Comments on: Apple, please stop removing pre-existing functionality http://albj.net/2009/08/apple-please-stop-removing-pre-existing-functionality/ I’m Lee Bennett. You’re Not. Wed, 15 Jun 2011 16:31:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.3 By: Lee Bennett http://albj.net/2009/08/apple-please-stop-removing-pre-existing-functionality/#comment-1738 Lee Bennett Tue, 01 Sep 2009 15:27:21 +0000 http://albj.net/?p=94#comment-1738 I haven't confirmed this yet, but apparently, people are finding that while the relocation of QuickTime 7 Player to the Utilities folder is automatic if you'd already had a Pro license, but that the Optional Installs on the Snow Leopard disc includes the QT7 player that you can install if you didn't previously have QuickTime Pro. All that remains to be confirmed is whether this QT7 Player includes all the pro features even if you didn't previously have QuickTime Pro. I haven’t confirmed this yet, but apparently, people are finding that while the relocation of QuickTime 7 Player to the Utilities folder is automatic if you’d already had a Pro license, but that the Optional Installs on the Snow Leopard disc includes the QT7 player that you can install if you didn’t previously have QuickTime Pro. All that remains to be confirmed is whether this QT7 Player includes all the pro features even if you didn’t previously have QuickTime Pro.

]]> By: Lee Bennett http://albj.net/2009/08/apple-please-stop-removing-pre-existing-functionality/#comment-1737 Lee Bennett Mon, 31 Aug 2009 20:39:47 +0000 http://albj.net/?p=94#comment-1737 The deal with playback speed, both forward and backward, was more beneficial to me just for quickly navigating around to find specific points to do editing, especially since this method let me still hear the audio track. No audio scrubbing when simply dragging the playhead around. For general playback, no, I seldom had much use of playing at the wrong speed. The deal with playback speed, both forward and backward, was more beneficial to me just for quickly navigating around to find specific points to do editing, especially since this method let me still hear the audio track. No audio scrubbing when simply dragging the playhead around. For general playback, no, I seldom had much use of playing at the wrong speed.

]]> By: ssp http://albj.net/2009/08/apple-please-stop-removing-pre-existing-functionality/#comment-1736 ssp Mon, 31 Aug 2009 08:15:11 +0000 http://albj.net/?p=94#comment-1736 The inability to play backwards at 1× speed does seem odd (but, frankly, for a playback application I never understood the point of playing back at the wrong speed anyway, particularly as modern compression formats make performance when doing so horrible). I found that you can option-click the rewind button to play backwards at ?1.1× which should be close). I am not into video editing, so I don't mind too much in practice. Perhaps this scrapping of features can be seen as a way to make the _Player_ in the application's name more dominant. In a good case scenario Apple will reinstate the 'Pro' tax and start selling a QuickTime app that's aimed at simple editing and a bit less clumsy than the old QuickTime Player. That could turn in into a 'win-win' situation. The inability to play backwards at 1× speed does seem odd (but, frankly, for a playback application I never understood the point of playing back at the wrong speed anyway, particularly as modern compression formats make performance when doing so horrible). I found that you can option-click the rewind button to play backwards at ?1.1× which should be close).

I am not into video editing, so I don’t mind too much in practice. Perhaps this scrapping of features can be seen as a way to make the _Player_ in the application’s name more dominant. In a good case scenario Apple will reinstate the ‘Pro’ tax and start selling a QuickTime app that’s aimed at simple editing and a bit less clumsy than the old QuickTime Player. That could turn in into a ‘win-win’ situation.

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