I registered quicktime pro but it's nowhere to be found. Help!

Question

I paid for Quicktime Pro and entered the registration code and got a message "Thank you for registering Quicktime Pro" but I don't see it anywhere. I've restarted a couple of times. My Mac OS X version is 10.5.8. The Quicktime Player version is 7.6.9. I saw something on the web that said I'll need the operating system DVD, can that be right?? I'm not sure I ever had one, my Macbook came with everything installed. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated!

Answer 1

For all I knew, not finding obvious evidence of QT Pro in your QT Player immediately after registration was a common problem (as indeed I notice from the discussions that it is) with a quick, common answer (wrong again)
The most obvious evidence is that as soon as your name and registration key is recognized, the QT logo changes from the simple "Q" to a "Q" with the word "Pro" superimposed over it. In addition, the phrase "QuickTime 7 Pro" is displayed under the "Registration Code:" entry and the "Buy" button disappears from the window. All of these things occur in the registration window. Less obvious but more important to the QT 7 Pro user, a number of previously grayed out options become user accessible as soon as a QT compatible file is opened in a Player window.
I really didn't think anybody would be particularly interested in my work flow.
By knowing the work flow, it is often easy to determine if a problem is in the application, the system, the system configuration, or the work flow itself.
But yes, I am compliant and the files are all saved to iphoto libraries, they just can't go anywhere from there, and so I'm concluding that Flip files are NOT compatible with QuickTime or iMovie, at least in the particular configuration I have, and I guess that's fine because there aren't even going to be be Flip cameras much longer.
The fact that the files will import to iPhoto indicates the data in a file container that is compatible with QT. The fact that the files cannot be imported to iMovie indicates the files either contain compression formats that are not QT "edit" compatible or they contain tracks of data that are not iMovie compatible. If the files will not open in the QT 7 Pro Player, then that tells us the compression format(s) are not QT "playback" compatible which usually means you are missing a QT component required to decode one or more of the data tracks. Once you know this, the normal thing to do is to determine what component you need to install on your system if available.
One way to do this if the file can't be opened in the QT Player is to open the Finder "Info" window for the file and see if it recognizes the compression format. If it does, well and good. If not, you would normally try an alternative media player which supplies its own codec within the player. VLC is one of the most popular media players for this purpose. Simply open the file in VLC and see if it plays. If it does, you simply open the "Window/Media Information" window, expand the stream info area to learn audio and video codecs used to encode the file data. Once you know this, you can see if a component is available for installation. This entire process is quite logical with the results of each step pointing the way to the next action to be accomplished. Thus, the work flow and descriptions of what happens become very import to the process of diagnosing the cause of your problems.
So, having said this, what type of file containers (file extension) are involved here and what compression format(s) do they contain? (I.e., in the past different Flip cameras have used different file/format combinations with some changing the file/format combination depending on the "quality" setting currently being used to record the video.