Editing QuickTime (section)

=== QuickTime 7 Pro ===
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QuickTime Player 7 is limited to only basic playback operations unless a QuickTime Pro license key is purchased from Apple. Until Catalina, Apple's professional applications (e.g. [[Final Cut Studio]], [[Logic Studio]]) included a QuickTime Pro license. Pro keys are specific to the major version of QuickTime for which they are purchased and unlock additional features of the QuickTime Player application on macOS or Windows.<ref>{{cite web |title=Apple – QuickTime – QuickTime Pro |url=https://www.apple.com/quicktime/pro/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070110200720/http://www.apple.com/quicktime/pro/ |archive-date=January 10, 2007 |access-date=January 10, 2007 |df=mdy-all}}</ref> The Pro key does not require any additional downloads; entering the registration code immediately unlocks the hidden features.

QuickTime 7 is still available for download from Apple, but as of mid-2016, Apple stopped selling registration keys for the Pro version.

Features enabled by the Pro license include, but are not limited to:
* Editing clips through the cut, copy and paste functions, merging separate audio and video tracks, and freely placing the video tracks on a virtual canvas with the options of cropping and rotation.
* Saving and exporting ([[data compression|encoding]]) to any of the [[video codec|codecs]] supported by QuickTime. QuickTime 7 includes presets for exporting video to a video-capable [[iPod]], [[Apple TV]], and the [[iPhone]].
* Saving existing QuickTime movies from the web directly to a hard disk drive. This is often, but not always, either hidden or intentionally blocked in the standard mode. Two options exist for saving movies from a web browser:
** Save as source – This option will save the embedded video in its original format. (I.e. not limited to .mov files.)
** Save as QuickTime movie – This option will save the embedded video in a .mov file format no matter what the original container is/was.