Questions tagged [quicktime]
The QuickTime Player, the application provided with macOS. QuickTime is Apple's protocol for video and media creation and playback.
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keep/stretch a frame for more time during a video
How can I do this with QuickTime (sorry I don't know the exact nomenclature):
I have a saved recording of my screen (i.e. the question is about/for mov files)
I want to replace the video (only!!!; ...
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Hard crash with Quicktime on simple edits, no help from Apple
I use Quicktime player as a direct and simple way to trim the head and foot of videos I record in ecamm.
I'm on a Mac Studio with Apple silicon and plenty of ram and hd space. Sonoma 14.5 and ...
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Fix Metadata on a .mov file?
I have a .mov file that I believe has corrupted metadata. Every player thinks its duration is 1 second, but it's really over a minute long.
I've tried converting it with ffmpeg -i input.mov output.mp4 ...
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How to recover a deleted screen recording that was recorded using Screen Recorder on a Mac?
I'm exploring the possibility of recovering deleted screen recordings that were created using the default system Screen recorder application on a Mac Monterey OS version 12.2.1.
Where will the ...
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QuickTime Player audio recordings editing
As per here, The QuickTime Player is capable of
perform simple editing tasks, such as trimming the audio file, splitting it into clips, merging and rearranging sound clips.
I using the latest MacOS (...
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How to make Quick Time Player support .avi files?
I have an .avi file that I wanted to play via Quick Time Player only.
But when I try to open an example .avi file, I get this error dialog pop-up given below:
Note: I know that I can use advanced ...
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Videos downloaded from Google Photos won't play with QuickTime Player
I get this error when I try to play videos downloaded from Google Photos on the QuickTime player:
This file contains some media which isn’t compatible with QuickTime Player. Would you like to open ...
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Is there a way to hide the recording icon on the menu bar?
Using Quick Time Player or the one which shows up on CMD+SHIFT+5 I get the following icon in the menu bar:
Is there a way to hide that? If not can you recommend another free software which I can use?
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Unix command to save QuickTime Player recordings into custom folder
Using MacOS Ventura 13.5
Is there a Terminal command for macOS to specify a custom saving directory for QuickTime player videos?
For screenshots I use:
defaults write com.apple.screencapture location &...
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Spacebar for PLAY/STOP in Quicktime not working in Ventura M1, MacBookAir
In Ventura M1 MacBookAir the spacebar does not work. I often use Quicktime to quickly edit videos, and this feature is very important. I can't seem to find how to assign a key shortcut to this ...
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Quicktime player: merging multiple videos results in much greater file size than original clips
I used Quicktime player to merge multiple videos.
Info:
The file size of all the original clips that I merged is 3.06GB
Used HEVC codec
Source is also HEVC
Resolution and size of merged videos
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Quicktime Apple Script Error -
I am getting the following error from a script that trims a .MOV, exports the new video and then closes the .MOV without saving. The script used to work just fine. (1 year ago?). The error is being ...
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Why is Screen Recording disabled in QuickTime?
Here we see that Movie Recording and Audio Recording are enabled, but New Screen Recording is not. Why would this be? I have stopped/restarted QuickTime several times now and this behavior persists....
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.movpkg conversion to normal format
I've bought a few movies on AppleTV and after downloading them I wanted to copy them onto an USB stick as an example so I can watch them on other devices easily. The problem here is though, that like ...
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How to close all quicktime windows from zsh?
I wish to close all the open windows of Quicktime from zsh, i.e. I want to automate from zsh the following two operations that I am currently doing manually:
Bring Quicktime in forefront (i.e. I don'...
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