Save as QuickTime movie function

I have QT Pro 7.6 and since I downloaded Safari 4 the save as QT movie button is no longer available.

Did you repair permissions & restart after updating?
Safari 4 is BETA = buggy. So expect issues. If you wish, cross-post over in the Safari 4 (Beta) Forums. You'll have a lot of company.

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Can't save a Quicktime movie in Safari

I've read lots of threads about this.
None of the solutions I've found actually work.
The ability to save these movies works just fine in Firefox.
Other than simply using Firefox, isn't there a true solution in Safari?

if you want to record video or sound using QT you will need QT Pro
the procedure is to purchase a registration key from Apple strore and enter that in QT preferences which will unlock the pro features.
The reference to "built in to Mac" refers that the Mac operating system uses QT as the sound, graphics and video engine, you still need QT Pro to record process or edit QT files.
If you dont want QT Pro, look for something else.

Can one DISBALE "Save as Source/Movie" for a Quicktime file on the Web ?

I recently learned how to assign quicktime files to links on the web.
When you select a link, a new window opens up and the sound file begins to play automatically.
I noticed that the listener can save this file to their desktop.
IS IT POSSIBLE TO PROTECT SOUND FILE SO THEY CAN NOT BE SAVED TO A DESKTOP ?
In other words, can one have a quicktime file without the "Save as Source" or "Save as Quicktime Movie" active, but greyed out instead ?
Thank You,
Marcello
12 powerbook Mac OS X (10.3.9)
12 powerbook Mac OS X (10.3.9)

Thanks for the info.
I have been able to post music to my site http://www.nunu.com
Sound files are located under SOUND.
(1) Is it possible for someone to hack the sound files ? I would like to post the tracks in their entirity, but only if they can be protected.
(2) How exactly do you protect sound files with Apple Script ? Why is this a better way ?
(3) Where can I learn how to save sound files in a movie wrapper ?
Thanks again for your help.
- m
The html tag to do this is:
object tag
param name="kisokmode" value ="true"
The embed tag
kisokmode="true"
This will remove the disclosure triangle (lower
right) to save and also prevent Control-click
(right-click on a PC).
A better way is to use existing AppleScripts to make
a copy of your file "Un-Editable" (the name of the
AppleScript Droplet).
To "test" the exploit try and save or edit one of my
files:
http://homepage.mac.com/kkirkster/64
The page should load with a "poster.mov" file and the
link to the href file isn't invoked until the viewer
"clicks" on the poster movie.
Once the href linked file opens even owners of QT Pro
are prevented from "saving" the file.
You'll need to save your .mp3 files inside a .mov
"wrapper". They will still work as intended inside
your html code with the .mov file extension.
12" powerbook Mac OS X (10.3.9) 1 GB RAM

FCP "Export - QuickTime Movie" gamma shift

Above is an example of what happens when I do a direct export in Final Cut Pro, using the Export -> QuickTime Movie function. As you can see, the image is significantly brighter and the colors are a little more washed out (this image isn't particularly colorful, but trust me, it washes them out). I always thought the Export -> QuickTime Movie meant the image would not be compressed--that it was a straight export using the sequence settings.
The image you see above was shot natively in ProRes 422 (HQ) using an Arriflex Alexa. It has never been transcoded. The bottom image is what it looks like using Export -> QuickTime Movie. Totally unacceptable for a piece of professional software, if you ask me.
I can't express how infuriating this is, to have everything looking perfect in FCP and then exporting only to have it look like garbage. I've been able to play with gamma correction a bit and have gotten it PRETTY close to the original look, but this seems like a horrible workaround.
Anyone else know why this is happening? Is there a fix for this?
I'm working with FCP 6.0.6 and QuickTime 10.1.

Sure thing, Meg.
Here's a source clip with "approximate" gamma correction:
"Approximate" gamma correction makes the image look flatter within Final Cut Pro than it actually is.
Now, the very same clip and frame, but with gamma set to "Accurate" :
Now, things are switched. The exported image looks flatter than the source clip within FCP.
Here's another tidbit of info--the frame from my first post was professionally color graded and exported as a self-contained movie--so there were no filters, FCP or otherwise, being applied there. But the difference is just night-and-day to me.

How to export quicktime movie?

I was wondering how I can export a quicktime movie (camcorder film) to a smaller size but that can also be played on both Mac and PC computers? I tryed to export a couple time using encoding such as MPEG-4 but the movie accually was much smaller to view than the original and the second time I tryed to encode it at a bigger size, the movie played at the same sze as the original but at a lower quality because it was stretched.
Can anyone help me with this. I just want to export and save a quicktime movie into a playble formate for both mac and windows and also not taking up too much disk space either. Thank you.
Dorian Oddi

One could write a book (I did) that explains what all the codecs do and where and when to use them.
You need only need to know where the file will be viewed and its source format.
As Rick has pointed out, most new digital cameras capture in DV (Digital Video) and they are nearly instantly ready for software editing (like iMovie). QuickTime Pro can also edit the .dv files.
Once you determine where the file will be viewed (the Web for example) you'll get an understanding of methods to "compress" the file to fit the planned playback.
Three major factors that reduce the file size:
The new dimensions (720X480 DV files) to Web 320X240 (DV uses rectangular pixels).
Reduce the "frame rate". If the source was 30 frames per second you can usually remove half of them (15fps). Use more fps if the source has lots of motion.
The codecs used. Compressor-decompressor is handled by the delivery format (.mov or .mp4). Some are more efficient and offer better quality when enlarged during playback. MPEG-4 is the most modern and will soon become the next generation of DVD (currently MPEG-2).
This is where your question can only be answered by you. The quality can be adjusted (some codecs offer "sliders"; good better best while others allow you to set a data rate) and only you know what is acceptable.
Rick suggests a "one minute" export and I agree. Use various settings and data rates and use your eyes to decide what is acceptable.
Don't forget that part of your capture was audio. If your camera captures only mono formats making the export into stereo does nothing but double the size of the audio track. The Advanced Audio Codec (AAC) format found in MPEG-4 exports does a great job of reducing the file size. You can control these settings at export, too.

Resizing Quicktime Movies for use in iWeb + published to .mac

Hey everyone,
I have some home movies I want to post on my .mac website but the files are just too big. The movies are already in Quicktime format from my camera. It just takes forever to upload and forever to download when you view the site.
How do I go about dropping the file size of my quicktime movies? Any suggestions should be helpful.
Thanks

Smart move to get QT Pro! It will now be possible to do this:
When exporting From iMovie or Final Cut, the expert settings choices can be daunting to understand. Here's a simple solution. Whenever you find a QT video online that has the download arrow (down facing arrow) at the far right of the play time line and you're impressed by the quality you see, once the movie has fully loaded, click on that arrow.
With QT Pro you'll see a drop down menu appear that offers 'Save as Source' or 'Save as QuickTime Movie'. Usually either choice gives you the same type of file. Save to your desktop . Then open and play. As the movie plays, go to the Quicktime menu at the top of your screen and choose from 'Window' ...Show Movie Info. Eureka! There are almost all the settings used to create that movie
To keep a photo record of this movies settings (if you don't keep the movie) line the player and the info window side to side and do a Apple key+Shift +4 targeted picture snap. Store the pic you just created in an iPhoto folder labeled 'QT Info Pics' as a later reference. In fact, Apple key+ Shift + 4 (targeted) or Apple key + Shift + 3 (Full Screen capture) used with 'Get Info' windows and iPhoto storage is a great quick & easy record keeping system.
Have fun!
Wayne
PS Been to Memphis, loved it. Irmla Thomas has a great CD called My Heart's In Memphis
PSS Once dragged to an iWeb page you can alter the physical size (reasonable amount) of your movie while file size stays the same.

Quicktime 7.5.5 will not download quicktime movies from webpage sources

I had no difficulty downloading movies before I upgraded to 7.5.5. All I had to do was click on the down-pointing arrow on the lower right-hand corner of the preview, and I could make a permanent copy of the download. I cannot do that with 7.5.5 altho' the help menu says I should be able to. Instead of showing the movie on preview as it used to on a screen that had the necessary arrow, now those movies go directly to the quicktime movie program and there is no way I can see to save the download permanently.
So where are these movies going? They're not protected, I know, since I was able to download from the same sources before, and they are not pay sites.
I have leopard 10.5.5 on an intell iMac.

That's professionally terse and should be informative, but it doesn't help at all since it doesn't happen to be true. I never had pro, nor was I ever able to ''Save As'' with the qt version I had. The new quicktime 7.5.5 does claim I should be able to save such movies however. In its instructions under ''help'', it informs me that I should first see a sample movie, centered on the computer screen, and that movie panel should have, on its lower right-hand corner, a down-pointing arrow which, when clicked on, offers 3 options, one of which is ''save as quicktime movie''. I should see that screen, and according to the 7.5.5 instructions, I should have those options. I used to, with the earlier qt version, but I don't anymore - not with 7.5.5. Unfortunately, that particular preview movie screen never opens. Instead, the movie immediately opens on the qt screen in the upper left-hand corner of the computer and is impossible to save. Of course, the publicity for the upgrade says that all these movies are stored in the quicktime browser's cache, but I can't find the cache so while they may be there, we'll apparently never know - unless, of course, you happen to know how to open the browser cache.
Do you?

Quicktime Movies Requiring Internet

I was wondering if there was a way to save a Quicktime movie that requires the internet (ex. The Macworld 2006 presentation from the Apple site) such that it won't require the internet so I can view it WHEREVER I am?
Thanks in advance.

"Streaming media" isn't cached (like a downloaded file would be) so there is no way to save the downloaded file as a "Favorite" would do.
You set the size of your download cache by setting preferences in the QuickTime System Preferences.
Any other QuickTime format would be "saved" in the cache (size you set) and you can mark them as "Favorites" and even view offline (from that cache).
The cache will drop the oldest viewed file first when your size limit is reached.

Quicktime Pro won't save mp4 as mov

I've got several .mp4 files (created by myself with Sony Vegas using h.264 codec) that I'm trying to convert to faststart .mov files for Internet playback. I just picked up QT Pro and as I understand it I should be able to open the file and simply Save As a mov file to get a new non-rerendered h.264 encoded .mov). When I attempt save as, new files never get created. My save window goes away. When I close QT it asks me to save my changes again, still without saving the file.
I also attempted to export from QT Pro using same h.264 (same codec as mp4 was created with). The file that is created is large (obviously re-encoded, something I DON'T want) and I don't see video, just hear audio.
The original files play fine in QT 7.
Any thoughts?
Thanks, Kurtmo
core2 6600 - 7900 GS Graphics Windows XP Pro

Does the vegas create proper .mp4 files or are these
in an .AVI wrapper? Just trying to determine why a
simple "Save As..." wouldn't work.
The file is a regular .mp4 file created using Sony Vegas. The file plays fine in QT 7 players. I put some screen shots of my test mp4 with movie info and the encoding options for export. As you can see, I don't get a "passthru" option, so I don't get to far with the work around.
Here are the two screen shots:
http://jewellhome.net/MovieSettings.jpg
http://jewellhome.net/ExportSettings.jpg
Another thing you can try is to do an export BUT set
the compression settings for the audio and the video
to "Passthru". This will just take what you've got
and wrap it in QuickTime's .mp4 format, then a "Save
As..." to a movie should work.
The other thing I've noticed, I don't see anything in the preview window when I try to select different settings for the export. As I mentioned earlier, exported files end up with a white screen in place of video (and a large file size, go figure).
Any other thoughts?
core2 6600 - 7900 GS Graphics Windows XP Pro

Editing QuickTime movies that are 'Save-Disabled'.

Has anyone been able to extract audio / video from a compressed QuickTime movie that has 'Disable Save' enabled?
I lost the raw .avi movies for several videos, and, with the latest Purevoice/QT7.3 issues, I am in need of re-compressing those QuickTime movies.
Any ideas / suggestions will be greatly appreciated!
Thanks in advance.
Message was edited by: golubeva

If you've set the cache to 100 MB's that all QuickTime will use.
You're going to have much bigger issues with such little free space on your drive. Why not buy a cheap external drive and move large folders like Music, Movies and Pictures to it.
iTunes, iPhoto and iMovie can all store their files on external drives.

What's the difference between Save as Source or Quicktime Movie?

I'm watching some quicktime trailers that I'd like to save. There are 2 options to save the movie as a source of Quicktime Movie. They both save a quicktime, but I noticed that when saving as a quicktime movie, the file is a lot smaller. So what's different?

Save as "Source" keeps the file in its original container (.m4v, .mp4 etc.) and Save as Movie uses the .mov container.
Both versions are the same file size.

Disabling Saving of Quicktime Movies In Compressor

I'm creating a bunch of Quicktime Movies in compressor and I want to disable the save as option that the end user can see. (The drop down box on the lower right). I know I can do it through HTML by setting kioskmode to true, but that seems like an extra step.
Cleaner had this function years ago - why can't I find it in Compressor?
How can I make Compressor my one stop shop to compress as a H264 quicktime file, with fast start - compressed header, flatten for playback on all computers, and disable the end-users ability to save my quicktime file through the drop down in the player.
Any help would be appreciated! Thank you!
Doug

iWeb doesn't write the html page code until the file is published and you would have to hand edit those files to add some code.
iWeb also uses special javascript to load QuickTime browser plug-in (and your file) and you would need to edit them to add.
The "old" html method is to add the kioskmode="true" tags and that same code can be added to the .js file made by iWeb. It stops "Pro" users from having the "Save" menu.
Since I don't have iWeb on my Mac mini, and I haven't looked very hard at the javascript code made by it, I don't have your answer.
iWeb 2 does include a QuickTime Inspector that can set some parameters but I don't know its options.

Large Quicktime movie to fit i-DVD

Hi people,
I have a very quick, and slightly embarassing question...
I have a movie that is approx 85 minutes in length, shot on DV PAL. When I export it as a Quicktime movie, ready to burn on i-DVD, the overall file size is 18.05GB
i-DVD then compresses it down to 5.75GB, which is way too big for a 4.7GB DVD, which is what I need to burn it onto.
What I need to do is reduce the file size by a few GB. I've used the Custom setting and reduced the quality to approx 15% but the file size is still coming out at between 17.5GB and 18.05GB.
I've tried so many settings - adjusted frame rate, sound, quality etc and still I'm not able to reduce the file in order for it to be accepted on a 4.7GB disk.
Can someone please help and advise how I can reduce the file size.
Thanks
Alps

Hello Alps,
no hair pulling, please ... the stuff might end up in your DVD burner and then you're back to square one...
as i said, leave the movie as it is - iDVD is only interested in LENGTH (min)
i would recommend starting a new project. set the encoder settings first.
you'll find the encoder settings in your iDVD preferences under general. set them to best quality, this will automatically uncheck background encoding.
next import your movie and set up the menu. then go to the customize panel and click the status tab. iDVD will show you how much space each component is taking up on your disc. if everything is fine, choose file > save as disc image from the menu and get some coffee...
post back if there are problems (sure hope not)
mish

Need to export Movie to Quicktime Movie w/ similar file size and quality.

Let me preface in that I am not in the video editing profession. Many times I have exported my work to the professionals. I'm sure knowing what you're doing is half of the battle. Here is my dilemma. First, I'm using Quicktime pro just to add a text track to the movie. I then save the file as what Quicktime pro calls Movie .mov. This looks good and has the quality of the original .mov and the small data size. However, no other player than quicktime will recognize the text track. I then tried exporting from Movie to quicktime movie format (still .mov, can anyone explain the difference of the two .mov types???), but I find that the image quality is poor. Yet, in the quicktime format other players (except windows media player) recognize the text track. By poor quality I mean that I think what I have is the blocking effect. I assume that this is due to the bitrate being to low. Again, I would like to keep the file size low and managable for data storage and downloading purposes. I was hoping that in the end all video players would be able to have no issues.
My current file sized are all less than 1MB and are of good quality.
Just adding a small test track the Movie .mov is still less than 1MB
The size of the image is 512x512
I should also say that I'm a PC user with a quicktime pro windows version. I'm sure that doesn't help me one bit!! However, I believe my issues are more with the fact that I'm not experienced in compressing files and knowing exactly the right settings.
Here is what I've tried thus far. Movie to quicktime movie
H264 codec
Current for fps (Which is in the original is 8fps)
Key frames automatic
frame reordering checked
I've tried Automatic data rate and setting the bit rate, even at 2000kbps (the quality is low). My original movie with the highest kbps is only 1151kbps and has no artifacts
encoding Best quality multi-pass
custom size 512x512
deinterlace checked

am i correct that this 'my photo stream' process is not removing any image data?
Yes, as long as you have iPhoto's iCloud preference pane configures as follows:
You're be getting the full image file, pixel dimensions, etc. which is essentially a bit by bit copy of the photo on the Phone.
When you add tags and other metadata and export the file out of iPhoto as a jpeg with the checkboxes selected to include that metadata there will be some image compression. However, if one chooses High or even Medium JPEG Quality one will be hard pressed to detect any image degradation unless printing very, large prints or otherwise displaying the image at a very, large size.
I ran a test on a 1.4 MB photo from my iPhone and compared the original to two exports, one at High and the other at Medium JPEG Quality and got these results:

Any way to protect a quicktime movie on the net?

Hi,
I wonder if there is any way to make a quicktime movie NOT downloadable from the web.
I have a clip I would love to show on the web but I have to make 100% sure nobody is able to download and distribute it.
Is there any way? Kiosk Mode seems not to be too safe (at least this is what I heard)
thanks for your help

The kioskmode="true" html tag only removes the "download" part of the movie controller and would only keep QuickTime Pro users from downloading your file via the controller. It also prevents "drag and drop".
Any user could search through your page source code and find the URL to your QuickTime file. Dragging it to the "Downloads" window of Safari would allow them to keep a local copy.
"Streaming" media files (requires special server software to deliver) are the most difficult to capture. Because noting is locally cached the best an average user could do would be to save a reference copy of your file.
You could also use AppleScript to set internal flags inside the QuickTime .mov file as "un-editable". These flags can be reset using "hex editing" software but, again, beyond the scope of an average user. An example (one of mine):
http://homepage.mac.com/kkirkster/D/
Notice that the html code "forces" the QuickTime Player app to open instead of playing in a browser window. You own "Pro". Take a look at the menu options under the File menu.
Notice that save, save as, export and share are unavailable?
It would also be very difficult to use a screen recording app to capture my movie "window".

Save as QuickTime movie function

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