Quicktime Export Missing??

Being very keen on the look of the new Quicktime, it was the first thing I played with. And it is very disappointing. It looks great, but offers a fraction of the functionality of the older quicktime pro.
I cannot select and delete, copy or past areas of video like I could with the older version. I can now trim, iPhone style, but I could trim with the older QT anyway, so why is this new?
However, the real sore point, as I rarely do any of the mentioned things above in QT, is that there is no export option, only save as, which has a comical amount of options, as in only a few. I can no longer export to DivX/AVI or any of the other formats that I sometimes needed to use for video work. So having looked and found no evidence of QT-Pro existing anymore, is this all we have, the kids version with no power but looks pretty?
They seem to have taken a really powerful tool, the swiss-army knife of video converters, and turned it into a toy. So having used QT for most of my conversion work, do I really need to fire up Final Cut Pro, Sound Track Pro or Compressor every time I need to flip a simple audio file from AIFF into MP3 (using LAME) or if some PC user needs something in AVI for an older office product?
Seems such a backward step to me. Can anyone in the mean time recommend a good converter of the same caliber as the older QT. Will check out VLC, but thought that was limited when I last looked a few years ago.
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Yes, I agree this is obviously intentional, as they would not have included QT7. But, it is very messy poor quality workaround that shows issues with Apples software development strategies. It means anyone regularly encoding video and audio has to now juggle between files opening in default QTX and then bouncing them into the older QT7, when QTX SHOULD do these exports and edits, as QT has always been a tool and not just a player.
Apple have an annoying habit of releasing software that strips functions away from the older versions, because the software is not yet ready for release. Look at the new iMovie, which had people downloading the older version because the new iMovie was so primitive on its first release. I would rather they gave the old code for QT7 a face lift in the style of QTX, so we had the same functionality, rather than start a new version of QT from scratch, which half delivers. At least this would have been acceptable until the newer code for QTX could replicate all functionality of the older QT7. Then a simple update sometime down the road would replace older QT with newer.
It just muddles the workflow of many users who use this as a tool, and already I have found very annoying as I rarely use QT as a simple player only. So have now changed the default app to QT7, which sort of defeats the point of an update.
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