Quicktime Player X
As promised, we will today show you how the new QuickTime Player works in Mac OS X Snow Leopard. As you might have found out, QuickTime Player has been developed and improved and now it comes with a whole bunch of new features. Apple describes the new QuickTime Player as “a major leap forward that advances modern media and Internet standards” and it’s hard to disagree when you’ve first experienced it. To be honest, I think it’s the most used application I’ve been using since I got the new Mac OS X Snow Leopard. It really make things easier and after you have read this article, you know how I think.
So, what’s new in QuickTime Player X, as it is called? Well, QuickTime has always been a step forward any other video software programs and applications, and a leader as well. This time is no difference. Apple has been able to create a video player better than all of their competitors and now I really consider Windows Media Player a joke. I have never tried any video players as smooth and sweet as QuickTime Player X. Even though it still doesn’t support all video formats, I still prefer using it to play those formats it’s compatible with.
Seriously, what is new? All right, here goes: Its interface has got a renewal and it’s prettier and more user-friendly than ever. Furthermore, you can use QuickTime Player to record a film now, or if you only want to record a voice memo, you can also record an audio recording, but that’s not all.
QuickTime Player X has an in-build screen record function, allowing you to record your screen. This is what we have all been waiting for because, if you have a friend who needs help all the time and you hate to guide him or her through a messaging client or the phone, you can now show it to him or her on video. All you have to do is to open QuickTime Player and press ctrl+cmd+n and push the red record-button and then you’re recording your own screen. When you want to stop recording, press ‘stop recording’ or ctrl+cmd+escape on your keyboard. Now a window opens with your screen recording and if you chosen the ‘stop recording’ button method, you don’t want to show to your friends that you pushed the button, right? Now, push cmd+t to enter the trim section, and mark the part of the video you want to show to your friends and press ‘Trim’.
That is just pretty, but now to the most beautiful part: you want to share it to your friend in need, and you have three different options. The first is to share it to iTunes so you can sync it to your iPhone or iPod, then go to your friend in need, and show it to him or her. If you choose to do like this, you only do it because you can, because you can make it so much easier by using the two other opportunities which is to upload the video to either MobileMe Gallery or, what seems to be more popular, YouTube. Uploading a video to YouTube have never been easier and because of this brilliant opportunity, and it is so much easier for us at AppleLunch to serve you video tutorials, and actually we have already done this with Quicktime X when we showed you how to use Spaces in Snow Leopard.
QuickTime Player X now supports HTML live streaming. What that means is, that it doesn’t require any special streaming servers, and you can stream from the internet without thinking of any port forwarding on your router.
QuickTime Player X is build into the heart of Mac OS X Snow Leopard and uses technologies such as Core Audio, Core Video and Core Animations to improve the pleasure in using it. It also uses Grand Central Dispatch and 64-bit computing to improve the quality and that makes it up to 2.4 times faster to lunch.
To sum up, we are very satisfied with the new QuickTime Player X. Together with iMovie 09 it can’t be easier to make video tutorials for our readers, so if this is the first time your read about us, then put us in your favorite bookmarks, because it seems to be pure quality when we first get started to make video tutorials here at AppleLunch. Come back tomorrow and read about more brilliant features in Mac OS X Snow Leopard.
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