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Get More Out Of QuickTime X
Mar 11, 2025
How to unlock the potential of Quicktime X
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hey everyone today I'm going to show you
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how you can make QuickTime 10 more
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useful for you now when Apple launched
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QuickTime 10 with Mac OS 10 snow leopard
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it seemed like a cool idea at first they
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completely revamped the user interface
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it looks a lot nicer but still for a lot
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of people it's just a basic video player
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and that's pretty much all they use it
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for truthfully there's a ton of stuff
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you can actually do with quick time 10
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just a lot of people don't know about it
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and they're relatively not hidden but
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unknown features to it and you can
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actually use Quick Time 10 as a basic
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video editor and there's a whole bunch
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of nice built-in tools so it is pretty
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nice so I'm going to launch quick time
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10 it's also right in your applications
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folder so first off if you click on the
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file menu and click new movie recording
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right here you can record videos right
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from your eyesight camera uh just like
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you do in photo booth but you have a
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couple different options first of all
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you can select different microphones and
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you can choose your different qualities
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so if you choose Medium you're going to
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get a relatively low quality video um
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but if you have a non HD eyesight Mac
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such as the one I'm on so not the new
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iMac or the new Macbook Pro and you
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click maximum quality now this only
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works on Mac from I believe 2008 and up
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you'll get this option to record in 1280
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x 1024 resolution this is a resolution
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ution you normally can't get with other
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applications so you can actually record
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slightly above uh 720p
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resolution with any eyesight camera the
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next thing you can do is go under the
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file menu once again and click new audio
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recording and from here you can just
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record your voice and you can see the
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little waveforms there of how I'm
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talking once again you can choose the
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different qualities and the microphone
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input so if you like audio recording but
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you don't really want to have to go
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through any type of editing process with
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garage manand this is a little simple
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way you can do quick audio recordings
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just like that with an external
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microphone or even the one built into
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your Mac the next thing you can do is go
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up to the file menu and click new screen
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recording now this is a entirely new
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feature to QuickTime 10 and this is one
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I I think a lot of people don't really
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know about for all the how-to videos I
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do for cul of Mac I use the application
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screen flow uh to record my screen but
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if you want to you can actually use
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QuickTime 10 to record your screen so
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you get a couple options you can choose
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your microphon and the quality where you
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want to save it to once again you're
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going to get your little audio waveforms
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and you can click record and start
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recording then up in your menu bar right
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here you're going to see little stop
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recording button so right now your
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screen is recording and everything I do
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will be recorded so when I go up and
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click stop recording then it's going to
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process and you're going to see the
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video come down now I can play it back
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and you'll see just how it recorded the
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screen so it does record in a a pretty
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decent quality it's a little bit CPU
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intensive the only problem with it and
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the reason that I don't use it for my
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screen recordings is that it's a little
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bit limited and there's not really a lot
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you can do with it as far as post
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production but if this is something
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you're looking to do and you don't
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really want to spend any money quick
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time 10 is built into every Mac and you
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have a free screen recording
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application and this brings me to
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another Point once you have a movie open
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you can click on this little arrow kind
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of jumping out of a box and you can
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click trim and right here you have basic
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video editing capabilities now this is
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nothing that you're going to see in you
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know Final Cut or even iMovie for that
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matter uh but this is kind of iPhone
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esque video trimming so I can choose the
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start and end times just like that and
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let's say I just want this part where
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I'm opening up the applications folder I
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can do that and I can click trim and
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it's going to trim the video for me and
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I can play it back just like
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this and it's just that segment now I
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can also go like this and I can share it
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to either iTunes it'll go into my iTunes
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library Mobile me gallery or even
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YouTube and I can click click this I can
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enter my YouTube credentials and upload
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videos directly to YouTube this way so
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let's say if you use the movie recording
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feature and you want to directly upload
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that to YouTube you can from QuickTime
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10 you can also upload screencast right
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from Quicktime and this YouTube
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publishing is a very handy feature that
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you find an iMovie uh but it's quite a
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bit simpler to actually just open up
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quick time and upload videos right from
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there if you don't want to have to go
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through the whole YouTube process on a
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browser and when you go to save your
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movies QuickTime gives you a lot of
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options here too you can save this is
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optimized for an iPhone an iPad an Apple
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TV your computer and then HD 480p which
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isn't really high definition HD 720p and
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HD 1080p so you can choose any of those
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and likewise when you go up to your
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share menu and click iTunes you're going
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to get some different options here as
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well iPhone and iPod Apple TV and
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computer and it's instantly optimized
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for those devices so that's about all
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those are just some quick and easy tips
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for you to make quick time 10 more
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useful than you probably think it can be
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and you're also going to get some of the
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features that were previously only seen
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in QuickTime Pro which was a paid
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application so I hope you found this
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video useful and thank you for watching
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