid for it. I bought it to enable conversion of my many MPEG movie files to a format that can be played back on my iPod.

The problem being that QuickTime Pro can playback MPEG files that it can’t export properly. A lot of MPEG files are 'Multi-Plexed' (the sound and video tracks are weaved together). When QuickTime Pro exports these Multi-Plexed files it tells you that there is "No audio track in source movie" and the resulting file plays back with no sound, even though it plays the original file with sound.

Another big problem is that QuickTime Pro is very choosy as to what files you can cut and paste with. To my annoyance, you have to perform time-consuming conversions before being able to cut and paste.

For me QuickTime Pro is utterly useless, I just hope Apple will resolve these issues in a future update.

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