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Quicktime X vs. Quicktime 7

Which version of Quicktime do you like the most?

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Jesse Smith

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Which version do you like the best?

I think Quicktime X is really crummy. For starters, copy, cut, paste....be gone. You have to use QuickTime 7 (Utilities Folder.)

Then there's the looks. And Quicktime X shrinks the hight, and places the options in the video spot.

For those of you that haven't upgraded yet, this is what you get...

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Oh, and Quicktime X is s tiny bit slower at opening! :horror:

This was more of a crappy downgrade!! Quicktime X, meet the Trash. Trash, meet Quicktime X. :D

Hint: If you trash Quicktime X, rename Quicktime 7 to 'QuickTime Player' and put it in the Applications folder, to quickly convert every Quicktime file back to being opened with Quicktime 7.
 
QuickTime Player X --> Trashed!

I use the advanced features in Quicktime 7 almost daily, and until QuickTime X grows up to include the "pro" features, it will not live on my Macs.
The only thing I wanted to keep was the new icon, but moving the icns file from QuickTime player X to Quicktime Player 7 broke the automatic opening of files. Oh well...
 
I chose QTX.

All I need Quicktime for is watching movies, and occasionally exporting one so it works on my ipod. Quicktime X does this, and has a much more elegant UI than 7.

For my needs, Quicktime X is the bees knees. :)
 
Definitely Quicktime 7. Not sure why they couldn't have taken QT 7 and simlpy added the borderless window upgrade. Keep all the features of 7 and add one.
 
Can't say I've used QTX much yet, but I loved the old interface. Its been around since version 4, and like SimpleText was a VERY powerful application. I hope they can improve this new version.
 
Yes, it is early on this version. I have a version 7 pro license on one of my Macs so i am glad I still have it. All and all though, the new version aesthetically is fine for me.
 
At the moment, definitely QT7 Pro. If QTX can grow up and get more of 7's feature set (as well as some options! I want movies to play when they're opened!) I'd be fine switching from 7 Pro for good. Until then I'll use both.
 
Arses upon arses with arse gravy coming out of them

QT 10 is a massive dissapointment:

- No cut and paste for previews et cetera
- No direct play after opening avilable (which means one extra button to push)
- No way escaping the playback bar whilst inside the player window
- No further options available
- Slower than QT 7. Hello?

I even hate the playable preview thumbnails in the finder - even though that is a point on Snow Leopard more than QT 10.
Why hate them? Because the play button is laid smack in the middle of the thumbnail, thus preventing a regular opening of
file without navigating to the side of mentioned button.

Wrinkled grandmothers eating saus-covered potatoes whilst farting


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I kind of shocked by how much is actually missing in QuickTime X. Even the most simple things like the movie properties HUD. I hope they find a way to put the features back in eventually otherwise it's just a gimped movie player.
 
Okay, I'm confused. Why did Apple leave us with two different versions of Quicktime? How do I make Quicktime X the default player? Or should I keep Quicktime 7 as the default?
 
Quicktime X does look a bit nicer, but I do regularly use the copy and paste tools in 7 for quick ****** edits.
Also, it's a bit silly how they've gone on about their fancy new player, and the file associations all stayed with QT7..
What's confusing me the most is how some files can't be opened in X?!
You need QuickTime Player 7 to open "psd_in_zspace_1280.mov".
 

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I'm fine with having both QTX and QT7 on my system.

While I'm not at all pleased that even basic cut/copy/paste wasn't included or proper plugin support was a 1.0 feature for QTX, I'm glad that they are shedding a lot of the (what, 20-year-old) legacy code and focused on the technology rather than the front-end.

It's my simple understanding (so I'm probably wrong on some things) that QTX is more a backend tech that plays all the codecs that the iphone/ipod does and is behind a "QTKit" that calls out to QT7 if QTX can't handle the video. QTX is optimized for 64-bit and GPU processing while QT7 doesn't feature either and that the QTX app is just a front-end app to the QTKit API.

So they focused more on QTX the back-end in this release than the QTX front-end, and I'm fine with that. That's what Snow Leopard was all about anyways. I'm just glad we got to keep the QT7 app for light editing.
 
Krafty said:
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Not what I meant. There was a HUD in Quicktime 7 that gave you controls for brightness, playback speed (forward and reverse), etc. These controls no longer seem to be there. These controls were called Show Movie Properties in the Window tab.
 
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