QuickTime to provide YouTube support
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CNET)
Apple Insider has unearthed proof that YouTube uploading will be built into the upcoming version of QuickTime that ships with OS X 10.6.
According to beta testers, several video-sharing options will be baked into the latest release of Apple's QuickTime media playback and editing software, including the capability to directly upload to YouTube. With the new QuickTime, you will be able to convert and upload any supported video file type to the online video service and all you will need is to be a registered YouTube user. You also will be able to seamlessly upload supported video to the MobileMe Gallery.
In addition to these new sharing options, iTunes also will offer ways to convert and export your video files to work on your iPod, iPhone, or Apple TV. All of these options will be available to you from the same convenient location and will automatically be imported to iTunes before being synced to your supported devices.
With this latest discovery, Apple will effectively offer built-in support for YouTube across all of its main products. Both the iPhone and Apple TV already offer YouTube support, along with some of Apple's other software including recent releases of iMovie. With the addition of direct uploads through QuickTime, Apple is providing support for desktop and laptop Macs.
Jason Parker writes software reviews and features for Windows, Mac, and iPhone. If he learned to dance, it would make him a fabled "quadruple threat," but we can't get him to do it. 
Quicktime is a very important framework in professional media/publishing, Apple isn't Microsoft and industry should have learned from Vista's "Directx 10" fiasco. Hopefully they won't prove me wrong.
of cause, cus if apple actually cared about its consumers it wouldn't be apple!
Sounds kinda strange that they'd have added this support for a competing service.
But in a way, also a great thing too.
All YouTube videos are both. Which is why the iPhone has always supported YouTube. If it was Flash-only then that would not be possible.
Having quicktime import/export support natively really matters both for Apple and Youtube/Adobe. Quicktime is a very important media framework both on OS X and Windows, used professionally. Of course, don't be fooled by "tip of iceberg" Quicktime player.
--Jason
the file no matter what form I send it in: MP4, WMA or SWF. This despite its assertion that it accepts
these files. One format I haven't tried is Quicktime, which files are given the suffix .MOV. I was going to purchase
Quicktime until I read your comments on it! I don't want to waste hard earned cash on this program only to
find out this doesn't work either.
- by wizardb May 3, 2009 7:19 PM PDT
- and this really maters to who.
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