I can’t feel the difference from 10.6 from 10.5.8. The speeds I’m sure are there and tech geeks might understand and recognize the difference but I can’t tell. Here is an Apple online document in their support section.
Mac OS X v10.6 Snow Leopard is designed to protect your Mac from certain incompatible software that can quit unexpectedly or cause other issues in Mac OS X v10.6.
What does that mean?
For starters my eSATA Express card’s driver got dumped as well as my Epson CD Printer Application will not line up the CD or DVD to print correctly. These are two that I’ve noticed at this time. I re-installed the driver for my eSATA express card, the driver is Silicon Image SI 3132 driver. My macbook pro is still functional and nothing has quit on me. The CD Printing software I can’t figure it out and that pisses me off.
I hate the new Quicktime that is part of Snow Leopard. Called Quicktime X
No more border around quicktime player and the play button is located right in the middle of the screen. Who watches anything with the control panels in the middle of the screen? I understand some flash players have a start button in the middle of the screen but it dissolves in half a second. The controls stay up as long as you move your mouse around the screen. OK I played around with the player functions and found out that you can move it around the player. If you want it on the bottom or on the top just click on it and drag it to where you want it. I prefer not having it on the footage.
The thing I hate the most is the fact that you can not export from the Quicktime 10.0 like Quicktime 7. I used to encode most if not all my Final Cut Pro videos in Quicktime Pro. I was used to the settings and understood how to achieve great looking video for the web. Those functions are gone with Quicktime X…it should be more like Quicktime X#$@!, because it sucks ass if you are a pro and know what you are doing. Instead of keeping that function and adding the more features they decided to crap on the pro users. I know there are others ways to encode and I will be using that more often but as you can tell it is eating at me.
Quicktime X File Menu…Have to use Save As to export
Quicktime X Save As Options… you have no manual control for the encode settings.
Quicktime 7 File Menu…where you can Export
Quicktime 7 Export Options… you have manual control on your encoding settings.
So for right now, us the Beta testers, just like Leopard when it first came out, I’m annoyed and frustrated.
9 responses so far ↓
1 king Luma // Sep 23, 2009 at 8:42 am
I think if you had QT Pro with Leopard, the old QT player is left in the Utilities folder after you upgrade to Snow Leopard (so you don’t lose any QT Pro features). This was the case with my machine and so I have both QT players now.
2 Andy Coon // Sep 23, 2009 at 9:43 am
You are right, I still have Quicktime 7 Pro and I will be using that. Thanks for chiming in King Luma
3 Ajit // Sep 23, 2009 at 3:32 pm
I hear you. I wanted Quicktime to improve, every update crashed something. But this is ridiculous. Like you said, the player is ugly and the pro options are missing.
4 Jeron Moore // Sep 25, 2009 at 3:33 am
Hey Andy… I feel your pain. I took the risk of doing a fresh install of Snow Leopard (backed up old system) and soon discovered the pain that QT X is. I think it’s pretty, but it’s not very useful. That said, if you’re in a pickle and didn’t perform the upgrade and instead did a clean install, go here:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3678
5 Jack Baker // Nov 4, 2009 at 12:36 am
Gang,
I had the same problem. I use Quicktime pro a lot to export stills for thumbnails for videos on websites. I couldn’t believe I was going to have to open quicktime shots in Final Cut just to export stills. However, Quicktime Pro 7 is on your Snow Leopard Install disk and it installs a new clean version in your utilities folder. I actually find the new Quicktime plays my high resolution files more fluidly than Pro 7 did…. so I feel like I’ve got the best of both now… and both are out on my dock.
Jack.
6 WhyIEyezYa // Jan 27, 2010 at 3:26 pm
… not to mention that you can’t PAUSE quicktime w/out the play/pause bar beiong in the way. #$$% Mac. I just spent nearly 1,300 on the new 21.5 inch iMac and had to re-install my OLD imovie HD from ’06 because imovie ’09 is virtually impossible to use. Mac used to be so user friendly and great.. wtf happened?
7 WhyIEyezYa // Jan 27, 2010 at 3:28 pm
I think I’m just going to re-install my old quicktime from my other mac.
8 Grumbles // Mar 11, 2010 at 9:18 pm
Upgrade to Tiger. That’s what I did. If it ain’t broke don’t fix it (and save money). I’m on 10.4.9, using Adobe CS2, Flash 8, Final Cut Pro 6 and other ‘outdated’ stuff I can’t recall. Everything running tickety boo.
9 Grumbles // Mar 11, 2010 at 9:23 pm
Oh yeah and iMovie? WTF happened? I use iMovie 6. I find it funny though how Windows 7 copied Macs current iMovie in their Movie Maker not realising most Mac heads hate the new iMovie.
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