QT Pro allows you to do a little bit more than itunes/quicktime. For instance neither of those 2 will accept a DIVX file input. QT Pro will and will let you edit/convert it. Does Quicktime Pro 7.7.3 work on Yosemite? I am transitioning to iMac (Late 2014) Yosemite from older Macs and operating systems. On my iMac, I pull down the Quicktime Player menu to Registration, but nothing appears, so I can't enter the info.
Anyone with Yosemite notice when you download or try to open QT videos in codecs such as Animation or Apple ProRes 4444, basically anything that's not h.264, that you can't automatically watch the video like in previous OS's? You have to open it in QuickTime and it prompts you to 'Convert' the video. I don't have time for this. Nor does pressing the space bar preview these videos anymore. I have to open in Qt and sit through the 'Convert.'
The space bar plays other videos and media okay. I have FCP7 installed with its latest codecs, so I don't see why this occurs. Anyone know how to address these issues? This has been an annoyance since Mavericks. Everything works fine with Prores if you have the prores codecs installed (usually by owning Compressor, FCPX, etc). One workaround is that all codecs will play fine in Compressor, but sadly the space bar preview of older codecs like animation. Basically we ended up converting our graphics toolkit type files here to Prores444 if it had an alpha, or to Prores standard if it didn't contain an alpha.
More information: And here's a list of no longer supported codecs here: John Davidson President / Creative Director Magic Feather Inc.