Quicktime X Problem List

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Mostly QTX but a few from the "new" QT7.
• You can't set In and Out points
• You can't Trim the middle of a video out.
• The interface obscures the video. The title bar covers the top of the image and the floating controller can't be moved outside the window.
• Adjusting the volume via the keyboard brings up the interface.
• Pausing the video keeps the interface onscreen. Not helpful for screenshots.
• Control Clicking the window removes the interface, allowing Command + Shift + 4, then Spacebar screenshots but moving the mouse returns the interface.
• There is no Export to Still option for a frame of video.
• There are no Preferences!
• QTX seems to be unable to play DV video while QT7 can.
• J, K, L controls are not working (system error beep will sound) at all in QTX
• Option Clicking (maybe it was Command) does not play the video in reverse.
• Option-Dragging a window does not alter it's size incrementally. Now you must use Command (plus) or (minus).
• Shift-Dragging a window does not alter it's aspect ratio.
• The player's title bar and file name are always on screen (unless you know to Control-Click) and will cover the Mac's Menu bar in the video if you make a screen recording. Bad for pausing and trying to see what menu item is being used. (see: http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_l0hI1EtS288/Sp1nDtebsGI/AAAAAAAABEY/Dl-AeJb-xR0/s1600- h/QTXTitlebarFail.png)
• There are no buttons to go to the beginning or end of a video.
• All of QT7's (pro) capabilities are available to other apps, like the pro app series but QT X does not have access to them.
• While it's exporting some people say you can't even use QT7 at all for other functions.
• QT7 will only allow one export at a time.
• The floating controls will not scale along with the video, so when the video is small, the controls obscure a large part of the video. Bad for subtitles.
• The floating controller and title bar are shown when you start playing a video. There's no option to never show them.
• QTX apparently can't play multiple videos at once? (didn't test)
• Show Movie Properties is gone.
• Minimum video playback size is something like 478x359. Smaller videos are scaled up and fuzzy.
• QTX has issues opening SMIL files?
• QT7 is hidden in the Utilities folder and you must assign it as the default Open With app if you need it's functionality.
Feel free to add any others. And please let Apple know.
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/feedback/
Message was edited by: W. Raider

Answer 1

If I save a movie with a text track (created in pre-Quicktime X) and play it back in Quicktime X, the movie is larger than the previously saved movie. 344 x 338 becomes 478 x 471 and I can't make it any smaller.
As someone else pointed out, but I just wanted to emphasize, any subtitles/captions will obscured for the first few seconds while the user frantically tries to move the controller out of the way or waits for it to disappear. Doesn't have to be captions ... what if the text is part of the video, or the video has content that just shouldn't be obscured?!
The scrubber is tied into the disappearing controller It ought to be a choice to hide the scrubber and the scrubber itself should be built into the border of the canvas. So many users have come to rely on the scrubber conveying information about the current time of a movie as well as how far along they are.
SMIL is missing in this release.
There's no clear statement of what is returning from the missing list and when.
Why, with so many missing things and the need for continuity with all those Quicktime files that aren't supported with Quicktime X is Quicktime 7 a mere "optional" install? Or, why was Quicktime X even released at this point?
I've been a Quicktime advocate for just about forever and actually found myself considering, gasp, Flash for some of what I do.