From screen recording to video editing and beyond, discover 17 things you can do with QuickTime Player on your Mac to boost your productivity.
17 things you can do with QuickTime Player on Mac
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How to screen record on Mac
In this tutorial, we’ll show you two easy ways to video record your Mac’s entire screen or a selected section using built-in tools.
How to reduce video size on iPhone and Mac
In this tutorial, we will show you a few simple ways to reduce video size on iPhone, iPad, and Mac. It must be noted that reducing the file size of a video will result in loss of quality to some extent.
How to edit a video with QuickTime Player on Mac
Did you know you can use QuickTime Player on Mac for more than just watching movies? If you need to make changes to your videos, here’s how to edit movies with QuickTime Player.
How to use picture-in-picture in QuickTime Player on Mac
If you use QuickTime Player on your Mac to watch videos and movies, you’ll like its Picture-in-Picture (PiP) feature. It will convert the playing video into a small floating window, which you can resize and place anywhere on the screen.
How to extract audio from video on iPhone, iPad, and Mac
Check out four free methods to extract an audio track from a video clip on your iPhone, iPad, or Mac and save it as a separate file in the MP3 or M4A format.
How to loop a video in QuickTime on Mac
Sometimes you just can’t get enough of a video. Whether it’s one you created or one that someone shared with you, whether it's audio or visual, you can easily play it over and over without hitting a button. If it can be played in QuickTime, it can be looped in QuickTime. And you can do this in just a few clicks.
Here’s how to loop a video in QuickTime Player on Mac.
Apple confirms QuickTime for Windows is no more
Following the disclosure of two new flaws in QuickTime 7 for Windows last week by software security firm Trend Micro, Apple has now officially confirmed to The Wall Street Journal that it will stop releasing updates or patching security holes for QuickTime for Windows, marking the end of the road for the PC edition of the multimedia software after an eleven-year run.
The Cupertino firm added that keeping the software installed on Windows PCs may pose a security risk.
A support document on Apple's website details the steps that Windows users should follow in order to uninstall the software from their Windows PC.
Apple to end support for QuickTime for Windows
Apple reportedly has plans to deprecate support for QuickTime for Windows, according to a research note issued Thursday by software security firm Trend Micro, which found a pair of new vulnerabilities in the software. Apple will no longer be issuing security updates for QuickTime for Windows, the advisory cautions.
An Apple support document provides the steps that Windows users can follow to uninstall the software. QuickTime for Mac is unaffected.
How to rotate a video on your Mac
Every so often, you may come across the need to rotate a video after you've recorded it with your camera or iOS device because it didn't quite come out how you expected it to.
Fortunately, Apple's QuickTime app, which is built into the macOS operating system on your Mac, is powerful enough to do just that; and it's very easy to do.
In this tutorial, we'll be showing you how to rotate a video in any direction on your Mac using the QuickTime app.
How to record Apple TV video output on Mac
There are lots of reasons why you might invest in a USB Type-C cable for the new Apple TV. One of the most compelling reasons is because a USB Type-C cable allows you to record Apple TV video output. Via QuickTime's video capturing capabilities, first introduced in OS X Yosemite, it's possible to record and save direct-feed footage from the Apple TV to your Mac.
Yosemite’s QuickTime cleans up iOS status bar when screencasting so you don’t have to
The vast majority of Apple bloggers who grab screenshots of iPhone and iPad applications don't seem to be ashamed by the low or no cellular signal strength showing right in their status bar, or incomplete Wi-Fi or - worse of all - low battery.
And who could blame them?
Touching up the images to have the status bar show full cellular/Wi-Fi signal and 100 percent battery takes time and a great deal of effort to get it right.
I've seen folks like MacStories editor Federico Viticci obsess over the issue and even write scripts and devise complex workflows in order to correct the messed up status bar on their iOS screenshots. Having been constantly pressed for time, I'm not that particular about my screenshots.
Luckily, QuickTime in Yosemite includes a nifty little feature which automatically cleans up the status bar when capturing an iOS device's screen, so your screencasts look professional...