TGF

I have never used QT much, but i will have to get used to it for my Mac i am going to buy in a few wks

TheCleaner

Nothing much to get used to really. It's just there, it does it's job of displaying all sorts of media without you having to think about it, in the background.

From the QT Help Menu:

"With the free version of QuickTime, you can play many kinds of files, including video, audio, graphics, and virtual reality (VR) movies.


With the full-featured version, called QuickTime Pro, you can do such things as create movies, play movies full screen, save files from the Internet, edit audio and video, add special effects, create slideshows, and convert and save video, audio, and images to more than a hundred standard file formats. You can purchase a registration key to upgrade to QuickTime Pro at www.apple.com/quicktime/buy/."

"Using QuickTime Player Controls


QuickTime Player has onscreen controls similar to those found on CD players and DVD players. Use the controls to play, pause, and adjust the volume of a QuickTime movie, to move forward or backward, and to jump to the beginning or end of a movie.


To go to a specific point in the movie, drag the playback head (the small black triangle) in the timeline. To step through frame-by-frame, first click the small black triangle and then press the Right and Left Arrow keys on your keyboard.


To fine-tune the audio, click the Equalizer on the right to reveal Balance, Bass, and Treble controls.


With QuickTime Pro, you have additional controls. Choose Movie > Show Video Controls to fine-tune the video settings. For still more controls, choose Movie > Get Movie Properties, and then choose a track from the left pop-up menu and the property you want to adjust or monitor from the right pop-up menu."

imported_Errant

Quicktime is incredibly easy to use. A 3 year-old could use it. Anyone who recognizes the universal "Play, Pause, Stop" buttons that are present on every CD player, VCR, DVD player, movie editor...etc, can use Quicktime.

I actually wonder when I learned what those buttons meant. Must have been at about the same time I learned what a Triangle was.

I will say that Quicktime 7 has me very excited. The new video codec looks smashing. Tiger , in general, has me revved up, and I can't wait to get my hands on a copy. I was supposed to get a developers copy, but it never came...bastards. I bet you someone in the US Mail snagged it.

Although I don't know if the communities I'm a part of (Indy films, Anime), will switch to that codec with any degree of celerity!

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M Jackson

My Brother's kids learned what they were on an EZ betamax. Back when Sony still understood what user frendly was (they didn't own Columbia yet!), the buttons were large and clearly labeled. Thats about the time Apple was young and betamax cartoons were about $35.00 each. Did I really pay $62.00 for Astroids? Freeware was 128-500 pages of code in a report cover with dogeared pages. 5 1/4" floppy what? Hard drive=eight hour trip five kids 6 rest stops and one thousand four hundred twenty eight "are we there yet"s..... and the world moved on......my foot brushed something. I looked down, a cats collar absent the cat.....

Curious3141

Well, I don't know about "evil" :lol:, but it certainly is not my first choice. My main gripe is with a) the inability to play fullscreen video without having to pay them money and b) the inability to support many AVI codecs. Most free players can do both of these things very well.

I use VLC most of the time. I have setup MPlayer for OSX (MPlayer is my favored player from Linux days), but it's not fully functional or stable enough on the Mac platform for serious use. Got to love the features that MPlayer bundles though, I simply can't live without keyboard shortcuts to seek thru files, and that most ingenious feature whereby the sync between video and audio can be adjusted on the fly.