Photobooth deleted original video after trimming

So I was able to record (using photo booth) the revealing of my pregnancy to my husband; it was priceless. I really wanted to show my family the video but thought I should trim it up for them. Unfortunately I no longer have the original version that I would've loved to keep for ourselves. Is there anything i can do??

Taking out this feature really annoyed me too. I assume they deliberately did it to simplify things for the common user who keeps getting synchronization errors when he tries to funnel .mov files in iTunes to his iOS device. I also assume the software is still capable of this exporting and that they didn't remove the feature from the architecture, but rather just took out the interface to it. It wouldn't surprise me if in the following weeks some people with knowledge on the subject came up with some more information on this.
In the mean time though, rather than downgrading back to Snow Leopard or dual booting it, you could also opt to install Quicktime 7 side by side with the current version. Version 7 has all the familiar features related to saving in a .mov container and also offers trimming - well, if you have a serial key to unlock the pro features, that is. You might still have this from back in the day, or you could purchase it still on Apple's website for 30 bucks.
I don't think buying Quicktime Pro 7 is absolutely necessary though. I'm not very familiar with this stuff, but I imagine there are some other players out there, free ones, that still offer this feature. I know it's somewhat possible with VLC by using the export wizard and choosing to encapsulate in .mov in the last step, but the resulting file stutters here on my macbook air. I had an old serial key laying around, so I chose for QT7 and didn't bother looking for something else.

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