[anticon]

I was looking at the movie trailers on the Apple site on my brothers windows pc. There is an extra button on the side of the Quicktime player which allows you to save files to hard disk. How come I can't do this on my Mac

[-Q-]

Your brother spent $30 for Quicktime Pro. Apparently a 'pro' feature is the ability to save movies off the web.

[drive-thru]

You can save them without buying QT Pro, just follow the instructions in this post (by me ):

http://forums.macnn.com/showthread.p...ad#post2232772

It works for the iTMS videos so I think it's the same for any QT video (as long as it's not streaming content).

Edit: You may want to decrease the file size in your search in order to include shorter videos.

[anticon]

cheers

[siMac]

Or look on VersionTracker for iGetMovie.

This will let you save any loaded Quicktime movie to your desktop. It's free too!

[spatterson]

or even better just open the finder and hit SHIFT + CMD + G

then just copy and paste this ----> /tmp/501/TemporaryItems/

you will see that files will have strange file names(QTPluginTemp) but you will be able to find the video you want. Just rename and drag to where you want it stored.

Also Make sure you let the whole video load or you won't see it there

[8minute]

I am using Tiger and this doesn't work anymore (there's no temp/501 folder, getmovie doesn't work, and neither does the searching for visible and invisible files created today).

Anyone know what has changed with Tiger or QT7 and how to get around this now? (besides buying QT pro )

Damn ... and I was looking forward to saving the music vids in itunes now that you can store them in itunes 4.8

[moodymonster]

I noticed that on iTunes 4.8 you can download trailers. I've got a feeling Apple have put the movie cache files somewhere we don't have permissions to search therefore doesn't come up in Spotlight - we should be able to download movies and play them fullscreen - not exactly pro features, more - required - features.

Few people need to encode their movies in Sorenson Video 3, but many people want to download trailers and see them fullscreen. We should report it as a bug.

[bernt]

Anyone?

[tooki]

QuickTime 7's cache files, while still saved on disk (though in a different location now) are no longer playable.

There's work being done to get around this, check macosxhints.com.

tooki

[Jacke]

What's with all these easy solutions?!

What you need to do is open the reference file in a data editor (heck, even TextEdit will do), get the name of the *real* file, replace the ref file with that in the path to the ref file.

Example: http://www.apple.com/trailers/sony/kung_fu_hustle.html
Get source, search for .mov 'til you come across http://images.apple.com/movies/sony/...hustle-ref.mov, download that, open it in TextEdit, see "kung_fu_hustle_m480.mov". Replace "kung_fu_hustle-ref.mov" with "kung_fu_hustle_m480.mov" and put the full path in your favourite download manager! Nothing could be easier!