QuickTime Emasculated

Oh, hi.

We just took delivery of two new Mac Pros with the latest Final Cut (I'm short on specifics. I'm typing this from home). The editor's noticed right away that the QuickTime that came with the package (8?) is a plain, simple player, not the powerful production tool QT7 was.

Nasty surprise. Apparently this is old news via Google, but there doesn't seem to be any way to get the tools back.

Is there?

Isn't Final Cut "standing" on QuickTime Services? They have to exist. Is this just a matter of getting a new operating shell?

Koz

Long time no see, Koz.

I'm assuming you're talking about the QuickTime X problem. Your QuickTime icon in the Dock is now some fancy-schmancy 3-D thing with lighting effects, right? That's QuickTime X. QuickTime 7 is still there on your machine; only it got moved to Applications - Utilities. Just stick that in the Dock as well, and launch it first before you open movie files. You'll still have all the options. You can also, of course, change the default applications of movie files to QuickTime 7; just navigate to the right item.


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Hey Koz man! Where have you been hiding?

If it's not installed in Apps/Utilities/ then you will need to install it from the Mac OS X installer disk under "Optional Installs"

Read here: [support.apple.com]



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Kozikowski Wrote:
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> Isn't Final Cut "standing" on QuickTime Services?
> They have to exist. Is this just a matter of
> getting a new operating shell?

The QuickTime 7 frameworks are installed, it's just the player that's missing. It doesn't have an effect on any applications.

There's a lot of misunderstanding about QuickTime X so I did a writeup a while back:
[www.digitalrebellion.com]

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That worked. Everybody's a happy camper again.
Thanks!
Koz