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The QuickTime Player, the application provided with macOS. QuickTime is Apple's protocol for video and media creation and playback.

QuickTime is an extensible multimedia framework developed by Apple, capable of handling various formats of digital video, picture, sound, panoramic images, and interactivity. First made in 1991, the latest Mac version, QuickTime X, is currently available on Mac OS X Snow Leopard and newer.

Apple has ceased support for the Windows version of QuickTime in 2016.

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Take a screenshot of a QuickTime movie frame?

I'm trying to export a screenshot of a part of a video in QuickTime Player 10. How can I save a freeze frame capture from a QuickTime movie? The saved image should be only the single video frame, not including the QuickTime Player window's chrome or…
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How do I get QuickTime to store temporary recordings on another drive?

When you do a movie recording or screen recording, QuickTime stores the in-progress recordings in ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.QuickTimePlayerX/Data/Library/Autosave Information. On my machine, I have a fast SSD mounted on /Volumes/SSD but a slow…
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What software extends quicktime to support codecs as an alternative to Perian?

Now that Perian is closing its doors (and thus ending support), I'd like to know if there are any alternatives to Perian - specifically alternatives that add Quicktime support for more filetypes (and thus all the benefits with Apples Video…
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All editing and sharing options disabled in Quicktime

I downloaded a video with these specs: I'm unable to cut, copy, paste, trim and share since all these options are greyed out: Why?
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Always Open mp3 files with QuickTime

Currently the default application for mp3 files on my Macbook Pro (10.6.8) is iTunes. I want to change it to QuickTime. So I right click on an mp3 file, select Other, check the Always open with box, scroll down to QuickTime select it, then click…
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Produce QuickTime compatible mov file with transparent background from png using ffmpeg

QuickTime can create a movie from a sequence of input images. Different formats for the output can be selected, including HEVC and Apple Pro Res. Unfortunately, QuickTime allows for no control over the compression rate. The file using the HEVC codec…
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Where are apple quicktime trailers stored?

I am watching some quicktime apple trailers from the website they open up automatically in quicktime. How do I download it at that point. I am assuming that they are cached temporally somewhere. Any ideas?
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Where are the QuickTime video recordings saved

I recorded a video using QuickTime, but cannot find the file. Where is the file saved and how do I find it?
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Quicktime Screen Recording heat problem

My machine is a 13" MacBook Pro with retina display, running Sierra. When I record a screen (video with sound), the machine heats up rapidly (80 celsius in less than 1 minute of recoding).
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Automating Quicktime Image Sequence creation in Mountain Lion

I have 69 folders of jpegs I want to turn into 69 quicktime timelapse movies. Rather than doing this one-at-a-time in Quicktime 7 Pro (Open Image Sequence, select first frame, choose 30 fps as the frame rate, wait for frames to assemble, save…
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FFMPEG movie not compatible with QuickTime with yuv420p tag

I've recently downloaded and started using ffmpeg to convert a series of images to a .mp4 movie. It won't open in QuickTime, saying that the file is incompatible. In other threads I've seen that this is fixed with -pix_fmt yuv420p, but that doesn't…
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QuickTime Player Assistive Touch Indicator Disappearing

I'm trying to play an iPhone game on my computer by using QuickTime Player. I have a bluetooth mouse connected to my iPhone and use the assistive touch feature. On most apps, the pointer is visible on both my phone's screen and QuickTime Player,…
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No Audio on Quicktime Screen Cap Video

I'm using Quicktime 10.3 on a mac running 10.9.5. I've done several screen capture videos and recorded my voice using a Logitech USB headset/microphone. I've not updated anything. It worked yesterday and not today. But all of a sudden - no audio.…
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Can you still make QuickTime to store temporary recordings on another drive?

I need to get QuickTime Player to store its temporary files on another disk. I found an answer here, which I tried, but QuickTime Player quits with an error when I try to make a Screen Recording. I used: $ cd…
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How do I change settings in QuickTime 10?

I'm trying to follow these instructions on configuring QuickTime so I can use a browser-based web app that uses QuickTime as a plugin in FireFox: http://tones.wolfram.com/tsfaqs/osx/configurequicktime.html I'm using QuickTime Player version 10.4…
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