Editing QuickTime (section)

== QuickTime Player ==
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=== QuickTime 7 Pro ===
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QuickTime Player 7 is limited to only basic playback operations unless a QuickTime Pro license key is purchased from Apple. Until Catalina, Apple's professional applications (e.g. [[Final Cut Studio]], [[Logic Studio]]) included a QuickTime Pro license. Pro keys are specific to the major version of QuickTime for which they are purchased and unlock additional features of the QuickTime Player application on macOS or Windows.<ref>{{cite web |title=Apple – QuickTime – QuickTime Pro |url=https://www.apple.com/quicktime/pro/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070110200720/http://www.apple.com/quicktime/pro/ |archive-date=January 10, 2007 |access-date=January 10, 2007 |df=mdy-all}}</ref> The Pro key does not require any additional downloads; entering the registration code immediately unlocks the hidden features.

QuickTime 7 is still available for download from Apple, but as of mid-2016, Apple stopped selling registration keys for the Pro version.

Features enabled by the Pro license include, but are not limited to:
* Editing clips through the cut, copy and paste functions, merging separate audio and video tracks, and freely placing the video tracks on a virtual canvas with the options of cropping and rotation.
* Saving and exporting ([[data compression|encoding]]) to any of the [[video codec|codecs]] supported by QuickTime. QuickTime 7 includes presets for exporting video to a video-capable [[iPod]], [[Apple TV]], and the [[iPhone]].
* Saving existing QuickTime movies from the web directly to a hard disk drive. This is often, but not always, either hidden or intentionally blocked in the standard mode. Two options exist for saving movies from a web browser:
** Save as source – This option will save the embedded video in its original format. (I.e. not limited to .mov files.)
** Save as QuickTime movie – This option will save the embedded video in a .mov file format no matter what the original container is/was.

=== QuickTime Player X ===
{{Infobox software
| name = QuickTime Player
| logo = Quicktime X Logo.png
| screenshot = Quicktime Player X.png
| caption = QuickTime Player 10.5 playing ''[[Big Buck Bunny]]'' running on [[macOS Big Sur]]
| developer = [[Apple Inc.]]
| released = {{start date and age|1991|12|2}}
| latest release version = 10.5 (updated as part of macOS, with only build number increments)
| latest release date = <!-- do not add! This is a system application, not a downloadable app whose version number gets updated. -->
| latest preview version = 
| latest preview date = 
| operating system = [[macOS]]<br/>Discontinued: [[Microsoft Windows|Windows]], [[Classic Mac OS]]
| website = {{URL|https://support.apple.com/quicktime}}
}}

[[Mac OS X Snow Leopard]] includes QuickTime X. QuickTime Player X lacks cut, copy and paste and will only export to four formats, but its limited export feature is free. Users do not have an option to upgrade to a Pro version of QuickTime X, but those who have already purchased QuickTime 7 Pro and are upgrading to Snow Leopard from a previous version of Mac OS X will have QuickTime 7 stored in the Utilities or user defined folder. Otherwise, users will have to install QuickTime 7 from the "Optional Installs" directory of the Snow Leopard DVD after installing the OS.

[[Mac OS X Lion]] and later also include QuickTime X. No installer for QuickTime 7 is included with these software packages, but users can download the QuickTime 7 installer from the [http://support.apple.com/kb/DL923 Apple support] site. QuickTime X on [[MacOS Sierra|later versions of macOS]] support cut, copy and paste functions similarly to the way QuickTime 7 Pro did; the interface has been significantly modified to simplify these operations, however.

On September 24, 2018, Apple ended support for QuickTime 7 and QuickTime Pro, and updated many download and support pages on their website to state that QuickTime 7 "will not be compatible with future macOS releases."