Personally, I use QuickTime to quickly cut out bits of video and paste them together, then export as a standard MPEG-4 file. What Apple has done with Preview app-namely make it a swiss army knife of document processing-it did more than a decade ago for multimedia with QuickTime. Who is still riding this brushed-metal dinosaur? Everyone from But as a quick and dirty video clipping and editing tool, QuickTime Player 7 is hard to beat-and doesn’t really have a replacement. As a player, it’s largely unnecessary-if you hate QuickTime X, consider trying the open-source

There’s no denying that QuickTime Player 7 is a fossil from an ancient era of the Mac.

In fact, Apple never really implemented large portions of QuickTime itself for 64-bit architectures as a result, I suspect a lot of apps that rely on QuickTime for their functionality may die or need major overhauls once the 32-bit era officially ends. Why would Apple keep an older version of an app around, side by side with the new version? The reason is that QuickTime X didn’t offer many of the features of QuickTime Player 7.

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