Snow Leopard QuickTime X Player to Offer Integrated Video Sharing Features?

[MacRumors]

AppleInsider reports that QuickTime X Player, slated for release as part of OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard later this year, will feature integrated uploading of supported video files to YouTube and MobileMe.

In particular, the application will let users take any supported video file and upload it directly to YouTube. Users will be prompted to enter their YouTube username and password, and QuickTime X Player take care of the rest. This includes converting the movie into a file optimized for the video sharing service and then uploading it to the appropriate user account.

Of course, Apple will also offer a similar option for users of its own MobileMe service that will take video files and upload them to a MobileMe Gallery. Both options are reportedly accessible via a new "Share" menu in the QuickTime X Player interface.

Mockup of YouTube upload dialog (Source: AppleInsider)
The new "Share" menu will reportedly also provide a more prominent location for existing options for export to formats optimized for the iPhone and Apple TV. The report also points out that the change will bring integrated YouTube offerings to all three of Apple's platforms, with a standalone iPhone application available since the device's launch, and YouTube functionality added to the Apple TV in a software update just months after the device's 2007 debut.


Article Link: Snow Leopard QuickTime X Player to Offer Integrated Video Sharing Features?

 

[iPoodOverZune]

nice to have that feature. Now youtube will have more crappy videos!

 

[kolax]

Basically taken out of iMovie and put right into QuickTime. Guess it'll be handy though - edit your movie in Final Cut, and then easily upload it via QuickTime.

They'll probably make that a QuickTime API, so other programs that use QuickTime's API's can make use of that.

 

[Dmac77]

Sounds good. It's something that may actually make Quicktime useful.

Don

 

[colmaclean]

The name/password requester looks like a bog standard Java applet from 1997... Hopefully it gets a spruce-up in time for release.

 

[wizard]

Cool if you are into video sharing on YouTube.

A bit of a waste if you are not. I just don't see it as a significant feature one way or the other.


Dave

 

[amac4me]

This looks promising. Snow Leopard is lining up to be a must have upgrade!

 

[edesignuk]

The name/password requester looks like a bog standard Java applet from 1997... Hopefully it gets a spruce-up in time for release.

It looks like it probably slides down from the top of the Window, then asks for your name and password. What else is it supposed to do

 

[Merkuryy]

I share more videos of others than mine, the internet is still a jungle, I wouldn't want to have any risk to click this "share" button

 

[dmmcintyre3]

Just make it work on PPC G4's!

 

[masse]

it won't work on powerpc.

 

[Ade-iMac-177]

cool. Kinda useful i guess - even if it is already in iMovie

 

[vendettabass]

sounds similar to the movie export thing in iMovie. Good to see them integrating thing's they've learnt through iLife etc and integrating them into the OS.

 

[alec]

It'll be nice to have some web2.0 features directly integrated into the applications themselves. Good to save a couple of steps but nothing necessary for the most part IMO....

 

[lazyrighteye]

The name/password requester looks like a bog standard Java applet from 1997... Hopefully it gets a spruce-up in time for release.

That's why it is called a 'mockup.'

 

[ryanrul]

A Vimeo uploader would have been a lot more useful.

 

[burtx]

Statements with a question mark at the end in the headlines are starting to get really annoying. Is this Fox News?

 

[kd_rome]

QT export is still not my first choice for YouTube, so unless they can provide a better quality I won't use it...

 

[cthielen]

This also weakly suggests that video uploader in the 3.0 firmware will debut as well, hopefully on a video-enabled iPhone this June.

 

[eff pc]

they need facebook upload support too. then i'll be sold.

 

[mr.steevo]

Statements with a question mark at the end in the headlines are starting to get really annoying. Is this Fox News?

MacRumors inappropriately uses question marks on its headlines?

s.

 

[StuddedLeather]

Statements with a question mark at the end in the headlines are starting to get really annoying. Is this Fox News?

It's not yet confirmed therefore the question mark is suitable.

 

[twoodcc]

nice to have that feature. Now youtube will have more crappy videos!

haha, that's right. and i will participate

 

[techfreak85]

they need facebook upload support too. then i'll be sold.

for photo's they have it. i wonder if you had an AVI or something from your digital camera and tryed to use the facebook uploader in iPhoto 09 it would work.

 

[mikeinternet]

"Just put in your account info and quicktime does the rest?"

So, where do you enter the title and summary information?